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4K Ultra HD Blu-ray & Blu-ray Release Guide - July 31, 2022 - August 6, 2022What a difference a week makes. I could be referring to the weather, or disc releases, or both. It actually fits both scenarios. Enter the month of August... Welcome to Volume 3 Episode 11 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc this week, as well as a look at announcements from last week. 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases- There are no imports to announce and there are no new releases in this category, but there are two decent catalog titles. First, from Arrow Video, a most interesting Horror/Sci-Fi flick from 1990, Flatliners. A well known director and an all-star cast, with the Arrow Video treatment, sounds like a winner? This next one is actually an Arrow Video release in the UK, but this side of the pond it's partner label Synapse Films. What I'm referring to is the next logical Dario Argento release, Tenebrae. This one has two options, a regular retail release, and an Exclusive Edition, which we've linked to DiabolikDVD. Next week, a blue video game character sequel, a Michael Mann masterpiece, something you do to a car, and more! Blu-ray releases- As indicated from last week, we get a little bit of breathing room as we anticipate a huge increase in volume of titles. The blu-ray counterpart of Flatliners as also available this week from Arrow Video. The comedy/crime category usually is a lot of fun, Kino Lorber has 1987's Catch the Heat this week. And how about some Chuck Norris action with a trio of films, A Force of One, Good Guys Wear Black and The Octagon. What interesting facts do you know about Chuck Norris? Here's one: The day Chuck Norris was born was the same day Adolf Hitler ended his own life, coincidence? Shout Select release Last Days In The Desert streets this week. Handful of anime titles worthy of mention, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water - The Complete Series, One Piece - Collection 30 and SHIKIZAKURA - Complete Collection. Bruce Willis is the bad guy in White Elephant from RLJ/Image Entertainment. Import Friday this week means Imprint Films' July titles: >Directed By Jim Sheridan: Four Irish Films (1989-1997) - Imprint Films Limited Edition >Nobody's Fool (1995) - Imprint Films Limited Edition >The Beast (1988) - Imprint Films Limited Edition >The Music of Chance - Imprint Films Limited Edition >Things to Do in Denver When You’re Dead - Imprint Films Limited Edition >Whore - Imprint Films Limited Edition Notable announcements from last week: Nope (Jordan Peele) is already listed for preorder as 4K and blu-ray editions on Amazon. The movie poster of a floating horse is intriguing. Poltergeist and The Lost Boys have been confirmed for 4K releases in September. They will be available as Best Buy Exclusive SteelBooks and Standard Edition releases. Lightyear has a confirmed street date of September 13th from Disney, no doubt in a bunch of the usual variations. I think the studios should have been working on October, with September already being so crowded. Arrow Video's October slate includes The Count Yorga Collection, Gothic Fantastico: Four Italian Tales of Terror and Two Witches. For the UK, there's a pair of Videodrome 4K releases and Take Back the Night on blu-ray. Videodrome is likely still leased to Criterion Collection in the US, meaning if you want a deluxe release, opt for the import. You could wait and see if Criterion will be offering it in some (yet to be announced) elaborate version, but as of yet, they are sticking to just the meat and potatoes releases. It has been leaked (rumor mill at this time) that Wargames is getting a 4K release from Shout! Factory this December. 4K Release Calendar 2K/BD Release Calendar 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?Posted Sun Jul 31, 2022 at 12:00 PM PDT by: -
4K Ultra HD Blu-ray & Blu-ray Release Guide - July 24, 2022 - July 30, 2022As we complete the month of July, how has the month treated you thus far? With all the releases these past few weeks, and the announcements for September, discretionary spending is at a premium, that's for sure. Welcome to Volume 3 Episode 10 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc this week, as well as a look at announcements from last week. 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases- We did warn you about the sheer volume of 4K titles coming this week. Let's get right to it. Import Monday has one notable title, that is to say if it hasn't been delayed again. From Second Sight Films, The Witch (or The VVitch, double V instead of a W) gets a deluxe looking set. I have always liked the various movie posters for this one, offering them as collector carts is a nice touch. Anxious to see what the included book is about too. New Release Tuesday has three titles. First, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness from Disney, available in lots of options. We get a standard edition, a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook (minus the fancy stuff that was in last week's Zavvi release), a Target Exclusive Art Edition and a Walmart Exclusive with collectable enamel pin. My advice if you don't care much for the extras each retailer has, just go for the one with the cover art you like the most. Genius! From Paramount, an action/adventure, The Lost City starring Sandra Bullock, Channing Tatum and Brad Pitt. From Warner Bros, DC Animated title Green Lantern: Beware My Power, available as a standard edition and as a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook. Kicking off the catalog releases category, Kino has Stanley Kubrick's The Killing and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The latter is loaded with star power whilst the former offers a chance to see where Kubrick was before he made it big, and our reviewer Dacid says it is a must own release. From Severin Films, an 80s drama titled Out of the Blue. From Scream Factory, Species gets a 4K upgrade. (You're welcome everyone. Within 12 hours of my import box set shipping, this one got a 4K announcement). From LionsGate, a pair of 4K upgrades, Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar and Primal. The only thing these releases are missing are the attractive slipcovers their blu-ray counterparts got, and of course the blu-ray itself (4K Ultra HD Blu-ray + Digital). Vinegar Syndrome has standard releases available now of Out of Order and Thriller: A Cruel Picture [3-Disc Edition] and Thriller: A Cruel Picture / They Call Her One Eye. Next week is almost a drought, we get a Dario Argento release with two options and the need for a need for a defibrillator. Blu-ray releases- Did I mention this category is painful to look at too? As of press time, all in we are looking at 87 skus! I do expect to move a dozen or so to next month (Vinegar Syndrome partner labels) once general release links come out. Diving right in, let's list the blu-ray counterparts of the above titles first. Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness gets a standard release from Disney (may or may not get a red disc case, could be a retailer exclusive option like other MCU releases), The Lost City comes to us via Paramount, Green Lantern: Beware My Power comes to us via Warner Bros, Kino Lorber's got Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, there's Out of the Blue from Severin Films, and lastly we get Thriller: A Cruel Picture from Vinegar Syndrome. Trying something new here, clumping all of the TV on disc releases into one section. First from Paramount/CBS, The 4400: The Complete Series. The long awaited Night Gallery: Season Two comes to us via Kino Lorber. That Dirty Black Bag - Season 1 releases via AMC Entertainment. Anime highlights include BACK ARROW - Part 1, Case Closed: The Fist of Blue Sapphire, Cyber City Oedo 808 [SteelBook], Lupin the 3rd: Prison of the Past, Scar on the Praeter - The Complete Season, Vinland Saga - Complete Collection [Limited Edition] and Violence Jack - Complete OVA Collection. LionsGate proudly presents Mid-Century this week as their sole title. The Duke (2020) finally gets a release from Sony Pictures. Probably Covid delays (?) Severin Films releases The Eurocrypt of Christopher Lee Collection Volume Two. Did you get Volume One? Honorable mention: Early signs point that Abbott and Costello in Jack and the Beanstalk from ClassicFlix is the definitive version to own. Hopefully we can get a review out for you shortly. Notable announcements from last week: A 4K SteelBook image (Only @ Best Buy) for The Lost Boys has been leaked, and unfortunately for our wallets, yup, another September title! All three Godfather movies are getting 4K double-dips, this time as SteelBooks. I can dig the painted appearance covers and had I not bought the deluxe set already they would certainly be quite appealing to me. They do appear to not have the bonus features discs though. I will never say never on double-dipping. Mentioned last week, but now confirmed, Wes Craven's Scream 2 is getting a 4K release. Just like Scream, it appears on track for a SteelBook as well as a standard release. Criterion Collections October titles have been announced. For 4K (with blu-ray counterpart) look for Lost Highway, for 4K solo, Night of the Living Dead, and for blu-ray titles, Cure, Arsenic and Old Lace, La Llorona and Eve’s Bayou. Universal Pictures will be releasing a 4K disc of Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, care to guess which month? I think it would be ironic if Paramount released Titanic that month too. 4K Release Calendar 2K/BD Release Calendar 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?Posted Sun Jul 24, 2022 at 12:00 PM PDT by: -
Rob Zombie's The Munsters Creeps Its Way Onto Blu-ray September 27thRob Zombie's rebirth of the classic television series crawls out of the streaming grave for aBlu-ray release on September 27th. Ever since this project was announced there has been a lot of controversy about Rob Zombie's The Munsters. While Zombie fans have hoped for the best, fans of the classic television series The Munsters have been bracing for the worst. After the less than enthusiastic reaction to the first trailer and news the film would be streaming exclusively on Netflix without word of a theatrical outing and news that the film has moved streaming services from its original home at Peacock to Netflix, the wind is not in this film's favor - to say the least. [Correction]Rob Zombie has taken to various social media platforms to correct the rumor that The Munsters was going to originally premier on Peacock and was sold off to Netflix. Apparently, it was always going to be on Netflix from the very beginning. The assumption that the film would be on Peacock came from the observation that since the film was funded by Universal Studios who owns Peacock and the original television series The Munsters is streaming on said service - so would the new movie. As a fan of House of a Thousand Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, and some aspects of his Halloween films, I keep rooting for Zombie to score a hit and prove he's a worthwhile filmmaker. I am going into this film cautiously with expectations set pretty low. I'm hoping to be surprised. I want to be surprised. But even after this new trailer that does actually look somewhat better, I still can't muster up a lot of excitement. Here's what's coming in the Blu-ray: Rob Zombie's The Munsters - Blu-ray EXCLUSIVE BONUS FEATURES ON BLU-RAY: The Munsters: Return To Mockingbird Lane – From the mind of Rob Zombie, this hour-long look behind the scenes of The Munsters gives an intimate window into his filmmaking process. Watch as he weaves his way through the production and collaborates with a dedicated team to bring his unique vision to life. Feature Commentary With Director/Writer/Producer Rob Zombie TECHNICAL INFORMATION BLU-RAY:Street Date: September 27, 2022Selection Number: 1000818724 (US) /1000818724 (CDN)Layers: BD 50Aspect Ratio: 16:9 1.78:1 WidescreenRating: PG for macabre and suggestive material, scary images, and languageLanguages/Subtitles: English SDH, French European, Latin American SpanishSound: Feature in English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1, Latin American Spanish DTS Digital Surround 5.1 and bonus in English Dolby Digital 2.0Run Time: 01:49:37 If you don't want to wait to stream The Munsters on Netflix before you purchase - the Blu-ray is now up for pre-order!Posted Wed Jul 20, 2022 at 10:17 AM PDT by: -
4K Ultra HD Blu-ray & Blu-ray Release Guide - July 17, 2022 - July 23, 2022How did you do with the retailer sales last week (Amazon Prime Days, Target, Walmart, Best Buy, Barnes & Noble)? With the long list of disc releases these next couple of months, I really had to exercise great restraint. I did pick a few discs up, and a mattress topper, still, nothing like previous years. Either I already have everything I needed or the sales just didn't do it for me this year. Welcome to Volume 3 Episode 9 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc this week, as well as a look at announcements from last week. 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases- Whoa with a capital W, and W is also for Wallet-buster as you will see what is in store for you this week! Import Monday starts with a Zavvi SteelBook of The Northman. Currently showing sold out but we know how Zavvi works sometimes, so keep checking. Another Zavvi SteelBook, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, which appears to look a lot like a Film Arena slipcase edition. Again, another overseas release getting a better edition than the one coming domestically. Hey Disney and/or Best Buy, I'm pretty sure this one would sell quite well here! Still not done with imports Monday, how 'bout a little bit of Aaahnold Schwarzenegger and Brigitte Nielsen with Red Sonja? Available as a standard edition and as a Zavvi Exclusive SteelBook. If I take one for the team, it will not doubt get a U.S. announcement 5 minutes after I get the shipping notification. Moving on to Domestic release Tuesday, the single new release title in this category this week is The Bob's Burgers Movie, and the only way to get it retailer direct is from Best Buy, as an exclusive SteelBook. Criterion Collection is adding Devil In A Blue Dress to their 4K release line up. Anyone that's ever played GTA San Andreas tell me the cover art/move poster doesn't look like the lead character CJ. This art doesn't even look like Washington really. LionsGate has a pair of 4K upgrades with Gamer and The Kid. The only thing missing on their 4K upgrades (these two, past and future titles) are the slipcovers. Fatale blu-ray had a great slipcover, the 4K, no slip. From Blue Underground, God Told Me To, a Larry Cohen film gets their meticulous treatment. Early reviews so far say it is a great release. Shout Factory has Lion of the Desert, a historical drama and The Message, which 'remains the most powerful and acclaimed movie ever made about the birth of Islam'. It pains me to mention double-dips but this one is news, Sony is releasing Men in Black as a SteelBook in one of their new transfer Dolby Vision version releases (previous edition is HDR10). Each time they have done these, we do get a better version, how badly do we want the new version? No reprieve next week, Marvel, DC, more 4K upgrades, something that was lost and more. Blu-ray releases- As we do every week, listing the blu-ray counterparts of the above titles first. The Bob's Burgers Movie comes to us via Disney/Fox, Devil In A Blue Dress comes to us via Criterion. Keeping with Criterion, a foreign drama titled Drive My Car. I got nothing, sorry, have not heard of this one. Warner Archive Collection has Adventures of Don Juan this week. TV on disc from Warner Bros brings us DC's Legends of Tomorrow: The Seventh and Final Season. Viz Media is releasing Castlevania: Season Four this week, but the latest Pokemon movie is still absent (hint hint). [Edit] Just announced for Oct 4, now they just need to fill in the gaps of missing movies. Anime highlights include Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club - Season 1, Moriarty the Patriot - Part 1, Mother of the Goddess' Dormitory: Complete Collection and The Quintessential Quintuplets - Season 2. Anyone remember Darwin the dolphin? SeaQuest DSV: The Complete Series now gets a region A release from Mill Creek. Showtime Networks mini-series The Good Lord Bird is available on blu-ray this week, as is Yellowjackets: Season One. Arrow Video presents 1989's Hell High. If you're opting for a variant slipcover version, we've linked DiabolikDVD. A more recent horror film, The Righteous dons a shiny disc. Thought that was it? How about The Sacred Spirit, a comedy/sci-fi flick. This one had to get a new cover art because it too much resembled a different film's poster. If you catch these soon enough, they're still 50% off at Amazon. Honorable Mention: If you've been collecting the series, Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema VIII debuts this week from Kino Lorber. They also have another collection this week worth a peek, Maria Montez and Jon Hall Collection. Notable announcements from last week: With all the sale events, it was a slower week for announcements. Nevertheless, there are a few. In Bruges is getting a Kino 4K release on Sep 27th. 3:10 to Yuma is getting a 4K Best Buy Exclusive Slipcover Edition SteelBook release on Sep 6th via LionsGate. Batman: The Long Halloween is getting a 4K release on Sep 20th from Warner Bros. The previous blu-ray editions were split into two parts. Also in 4K news, Casablanca appears to be on track for release in November, no doubt just a standard case for the US and some cool looking collector's set overseas. (Remember Singin' in the Rain, Citizen Kane and more?) Fright Night is getting a 4K SteelBook edition on Oct 4th from Sony Pictures. Scream 2 is looking to get a 4K edition SteelBook with an alleged street date in October. Saturday Night Fever also appears to be set for a 4K disc later in the year, likely October. 4K Release Calendar 2K/BD Release Calendar 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?Posted Sun Jul 17, 2022 at 12:00 PM PDT by: -
It's PRIME DAY! - The Best 4K Ultra HD & Blu-ray Deals Going Right NowPrime Day Is Here And There Are Plenty Of Deals For Our Favorite Flicks! Amazon's annual two-day sale may favor big-box items like kitchen equipment or hardware, but they throw out some great deals on 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray titles. If you haven't picked up some old favorites, now may well be the best time to snap them up! The only hitch - you have to be an Amazon Prime subscriber... hence the name "Prime Day." Here are some of the deals currently running - Universal Classic Monsters Icons of Horror Collection - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Prime Day Price: $38.99 Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Prime Day Price: $29.99 Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection Vol 2 - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Prime Day Price: $49.99 The Godfather Trilogy - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Prime Day Price: $42.99 Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Prime Day Price: $24.99 The Mummy: Ultimate Trilogy - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Prime Day Price: $23.99 The Matrix Trilogy - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Prime Day Price: $21.99 Stanley Kubrick: 3-Film Collection - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Prime Day Price: $29.99 Batman 4-Film Collection 1989-1997 - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Prime Day Price: $49.99 Zach Snyder’s Justice League Trilogy - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Prime Day Price: $40.99 Mad Max: 4-Film Anthology - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Prime Day Price: $47.99 Also on sale for Prime Day... The Thing - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $10.99 Blade Runner 2049 - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $9.99 1917 - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $9.99 V for Vendetta - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Giftset - $24.99 The Shining - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $9.99 Scream (2022) - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray SteelBook - $15.99 The Invisible Man (2020) - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $9.78 In The Heights - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray - $9.99 Pacific Rim - 3D Blu-ray - $9.99 Aquaman - 3D Blu-ray - $12.99 Ready Player One - 3D Blu-ray - $13.99 The Lego Batman Movie - 3D Blu-ray $12.99 While most of these titles have been out for a while so if you haven't picked them up yet these are pretty good deals. There will be more Lightning deals throughout the next two days and we'll be posting the good ones up on social since they run for a limited time.Posted Tue Jul 12, 2022 at 05:31 AM PDT by: -
4K Ultra HD Blu-ray & Blu-ray Release Guide - July 10, 2022 - July 16, 2022Amazon Prime 'Day' is this week, specifically Tuesday the 12th and Wednesday the 13th. We ask of you just one little favor before you venture over there to start your shopping spree... start your spree by clicking the Amazon Logo at the bottom of this page or by following this link. It won't cost you anything extra to do so, but what it does for us is greatly appreciated as it helps keep this operation running a little longer. For the first time that I can remember of a Prime Day event, I am on vacation, so no sneaking a peek throughout the day from the break room at work on my phone, it's full on easy chair at a desktop computer. I wonder if their various competitors will do anything special this week. Welcome to Volume 3 Episode 8 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc this week, as well as a look at announcements from last week. 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases- This week is offering us a bit of a break in this category, maybe to save for the rest of the month, or the Prime Days sale? First up from LionsGate, if you are looking at getting Angel Heart, it will involve a trip to Best Buy or online as it is an exclusive SteelBook. This one originally got released back in the day as an X-Rated film. Consider this though, when the NC17 rating came out, if a movie had 20 f-bombs it probably got said rating. Having not seen this one in years, I cannot honestly recall how much 'skin' or violence there was in it, but it could not have been *that* bad or I would have remembered it. The Criterion Collection's next 4K entry comes out this week, Raging Bull which stars Robert De Niro and is directed by Martin Scorsese. I heard this one had also won a few awards (I'm joking about the "I heard" part, of course it won a few awards). Lastly, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom gets a new SteelBook design general release. Blu-ray releases- From the list above, Criterion Collection is releasing Raging Bull on blu-ray as well this week. Sticking with Criterion let's also look for Summertime, a drama romance starring Katharine Hepburn. TV on disc from Warner Bros, look for Batwoman: The Third and Final Season. This series was troubled from the start when it had to change the lead character, but they did manage to pull it off. Been awhile since we have heard from The Warner Archive Collection, The Frisco Kid gets a release this week. Paramount's got more catalog releases to ponder, Bébé's Kids, Domestic Disturbance, Down to Earth, Georgia Rule and Leap of Faith. Side Note: Galaxy Quest has quietly changed from a SteelBook release to just a reissue release. For a new release from Paramount, Star Trek: Lower Decks - Season Two comes to blu-ray. Via the Paramount Presents label, comedy/crime Rough Cut starring Burt Reynolds and directed by Don Siegel. Be it LionsGate or partner label Vertical Entertainment, there's always a weekly release. This week we get action films Black Site from Vertical and then from LionsGate we are greeted with Wolf Hound. The corrected version of The Beatles: Get Back hits stores this week, we've provided a Best Buy link as Amazon is still in the holding pattern. Light week for anime, here's the highlights; The Duke of Death and His Maid - Season 1, Hortensia SAGA - The Complete Season, Pompo The Cinephile, RahXephon - Complete Collection and The World Ends with You - The Animation. Honorable mentions: For the first time on blu-ray, The Last Broadcast is being offered up by 101 Films, and this one has a fair amount of special features to boot. And from Shout! Factory, The Six Million Dollar Man: The Complete Series should keep you occupied for awhile. Notable announcements from last week: September is going to be a very trying month for some of us. Do we need to eat or should we tighten the belt and pick up a new release? Oodles of announcements for September, read on for the highlights... Star Trek, or should I say, all of the Star Trek movies featuring the original cast. The Motion Picture with the remastered, extended cut, Star Trek V and VI, the latter includes both cuts, and a complete six-film collection which includes everything new up until now, all with a street date of September 6th. Read the article here. A blu-ray release of The Motion Picture extended cut is also scheduled for the 6th. All the various Shout! Factory labels are beginning to offer up their September slate, 4K titles include Old Henry, Evil Dead (2013), Platoon, The Fog (standard and SteelBook) and Army of Darkness (standard and SteelBook). For blu-ray so far, Spitfire Over Berlin, Post Mortem and Cool World. No GKIDS titles have been revealed yet. Warner Bros has finally revealed the 4K release of Batman: The Long Halloween, with a Sep 20 release date. As mentioned before, when the 4K comes out it will include parts 1 & 2. Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons is on track to get blu-ray and 4K discs on Oct 18. Listed on Amazon but not announced yet, Paramount will be releasing War of the Worlds 4K / When Worlds Collide on Sep 27. Let's make sure we are clear, the first movie is a 4K, the 2nd is a blu-ray. 4K Release Calendar 2K/BD Release Calendar 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?Posted Sun Jul 10, 2022 at 12:00 PM PDT by: -
4K Ultra HD Blu-ray & Blu-ray Release Guide - July 3, 2022 - July 9, 2022Happy Independence Day to those in the U S of A! Doing any parades, fireworks or other holiday related events? Why does it already feel as though Summer is half over, especially when the Summer Solstice was just two weeks ago? Part of the reason could be that when you go to the stores now, many of them already have Summer stuff on clearance! Heads Up, the Criterion Barnes & Noble 50% off sale is going on now, and that usually includes Arrow Video among others too. If you prefer Amazon, they're matching most of the prices, preorders you usually have to wait til the title goes live to see the new lower price. Welcome to Volume 3 Episode 7 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc this week, as well as a look at announcements from last week. 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases- Two new releases in the 4K disc category this week. First from Lionsgate, as if the Nic Cage title two weeks ago wasn't hard enough to remember, this one is titled Everything Everywhere All at Once and comes as a standard edition and as a Walmart Exclusive. I think the latter just adds an alternate slip cover art to the mix. And from Universal Pictures, Downton Abbey: A New Era debuts on 4K disc as well. Would be nice if the Limited Edition (below) had a 4K option. Am I missing out by not having seen any of the TV series episodes? Moving on to catalog titles, first from Warner Bros., Edge of Tomorrow, available as a standard edition and as a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook. Remember when this movie's cover art had LIVE. DIE. REPEAT. in such large print, we all thought that was the name of the movie? In some markets it actually was the title. The example on the left shows the same words, but in the background. Last but not least, a pair of Criterion titles this week. First a bit of a foreign film, a fairy tale horror film titled Okja, directed by Bong Joon Ho. And a domestic drama romance titled The Virgin Suicides, featuring a stellar cast. Next week we get a bit of a break on our wallets, a formerly X-rated thriller on 4K (a SteelBook no less), a double dip SteelBook with a better cover art and a smash-hit Criterion release. Blu-ray releases- There's a slight reprieve this week in the blu-ray category. The rest of the month, not so much. First, getting the blu-ray counterparts of the above 4K titles listed, look for Everything Everywhere All at Once from LionsGate, Downton Abbey: A New Era from Universal Pictures (also available in a Limited Edition Gift Set) and lastly, Okja from the Criterion Collection. Universal Pictures also releases the 2022 action/thriller Memory starring Liam Neeson. From LionsGate, a 2022 thriller titled Zero Contact with Anthony Hopkins. Anime highlights include just Amnesia: Complete Collection, One Piece: Season Eleven - Voyage Nine and Taisho Otome Fairy Tale - The Complete Season. Kino Lorber has got three bug TV disaster movies from the 70s, they include Ants, Tarantulas: The Deadly Cargo and Terror Out of the Sky. Roger Corman, they are not, but they still look like a lot of cheesy fun. Honorable Mention: 88 Films is giving us another martial arts feature, this week it's Hero (1997). Friday releases include June's batch of Imprint Films Titles: >A Night to Remember - Imprint Films Limited Edition >Barabbas - Imprint Films Limited Edition >Damn The Defiant - Imprint Films Limited Edition >Julius Caesar (1970) - Imprint Films Limited Edition >The Long Ships - Imprint Films Limited Edition >The Nelson Affair - Imprint Films Limited Edition Notable announcements from last week: Sony Pictures has announced I Know What You Did Last Summer to 4K disc with a September 27 release date. Also from Sony, Bram Stoker's Dracula will be getting a 4K SteelBook release on October 4th. What's special about this release is that it has been remastered to include Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio. More leaks have been happening with Star Trek: The Original Movie collections releases. The Motion Picture Director's Cut 4K seems to be on schedule for September while the six-film collection 4K collection sometime in the third quarter. The Bob's Burgers Movie is getting a release on July 19th from 20th Century Studios. A blu-ray will be a general release while a 4K disc will only be available as a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook. 4K Release Calendar 2K/BD Release Calendar 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?Posted Sun Jul 3, 2022 at 12:00 PM PDT by: -
4K Ultra HD Blu-ray & Blu-ray Release Guide - June 26, 2022 - July 2, 2022Ever had one of those days where it feels like absolutely nothing went right and you had to seek a course correction, pronto? Yeah, that was me earlier last week. If you decide to watch a movie to get out of that 'zone,' I would suggest one you had already seen, otherwise what's happening on the screen might drive that feeling even deeper as the antagonist gets on your nerves. I'm lucky my day wasn't 100% sour because it it was, my TV or disc player would have exploded. Reminds me of the opening act in Amazon Women on the Moon actually, hee hee. Welcome to Volume 3 Episode 6 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc this week, as well as a look at announcements from last week. 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases- It's a Dumbledorey kind of day with three releases of Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. This makes the third film of the series (with five planned total). Absent from this release is a 4K release from Target, but we do see a standard release, a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook and an over-the-top gift set from Walmart. The latter is in similar style as The Batman gift set from last month. From Arrow Video, after it looked like the only option was an import, True Romance hits U.S. stores. This being a limited edition, it comes available as a Standard limited, a Limited SteelBook and a Deluxe Limited SteelBook. Expect, no doubt, a standard edition in six months for fans that just want the movie with nothing fancy. And last but not least, two priced-to-move titles from Kino Lorber. First, a comdy/crime film titled Out of Sight starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez and directed by Steven Soderbergh. And second, an early work of director Stanley Kubrick titled Killer's Kiss. Don't expect 2001 or The Shining, but do expect an insight of what Kubrick was like early on. Read David's review for the details. Next week, two new releases, a pair of Criterion releases and Tom Cruise. Blu-ray releases- If you thought there was going to be a little bit of a break in this category, your thoughts were a bit faulty. Actually, this week is the busiest week of the month of June. What we do every week first is mention the blu-ray counterparts of the above releases. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore gets a standard release, a Target Exclusive 'art' edition and a Walmart Exclusive Gift Set, very similar to the 4K set above. If you somehow missed out on the franchise, a 3-Film Collection is also available. True Romance gets a Limited Edition blu-ray release as well. Not to be left out, Out of Sight gets the Kino blu-ray treatment too. More TV on disc, The A-Team: The Complete Series from NBC Universal and Charmed: The Complete Series from CBS/Paramount both honor us with their presence. From Universal, Firestarter (2022) comes to home video. Is it just me or does Blumhouse have something against 4K disc? Or was this just not a good movie? New to blu-ray catalog titles from Paramount include Boomerang, The First Wives Club (Paramount Presents label) and Harlem Nights. Sony Pictures releases the 2021 drama/romance Mothering Sunday. Criterion Collection presents 1972's Pink Flamingos. Matthew describes it as the 'most controversial and grotesque films to be inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry,' check out his review. Criterion also has a foreign comedy/romance titled The Worst Person in the World this week as well. Anime highlights are just a few, Kekkaishi - The Complete Series, Life Lessons with Uramichi Oniisan - The Complete Season, Sgt. Frog: The Complete Second Season and Urusei Yatsura The Movie 4: Lum The Forever. Notable announcements from last week: Individual discs for the original six Star Trek Movies are in the works as well as a 6-film collection. One would guess this fall sounds about right for a release time frame, no doubt to coincide with the updated extended release for The Motion Picture. It was mentioned on The Bits that Star Trek: First Contact was streaming in 4K, so no doubt those films will be coming to 4K disc towards the end of the year. Kino Lorber will be releasing Indecent Proposal to 4K disc on September 27. The 4400: The Complete Series will be getting a blu-ray release by CBS/Paramount on July 26th. Summer is getting pretty crowded if you're in to 4K discs and TV series, best of luck keeping up! 4K Release Calendar 2K/BD Release Calendar 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?Posted Sun Jun 26, 2022 at 12:00 PM PDT by: -
Judy, Judy, Judy! The Best of Garland on Blu-rayThat voice. Instantly recognizable, it brims with power and emotion, expressing heartbreak, longing, and boundless joy with equal fervor. It can raise the rafters and plumb the depths of your soul - sometimes simultaneously - all while sending chills of excitement down your spine. Almost as soon as she learned to talk, Judy Garland began to sing, and her inimitable, indefatigable instrument coupled with her peerless ability to connect with audiences eventually led her to be dubbed the World’s Greatest Entertainer. That might sound like hyperbole, but time and again Garland lived up to the moniker. She may have stood only four-feet-eleven-inches tall, but she was a giant in the entertainment industry, a triple-threat dynamo who conquered every medium - movies, television, radio, recordings, the concert stage - and remains one of the most admired, beloved, and enduring performers in show business history. Garland would have turned 100 years old this month, and although she died much too soon at age 47 from an accidental prescription drug overdose, she’s still very much alive on TV, movie, and computer screens and music streaming services. As long as there’s a video monitor, speaker system, or pair of AirPods, Garland will continue to beguile, thrill, and delight. "The rest of us will be forgotten. Never Judy." Like many children of a bygone era, I first discovered Garland through the annual network television broadcasts of The Wizard of Oz. The fateful year for me was 1967. I was 4. Yet even at that tender age, Garland’s warmth and sincerity touched me, so when my dad opened his daily New York Times a couple of years later and announced the woman who played Dorothy had tragically died, I felt genuine sadness. Five years after that, in 1974, my parents dragged 11-year-old me to a screening of That’s Entertainment!, MGM’s lavish salute to its legendary Golden Age musicals. “A documentary?!” I whined. I couldn’t imagine anything more boring. Two-plus hours later, my life had forever changed. Not only did That’s Entertainment! expose me to the full breadth of Garland’s massive talent and turn me into a lifelong, passionate fan, it also sparked a love affair with classic movies that continues to this day. Garland, though, was the instigator, the hook, the portal that transported me into a wondrous cinematic world. I read everything I could about her, watched her films on late-night TV (there wasn’t even VHS back then), bought her records, and soaked up the magic of her performances. Decades have passed and her work continues to amaze and inspire me. I can’t think of any artist who is more genuine, who can communicate so directly and so viscerally, and who can dazzle the senses so consistently and so completely. Judy Garland is one of a kind. We’ll never see anyone like her ever again. I could celebrate her every day, but her 100th birthday seems like the perfect time to spotlight in chronological order what I feel are the 10 best examples of Garland’s best film work. All of the movies are available on Blu-ray - and one is even in 4K UHD and 3D! Click your heels to guess which one. You can certainly take my word for how good the following films are, but if you watch the accompanying video clips (and I strongly encourage you to do so!), you’ll witness the breathtaking talent that made Garland an entertainment icon and keeps her relevant, relatable, accessible, and - most importantly - timeless. Frank Sinatra once said, “The rest of us will be forgotten. Never Judy.” He was right. Happy 100th, Judy. Here's looking at - and listening to - you, kid... THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) The cyclone may whisk Dorothy from Kansas to Oz, but the impact of The Wizard of Oz on Garland was far more consequential, transforming her from an adolescent MGM contract player into a major movie star. We've all seen this intoxicating fantasy dozens of times, but the reason we keep coming back to it is Garland. As I wrote in my review of the 70th anniversary edition of the film in 2009, “Though so many elements contribute to the success of a film, it's impossible to imagine any one piece of the Oz puzzle having a greater impact on the film's viability and durability than Garland's performance. Sure, her simple yet stirring rendition of 'Over the Rainbow' ranks high on the list of milestone movie moments, yet this gifted 16-year-old actress brings so much more to the table than her mellifluous voice. Honesty and sincerity ooze from her pores; every word she utters is totally believable, and her pluck, vulnerability, innocence, and empathy instantly seduce the audience. From the opening frames to the 'no place like home' coda, Garland keeps us transfixed, maintaining an intimacy that's rare in such an extravagant production. Her performance, more than any other, keeps The Wizard of Oz contemporary, and allows the picture to connect with past, present, and future generations.” This all-time classic is available in Blu-ray, 3-D, and 4K UHD editions, and in standard, steelbook, and collectible box set packaging. FOR ME AND MY GAL (1942) This rousing, surprisingly dramatic salute to vaudeville during World War I not only showcases Garland’s enviable singing, acting, and dancing abilities, it also marks the film debut of Gene Kelly. As I wrote earlier this month upon the movie’s long-awaited Blu-ray debut, “For Me and My Gal showcases [Garland’s] talent in all three disciplines to a greater degree than perhaps any other film. As the sole star, Garland must do it all, and she handles the heavy responsibility of 'carrying' a major motion picture with ease. The movie also offered Garland her first truly mature role, as well as the chance to step out from behind Mickey Rooney's shadow. She makes the most of both opportunities, and her unqualified success hastened her breezy transition to adult stardom.” Below, she performs one of the all-time great torch songs, “After You’ve Gone,” which would later become a staple in her concert repertoire. MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944) One of the most beloved and acclaimed musicals of all time, Meet Me in St. Louis chronicles a year in the life of a typical American family as they anticipate the 1904 World’s Fair. Director Vincente Minnelli’s sumptuous film brims with humor, charm, warmth, and romance, and completes Garland’s seamless transition to adult roles. It also contains an array of future Garland standards, including “The Boy Next Door,” “The Trolley Song” (see clip below), and “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” Along with The Wizard of Oz and A Star Is Born, Meet Me in St. Louis stands as one of Garland’s greatest and most enduring films and features one of her most natural and endearing performances. The Blu-ray is available in both standard and digibook editions. THE CLOCK (1945) Garland and Minnelli followed up Meet Me in St. Louis with The Clock, a beautiful and affecting romantic drama about a GI (Robert Walker) and office secretary (Garland) who fall in love during his 48-hour leave in New York City. Garland doesn’t sing a note in The Clock (one of only two non-musicals she would make during her career), but her understated, intuitive portrayal is so good, we don’t miss her vocals at all. As I recently wrote in my Blu-ray review, “Though the lyrical script…gives her only one brief emotional scene, Garland’s enviable ability to bring meaning and authenticity to the mundane makes her quiet work here rival her raw, powerful, Oscar-nominated portrayals in A Star Is Born and Judgment at Nuremberg.” At last available on Blu-ray after an interminable wait, The Clock is one of Garland’s most unheralded and underrated movies, and her revelatory work continues to resonate more than 75 years after the picture's premiere. THE HARVEY GIRLS (1946) Did waitresses tame the Wild West? According to The Harvey Girls, they did. A musical homage to the adventurous women who ventured west in the late 1800s to work for the Harvey House restaurant franchise, The Harvey Girls gives Garland a chance to show off her flair for comedy (see clip below) and participate in a no-holds-barred catfight that rivals the barroom brawl in Destry Rides Again. As I wrote in my 2020 Blu-ray review of this blockbuster hit, “Garland…carries this infectious film that wonderfully showcases her comic timing, spunky personality, transcendent warmth, and - of course - legendary voice. Her powerhouse pipes belt out the picture's signature song, the Oscar-winning 'On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe,' as well as a few other spritely tunes by Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren. Though the top-notch ensemble cast includes such big names as John Hodiak, Angela Lansbury, Ray Bolger, Virginia O'Brien, Preston Foster, Marjorie Main, and - in her first speaking part - a young Cyd Charisse, it's Garland who looms the largest, wins our hearts, and reminds us why she later would be dubbed the World's Greatest Entertainer.” EASTER PARADE (1948) The dream pairing of Garland and Fred Astaire only happened once, but the resulting film, Easter Parade, is another all-time classic that deserves a spin every spring. Two-dozen Irving Berlin tunes pepper this romantic romp about a jilted ballroom dancer (Astaire) who vows to transform a chorus girl (Garland) into a vision of terpsichorean sophistication. In my 2013 Blu-ray review, I laud Garland for once again combining “heartbreaking vulnerability with impeccable comic timing (just watch how she proves to Astaire she's a sexy dish) to create a totally unaffected portrayal…Garland is always completely genuine, and that all-too-rare quality - as much as her peerless voice - puts the audience in the palm of her hand. [Although] many cite ‘A Couple of Swells’ (a classic number in which Judy and Fred cavort as lovable tramps) as the picture's musical highlight, in my book, a medley of Berlin standards capped by an exhilarating rendition of ‘When That Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'’ displays Garland to even better advantage. Sure, Judy's no Ginger, but she more than holds her own with Astaire, and their dances together possess an infectious enthusiasm that more than compensates for the simplistic steps.” SUMMER STOCK (1950) This is my go-to Garland movie. If ever I need a jolt of Judy to lift my spirits, I pop in Summer Stock, the last of three movies she made with Gene Kelly, her final film at MGM, and the one that contains perhaps her most stylish and infectious number, "Get Happy" (see clip below). The backstage story calls to mind the plots of the Rooney-Garland let's-put-on-a-show musicals, but the snappy script, swift pacing, crackling chemistry between Garland and Kelly, and exhilarating songs and dances put Summer Stock in a class by itself. Garland's feisty portrayal and full-throated vocals reveal a newfound maturity, and anyone who doubts her terpsichorean talent need only take a gander at the dynamite "Portland Fancy" competition dance with Kelly to see how nimble, precise, and energetic she could be. Summer Stock isn't a great film, but it's immensely entertaining and showcases everything we love about both Garland and Kelly. "Forget your troubles, c'mon get happy," indeed! A STAR IS BORN (1954) The second of the four versions of A Star Is Born is without question the best, and that's all because of Garland's bravura performance. Upon the film's release in 1954, Time magazine called it "just about the greatest one-woman show in modern movie history," and to date it hasn't been topped. The oft-told Hollywood heartbreak story still resonates, and the striking parallels between Garland and the film's tragic hero, Norman Maine (James Mason), add extra potency, poignancy, and irony to the film. (The memorable, emotional scene at the Oscars that climaxes with a shocking slap used to seem a bit far-fetched until Will Smith made it oh-so-real at this year's Academy Awards ceremony.) Garland's rich, soaring vocals burst with soulful passion and continually take our breath away (her rendition of another future signature song, "The Man That Got Away," is arguably her most thrilling and magnetic movie musical performance), but her disarmingly raw dramatic portrayal infuses this A Star Is Born with a power and authenticity the other versions lack. Watch the dressing room scene below and be blown away. It's not only Garland's greatest dramatic screen moment, it's one of the most affecting and memorable turns by an actress in motion picture history. When Garland lost the Best Actress Oscar to Grace Kelly, Groucho Marx famously called it "the biggest robbery since Brink's," and few disagreed. A Star Is Born captures Garland's brilliance more completely than any other movie and remains the pinnacle of her film career. The Blu-ray is available in both standard and digibook editions. We can only hope a 4K UHD release is in the works. JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961) Garland's role in director Stanley Kramer's searing, three-hour depiction of one of the post-World War II Nazi war crimes trials lasts less than 10 minutes, but her wrenching portrayal of a dowdy German hausfrau who's attacked on the witness stand by an overzealous German defense attorney (Maximillian Schell) makes a huge impression and earned Garland a well-deserved Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination. (She lost to Rita Moreno in West Side Story.) Once again, Garland proves she can scale tremendous dramatic heights, and singing is not required to cast a riveting spell. Here is her devastating climactic scene: I COULD GO ON SINGING (1963) Garland's final film, released just six years before her death, casts her as Jenny Bowman, a celebrated singer who inside and out bears an uncanny resemblance to Judy Garland. Jenny comes to London for a concert engagement and hopes to rekindle her relationships with a British doctor (Dirk Bogarde) and the son she gave up a dozen years earlier so she could pursue her career. As I wrote in my 2016 Blu-ray review, "Like Judy, Jenny is an über-talented, temperamental, demanding, vulnerable, and deeply beloved entertainer who gives her all on stage, but is needy, insecure, manipulative, and emotionally fragile in her private life. The two women are so similar, it's often difficult to tell where one ends and the other begins. Add to the mix a handful of riveting concert sequences that showcase Garland's brilliance as a live performer, and you have a film that comes closer to capturing the essence of the real Judy Garland than any movie she ever made." Garland called the dated, melodramatic plot "rubbish," but the prophetically titled I Could Go On Singing contains one of her finest dramatic scenes, a seven-minute tour de force that encapsulates the struggles and stresses she felt in her turbulent life. Her four songs are master classes in the art of performance, but it's the final 90 seconds of "Hello, Bluebird," culminating in a euphoric explosion of Judy Garland joy, that bowl me over every time. I can't think of a better way to end this tribute to Garland the Great than by watching this rafter-raising clip. Of course, a few other Garland films available on Blu-ray merit mention - and a viewing, too. Girl Crazy, the best of the four let's-put-on-a-show musicals she made with Mickey Rooney, is especially notable for its spectacular "I Got Rhythm" finale directed by Busby Berkeley. Garland also sings such standards as "Embraceable You," "But Not for Me," and "Bidin' My Time" in this delightful adaptation of the hit George & Ira Gershwin Broadway show. There's also The Pirate, which was a flop when first released but now enjoys a rabid cult following. Far too sophisticated for 1948 audiences, this lavish, broadly comic musical re-teams Garland with Kelly, whose acrobatic dancing steals the show, and features an underrated Cole Porter score. Another favorite is In the Good Old Summertime, a charming musical remake of The Shop Around the Corner that pairs Garland with Van Johnson and contains several lilting period tunes. The only Garland film available in 4K UHD is The Wizard of Oz, but hopefully, Warner Home Video will release Meet Me in St. Louis and A Star Is Born in the format as well - and soon. Not only are they considered Garland's greatest films (along with Oz), but they are also without question two of the greatest musicals of all time, and their Technicolor photography and sumptuous production values make them a natural for 4K UHD. Hopefully, by Garland's 101st birthday, those two classics will be in our collection, too.Posted Tue Jun 21, 2022 at 02:29 PM PDT by: -
4K Ultra HD Blu-ray & Blu-ray Release Guide - June 19, 2022 - June 25, 2022Happy Summer Solstice! What are you doing to celebrate the arrival of the Summer months? Dinner and a movie? A cookout and a home video? The Summer movie season is upon us, are you looking forward to anything in particular? Welcome to Volume 3 Episode 5 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what's coming to disc this week, as well as a look at announcements from last week. 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Releases- There are TWO new releases this week, with a total of FOUR SKUS. First, from Dreamworks Animation, via Universal Pictures, an animated adventure comedy titled The Bad Guys. And next, from LionsGate, an action comedy titled The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent starring Nicolas Cage. This one is available as a standard edition, a Best Buy Exclusive SteelBook and a Walmart Exclusive edition. Moving on to catalog titles, first a Western from Warner Bros titled Giant, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean. Criterion Collection has an appearance in this category this week with Shaft (1971). Featuring an all new 4K restoration with Dolby Vision, this one is sure to please. Blue Underground releases Uncle Sam this week. When I first saw this movie I was very pleasantly surprised, to get it in 4K will be satisfying. The final listing in this category this week is a double-dip of sorts, LionsGate gives us Universal Soldier in one of their Best Buy Exclusive Slipcover SteelBooks. Blu-ray releases- Getting to the blu-ray counterparts of the 4K titles above, The Bad Guys gets a blu-ray/dvd combo edition. And, The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent gets a standard edition and a Target Exclusive Edition. I've mentioned it a lot lately, Target appears to have abandoned 4K in their exclusive editions, I am a bit disturbed by this. What next, DVD exclusive editions? Criterion Collection also releases a blu-ray special edition for Shaft (1971). LionsGate has a busy week with a drama/sci-fi titled After Yang, a thriller titled Escape the Field and a drama/thriller titled Private Property. TV on disc, The Umbrella Academy: Season Two comes via Universal Pictures. Sony Pictures is releasing the Amazon Prime Video movie Cinderella (2021) to blu-ray this week. Edge of Sanity is available as a single release this time from Arrow Video. Previously it was part of a double-feature from Scream Factory. Also from Arrow, a 1978 horror titled The Initiation of Sarah. Criterion Collection has also got a foreign drama available this week titled Rouge. Anime highlights include Getter Robo Arc - Complete Collection, Hunter x Hunter: The Complete Series [Amazon Exclusive], IRODUKU : The World in Colors Complete Collection and Panda! Go Panda!. Honorable mentions: I had mentioned that several out of print titles were picked up by an outfit named Sandpiper Pictures. This week they are rereleasing Richard III and The Russia House. Also, a Time Life feature set Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame: In Concert (2010 - 2019) is available this week. Looks like quite a bill of performances, do check it out! Notable announcements from last week: Sony has announced they will be releasing the 80s comedy Real Genius to 4K disc on September 13th. Target now has listed a 4K Exclusive Edition of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. I think this might be a fluke, Target's latest track record is blu-ray exclusives. Multiple SKUs have been added to retailer sites of Jurassic World: Dominion and of the six-film collection. Not listed yet (but to be expected) is a SteelBook collection of all six films. If the new SteelBook artwork for Dominion 4K is the style of artwork expected in the full set, I might find it hard to resist buying the set (and the previous 5 movies) again, damn it! There is also a full set (not SteelBook) that comes with a limited edition (and numbered) Velociraptor sculpture. As we get closer to an actual release date we will see what other retailers will be offering. Season Two of Star Trek: Picard will be coming on October 4th. Just like last time, available as a standard release and as a SteelBook. 4K Release Calendar 2K/BD Release Calendar 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?Posted Sun Jun 19, 2022 at 12:00 PM PDT by: