Displaying items by tag: Paul Verhoeven
StudioCanal/Lionsgate bow Total Recall in 4K, plus Friday the 13th II footage lost no more & The Godfather III Redux
We’ve got another quick update for you as we work on new disc reviews today. Speaking of which...
I’ve just posted my in-depth thoughts on GKids and Shout! Factory’s new Blu-ray release of Hayao Miyazaki’s 2013 animated masterpiece The Wind Rises. It streets on 9/22, and like all of these new GKids/Shout! Studio Ghibli Blu-ray reissues, it’s absolutely the definitive release of the film on disc for fans in the US. Don’t miss it.
My review of Bill & Ted 4K is up next, and over the weekend I’ll be looking at Goonies and Beetlejuice 4K as well. Tim and Dennis are hard at work on reviews too. So be sure to watch for those.
Now then... the big 4K announcement news today is that StudioCanal has officially set the 4K Ultra HD release of Paul Verhoeven’s Total Recall: 30th Anniversary Edition in the UK for 23 November. The 16-bit 4K scan and remaster was done from the original camera negative, with color grading in HDR10 and Dolby Vision HDR. [Read on here...]
- Paramount
- Lionsgate
- 4K Ultra HD
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Total Recall: 30th Anniversary Edition 4K
- Friday the 13th Part II lost footage found
- The Godfather Part III
- Francis Ford Coppola
- StudioCanal
- The Wind Rises BD review
- GKids
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Friday the 13th Collection: Deluxe Edition
- Paul Verhoeven
- Mad Max 4K
- Justice League Zavvi exclusive 4K Ultra HD Steelbook
- Titans of Cult 2001: A Space Odyssey 4K Ultra HD Steelbook
- Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleon
- 4K restoration
It’s starting to look like Lord of the Rings 4K may arrive in December, plus new disc reviews, Showgirls 4K & more
We have some new release news, announcements, and an interesting rumor to report on today. But first, we’ve got some new disc reviews here at The Bits for you, including...
Tim’s look at Terence Fisher’s 1962 Hammer Studios production of The Phantom of the Opera, available now as a new Collector’s Edition Blu-ray from our friends at Scream Factory. He’s also taken a look at John Harrison’s Tales from the Darkside: The Movie, also available on Collector’s Edition Blu-ray from Scream.
[Editor’s Note: While you’re listening to the audio commentary with Harrison and George Romero on that disc, know that I was in the booth as it was being recorded back in November of 2001. You can see my coverage of the day here on The Bits, complete with pictures. John’s become a friend over the years, and let me tell you, George was every bit as warm and lovely a human being as you’d hope. It makes me very happy to see this film and commentary get another appearance on disc for fans to rediscover.]
Not done yet with reviews... I’ve just posted my thoughts on David Twohy’s Pitch Black, soon to arrive on 4K Ultra HD from our friends at Arrow Video. The film really does benefit from both the new 4K scan of the original camera negative and the HDR grade, though the audio is the same 5.1 DTS-HD MA mix found on the previous Blu-ray. The disc is also loaded with extras, including nearly all the legacy content and new material too. It’s a worthy upgrade for fans. Note however that the title shipped without a slipcover due to a production problem. So if you happen to be surprised that your copy doesn’t have a slipcover, that’s why. [Read on here...]
- Paul Verhoeven
- Dennis Seuling
- Tim Salmons
- The Irishman BD
- 4K Ultra HD
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Showgirls 4K
- The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 4K
- The Phantom of the Opera BD review
- John Harrison
- George Romero
- Tales from the Darkside: The Movie BD review
- Pitch Black 4K review
- Scream Factory
- Arrow Video
- The King of Staten Island BD review
- You Don't Nomi
- Hammer Films: The Ultimate Collection
- Mill Creek Entertainment
- Paramount and Miramax
- Rita Hayworth: The Ultimate Collection
- The Secret of Kells BD
- GKids
- Genesis II/Planet Earth
- Gene Roddenberry
- Jeremiah Johnson
- The Memphis Belle
- Warner Archive Collection
Criterion’s November slate includes The Irishman, plus Total Recall 4K, Bill & Ted Face the Music, and a pretty significant Disney+ rumor
Okay, we’ve got some significant release and industry news to report today. But first, new disc reviews...
Tim has just posted a review of Pierre B. Reinhard’s Revenge of the Living Dead Girls (1987) on Blu-ray from Severin Films.
And Dennis has turned in his thoughts on Budd Boetticher’s World War II drama The Red Ball Express (1952), now available on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
Also, I’ve just gotten my hands on Arrow Video’s new Pitch Black 4K Ultra HD, so I’m going to have a review of that up by Friday.
But tomorrow is likely to be an interesting news day, as that’s when the industry’s mid-year numbers get released. So I’ll have more on that tomorrow afternoon. [Read on here...]
- Pitch Black 4K
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- 4K Ultra HD
- StudioCanal UK
- Criterion November 2020 slate
- Martin Scorsese
- The Irishman BD
- Girlfriends BD
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai BD
- Bill & Ted Face the Music
- Disney+
- Disney Plus
- Total Recall 4K
- Tim Salmons
- Revenge of the Living Dead Girls BD review
- Dennis Seuling
- The Red Ball Express BD review
- Essential Fellini Bluray box set
- Jim Jarmusch
- Paul Verhoeven
- Dean Parisot
- Rumor Mill
- Moonstruck BD
He’s Still Not Stopping For Donuts!: Remembering “RoboCop” on its 30th Anniversary
“In many ways, RoboCop was ahead of its time, foreshadowing a future that is with us now. The Reagan-era gap between rich and poor has grown ever wider, with the 1% using an increasingly militarized police force to protect gentrified communities while other parts of cities have become postindustrial wastelands, abandoned to crime and drugs. RoboCop himself, a man made over into a machine by an unfeeling corporation, can be seen as a literal example of American workers being replaced by robots.” — Film scholar and Paul Verhoeven author Douglas Keesey
The Digital Bits and History, Legacy & Showmanship are pleased to present this retrospective commemorating the 30th anniversary of the release of RoboCop, Paul Verhoeven’s (Soldier of Orange, Basic Instinct) franchise-inspiring and Saturn- and Oscar-winning satirical action film starring Peter Weller (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, Leviathan) and Nancy Allen (Dressed to Kill, Blow Out). [Read on here...]
Elle, Rules Don’t Apply, In Dubious Battle, Killjoys: S2, What Planet Are You From? & server updates
All right, after several days of hard work (with lots more to go), The Bits is finally up and running on newly-updated database software. You may have noticed that The Bits looks a little different here today, and this is why. We’ve got lots more tweaking to do, and there will probably be some things that are broken around here that we’ll have to get around to fixing, but for now the basics seem to be working. Please bear with us as we dial everything in here at the site and get things buttoned up. Code and functionality updates like this are the bane of any webmaster, but you gotta get them done.
Meanwhile, here at The Bits today, we’ve got a pair of new Blu-ray reviews. Tim has checked out William Friedkin’s To Live and Die in L.A.: Collector’s Edition from Shout Select, as well as Michael Anderson’s Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze from the Warner Archive.
And I’ve got a whole mess of 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray reviews coming, now that our server updates are nearly completed. Watch for those starting Monday with Denis Villeneuve’s The Arrival from Paramount first up on deck. [Read on here…]
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Shout Selects
- Elle
- Rules Don't Apply
- In Dubious Battle
- Killjoys: Season Two
- What Planet Are You From?
- To Live and Die in LA: Collector's Edition
- Doc Savage BD
- The Arrival 4K
- Tim Salmons
- Bluray review
- Warren Beatty
- James Franco
- Paul Verhoeven
- Mike Nichols
- Super Bowl
- xXx: The Return of Xander Cage
- Assassin's Creed
- Split
- Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
- Patriot's Day
- Hidden Figures
- Fences
- Monster Trucks
- La La Land 4K
- Lion
- Passengers
- Silence
- A Dog's Purpose
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
- The Pink Panther Film Collection Starring Peter Sellers