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91. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Arabesque (4K UHD Review)

Because of Stanley Donen’s great success with 1963’s lightweight spy thriller Charade, he was tapped for Arabesque, a similar project to also be filmed in Europe and star two iconic personalities. Obvious ...

Created on 27 March 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] The 007 Sean Connery/James Bond 4K set is now available for pre-order, plus Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon is coming to 4K & a discount on Colin Cantwell art!

92. [MY TWO CENTS] The 007 Sean Connery/James Bond 4K set is now available for pre-order, plus Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon is coming to 4K & a discount on Colin Cantwell art!

We have more new disc reviews for you all to enjoy today here at The Bits, including... Tim’s reviews of Charles Martin Smith’s Trick or Treat (1986) in 4K Ultra HD from Synapse Films and Robert Altman’s ...

Created on 26 March 2025

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93. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Trick or Treat (4K UHD Review)

Over the years since its release, 1986’s Trick or Treat has managed to eke out a cult following of sorts, despite the lack of a home video presence. A film that was tied up legally for decades with enough ...

Created on 26 March 2025

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94. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] McCabe & Mrs. Miller (4K UHD Review)

When Robert Altman set out to make an anti-Western in the early 1970s, he likely had no idea that he was actually creating something that would eventually become a part of the overall Western aesthetic ...

Created on 26 March 2025

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95. [BLU-RAY DISC] Half a Chance (Blu-ray Review)

Beginning around the 1980s, a Hollywood influence began permeating other countries’ film industries, especially in Asia (with the obvious major exceptions of China and India) and most of Europe. Singularly ...

Created on 26 March 2025

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96. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Godzilla vs. Biollante (4K UHD Review)

When producer Tomoyuki Tanaka rebooted Toho’s Godzilla franchise on its 30th anniversary with The Return of Godzilla (better known as Godzilla 1985 on this side of the Pacific), he made the crucial decision ...

Created on 25 March 2025

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97. [BLU-RAY DISC] Neither the Sea Nor the Sand (Blu-ray Review)

Neither the Sea Nor the Sand is a melancholy romance that considers love’s ability to transcend mortality. About a third of the way through, it takes a sharp turn in tone to lead the viewer through a world ...

Created on 25 March 2025

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98. [BLU-RAY DISC] Terrornauts, The (Blu-ray Review)

Staggeringly awful, Amicus’s production of The Terrornauts (1967) was originally released on a double-bill with the equally terrible They Came from Beyond Space. Amicus historian Allan Bryce, in his Amicus: ...

Created on 25 March 2025

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99. [MY TWO CENTS] Last Breath, Dead Again (1991), Ben 10 on DVD, Rad & BMX Bandits in 4K from Umbrella, Sony’s Little Women (1994) 4K disc replacement & more

We’re starting the week today here at The Bits with a few more new disc reviews from the team, including... Stuart’s look at Christian-Jaque’s The Black Tulip (1964) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio ...

Created on 24 March 2025

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100. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Night Moves (4K UHD Review)

Gene Hackman starred in two thrillers back-to-back between 1974 and 1975, The Conversation and Night Moves, for two directors who couldn’t possibly have been more different from each other: Francis Ford ...

Created on 24 March 2025

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101. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Venom (1981) (4K UHD Review)

1981’s Venom features a plot about a wealthy young boy (Lance Holcomb) and his grandfather (Sterling Hayden) being taken hostage by international terrorists (Klaus Kinski and Susan George) and held for ...

Created on 24 March 2025

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102. [BLU-RAY DISC] Black Tulip, The (1964) (Blu-ray Review)

This is a major home video release for connoisseurs of big-format cinema. The Black Tulip (La Tulipe noire, 1964) was one of a handful of ‘60s foreign language European productions photographed in 65/70mm, ...

Created on 24 March 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Street dates for Prophecy & Wayne’s World 2 in 4K, plus Lethal Weapon 4K, Day the Earth Blew Up, Outlander: S7, new Imprint & Powerhouse Films titles & more!

103. [MY TWO CENTS] Street dates for Prophecy & Wayne’s World 2 in 4K, plus Lethal Weapon 4K, Day the Earth Blew Up, Outlander: S7, new Imprint & Powerhouse Films titles & more!

All right, we’ve had a big week here at The Bits. As you can probably tell, I’ve spent most of the week checking in with studio and industry sources, which led to yesterday’s scoop on Tombstone coming ...

Created on 21 March 2025

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104. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Cracking Collection (4K UHD Review)

The history of Aardman Animations goes as far back as the early 1970s when its founders Peter Lord and David Sproxton began creating stop-motion animated segments for British television, but their worldwide ...

Created on 21 March 2025

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105. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Thief (4K UHD Review)

Thief (aka Violent Streets) was Michael Mann’s auspicious feature film debut in 1981, even though it wasn’t really his first film. Yet it still set the template that he’s followed throughout the rest of ...

Created on 21 March 2025

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106. [BLU-RAY DISC] Carpenter, The (Blu-ray Review)

Horror films can cover many different areas—monsters, the supernatural, psychological terror, slashers, Gothic eeriness, and human-made abominations, to name just a few. The Carpenter, a low-budget Canadian ...

Created on 21 March 2025

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107. [BLU-RAY DISC] Arabesque (Blu-ray Review)

Because of Stanley Donen’s great success with 1963’s lightweight spy thriller Charade, he was tapped for Arabesque, a similar project to also be filmed in Europe and star two iconic personalities. Obvious ...

Created on 21 March 2025

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108. [MY TWO CENTS] BREAKING: It’s Official—George P. Cosmatos & Kevin Jarre’s TOMBSTONE (1993) hits 4K disc on 4/22!

Heads up, Bits readers: The news we broke last night here at site is now official… here’s Disney’s press release and final cover artwork for their 4K Ultra HD Steelbook release of Tombstone… [UPDATE: Pre-orders ...

Created on 20 March 2025

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109. [MY TWO CENTS] A Digital Bits EXCLUSIVE: TOMBSTONE (1993) is coming soon to 4K disc from Disney!

This is a day I’ve been waiting for a very long time for. A couple of weeks ago, I learned from a good friend (a fellow home video industry veteran) that one of my favorite films had recently received ...

Created on 19 March 2025

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110. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Wages of Fear, The (4K UHD Review)

“Existential” is a term that has been applied to many films by directors like Michelangelo Antonioni, Ingmar Bergman, and Henri-Georges Clouzot, but the reality is that the term is used somewhat nebulously—which ...

Created on 19 March 2025

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111. [BLU-RAY DISC] Juror #2 (Blu-ray Review)

First things first: the courtroom drama Juror #2 (2024) does not in any way resemble the diminishing efforts of an enfeebled, 94-year-old filmmaker trying to crank out one last film. Indeed, it’s as engaged, ...

Created on 19 March 2025

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112. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Looking for Mr. Goodbar (4K UHD Review)

Given the A-list talent involved, Looking for Mr. Goodbar isn’t usually considered to be an exploitation film, but that’s exactly what it is: a full-blown Reefer Madness for the Sexual Revolution. Just ...

Created on 17 March 2025

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113. [BLU-RAY DISC] Boss, The (1973) (Blu-ray Review)

Technically a poliziottesco but really a cashing in on the wildly popular success of Francis Coppola’s The Godfather (1972), The Boss (Il Boss, 1973) is the third and final film of director Fernando Di ...

Created on 17 March 2025

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114. [BLU-RAY DISC] Best Defense (Blu-ray Review)

Best Defense stitches two completely different films together with a slender thread so as to amplify the role of a rising actor in the hope that his popularity would be enough to make the patchwork a box ...

Created on 17 March 2025

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[MY TWO CENTS] Criterion’s June has Sorcerer & Brazil in 4K, plus new WB, Imprint & boutique titles, KLSC’s Dante’s Peak & Daylight delayed, Sony bows a new UHD player & more!

115. [MY TWO CENTS] Criterion’s June has Sorcerer & Brazil in 4K, plus new WB, Imprint & boutique titles, KLSC’s Dante’s Peak & Daylight delayed, Sony bows a new UHD player & more!

We’ve got one more new disc review to round out the week here at The Bits this afternoon... Dennis has taken a look at Robert Day’s Two-Way Stretch (1960) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, ...

Created on 14 March 2025

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116. [BLU-RAY DISC] Two-Way Stretch (Blu-ray Review)

Heist caper films intrigue audiences with their methodical planning, amassing information, long hours observing the target, and split-second timing. In Two-Way Stretch, the caper film is taken to comic ...

Created on 14 March 2025

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117. [MY TWO CENTS] Mickey 17, Flow, Presence, Section 31, The Great Train Robbery on Blu-ray & Prince’s Purple Rain album in Blu-ray Audio with Dolby Atmos!

We have more new disc reviews to share here at The Bits today, including... Tim’s look at Kenji Kamiyama’s animated The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim (2024) in 4K Ultra HD from Warner Bros, ...

Created on 13 March 2025

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118. [ULTRA HD BLU-RAY] Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, The (30th Anniversary Limited Edition) (4K UHD Review)

At the beginning of The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, drag performer Tick (Hugo Weaving) is in character as Mitzi Del Bra, lip-syncing to Charlene’s I’ve Never Been to Me before an underappreciative ...

Created on 13 March 2025

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119. [BLU-RAY DISC] Daffy Duck’s Quackbusters (Blu-ray Review)

In the 1980s, animation historian Greg Ford was given the opportunity by Warner Bros. to produce new Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies content. Bringing in animator and director Terry Lennon, who at that ...

Created on 13 March 2025

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120. [BLU-RAY DISC] Orders aka Les Ordres (Blu-ray Review)

Harrowing and infuriating accurately describe Michel Brault’s Orders (Les Ordres, 1974), a French-Canadian production little-seen and little-known outside of its native Canada. It’s one of the best Blu-ray ...

Created on 13 March 2025

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