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Disney bows Mickey & Minnie: 10 Classic Shorts – Vol. 1, plus Confess Fletch, new KLSC/Curzon 4K titles & more
The big news today is that Walt Disney Animation Studios has just officially announced the first title in Disney’s planned 100th anniversary celebration this year. Mickey & Minnie: 10 Classic Shorts – Volume 1 will arrive on Blu-ray/DVD Combo on 2/7. Unfortunately, we don’t have the complete list of shorts yet (it wasn’t included in the press release—we have requested the details) but we do know this much:
“Included is the iconic Steamboat Willie, the first cartoon with synchronized sound, in which the character of Mickey Mouse was first introduced as a deckhand on a riverboat commanded by the tyrannical Captain Pete. Also included are Brave Little Tailor, featuring Mickey as a medieval tailor given a daunting task. In Mickey’s Delayed Date, the tardy mouse relies on his faithful pup Pluto to get him to a dance with Minnie. Hawaiian Holiday finds Mickey and his pals vacationing on a beautiful island. Then along with friends, Mickey and Minnie glide through a romantic date on a frozen river in On Ice. And catch five more delightful stories in this legacy collection.”
[Editor’s Update: Here are the other 5 shorts included in this release: Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip, Figaro and Frankie, Bath Day, Thru the Mirror, and The Little Whirlwind.]
You can see the cover artwork above-left. [Read on here...]
- Best Buy exclusive Steelbook 4K
- Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Mickey & Minnie: 10 Classic Shorts Volume 1 BD
- Steamboat Willie
- Walt Disney Studios 100th Anniversary
- Disney 100
- Brave Little Tailor
- Mickey Mouse
- Chicago: 20th Anniversary Edition
- Paramount
- Confess Fletch
- Women Talking
- Universal
- The Fabelmans
- The Serpent Queen
- Lionsgate
- John Wick Trilogy: Stash Book Collection Steelbook Box Set
- Doctor Who: William Hartnell Complete Season Two
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- 12 Angry Men (1957) 4K
- Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels 4K
- Imprint Films
- Severin Films
- The Five Days 4K
- Dario Argento
- King Kong Lives (1976)
- Umbrella Entertainment
- Curzon Film
- Three Colors Trilogy 4K
- The Double Life of Veronique 4K
- Krzysztof Kieślowski
The Rocky films are definitely coming to Ultra HD from Warner Bros in Q1, plus new Disney 100 Steelbook 4Ks & more
We’ve got some announcement news and a couple of reviews to share with you for our first My Two Cents update of 2023...
Starting as always with those reviews, Tim has posted his thoughts on Reacher: Season One in 4K Ultra HD from Paramount.
Meanwhile, Dennis has offered his take on Lou Adler’s Ladies and Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains (1982) on Blu-ray from Paramount via Imprint Films, as well as Nathan H. Juran’s Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman (1958) on Blu-ray from our friends at the Warner Archive Collection.
More reviews are forthcoming, so be sure to stay tuned for them.
And in the event you missed it, some of you longtime readers might enjoy my New Year’s Eve look back at twenty-five years of The Digital Bits. It’s certainly been an adventure and we’re all very glad to have you along with us on the journey!
Now then, Disney appears to be re-issuing many of its Disney Animated, Pixar, and Star Wars slate of 4K Ultra HD titles throughout the coming year, exclusively at Best Buy stores, in new “Disney 100” Steelbook packaging. [Read on here...]
- Universal
- Imprint Films
- Via Vision
- Tim Salmons
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Paramount
- Dennis Seuling
- Reacher: Season One 4K review
- Ladies and Gentlemen The Fabulous Stains BD review
- Attack of the 50 Ft Woman BD review
- Reflecting on 25 Years of The Digital Bits
- Disney 100 Steelbook 4Ks at Best Buy
- Rocky 4K
- Rocky II 4K
- Rocky III 4K
- Rocky IV 4K
- Warner Bros Home Entertainment
- MGM
- Babylon 4K
- Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit 4K
- She Said
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish 4K
- Orange Is the New Black: Complete Series DVD
- Yellowstone: Season 5 Part 1 BD
A Titanic 4K update, plus The Fabelmans, Station Eleven, Aim for the Ace!, The Young Ones, Castle of the Living Dead, King Kong (1976), Face/Off & more!
Welcome back from the holiday, Bits readers! We hope and trust that each of you were able to enjoy a great celebration with your family and friends.
Sarah and I have my mother staying here over the holidays, so we’ve been cooking up a storm, enjoying some great food, and watching lots of movies. I also just finished watching the season finale of HBO’s His Dark Materials—more on that in a moment—and I’ve started in on the new season of Jack Ryan on Amazon Prime. I still need to check out Avatar: The Way of Water at my local IMAX theater, but I’ll get to that soon enough.
We’ve got a new contribution from each member of the Bits reviewing team for you today, including...
Dennis’ look at Robert Mandel’s School Ties (1992) on Blu-ray from Imprint Films and Via Vision.
Stephen’s take on James Whale’s By Candlelight (1933) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
My thoughts on the new single-film 4K Ultra HD SKU of Wilson Yip’s Ip Man (2008) from Well Go USA.
And last, but certainly not least, Tim’s in-depth take on Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners: Ultimate Edition (1996) on 4K Ultra HD from our friends at Turbine Media in Germany! This is a pretty spectacular box set release, and Tim will tell you all about it in his review, so you definitely don’t want to miss it. [Read on here...]
- Stephen Bjork
- Dennis Seuling
- Paramount
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Tim Salmons
- Titanic 4K Ultra HD
- Station Eleven 4K
- The Fabelmans
- Aim for the Ace!
- The Young Ones
- Castle of the Living Dead
- King Kong (1976) 4K
- Face/Off 4K
- James Cameron
- School Ties BD review
- By Candlelight BD review
- Ip Man 4K review
- The Frighteners 4K review
- Turbine Media
- Via Vision
- Imprint Films
- Steven Spielberg
- Devotion
- Rain Man 4K
- Universal
- Crunchyroll
- Discotek Media
- MVD
- Severin Films
- Attack on Titan
- Wim Wenders
- Curzon Film UK
- Faraway So Close! BD
- HBO
- His Dark Materials
- Little Miss Marker
- The Crusades
- Making Mr Right
- Secret Admirer
- Double Crossbones
- Counsellor at Law
- I for Icarus
- The Experts
- Gene Roddenberry
- The Questor Tapes
Strange World, The Fabelmans, Crimes of the Future, The Adventures of Batman & updates on Dragonslayer & Once Upon a Time in the West in 4K
We start with two more new disc reviews today (and there might be one more from me later this evening, but it should certainly be up by tomorrow morning)...
Tim has reviewed Crane Wilbur’s The Bat (1959), which is available in a fine new Blu-ray edition from our friends at The Film Detective.
And Dennis has offered his thoughts on Lynne Littman’s Testament (1983), a post-apocalyptic drama from PBS’ American Playhouse and Paramount Pictures that includes William Devane, Jane Alexander, Kevin Costner, Rebecca De Mornay, and Lukas Haas. That’s new on Blu-ray from the good folks at Imprint Films.
Now then, the big announcement news today is that Disney has just officially set Don Hall and Qui Nguyen’s animated Strange World for release on Blu-ray, DVD, and 4K Ultra HD on 2/14. Look for the Digital and Disney+ streaming release to happen on 12/23. Audio will be Dolby Atmos on the 4K and DTS-HD MA on Blu-ray, as always. Extras will include 4 featurettes (Anatomy of a Scene: Creating A Strange World, Strange Science, Creature Feature, and The Hidden Secrets of Strange World), outtakes, and 4 deleted scenes (The Ballad of Jaeger Clade, Lightning Lynx, Funerals and Promises, and Ethan and Searcher). You can see the cover artwork at left and also below. [Read on here...]
- Once Upon a Time in the West 4K
- Sergio Leone
- Arrow Video
- Warner Bros
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Paramount
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- Disney
- Strange World 4K
- Steven Spielberg
- The Fabelmans 4K
- David Cronenberg
- Crimes of the Future 4K
- The Adventures of Batman BD
- Dragonslayer 4K
- The Film Detective
- The Bat BD review
- Imprint Films
- Testament BD review
- Tar BD
- Legion of Super Heroes 4K
- DC
- The Adventures of Batman: The Complete Collection BD
- Filmmation
- The Dunwich Horror BD
- Heat (1986)
- If I Had a Million
Lionsgate bows Belly in 4K & Brian Yuzna’s Dentist Collection on Vestron Video Blu-ray, plus Yamashita’s Big Time Gambling Boss & more
We’ve got no less than five more new disc reviews for you all to enjoy today...
I’ve just posted my thoughts on Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs (1992) in 4K Ultra HD from Lionsgate.
Stephen has checked in with a look at Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) in 4K Ultra HD from Vinegar Syndrome.
Dennis has reviewed Julien Temple’s Earth Girls Are Easy (1988), the new Vestron Video Collector’s Series title on Blu-ray from Lionsgate.
And Tim has taken a look at Lewis Gilbert’s Damn the Defiant! (1962) on Blu-ray from Imprint Films, as well as Montgomery Tully and Dennis O’Keefe’s The Diamond Wizard (1954) on Blu-ray 3D from Kino Lorber Studio Classics, via a great new restoration by the 3-D Film Archive.
In announcement news today, Lionsgate has set Hype Williams’ Belly for release on 4K Ultra HD on 1/24/23. There will be a wide release that includes a Blu-ray and Digital copy, along with a Best Buy-exclusive Steelbook package. Look for the package to have a new Dolby Atmos mix, along with the following special features: audio commentary with Williams, Spoken Word, a deleted scene, and the Grand Finale music video. [Read on here...]
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Tim Salmons
- Lionsgate
- Belly 4K
- The Dentist Collection: Vestron Video Collector's Series BD
- Big Time Gambling Boss
- Radiance Films
- Hype Williams
- Dennis Seuling
- Stephen Bjork
- Reservoir Dogs 4K review
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 4K review
- Earth Girls Are Easy BD review
- Damn the Defiant! BD review
- Imprint Films
- The 3D Film Archive
- The Diamond Wizard BD 3D review
- Brian Yuzna
- Kosaku Yamashita
- MVD Entertainment
Turbine sets The Frighteners for 4K, plus Imprint’s Feb slate, Sony reveals Air Force One & Mask of Zorro 4K Steelbooks & Star Trek: Prodigy on Blu-ray
All right, I’m still working on that Criterion WALL-E 4K review and hope to have it up this weekend. Real life got in the way a little bit here over the last couple of days, not to mention some necessary behind-the-scenes work here at the site. But I will say this: Both the 4K presentation and the accompanying Blu-ray presentation, are absolutely fantastic. As in best-ever image quality for this film.
In the meantime, Tim has posted his thoughts on Rod Serling’s Night Gallery: Season Three on Blu-ray from our friends over at Kino Lorber Studio Classics. Sounds like it’s another fabulous set with more great extras.
And we do have several good pieces of release news to report here at the site today...
First, Turbine Media in Germany has finally announced their planned 6-Disc 4K Ultra HD Ultimate Edition of Peter Jackson’s The Frighteners (1996) for release on 12/2 (Yes, that is a Friday—keep in mind, this is a German release). The film has been fully remastered from the original camera negative and graded for high dynamic range (including Dolby Vision) in a process supervised by the director. [Read on here...]
- Via Vision Entertainment
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Turbine
- The Frighteners 4K
- Peter Jackson
- Imprint Films
- Air Force One 4K Steelbook
- The Mask of Zorro 4K Steelbook
- Star Trek: Prodigy Season One BD
- Night Gallery: Season Three BD review
- Running the Bases 4K
- Mill Creek Entertainment
- Legion of Super Heroes 4K
- DC Universe
- Warner Bros
- The Mountain BD
- Something to Live For BD
- Carrie (1950) BD
- The Bad News Bears Go to Japan BD
- Hurry Sundown BD
- Resurrection BD
House of the Dragon: S1 4K pre-orders, plus Warner Archive’s Attack of the 50 Ft. Woman Blu-ray, James Gunn to head DC Films & more
Today’s round of Halloween Bag-o-Tricks title reviews kicks off My Two Cents here at The Bits today, including...
Stephen’s look at Shin’ichiro Ueda’s One Cut of the Dead on Blu-ray from RLJE Entertainment.
His review of David Schmoeller’s Tourist Trap: VHS Retro Big Box Collection on Blu-ray from Full Moon Features.
And Tim’s take on the 1980 British TV entry Hammer House of Horror: The Complete Series on Blu-ray from Imprint Films. Enjoy!
Meanwhile, the big news this morning—though it’s not yet official in the form of an actual press release/announcement—is that HBO will definitely be releasing its excellent House of the Dragon: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD on 12/20.
Extras on the set will feature “over one hour of bonus content” including two exclusive featurettes: Return to the Seven Kingdoms and Welcome to Westeros (with Ryan Condal, Miguel Sapochnik, and George R.R. Martin).
The 4K/Blu-ray combo set will be available in two different wide-release product SKUs, one in regular packaging and the other in Steelbook packaging. You can see the wide release version at left and both below. Both will feature Dolby Vision HDR and HDR10, as well as Dolby Atmos audio. [Read on here...]
- Warner Bros
- Imprint Films
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- DC Films
- Stephen Bjork
- Halloween Bag o Tricks 2022
- One Cut of the Dead BD review
- Tourist Trap: VHS Retro Big Box Collection BD review
- Hammer House of Horror: The Complete Series BD review
- House of the Dragon: The Complete First Season 4K
- The Warner Archive Collection
- HBO
- Attack of the 50 Ft Woman BD
- The Night of the Iguana BD
- The Nun and The Devil BD
- Twilight Time
- Screen Archives Entertainment
- James Gunn
- Peter Safran
- David Zaslav
- Henry Cavill
- Andor
- Tony Gilroy
- The Q&A with Jeff Goldsmith podcast
- Jules Bass RIP
- Leslie Jordan RIP
Don’t Worry Darling, Amsterdam, Testament, 3 Days of the Condor 4K, The Green Knight: SE & a Star Tours flashback!
We begin today with our latest Halloween Bag-o-Tricks reviews for Tuesday, 10/25...
Stephen has turned in his thoughts on William Eubank’s Underwater (2020) on Blu-ray from 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment—one of the last films the studio greenlit before the Disney takeover.
Dennis offers his take on Gerard Kikoine’s Buried Alive, aka Edgar Allan Poe’s Buried Alive (1990) on Blu-ray from Vinegar Syndrome.
And Tim has posted his review of Mario Bava’s Spanish-Italian science fiction/horror class, Planet of the Vampires (1965) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
So enjoy the reviews and be sure to check back for more of them here at The Bits tomorrow! [Read on here...]
- Warner Bros
- Imprint Films
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Dennis Seuling
- Tim Salmons
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bill Hunt
- The Digital Bits
- My Two Cents
- Paramount
- Stephen Bjork
- Star Tours 4K
- Disneyland
- Star Wars
- Don't Worry Darling 4K
- Olivia Wilde
- Smile 4K
- Medieval
- Mad God BD
- Phil Tippett
- Dawson's Creek: The Complete Series BD
- Testament BD
- 3 Days of the Condor 4K
- The Big Easy BD
- The Green Knight: Special Edition
- The Oak Thorn & The Old Rose of Love
- David Lowery
- Halloween Bag o Tricks 2022
- Underwater BD review
- Edgar Allan Poe's Buried Alive BD review
- Planet of the Vampires BD review
- Mario Bava
Imprint bows its first 4K title, Warner’s LOTR experiential NFT something or other, new disc releases & unfortunate Criterion layoff news
We’re finishing out the week here at The Bits beginning with two more new disc reviews, including...
Tim’s look at Martin Campbell’s No Escape (1994, aka Escape from Absolom) on Blu-ray from Unearthed Films.
And Dennis’ take on Joseph Anthony’s The Rainmaker (1956) on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber Studio Classics.
And we definitely have some significant news to report today, both in terms of titles and more general industry goings-on...
First up, Imprint Films has just announced their very first 4K Ultra HD title and it’s an upgrade of their debut Imprint Collection Blu-ray release... Byron Haskin’s The War of the Worlds (1953). The street date is 12/15. The 2-disc set will feature both a 4K UHD and the previous Blu-ray edition in Steelbook packaging, housed in a 3D lenticular hardcase with a 44-page collector’s booklet. You can see the packaging below. [Read on here...]
- Paramount
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Spider Man: No Way Home Extended Edition
- Tim Salmons
- Dennis Seuling
- No Escape BD review
- The Rainmaker BD review
- Unearthed Films
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- Imprint Films
- The War of the Worlds (1953) 4K
- Smile 4K
- Reacher: Season One BD
- Pennywise: The Story of It BD
- Warner Bros
- The Lord of the Rings NFT Web3 Movie Experience
- Black Adam 4K
- DC
- Missing in Action Trilogy BD
- Chuck Norris
- Jeepers Creepers Reborn
- Sergeant Ryker
- Three Films by Hong Sangsoo
- Cinema Guild
- MVD Entertainment
- MPI Media Group
- The Tubular Bells 50th Anniversary Tour: Live at the Royal Festival Hall
- The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet DVD
- The Old Man
- Old Man
- Criterion Collection layoffs
- The Criterion Channel
- Peter Becker
- the decline of physical media
Pulp Fiction is official for Ultra HD on 12/6, plus Jack Ryan: Seasons One & Two in 4K, Jurassic World: Dominion in Blu-ray 3D & more!
All right, there’s some big catalog announcement news today, though it won’t come as a surprise to anyone who reads The Bits regularly. But first...
It features a best-yet-on-disc 1080p image presentation mastered from a recent 2K restoration of the film. And it adds a bounty of special features, including two new documentary featurettes and a terrific new audio commentary by Japanese film historian Stuart Galbraith IV.
For English-language speakers who have been waiting to see this film on Blu-ray, this disc is long overdue and highly welcome.
Now then, the big release news today is that Paramount has finally officially announced the 4K Ultra HD release of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction (1994) on 12/6. It’s available in both Amaray packaging and Limited Edition Collector’s Steelbook packaging—both should be widely available. It appears that both Dolby Vision and HDR10 will be included, along with the previous 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio mix. [Read on here...]
- Pulp Fiction 4K
- Silent Running 4K
- Paramount
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- Bluray
- 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Jack Ryan: Season One 4K
- Jack Ryan: Season Two 4K
- Jurassic World: Dominion BD 3D
- Random Space Media
- Dersu Uzala BD review
- Akira Kurosawa
- Imprint Films
- Via Vision Entertainment