Nominated for 11 Oscars including Best Picture and Best Actress for Emma Stone,
Yorgos Lanthimos' latest darkly comedic creation comes to Blu-ray on March 12th - a 4K Digital option on Feb 27th.
In another frustrating and all-too-common occurrence for physical media collectors, the 4K release of Poor Things will be a digital-only release with only a 1080p option on disc. I guess considering a movie like Barbarian still doesn't have a disc release we should be somewhat grateful, but a film this visually exuberant demands the bigger better format. So it goes.
This one should be up for pre-order soon, but check out the press release below for all the gory details.
Happy Collecting!
It's funny what a difference a single week makes. For 4K anyway, we go from a total drought to a well above average list. It's feast or famine I tell ya, and with the word Hunger in one of this week's releases, bring on the feast! This week could easily be a $500 week!
Welcome to Volume 4 Episode 37 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc the week of February 11th - February 17th, as well as a look at announcements from last week.
Import Monday begins with a pair of titles. First from 101Films, look for Alligator. It comes in a fancy looking package and also includes a bonus blu-ray of Alligator II.
And next from Arrow Video, a fat-pack release of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978). Kino did an excellent domestic release, so if you're happy with that, probably no reason to import this. Note: Although a release date of the 12th, we had to update our link to Amazon US (with a 2/23 street date) because Amazon UK is showing sold out.
If those didn't make your wallet tingle a bit, let's get ready to feel the burn with Domestic Tuesday releases.
There are THREE new release titles this week. For movies, going with the higher rated one first (and probably better quality AV too... BD100/Dolby Vision), from LionsGate, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Available as a Standard Edition, an Amazon Exclusive Edition and a Walmart Exclusive SteelBook.
And second, Disney/Marvel, 2023's The Marvels, which comes as a Standard Edition and a Walmart Exclusive SteelBook.
Still in the new releases category, BBC Nature's Planet Earth III. This one still features David Attenborough behind the mic.
It has been a short hop from there to here, Columbia Classics 4K Ultra HD Collection: Volume 4 becomes available this week. Six more films from their film vault to tide us over a bit. Can we say Volume 5?
We got Flashdance, we got Dirty Dancing, it's only inevitable we also get Footloose from Paramount. Also available as a SteelBook featuring an alternative cover art. Thanks, now I got Kenny Loggins stuck in my head.
Universal has another batch of 4K upgrades to recent blu-ray releases. First, Harriet, based on the story of freedom fighter Harriet Tubman. And second, Ticket to Paradise with George Clooney and Julia Roberts.
Universal's final release of the week, (previously delayed from last year) Universal Classic Monsters: Limited Edition Collection. This one is limited to a quantity of 5500 and each one is individually numbered. I'm still trying to picture how this set will come, the photo shows a book and 8 loose discs.
Shout! Factory brings us Willy's Wonderland, with what Bryan says is a great-looking video presentation. This one is also available as a general release (not Walmart exclusive) SteelBook.
Friday import from Turbine Medien Group, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas gets a standard slipcover edition release.
Next week's slate should be a bit gentler on our finances, a decent amount of releases, just not box sets. Get ready for Beverly Hills Cop III, Leviathan, Darkman, and a tad more!
Blu-ray counterparts of the above 4K releases include The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes and The Marvels.
The rest of the blu-ray category is a bit light this week.
From LionsGate, Priscilla, an Elvis Presley story from the eyes of Priscilla Beaulieu.
Criterion Collection this week has Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons.
Fear Is the Key debuts to blu-ray from Arrow Video. Crossing the Pacific, The Shaolin Plot also gets an Arrow Video Limited Edition.
TV On Disc this week includes Boystown - The Complete Season 1, Flunk - Season 1, Flunk - Season 2, Flunk - Season 3, 'Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. - The Complete Series' and The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - Season 1 [SteelBook].
Anime highlights include One Piece: Season Thirteen - Voyage Five and Spy x Family Season 1 Part 2, which comes as a Standard Edition and as a Limited Edition.
Boutique label Radiance Films has the thriller Goodbye & Amen.
The Shout Select label has Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny with Jack Black.
Honorable mentions from Kino Lorber, Blood on the Sun with James Cagney debuts to blu-ray this week, as does Let's Dance, a musical with Fred Astaire.
Paramount has revealed that Mean Girls (2004) will also be getting a special edition 4K, with a release date of April 30th.
Universal pictures is adding more and more TV shows to blu-ray. Added are complete series for Suits, Heroes (2006-2016) and The Act. I know I buy all the ones that I am remotely interested in, so should you!
Up for order on Amazon is Warner Bros' 4K of The Departed. Exact date TBA.
Which titles are you buying this week? Which ones are on your wishlist, be it to buy as an impulse buy or to wait for the right price?
Let's take this week to recharge our wallets a little bit. With just one Domestic 4K title and a handful of blu-rays, it's a momentary lapse of releases! Twenty points for the first one that gets the reference.
Welcome to Volume 4 Episode 36 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc the week of February 4th - February 10th, as well as a look at announcements from last week.
For Domestic Tuesday this week, we get the 1971 Western McCabe & Mrs. Miller starring Warren Beatty and directed by Robert Altman, brought to us by Criterion.
Thursday releases, a pair of standard editions from Turbine Medien Group out of Germany, The Deep House and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer. They previously did media books for both titles, and neither title has gotten a 4K release in the US, see where this is going?
Next week, watch out as we see a higher than average schedule. It's feast or famine I tell ya! The Marvels, Hunger Games, Footloose and a ton more!
Blu-ray counterparts of the above 4K releases? Turbine has The Deep House and Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer for import.
If you were a boutique label, this week would be a great week to sell sell sell! How about a horror that could easily be confused with a board game? Yeah, Candy Land would be that title.
A relatively new label to the US, Radiance Films this week has the Japanese language drama The Sting of Death available to purchase.
Weekly Anime highlights include Handyman Saitou in Another World - The Complete Season, Revenger - The Complete Season and Tears to Tiara - Complete Collection.
Shout! Factory this week offers up the horror/thriller Funeral Home, as well as the sci-fi/thriller The Terminal Man: 50th Anniversary Edition. With Elon Musk in recent news behind a company offering neural implants, this one could become very real!
If you have been following Jess (Jesús) Franco's career, you can check off another release with Voodoo Passion from Full Moon Features.
In the blu-ray category next week, we see a slight uptick in titles available.
The last couple of slow weeks I have shared a YouTube link or two. Have fun with this one.. if you like ABBA: Dancing Queen, it was remastered to 4K. So 70's! Mamma Mia anyone?
A decade forward and it's all about the hair, and the spandex. This one looks fantastic in 4K. Rick Astley!
Shout! Factory's various labels have announced their April slate of titles. So far we are looking at Rolling Thunder on 4K, and for blu-rays, Affliction, Blue Giant, Lost in Space (movie) and Winnie the Pooh: Blood & Honey. Winnie The Pooh was already released to a Walmart Exclusive SteelBook last October, so this is a general release. There are 4K options for Pooh overseas, Italy, France and Germany.
Which titles are you buying this week? Which ones are on your wishlist, be it to buy as an impulse buy or to wait for the right price?
It's probably time to queue up that doom and gloom armageddon type music because this week could be very harmful to your wallets/credit card balances. Between 4K and blu-ray we have not seen a week this big in quite some time!
Welcome to Volume 4 Episode 35 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc the week of January 28th - February 3rd, as well as a look at announcements from last week.
Oh, and the tagline above, that's actually for Silent Night.
Import Monday begins with the 1971 Michael Caine crime/thriller Get Carter. Everything else that was slated for Monday got pushed back a couple of weeks.
And moving on to Domestic Tuesday, let's begin with Silent Night - Walmart Exclusive SteelBook. If you want this one in 4K, Walmart is where you have to go as a standard edition 4K is currently not slated for release. I cannot confirm this yet but it appears this will be online only, which is a head-scratcher as this one would generate a lot of foot traffic.
On to catalog titles, first from Severin Films for a trio of films, Bad Biology, Nightmare and The Psychic.
From Kino Lorber this week, The Boogens and Scarlet Street.
This week is the week to get your fix of Conan films from Arrow Video. The trio of skus include Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer and The Conan Chronicles. The Conan Chronicles shows a release date of February 20 on Amazon, but Arrow Video has indeed confirmed it still has a January 30th street date, and I did get a shipping confirmation from Arrow Video. My guess is Amazon will not get their stock until the 20th. With the B&N sale going on, Amazon appears to be matching the 50% off pricing, so pounce on this if you want it.
MVD has their next Laservision Collection release this week with Cutting Class. Thus far this series of releases has been done quite well.
From Vinegar Syndrome, general releases of D.A.R.Y.L., eXistenZ and The Prophecy I -II-III, and a store direct release of Freeway 1 & 2, which comes in a hard case. Collectors will generally opt for the direct store releases as they almost always contain nicer packaging, while the release on Amazon is a standard edition, often times no slipcovers or swag.
Criterion this week offers up Trainspotting.
Next week we get a chance to recharge wallets with just one title.
Blu-ray counterparts of the above 4K releases include a lot, Silent Night, Bad Biology, Nightmare, The Psychic, The Boogens, Scarlet Street, Conan the Barbarian, Conan the Destroyer, The Conan Chronicles, Cutting Class and Trainspotting.
New Eli Roth horror Thanksgiving comes to blu-ray this week, which, in my opinion, a huge missed opportunity for a 4K release. Sony doesn't usually do the double-dip game as much as Universal does when it comes to a blu-ray first, 4K next, so, best of luck on waiting for a 4K disc. Maybe a Turbine release in the future?
TV on disc includes The Abbott and Costello Show: Season 2 and Monk: Season Three.
Criterion blu-ray this week, Mudbound, a film based in the 40s along the Mississippi Delta.
Warner Archive's January batch releases this week, they include Cabin in the Sky, A Day at the Races, Faithless, Joe's Apartment, The Prince and the Pauper (1937) and Rover Dangerfield.
Anime highlights this week, Bocchi the Rock! - The Complete Season, The Case Study of Vanitas - Season 1 Part 2, Kurokami: The Animation, Lovely Complex, Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha: TV Series 1, Naruto Shippuden Set 2, Ningen Fushin Adventurers Who Dont Believe in Humanity Will Save the World and Sailor Moon Super S: Complete Fourth Season.
From Arrow Video this week, Murphy's War featuring the 'iconic' actor Peter O'Toole.
Next week in this category, another chance to recharge that wallet of yours.
Warner Bros has made it official, Wonka will be streeting to 4K and blu-ray on February 27.
Michael Mann's Ferrari will be coming to blu-ray on March 12. A 4K release is coming to Italy, and with Michael Mann at the helm I have to wonder if a 4K double-dip will be coming to the US.
Arrow Video has announced their April 2024 slate, for the US market they include Basket Case in 4K, with a shop exclusive option, and blu-rays of The Scarface Mob and The Tin Star. There are no 4K imports to mention in this batch.
Which titles are you buying this week? Which ones are on your wishlist, be it to buy as an impulse buy or to wait for the right price?
Australian distributor Via Vision launches their new sub-label [Imprint] Asia Launches and its first three titles.
Those collecting the ever-growing number of titles from Imprint know that if they're not the first to offer up a Blu-ray release, they drop some new special editions worth double dipping for. Now, with their Impritn Asia sub-label, they're kicking off a whole new line of Chinese and Japanese films.
The 2023 Chinese blockbuster finally arrives on Blu-ray! A Hitchcockian crime mystery produced by Chen Sicheng, “one of the giants of contemporary Chinese Cinema” (Variety).
He Fei’s wife, Li Muzi, disappears during their anniversary trip. When she reappears, he insists that she is not his wife. He Fei turns to Chen Mai, a renowned international lawyer, for help. As Chen Mai’s investigation into this bizarre case progresses, more mysteries start to emerge…
Adapted from the 90’s Russian film ‘Trap For A Lonely Man’ and from the Robert Thomas stage play of the same name.
“The film is wickedly entertaining from start to finish, thanks to Rui Cui and Liu Xiang’s crafty directions who skilfully adopt the Hitchcockian style to navigate the labyrinthine storyline.” – Screen HK
1500 copies only.
Special Features & Technical Specs:
Worldwide first on Blu-ray!
Based on the final screenplay written by the legendary Akira Kurosawa, this Japanese romance is the story of a beautiful young geisha, who hides a samurai seeking refuge. Directed by Kei Kumai, winner of the Directors Guild Of Japan New Director’s Award, this beautiful picture stars Misa Shimizu and Masatoshi Nagase.
Set in a 19th-century brothel, a beautiful young geisha, O-shin, harbours a samurai seeking refuge. Falling in love with O-shin, the samurai hopes to cleanse her of the sins of her possession. But fate and fortune conspire to keep the lovers apart.
“Kurosawa’s script treads the delicate line between conventional morality and decency, as does much of his finest work.” – New York Times
1500 copies only.
Special Features & Technical Specs:
This action-packed revival of the classic Zatoichi series was directed, written, co-edited by and stars Takeshi Kitano (Battle Royale, Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence).
In an empire ruled by fear, the people’s only hope is the ultimate weapon: Zatoichi. A blind, nomadic samurai whose sword has made him a hero and whose courage has made him a legend. Determined to help the desperate residents of a village, Zatoichi seeks justice through revenge.
The winner of the prestigious Silver Lion for Best Director at the 2003 Venice International Film Festival, Midnight Eye called it “pure cinematic magic”.
1500 copies only.
Special Features & Technical Specs:
We hope to review these as soon as we get hands on. I've heard great things about Lost in the Stars and The Sea is Watching and The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi is a pulpy treat well worth revisiting! Those looking to nab all three, Imprint has a bundle deal that'll save you a few bucks. All three films are due to street March 27th
Lionsgate and A24's dark comedy starring Nicolas Cage will be entering the high-definition home video dreamscape on February 27 in a Blu-ray/DVD/Digital Combo Pack.
Pre-order yours today.
Hapless family man Paul Matthews finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. But when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, Pail is forced to navigate his newfound stardom, in this wickedly entertaining comedy from writer-director Kristoffer Borgli and producer Ari Aster.
The Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Combo Pack will include a lossless 5.1 soundtrack and the following supplements:
Pre-orders for Dream Scenario are up and here is the full press release:
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Michael Mann's latest film Ferrari stars Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, and Shailene Woodley and will be available on Blu-ray on March 12. The film parks on Premiums Digital tomorrow.
Ferrari is set in the summer of 1957. Behind the spectacle of Formula 1, ex-racer Enzo Ferrari is in crisis. Bankruptcy threatens the factory he and his wife, Laura built from nothing ten years earlier. Their volatile marriage has been battered by the loss of their son, Dino a year earlier. Ferrari struggles to acknowledge his son Piero with Lina Lardi. Meanwhile, his drivers’ passion to win pushes them to the edge as they launch into the treacherous 1,000-mile race across Italy, the Mille Miglia.
The Blu-ray will feature behind-the-scenes extras, including “The Mille Miglia” and “Building Perfection” which explores the historic race and cars behind Ferrari, as well as in-depth interviews with the award-winning cast and crew. So far no word on a domestic 4K release.
Pre-orders for Ferrari are live
Just one more week until January's wallet-buster, with February just around the corner! Have you stocked up on Arrow Video titles with the B&N sale in full swing?
Welcome to Volume 4 Episode 34 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc the week of January 21st - January 27th, as well as a look at announcements from last week.
This week is like a sandwich, imports on both ends and domestic releases in the middle.
For UK Import Monday, first from Arrow Video, their fat-pack for the 1976 horror Carrie.
Next, Second Sight offers up their limited edition release of High Tension. If you want to save a few bucks and opt for the movie-only (no-swag) release, that's an option too. Don't assume these Second SIght titles will get a US release, some of them have thus far not gotten such a release. (Babadook, It Follows, and more)
Domestic Tuesday's new release this week is DC Animated Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One, which comes in a SteelBook package.
And Kino Lorber brings us 1990's comedy Kindergarten Cop with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Import Friday brings us Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary from Umbrella Entertainment. Their web site offered a couple of swaggy sets as well if you wanted the maximum experience.
Next week offers a lot more, with three Conan skus, Trainspotting, Silent Night, a couple of Severin titles, Vinegar Syndrome, and more.
Blu-ray counterparts of the above 4K releases? Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One from Warner Bros and (see below) Super Mario Bros from Umbrella Entertainment.
The rest of the category is a bit slow this week, and just like the 4K section, next week is going to be huge.
Anime highlights include By the Grace of the Gods - Season 2, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Set 8 - Stone Ocean Part 1, RahXephon Complete Collection,
From Criterion this week, Chantal Akerman Masterpieces, 1968–1978.
Shout Factory has Jennifer 8 with Andy Garcia, Uma Thurman this week, and Stephen King's Thinner.
TV on disc this week from Paramount, Special Ops: Lioness: Season One.
Import Friday consists of Umbrella Entertainment titles:
Warner Bros. has announced that The Color Purple (2023) 4K and blu-ray editions will arrive March 12th.
Criterion Collection's April slate has been announced. Do check out Tom's News Story for more info.
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom will be release to 4K and blu-ray on March 12th as well.
Which titles are you buying this week? Which ones are on your wishlist, be it to buy as an impulse buy or to wait for the right price?
Do you want to play a game...or several actually? The horror SAW franchise celebrates its 20th anniversary with a 10-film boxed Blu-ray set. The collection will be available for fans to purchase on March 5.
All 10 films from the franchise that created a new horror subgenre – including the latest chapter, SAW X – are collected here in one terrifying set. Rewind to the beginning when Jigsaw first springs his diabolically ingenious traps on the morally wayward, then travel his long road of pain all the way to Mexico in the newest entry’s untold story of John Kramer’s quest for a cancer cure, inspiring his most personal game yet.
SAW 10-Film Collection 20th Anniversary Edition
Pre-orders for SAW 10-Film Collection 20th Anniversary Edition should be available soon and the full press release:
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The 1980s slasher horror Funeral Home will be laid to rest for the first time on Blu-ray with a brand new HD transfer and numerous extras. The release will be available on February 6.
Young and easily frightened 16-year-old Heather (Lesleh Donaldson, Happy Birthday to Me) is called to stay with her grandmother in the hopes of helping her turn an old funeral home into a bed-and-breakfast. But strange happenings and unexplained murders around the home quickly makes this vacation spot a "dead-and-breakfast" - with no answers in sight as to who or what is causing all the death. It is up to Heather to investigate all the eerie and creepy corners of the former funeral home to unlock a decades old secret - but will she survive to solve the mysteries.
Funeral Home (Special Edition)
The Blu-ray release will include the following supplements:
Pre-orders for Funeral Home are now live!
