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4081. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Justice League (4K UHD Review)

The events of Batman v Superman have left the world reeling. Superman is dead, Batman feels the guilt, and now an ancient evil has been awakened. No, not Darkseid, though that’s what you might have expected ...

Created on 09 March 2018

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4082. [BLU-RAY DISC] Basket Case: Limited Edition (Blu-ray Review)

Considered one of the last true pieces of exploitation cinema before home video took over much of the market, Basket Case was Frank Henenlotter’s pet project turned full-blown success story. The horror ...

Created on 09 March 2018

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4083. [BLU-RAY DISC] Viva L’Italia: Special Edition (Blu-ray Review)

Often quoted as saying that it was the film that he was most proud of making, Roberto Rossellini’s Viva L’Italia is a bit of old Hollywood historical recreation but through an Italian lens. Telling the ...

Created on 09 March 2018

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4084. [BLU-RAY DISC] In-Laws, The (Blu-ray Review)

Described by many as one of the funniest films of all time, The In-Laws was a passion project for all of the main players involved, including its star Alan Arkin who helped to kick-start it into existence. ...

Created on 09 March 2018

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4085. [MY TWO CENTS] Warner’s 12 Strong and Universal & GKids’ Mary and the Witch’s Flower arrive on Blu-ray on 5/1

The big news today is that Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has set 12 Strong for release on Blu-ray Combo and DVD on 5/1, with the Digital release expected on 4/10. Extras on the Blu-ray will include a ...

Created on 07 March 2018

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4086. [MY TWO CENTS] Fox sets The Post for BD/4K on 4/17, plus Universal’s Fifty Shades Freed & Russ Solomon RIP

We begin today with the usual bit of site business here, which includes a trio of new disc reviews... Tim has checked out Umbrella Entertainment’s region free Blu-ray of The Land That Time Forgot (1975) ...

Created on 06 March 2018

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4087. [HISTORY, LEGACY & SHOWMANSHIP] Return to Jefferson High: Remembering “Mr. Novak” on its 55th Anniversary

“The Mr. Novak series is among the finest programs to be produced in the 1960s. It ranks with The Twilight Zone, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Defenders and others as an absolute pinnacle of television production.” ...

Created on 06 March 2018

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4088. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Murder on the Orient Express (2017 – 4K UHD Review)

Having just solved the mystery of a theft in Jerusalem, the illustrious detective Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) must return at once to London to attend another case. He boards the luxurious Orient Express ...

Created on 06 March 2018

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4089. [BLU-RAY DISC] Land That Time Forgot, The (Blu-ray Review)

1975 saw the release of Amicus Productions’ The Land That Time Forgot, an adaptation of the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel. It’s a fairly standard tale about a group of people who wind up on an unknown island ...

Created on 06 March 2018

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4090. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (4K UHD Review)

Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) is living a life of desperation in her small Missouri town after the murder of her daughter. It’s been seven months since the tragedy, yet the local police, led by Chief ...

Created on 06 March 2018

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4091. [MY TWO CENTS] Paramount announces Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan for 4K Ultra HD on 5/8!

All right, the big 4K news continues this week! But first... We’ve just posted two new disc reviews here at The Bits, including Tim’s thoughts on Terry Gilliam’s Jabberwocky, now available in a fine new ...

Created on 05 March 2018

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4092. [BLU-RAY DISC] Jabberwocky (Blu-ray Review)

In many ways, Jabberwocky is very much a Terry Gilliam film. You can see his unmistakable directorial stamp on it with unorthodox yet realistic characters, a bizarre yet plausible world, unusual but ordinary ...

Created on 05 March 2018

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4093. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Mother! (4K UHD Review)

Mother (Jennifer Lawrence) is a charming but fragile young woman living in a country house with her poet husband Him (Javier Bardem). Though she takes good care of Him, he still struggles with a frustrating ...

Created on 05 March 2018

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4094. [MY TWO CENTS] Universal sets Mamma Mia! for 4K on 5/1, plus official 4K cover art for 2001 & Gladiator

All right, we’ve got a long weekend of disc reviewing ahead of us here at The Bits. But I wanted to jump in today with a bit of breaking news as well as some more new 4K cover artwork. First that breaking ...

Created on 02 March 2018

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4095. [MY TWO CENTS] Universal reveals a 4-film/4K Jurassic Park: 25th Collection, plus Talking Blu on Star Wars: The Last Jedi!

All right, this is just a quick post today with some big release news and updates... First, Tim’s got a stack of Blu-ray titles he’s working his way through for review, while I’ve got reviews of Three ...

Created on 01 March 2018

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4096. [MY TWO CENTS] Sony announces The Patriot & Fury for 4K, plus Amazon pre-orders for 2001, Braveheart & Gladiator 4K

All right, we’ve got three more new Blu-ray reviews for you today... First up, Tim has checked in with his thoughts on Scream Factory’s The Night Walker and the Warner Archive’s From Hell It Came on Blu-ray. ...

Created on 28 February 2018

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4097. [BLU-RAY DISC] From Hell it Came (Blu-ray Review)

Roundly considered to be one of the worst movies of its era, From Hell it Came is a 1957 schlocker from director Dan Milner, who also helmed The Phantom from 20,000 Leagues two years prior. Featuring a ...

Created on 28 February 2018

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4098. [BLU-RAY DISC] Night Walker, The (Blu-ray Review)

Master showman William Castle, fresh off of the success of Straight-Jacket, immediately pumped out another horror film that same year, but with less success overall. The Night Walker, which reunited him ...

Created on 28 February 2018

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4099. [BLU-RAY DISC] Children of Dune, Frank Herbert’s (Blu-ray Review)

Twelve years have passed since the events of Frank Herbert’s Dune, years of bloody war for universal conquest by Muad’Dib’s Fremen crusaders. The former Emperor’s House Corrino family members now live ...

Created on 28 February 2018

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4100. [MY TWO CENTS] Fox sets Greatest Showman for BD/4K on 4/10, plus 2001 4K preorders & Lionsgate bows Source Code/Hostiles 4K

All right, we have three more new disc reviews for you today… First up, my thoughts on Paramount’s Cloverfield and 10 Cloverfield Lane on 4K Ultra HD. Good films certainly, but interesting catalog choices ...

Created on 27 February 2018

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4101. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] 10 Cloverfield Lane (4K UHD Review)

Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is a young woman fleeing a bad relationship by driving cross-country from New Orleans. During her drive, she begins hearing reports of blackouts across the Southeast ...

Created on 27 February 2018

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4102. [BLU-RAY DISC] Eaten Alive (1980 – Blu-ray Review)

Like most Italian cannibal movies of its era, Umberto Lenzi’s Eaten Alive! (aka Doomed to Die) is a fairly aggressive piece of work, and certainly not one for the extremely timid. One of many controversial ...

Created on 27 February 2018

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4103. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Cloverfield (4K UHD Review)

Presented as consumer DVCAM footage recovered by the Department of Defense from a disaster zone, Cloverfield plays out as a series of shocking events captured on video by a group of young residents of ...

Created on 27 February 2018

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4104. [MY TWO CENTS] Warner Archive’s Black Scorpion BD, plus Lionheart, The Old Dark House, our review of Darkest Hour & more

All right, we’ve got a trio of new new Blu-ray reviews for you to start the new week... I’ve actually managed to find time to write a few myself, so we start with my take on Joe Wright’s outstanding Darkest ...

Created on 26 February 2018

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4105. [BLU-RAY DISC] Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (Blu-ray Review)

Long before New Line Cinema attempted to remake their long dormant horror franchise in 2003, a successful venture that proved that there was still life left in those severed limbs, they enlisted David ...

Created on 26 February 2018

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4106. [BLU-RAY DISC] Dune, Frank Herbert’s (Blu-ray Review)

In the history of science fiction, there have been a number of high-concept works that cut through the trappings of pulp “sci-fi” (robots, laser guns, aliens) to describe timeless stories of the human ...

Created on 26 February 2018

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4107. [BLU-RAY DISC] Darkest Hour (Blu-ray Review)

On the 10th of May, 1940, with the Nazi war machine sweeping across mainland Europe and pushing British and French forces into the sea at Dunkirk, Winston Churchill replaced Neville Chamberlain as the ...

Created on 26 February 2018

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4108. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Blue Planet II (4K UHD Review)

A follow-up to the BBC’s groundbreaking 2001 documentary series The Blue Planet, and a kind of parallel effort to their excellent Planet Earth and Planet Earth II series (reviewed here and here), Blue ...

Created on 23 February 2018

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4109. [BLU-RAY DISC] Eye of the Cat (Blu-ray Review)

Having the feel of an “animals attack” type of exploitation film, but through a major studio system, Eye of the Cat is an obscure horror oddity that’s been difficult to see for many years. The film stars ...

Created on 23 February 2018

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4110. [BLU-RAY DISC] Gruesome Twosome, The: Special Edition (Blu-ray Review)

Arrow Video re-releases two of their offerings from The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast multi-film boxed set with The Gruesome Twosome, and as a sub-feature, A Taste of Blood. While the former is about a ...

Created on 23 February 2018

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