Displaying items by tag: Something Weird
Purple Rain 4K, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes in IMAX is worth your time, and more release news & disc reviews
As always, we’re rounding out the week with more new disc reviews here at The Bits, including...
Tim’s take on producer Roy Huggins’s Colt .45: The Complete Series (1957-60) and Hanna-Barbera’s Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose (1987), both on Blu-ray from the Warner Archive Collection.
Dennis’ look at Dorothy Davenport and Melville Shyer’s The Road to Ruin (1934) on Blu-ray from Kino Classics and Something Weird.
And Stuart’s thoughts on Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Allonsanfàn (1974), Pietro Germi’s The Facts of Murder (1959), and Damiano Damiani’s Goodbye & Amen (1977), all on Blu-ray from Radiance Films.
I’ve also just received Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two (2024) in 4K Ultra HD from Warner Bros., so watch for my in-depth review of that here at The Bits tomorrow sometime. [Read on here...]
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- Ted Lasso: The Complete Series BD
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- Dune: Part Two 4K
- Colt 45: The Complete Series BD review
- Yogi Bear and the Magical Flight of the Spruce Goose BD review
- The Road to Ruin BD review
- Allonsanfàn BD review
- The Facts of Murder BD review
- Goodbye & Amen BD review
Criterion’s October slate, Westworld: S2, Hereditary & more 4K, plus Amazon Prime $15 4K sale, 8 new BD reviews & more
All right, today’s post was meant to go live yesterday, but we had some server glitches and crashed that took us offline for a while. As such, we’re playing catch up a little bit today. But we’ve expanded the post with today’s news and reviews so. So here we go…
First up, Tim Salmons has turned in his thoughts on Vincent Ward’s Vigil, now available in a new Special Edition Blu-ray from Arrow Video, as well as Scream Factory’s In the Mouth of Madness: Collector’s Edition. Also, David Steigman has taken a look at on Arrow’s The Case of the Scorpion’s Tale: Special Edition on Blu-ray, along with Cleopatra Entertainment’s China Salesman. And Dennis Seuling has reviewed Fredric Hobbs’s Godmonster of Indian Flats on Blu-ray from AGFA and Something Weird Video, as well as 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment’s Love, Simon on Blu-ray.
Now then... Prime Day was a little bit of a disaster yesterday, what with Amazon.com having all kind of outages. But the good news is that they’re having a special sale today for Prime members on many great 4K titles. They have over 175 great titles for just $15 each today! Act quick if you want to take advantage via this link. (Doing so will help support our work here at The Bits and we appreciate it!) [Read on here...]
- Dennis Seuling
- Shout! Factory
- ComicCon 2018
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- 4K Ultra HD
- The 4K Ultra HD Release List
- Tim Salmons
- David Steigman
- Vigil BD review
- Arrow Video
- The Case of the Scorpion's Tale BD review
- Godmonster of Indian Flats BD review
- AGFA
- Something Weird
- HBO
- Westworld Season Two: The Door 4K
- American Psycho 4K
- Lionsgate
- The Punisher 4K
- Punisher: War Zone 4K
- Hereditary 4K
- Criterion Collection October BD slate
- Amazon Prime Day
- Shampoo
- The Princess Bride
- Eight Hours Don't Make a Day
- The Naked Prey
- Sisters
- The Criterion Spines Project
- Cornel Wilde
- Rob Reiner
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder
- Hal Ashby
- Brian De Palma
- In the Mouth of Madness: Collector's Edition BD review
- China Salesman BD review
- Love Simon BD review
- Phantasm: Lord of the Dead
Celebrating CE3K’s 40th, Interstellar/Transformers 4K & Pink Panther cartoon BDs official & we answer the question “Why No 3D?”
All right, we’ve got a few things for you today...
First, our own Michael Coate posted a great new History, Legacy & Showmanship retrospective last night celebrating Steven Spielberg’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind on the occasion of the film’s 40th anniversary. Michael’s column looks back at the film’s initial theatrical run and features another great roundtable discussion of film historians. It’s a good read, so be sure to give it a look.
Now then... a quick commentary. Almost every day, I get asked this question in some form via email or social media: “Why no 3D?” As in: My favorite film was available in 3D in the theater, but how come the studio didn’t release it on Blu-ray 3D for the home? [Read on here…]
- My Two Cents
- The Digital Bits
- Bill Hunt
- Michael Coate
- History Legacy & Showmanship
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind: 40th Anniversary
- Why no 3D?
- Bluray 3D
- BD3D
- The Mountain Between Us 4K
- Interstellar 4K
- Transformers 4K
- Dolby Atmos
- Dolby Vision
- The Deuce: The Complete First Season
- The Pink Panther Cartoon Collection: Volume 1 BD
- The Martian Chronicles
- Jack the Giant Killer
- The Way West
- Kino Lorber Studio Classics
- The Trip to Spain
- Ed Wood
- The Violent Years
- AGFA
- Something Weird
- Steven Universe: The Complete First Season
- Terminator 2: Judgment Day 4K
- Batman: Gotham by Gaslight
Mike Vraney, 1957 - 2014: A Tribute to The Wizard of Weird
On January 2, 2014, Mike Vraney died of lung cancer at the obscenely young age of 56. Mike’s name may not ring a bell but if you’re a fan of cult movies, exploitation flicks and bizarre ephemera like stag films and burlesque shows, you owe Mike a huge debt of thanks. In 1990, Mike founded Something Weird Video, one of the first and best labels dedicated to rescuing forgotten films from the dustbin of obscurity. Something Weird was a trailblazer in the industry. I’d argue that Mike’s passion for these movies and the success of Something Weird helped pave the way for all the cult boutique labels to follow, including Mondo Macabro, Synapse, Blue Underground and so many others. [Read on here…]