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Cinema Paradiso in 4K, new Blu-ray announcements, great podcasts & more, plus RIP Ian Holm/Joel Schumacher
All right, it’s been a few days since my last news update and there are a variety of reasons for that which I’ll get into in tomorrow’s post. In the meantime, let’s get caught up...
First, we’ve got some new reviews for you all to enjoy. Tim has posted no less than four Blu-ray reviews since last week, including his thoughts on Terence Fisher’s 1961 Hammer Films classic The Curse of the Werewolf from Scream Factory, Fritz Bottger’s Horrors of Spider Island (1960) from Severin Films, James Signorelli’s Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988) from Arrow Video, finally Sean Cunningham’s Friday the 13th (1980) in a new 40th Anniversary Steelbook Edition from Paramount. Enjoy!
Now then, there’s not a lot of major announcement news to report at the moment, but we do have some interesting odds and ends...
Let’s start on the 4K front: Arrow Video has announced the release of Giuseppe Tornatore’s beloved Cinema Paradiso (1988) on both 4K Ultra HD and regular Blu-ray on 9/28. [Read on here...]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Tim Salmons
- Cinema Paradiso 4K
- Arrow Video
- Ian Holm RIP
- Joel Schumacher RIP
- The Curse of the Werewolf BD review
- Horrors of Spider Island BD review
- Elvira: Mistress of the Dark BD review
- Friday the 13th: 40th Anniversary Limited Edition Steelbook BD review
- Warner Archive Collection
- Stargirl: The Complete First Season
- Ghost: 30th Anniversary Edition
- Clueless: 25th Anniversary Edition
- Jack Ryan: Season Two
- The Birth of Ultraman
- Orange Is the New Black: Season Seven
- Proximity
- True Lies
- Josh Gad: Reunited Apart
- Back to the Future
- The Lord of the Rings cast reunion
- Back to the Future cast reunion
- Goonies cast reunion
- Ghostbusters cast reunion
- Inglorious Treksperts podcast
- Cinematalk Podcast
- Team Deakins podcast
- Robservations
- Isaac Asimov's Foundation Apple TV trailer
Hair from Olive Films, plus TV’s Wonder Woman, Kino’s June slate, and a great new podcast by Roger Deakins!
Today’s post is just a quickie because I’m working hard to finish up some long overdue Blu-ray reviews.
I should add a note here to acknowledge the fact that the COVID-19 pandemic has proven quite a challenge for all of us, and it’s no different here at The Digital Bits. Title announcements have been delayed, many of our studio and industry contacts have either been working at home or furloughed, screener product has been delayed or cancelled, etc. And of course, as is probably the case with many of you, our own lives have been turned upside down. It’s required a lot of shifting of schedules, workflow, energies, and effort. And some of the review work I usually do personally has gotten waylaid by having to deal with other issues to keep the site going.
The good news is that we seem to be rolling with it all fairly well, and Tim, Dennis and our other Bits team members have been doing yeoman’s work filling in. That said, I do very much appreciate whatever support you guys—our readers—can provide in this difficult time, either by continuing to purchase items through our Amazon links and/or making contributions by a PayPal in our Back the Bits program. And I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you all for sticking with us. We have the best readers on the Internet. Some of you have been with us all the way back to the beginning of the site back in 1997. And we appreciate each and every one of you. [Read on here...]