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MOS DEF: The Best Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD Titles of 2022
While all the talk about digital and the implosion of some of the most high-profile streamers purging content from their services faster than Stalin and his politburo, it’s worth spotlighting the fact that it was still a fairly impressive year for physical media whose death, much like Mark Twain, has been greatly exaggerated.
While there’s still too many A-list titles that are MIA that haven’t migrated to 4K Ultra HD yet and other films in desperate need of upgraded hi-def masters (including, self-promotion alert, Free Enterprise), several labels have stepped up their games in a big way ranging from Shout to Arrow and, most impressively, Kino-Lorber.
And, of course, as always, Warner Bros has brought it with their classic titles (although I still have to wonder where the hell North By Northwest is). So even though it’s almost March 2023, these are some of the stellar titles of 2022 that will undoubtedly stand the test of time.
If there’s only one vexing trend in the home entertainment market today, it’s how rare it is to find many re-issues featuring compelling new bonus material instead consistently relying on re-purposing old VAM. [Read on here...]
- Bluray
- Femme Fatales
- Geek Magazine
- The Digital Bits
- Mark A Altman
- MOS DEF
- The Best Bluray and 4K Ultra HD Titles of 2022
- Casablanca
- The Godfather Trilogy
- Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection: Volume 3
- Star Trek: The Motion Picture The Director's Edition
- Singin in the Rain
- Reservoir Dogs
- Touch of Evil
- Double Indemnity
- Get Carter
- The Inglorious Treksperts
WHV's Nutty Professor: 50th Anniversary BD box, plus Gravity BD review, 2 new columns & more!
All right, sorry for the last of an update here at the site yesterday. We’ve got some stuff we’re working on that’s kept us pretty busy. And honestly, there hasn’t been a ton of new announcement news anyway. But we’ve got some good stuff to make it up to you today...
First, I’ve tuned in a review of Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity, which is newly available on Blu-ray Disc from Warner Home Video. Our own Jeff Kleist has also added his thoughts on Warner’s Blu-ray 3D version of Gravity. The film is definitely worth your time and the discs are surprisingly great, both in terms of video and audio quality and also extras. [Read on here…]
- Adam Jahnke
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- BD
- Bluray
- Bluray Disc
- The Nutty Professor: 50th Anniversary Edition UCE
- Birds of Paradise
- Gravity Bluray review
- An Honor To Be Nominated
- View from the Cheap Seats
- Bud Elder
- Oscar picks
- Touch of Evil
- Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
- Angels in Stardust
- Nurse
- The New Adventures of Superman: Seasons 2 & 3
- Jerry Lewis
- Warner Home Video
- Sunset Boulevard
- Jahnke's Electric Theatre
A Pair of Film Noir Classics May Finally Arrive on Blu-ray in the States in 2014
All right, I know we don’t get The Rumor Mill updated nearly as often as we should. So how’s about a little holiday Rumor Mill cheer? We’ll make that one of our New Year’s resolutions – to get more Rumor Mill updates going for you guys in 2014.
So here’s today’s installment… [Read on here….]
BD Reviews Both New & Retro, Plus a Rare Rumor Mill Update for Xmas Week!
Evening, folks! This is just a quick update for you with a few items of interest for you...
First, our own Mario Boucher has turned in a review of Universal’s new Fast & Furious 6: Extended Edition on Blu-ray Disc, so be sure to check it out.
Also, we’ve added four more retro Blu-ray reviews to the new site from the old Bits database: Barrie Maxwell’s review of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, my thoughts on THX 1138: The George Lucas Director’s Cut and Dr. Jahnke’s take on Stake Land and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s Santa Sangre. [Read on here…]
- Bluray review
- Happy Holidays
- Merry Christmas
- Barrie Maxwell
- Adam Jahnke
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Bluray Disc
- Fast & Furious 6: Extended Edition
- Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
- Stake Land
- THX 1138: The George Lucas Director's Cut
- Santa Sangre
- The Rumor Mill
- View from the Cheap Seats
- Bud Elder
- film noir
- Double Indemnity
- Touch of Evil
Hill Street Blues, new Universal catalog BDs, TCM Festival 2014, Enterprise: S4 & a Clone Wars fix!
All right, we’ve got a bunch of good news for you here at The Bits today.
First though, our own Russell Hammond has updated the Release Dates & Artwork section will all the latest Blu-ray, DVD and Video Game cover artwork and Amazon.com pre-order links. As always, a portion of anything you order from Amazon in the same session after clicking to them through our links goes to help support our work here at The Bits and we really appreciate it!
Now then... any Hill Street Blues fans out there? Shout! Factory has just announced the release of Hill Street Blues: The Complete Series on DVD on 4/29 (SRP $199.99)! The 34-disc box set will include all 144 episodes of the series, along with new interviews with the creators and cast, including Steven Bochco, Dennis Franz, James B. Sikking, Bruce Weitz, Alan Rachins, Gregory Hoblit, Dennis Dugan, Jeffrey Lewis and more. You’ll also get a commemorative 24-page book with photos, liner notes and an essay by TV critic Tom Shales. You’ll find cover art below and the title is now available for pre-order on Amazon. [Read on here...]
- Bluray Disc
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- Release Dates & Artwork
- Hill Street Blues: The Complete Series
- Beneath
- Shout! Factory
- Scream Factory
- Atlantis: Season One
- Revolution: The Complete Second Season
- Vanilla Sky
- Rock Star
- Doctor Who: The Time of the Doctor
- Far and Away
- Fried Green Tomatoes
- Somewhere in Time
- Intolerable Cruelty
- An American Tail
- Big Fat Liar
- A Simple Wish
- Harry and the Hendersons
- Star Trek: Enterprise
- Brannon Braga
- Writer's Room Reunion
- Touch of Evil
- Double Indemnity
- TCM Classic Film Festival 2014
- Last Vegas
- 12 Years a Slave
- Homeland: The Complete Third Season