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61. [BLU-RAY DISC] Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete Series (Blu-ray Review)

With clear shades of All in the Family washing over it, the animated sitcom Wait Till Your Father Gets Home premiered in syndication in 1972 and lasted for three seasons before coming to an end. The show ...

Created on 14 April 2025

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62. [BLU-RAY DISC] Frances (Blu-ray Review)

Frances Farmer was an actress whose career spanned three decades. She secured a studio contract but after a few years became disillusioned with the shallowness and artificiality of Hollywood and abandoned ...

Created on 14 April 2025

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63. [MY TWO CENTS] KLSC bows Sabrina & Timecop in 4K, plus Law Abiding Citizen, the Connery 007 4Ks are new scans, and a great article on 4K remastering!

We have two more new disc reviews for you to enjoy today, including... Stephen’s take on Peter Hyams’ Timecop (1994) in 4K Ultra HD from Shout! Factory. And Dennis’ look at Leigh Whannell’s Wolf Man ...

Created on 11 April 2025

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64. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Timecop (4K UHD Review)

While Isaac Newton’s three laws of motion have been somewhat superseded by general relativity and quantum mechanics, they still work well enough to describe everyday activities. That’s especially true ...

Created on 11 April 2025

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65. [BLU-RAY DISC] Wolf Man (Blu-ray Review)

Werewolves play a significant role in cinematic horror history, with Werewolf of London, The Wolf Man, The Curse of the Werewolf, I Was a Teenage Werewolf, and An American Werewolf in London among the ...

Created on 11 April 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] BREAKING ON THE BITS—Ridley Scott’s KINGDOM OF HEAVEN: DIRECTOR’S CUT (2005) is coming to 4K Ultra HD on 5/27 from 20th Century Studios via Disney/Sony!

66. [MY TWO CENTS] BREAKING ON THE BITS—Ridley Scott’s KINGDOM OF HEAVEN: DIRECTOR’S CUT (2005) is coming to 4K Ultra HD on 5/27 from 20th Century Studios via Disney/Sony!

Hot on the heels of Disney’s Tombstone 4K Ultra HD announcement (news of which we first broke here last month), there’s another great 4K catalog title from Disney that I couldn’t be more excited to reveal ...

Created on 10 April 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Captain America: Brave New World is set for 5/13, plus Novocaine, White Lotus, Becoming Led Zeppelin & James Bond: Sean Connery 6-Film 4K Collection details & art!

67. [MY TWO CENTS] Captain America: Brave New World is set for 5/13, plus Novocaine, White Lotus, Becoming Led Zeppelin & James Bond: Sean Connery 6-Film 4K Collection details & art!

We’ve got three new disc reviews to share with you today here at The Bits, including... My in-depth look at George P. Cosmatos, Kurt Russell, and Kevin Jarre’s legendary Western Tombstone (1993) in 4K ...

Created on 09 April 2025

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68. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Winchester ‘73 (4K UHD Review)

There have been many noteworthy pairings of director and leading actor in the Western genre, like John Ford with John Wayne, Bud Boetticher with Randolph Scott, and Sergio Leone with Clint Eastwood. Still, ...

Created on 09 April 2025

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69. [DVD] Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Series (DVD Review)

Frequently hilarious, Larry David’s Curb Your Enthusiasm (1999-2024) builds on the comic sensibilities of Seinfeld (1989-1998), unencumbered by network Standards & Practices, the program first airing on ...

Created on 09 April 2025

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70. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Tombstone (4K UHD Review)

The year is 1879, the place: Tombstone in the Arizona Territory, then a bustling boomtown thanks to rich local silver ore deposits. Prospectors, ranchers, drovers, outlaws, lawyers, speculators, businessmen—opportunists ...

Created on 08 April 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Lionsgate Limited’s May 4Ks will include The Crazies & Kick-Ass, plus Clueless, Black Bag, new Vinegar Syndrome, Via Vision & Second Sight titles & more!

71. [MY TWO CENTS] Lionsgate Limited’s May 4Ks will include The Crazies & Kick-Ass, plus Clueless, Black Bag, new Vinegar Syndrome, Via Vision & Second Sight titles & more!

We start today with three new disc reviews, including... Stephen’s look at Lucio Fulci’s Don’t Torture a Duckling (1972) in 4K Ultra HD from Arrow Video. Stuart’s take on Stephen Soucy’s Merchant Ivory: ...

Created on 07 April 2025

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72. [BLU-RAY DISC] Merchant Ivory: The Documentary (Blu-ray Review)

In 2015, Cohen Media Group acquired the Merchant Ivory library, so Stephen Soucy’s documentary about the classy, long-running film company (founded in 1961) serves as much a means to promote this catalog, ...

Created on 07 April 2025

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73. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Don’t Torture a Duckling (4K UHD Review)

One of the most fruitless debates among cinephiles is the endless back-and-forth regarding whether or not a given film qualifies as a giallo. “But is it a giallo?” is a phrase that may engender limitless ...

Created on 07 April 2025

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74. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Nice Guys, The (4K UHD Review)

The Nice Guys is an old-fashioned, neo-noir thriller through the lens of a buddy comedy, one that was a breath of fresh air when it was released in the spring of 2016. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a film that ...

Created on 03 April 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Warner Archive bows High Society (1956) in 4K, plus Turbine’s Super Mario Bros. Movie Blu-ray 3D, Arrow’s The Cell disc replacement & Rest in Peace, Val Kilmer

75. [MY TWO CENTS] Warner Archive bows High Society (1956) in 4K, plus Turbine’s Super Mario Bros. Movie Blu-ray 3D, Arrow’s The Cell disc replacement & Rest in Peace, Val Kilmer

We’ve got one new disc review for you to enjoy here at The Bits today... Tim has updated Barrie Maxwell’s 2011 Criterion Blu-ray review of Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le cercle rouge (1970) to reflect the ...

Created on 02 April 2025

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76. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Le cercle rouge (4K UHD Review)

French director Jean-Pierre Melville had wanted to do a heist film for some 20 years before he finally achieved his desire with 1970’s Le cercle rouge. It was a desire preceded by his viewing and admiring ...

Created on 02 April 2025

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77. [MY TWO CENTS] Disney sets the original Lilo & Stitch for 4K on 5/6, plus Warner announces Mickey 17 for May & Kevin Smith brings Dogma back to theaters!

We have three more new disc reviews for you all to enjoy today, including... Stuart’s look at John M. Stahl’s When Tomorrow Comes (1939) on Region-B Blu-ray from Powerhouse Films and Indicator. Tim’s ...

Created on 01 April 2025

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78. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Long Kiss Goodnight, The (4K UHD Review)

Shane Black made a name for himself writing action movies like Lethal Weapon, and he also gained some notoriety earning record paydays for scripts like The Last Boy Scout—seriously, nothing pisses off ...

Created on 01 April 2025

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79. [BLU-RAY 3D] Glass Web, The (Blu-ray 3D Review)

In the midst of the 3D boom of 1953, of which 31 stereoscopic films were released in the United States (the most ever released during 3D’s “golden era”), Jack Arnold’s second 3D feature, The Glass Web, ...

Created on 01 April 2025

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80. [BLU-RAY DISC] When Tomorrow Comes (Region B) (Blu-ray Review)

Quickly made to cash in on the big critical and commercial success of Love Affair, When Tomorrow Comes reteamed Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer in a like-minded romantic melodrama. (Love Affair was released ...

Created on 01 April 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Shout’s June includes Lord of Illusions, Bring It On & Dead Zone in 4K, plus Clueless, Road Trip & a few words on tariffs and physical media prices

81. [MY TWO CENTS] Shout’s June includes Lord of Illusions, Bring It On & Dead Zone in 4K, plus Clueless, Road Trip & a few words on tariffs and physical media prices

We’re starting this week with a trio of new disc reviews, including... Stuart’s looks at Bob Kellett’s Are You Being Served? (1977) and Zoltán Korda’s Cry, the Beloved Country (1951) both on Blu-ray from ...

Created on 31 March 2025

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82. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Scarface (1932) (4K UHD Review)

Scarface landed in 1932 during an interesting phase in American cinema, one in which studios had been taking advantage of the lack of enforceable standards in order to push boundaries and make money. The ...

Created on 31 March 2025

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83. [BLU-RAY DISC] Cry, the Beloved Country (Blu-ray Review)

The original, 1951 film version of Cry, the Beloved Country, from Alan Paton’s 1948 novel, is remarkable that it exists at all. Prior to the 1980s, few movie companies dared openly criticize South Africa’s ...

Created on 31 March 2025

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84. [BLU-RAY DISC] Are You Being Served? (Blu-ray Review)

If you’re a fan of the long-running British sitcom Are You Being Served?, chances are reasonably good you’ll enjoy this 1977 theatrical feature adaptation starring the original ensemble cast. Those unfamiliar ...

Created on 31 March 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Arrow’s June has Dark City 4K, plus This Is Spinal Tap, new Imprint Asia, BFI, Severin & Synapse, plus Screening Room AV’s 2025 Projector Shootout in ONE WEEK!

85. [MY TWO CENTS] Arrow’s June has Dark City 4K, plus This Is Spinal Tap, new Imprint Asia, BFI, Severin & Synapse, plus Screening Room AV’s 2025 Projector Shootout in ONE WEEK!

We’ve got SIX more new disc reviews for you all to enjoy today, including... Dennis’ reviews of Stanley Donen’s Arabesque (1966) in 4K Ultra HD and Dick Powell’s The Conqueror (1956) on Blu-ray, both ...

Created on 28 March 2025

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86. [BLU-RAY DISC] Shawscope: Volume Two (Blu-ray Review – Part 1)

From the mid-1960s and through to the early 1980s and beyond, the Hong Kong-based Shaw Brothers Studio ruled the roost when it came to martial arts cinema. Producing a number of successful films that traveled ...

Created on 28 March 2025

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87. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Breakdown: Paramount Scares – Volume 2 (4K UHD Review)

Watching Breakdown, I was reminded of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Lady Vanishes. In both films, a character mysteriously disappears, leading to attempts to find out what happened and locate the missing person. ...

Created on 28 March 2025

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88. [BLU-RAY DISC] Street Trash (2024) (Blu-ray Review)

The original Street Trash became a splatter cult classic of the 1980s with its grotesque special effects and anarchic theme. Nearly three decades later, a reboot of the film follows a similar plot as the ...

Created on 28 March 2025

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89. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Murder by Decree (4K UHD Review)

Bob Clark was truly one of cinema’s greatest filmmaking chameleons, jumping in and out of genres without a distinctive style, serving the needs of the story instead. Some people to this day still can’t ...

Created on 27 March 2025

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90. [BLU-RAY DISC] Conqueror, The (Blu-ray Review)

1956 saw large-scale productions from all the major studios: United Artists (Around the World in 80 Days), Paramount Pictures (The Ten Commandments), Warner Bros. (Giant), 20th Century Fox (The King and ...

Created on 27 March 2025

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