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Ray Donovan: The Movie in 4K, fixed Road Warrior UHD discs are shipping, Jack and the Beanstalk (1952), Lynch open to revisiting Dune & MUCH more
We’re starting off the new week here at The Bits as we often do, with more new disc reviews...
Stephen has taken a look at Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile (2022) in 4K Ultra HD from 20th Century Studios and Disney. The film was shot in large format on both 65 mm film and 8K digital, so the disc’s image quality is uniquely impressive.
But that’s not all: Stephen has also posted his thoughts on Henry Levin and George Pal’s The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm, which has been newly-restored for release on Blu-ray by our friends at The Warner Archive Collection in both 2.85:1 widescreen and also Smilebox format, replicating the look of the film on a 146-degree curved Cinerama screen.
More disc reviews are on the way tomorrow and all this week, so be sure to check back.
In release news today, Showtime Entertainment has announced the Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD release of Ray Donovan: The Movie on 5/25. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Stephen Bjork
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- Ray Donovan: The Movie 4K
- Mad Max 2 4K replacements discs
- The Road Warrior 4K replacement discs
- ClassicFlix
- The 3D Film Archive
- Bob Furmanek
- Jack and the Beanstalk (1952) film restoration
- David Lynch's DUNE
- Death on the Nile (2022) 4K review
- 20th Century Studios
- The Warner Archive Collection
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm BD review
- The Bourne Complete Collection 4K
- Drive (1997) 4K
- Dragons Forever 4K
- 88 Films
- MVD Visual
- SpiderMan: No Way Home 4K
- The Beatles: Get Back BD delay
- Inland Empire 4K
- The Criterion Collection
- The Batman in 4K on HBO Max
- Top Gun: Maverick
- Dune: Spicediver Fan Edit
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Bless the Maker and His water: Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE may actually EXCEED my expectations
All right, we’ll have a bit of additional announcement news for the week tomorrow here at The Bits, and I’ll be spending the afternoon working on a review of Akira Kurosawa’s Ran in 4K UHD, which will be posted then as well.
But today, I want to talk about Denis Villeneuve’s DUNE.
I had the opportunity last night to attend one of Warner and Legendary’s IMAX sneak peek events for the film as a member of the press.
A little background first... I would definitely go so far as to call myself an expert on the subject of science fiction cinema. I’ve been reading literary science fiction my entire life (including DUNE many times), I’m known in some circles to be well-versed on the topic human spaceflight, and I’m a life-long student of science in general. I read physics and astronomy research papers like some people read comic books.
So as I noted in my recent review of Voyagers in 4K, I have certain critical expectations of science fiction films and TV series. Is the story and its science setup plausible, or does it require too many contrivances or conveniences? Is the story logically consistent? Is the world-building credible and convincing? And most importantly, is the story entertaining, engaging, or thought-provoking? The vast majority of genre programming fails on one or more of those criteria. In other words, on both the big and small screen, truly great science fiction is rare. [Read on here...]
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Dune
- Denis Villeneuve
- IMAX Trailer
- Frank Herbert
- David Lynch's DUNE
- John Harrison
- SciFi Channel miniseries
- Legendary
- Warner Bros Entertainment
- 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Blade Runner
- Blade Runner 2049
- The Matrix
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Alien
- Stanley Kubrick
- Peter Jackson
- Ridley Scott
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
- The Wachowskis