Displaying items by tag: The Warner Archive
FUNimation’s “Speed-Head” Racer box, They Call Me Bruce?, Warner Archive’s Illustrated Man & Jay Thomas RIP
We’re kicking things off today with two more Blu-ray reviews: Tim’s taken a look at Dusty Nelson’s Effects (1978) and Tom Hanson’s The Zodiac Killer (1971) on disc from Synapse Films and AGFA. Sounds like both are worth a look, so enjoy the reviews. And be aware, that I’ve working on a new Blu-ray review and several more new 4K Ultra HD reviews myself, so watch for those over the next few days.
In announcement news today... FUNimation has finally set Speed Racer: The Ultimate Collection for release on Blu-ray/DVD Combo box set on 11/7. This whopping 10 Blu-ray/16 DVD box set will come in “Speed-Head” packaging and will include Speed Racer: The Complete Series (1967) on both Blu-ray and DVD, the original Japanese version of Mach GoGoGo (1967) on both Blu-ray and DVD, and also the newer Mach GoGoGo “Restart” (1997) series on DVD only. Extras will include a new interview with voice actor Connie Orr (aka Trixie) and a collectible keychain. You can see the packaging above-left and below. [Read on here…]
- Tim Salmons
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Bluray Disc
- Samurai Jack: The Complete Series Bluray
- Samurai Jack: The Complete Fifth Season
- Effects BD review
- The Zodiac Killer BD review
- Speed Racer: The Ultimate Collection
- Mach GoGoGo
- Speed Head packaging
- FUNimation
- Wish Upon
- They Call Me Bruce?
- Legend of Bruce Lee: Volume Three
- Holiday Inn: 75th Anniversary Edition
- DC Universe Original Movies: 10th Anniversary Collection
- Glory
- The Illustrated Man
- The Warner Archive
- Innocent Blood
- Waiting for Guffman
- Brigadoon BD
- Animal Factory
- Jay Thomas RIP
Criterion’s September slate, Warner Archive’s Batman: Mask of the Phantasm BD & celebrating Batman Returns
We’re doing a bit of server work here at The Bits today, but we’ve got a couple good things for you today…
First up, Michael Coate has been busy again this weekend. He’s just turned in a new retrospective column in his History, Legacy & Showmanship column, this time featuring a look back at Tim Burton’s Batman Returns, which celebrates its 25th anniversary today. Michael’s piece includes a new roundtable discussion with film historians, including Jeff Bond, Scott Mendelson, and Bruce Scivally. Do give it a look; I think you’ll really enjoy it. [Read on here…]
- Bluray
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Bluray Disc
- The Warner Archive
- Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
- Batman Returns
- Michael Coate
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- 25th Anniversary
- Criterion's September slate
- Tim Salmons
- Car Wash BD review
- Shout Select
- Bill Dana RIP
- José Jiménez
- The Right Stuff
- Alfred Hitchcick
- Rebecca
- Certain Women
- The Piano Teacher
- David Lynch: The Art Life
- Festival
- Orson Welles' Othello
- The Blacklist: The Complete Fourth Season
Samsung & Amazon bow HDR10“+” to compete with Dolby Vision, plus Belko Experiment, Warner Archive sale today & more
All right, there’s not a lot of news today, but there are a couple things worth mentioning, so let’s get to it...
First, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment and Orion Pictures (a division of MGM) have announced the Blu-ray release of Greg McLean’s The Belko Experiment on Blu-ray and DVD on 6/27, with the Digital HD release expected on 6/13. Extras will include a pair of featurettes (Rules of the Game: The Secrets Behind The Belko Experiment and Lee Hardcastle’s Survival Tips), deleted scenes, and an image gallery. The film was written and produced by James Gunn (he of Guardians of the Galaxy fame). [Read on here…]
Terrence Malick’s Song to Song, Vision Quest & Seven Days in May, plus Oppo’s UDP-205 4K UHD player ships soon
Before we get started today, our own Russell Hammond has updated the Release Dates & Artwork section with all the latest Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD cover artwork and Amazon.com pre-order links. As always, whenever you order literally anything from Amazon after clicking to them through our links, you’re helping to support our work here at The Bits and we really do appreciate it.
Now then... Broad Green Pictures has just set Terrence Malick’s Song to Song for Blu-ray and DVD release on 7/4, starring Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender, Natalie Portman, Rooney Mara, and Cate Blanchet.
The Warner Archive has just announced that Vision Quest (1985), The Loved One (1965), The Accidental Tourist (1988), and Seven Days in May (1964) are all coming to Blu-ray soon, each with a brand new HD transfer. [Read on here…]
Criterion’s July has Tarkovsky’s Stalker & Rossellini’s War Trilogy, plus Vestron’s The Unholy, new Twilight titles & more
There’s a bunch more great new release news today, so here goes...
First up, our friends at The Criterion Collection have announced their July slate of releases, and I’m thrilled to say that they include Andrei Tarkovsky’s Russian sci-fi film Stalker (Cat #888 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 7/18! Also coming are Robert Bresson’s L’argent (Cat #886 – Blu-ray, DVD, and Hulu Plus) and Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy (Cat #500 – Blu-ray and DVD – includes Rome Open City, Paisan, and Germany Year Zero) on 7/11, as well as Albert Brooks’ 1985 satire Lost in America (Cat #887 – Blu-ray and DVD) on 7/25. We’ll take all the classic Russian cinema on Blu-ray I can get, science fiction especially, and the more the merrier. You can pre-order them all by clicking on the cover artwork at the bottom of this post (Stalker is pictured at left). [Read on here…]
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- Criterion July
- Stalker
- War Trilogy
- The Unholy
- Vestron Video Collector's Series
- Andrei Tarkovsky
- Robert Bresson
- L'argent
- Albert Brooks
- Roberto Rossellini
- Paisan
- Germany Year Zero
- Rome Open City
- Tom Sawyer
- Huckleberry Finn
- State Fair
- J Lee Thompson
- Everything You Always Needed to Know About Sex
- Twilight Time July
- Rock Dog
- The Shack
- Death Line
- Table 19
- The Sense of an Ending
- The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick
- The Warner Archive
- Spencer's Mountain
- The Rounders
- Monchhichis: The Complete Series
- The Rockford Files: The Complete Series
Network sets UFO for Reg B Blu-ray in November, plus new Kino Lorber & Warner Archive, SpaceX Goes to Mars & more
All right, the big news today is that Network Distributing Ltd. in the U.K. has announced the Region B release of Gerry Anderson’s UFO: The Complete Series on Blu-ray on 11/14 (SRP £69.99). The series is restored in high-definition and includes all 26 episodes with audio in the original mono as well as new 5.1 mixes, and a ton of new and legacy special features. Among them is a brand new feature-length documentary called From Earth to the Moon, featuring interviews, archive video, audio, and stills (some never-before-seen). There’s also the new The Women of UFO documentary, a newly-produced SHADO “briefing film” called Identified: SHADO New Recruits Briefing, textless episode title backgrounds, textless end titles, stock footage, TV spots, extra footage for Identified and Exposed, unused footage from Timelash and The Long Sleep, Italian trailers, audio commentaries on Identified (with Gerry Anderson) and Sub-Smash (with Ed Bishop), S.I.D. Computer Voice Session and audio outtakes for these sessions and Kill Straker!, an archive Ed Bishop audio interview from 1996, the Tomorrow Today: Future Fashions with Sylvia Anderson featurette, extensive image galleries (with previously unseen images), and an exclusive 600-page book on the making of the series by archive television historian Andrew Pixley. [Read on here…]
- Region B
- BD
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Bluray
- UFO: The Complete Series
- Kino Lorber
- The Warner Archive
- Elon Musk
- SpaceX Mars colonization plan
- Porky's II
- Porky's Revenge
- The Blue Racer
- Sheriff Hoot Koot
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
- The Mike Tyson Mysteries
- The ID
- Mr Church
- 99 Women
- Blue Underground
- Jess Franco
- Black Water Wilderness
- Man in Space
- Mars and Beyond