Rollerball (1975) (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)
November 10th, 2022 by Brandon Peters
Rollerball has had quite the journey in the United States during the Blu-ray era of home video. Originally release a pair of times by the not quite defunct Twilight Time label and then last year by Scorpion releasing, it makes its debut on 4K Ultra-HD via Shout! Factory under its Scream Factory label. The release will carry over mostly all of the bonus material from the UK release of Rollerball from Arrow Video which had an interview with the late James Caan. Scream Factory will release it on November 22nd and you can already pre-order it from their site or the paid Amazon Associates link that follows the review.
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The King is making his debut on 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray. When Paramount Presents launched a pair of years ago, they did so with the Elvis Presley. Now, he’s back with the debut of Blue Hawaii on the format. The new edition features a 4K restoration from the original negative. It comes with a standard Blu-ray, a digital copy and the collectible slip cover packaging that the Paramount Presents line is known for. New extras include a film historian commentary and a scrapbook full of high resolution never before seen or not seen in a long while behind the scenes shots from the film that came straight from the Paramount vault. You can pre-order yourself a copy of this seminal Elvis film on 4K using the paid Amazon Associates link at the end of this review.
The Vestron Video series lives! Continuing to bring films from the obscurities of VHS and DVD to Blu-ray, the line has been both fantastic to see things roll out with superb extras and on the wallet. They really do put these out for a steal on Day 1. The latest serving from them is 1988’s invaders from space musical Earth Girls Are Easy which boasts Geena Davis, Jeff Goldblum, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans and Julie Brown. They’ve served up a disc with a load of new extras to take in as well as some archival stuff they dug up. You can grab this one for like $10 if you want it by using the paid Amazon Associates link at the bottom of this review.
This holiday season, Warner Bros Home Entertainment is upgrading four of their most treasured Christmas classics to the 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray format. All of them coming with digital copy codes and the previous extras. The lineup includes National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, The Polar Express and Elf. Each of them was released on November 1st. You can order them by using the paid Amazon Associates links that follow at the bottom of their respective reviews. This particular review is covering the almost 40 year old and getting a new sequel this year BB gun shoot em up, A Christmas Story.
This holiday season, Warner Bros Home Entertainment is upgrading four of their most treasured Christmas classics to the 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray format. All of them coming with digital copy codes and the previous extras. The lineup includes National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, The Polar Express and Elf. Each of them was released on November 1st. You can order them by using the paid Amazon Associates links that follow at the bottom of their respective reviews. This particular review is covering a comedy classic coming from this end of the millennium, Elf.
This holiday season, Warner Bros Home Entertainment is upgrading four of their most treasured Christmas classics to the 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray format. All of them coming with digital copy codes and the previous extras. The lineup includes National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, The Polar Express and Elf. Each of them was released on November 1st. You can order them by using the paid Amazon Associates links that follow at the bottom of their respective reviews. This particular review is covering Robert Zemeckis’ minted animated viewing tradition, The Polar Express.
This holiday season, Warner Bros Home Entertainment is upgrading four of their most treasured Christmas classics to the 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray format. All of them coming with digital copy codes and the previous extras. The lineup includes National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, The Polar Express and Elf. Each of them was released on November 1st. You can order them by using the paid Amazon Associates links that follow at the bottom of their respective reviews. This particular review is covering the seminal 1989 holiday comedy masterwork, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Organized religion and scandal often go hand in hand. Embezzlement, trafficking, drugs, sex scandal… Rampant in the church communities. There seems to elementally be something rotten in the state of Denmark – Denmark being church, and the rotten being the church leader a lot of the time. This is the subject of Honk For Jesus, Save Your Soul, an ambitious satirical mockumentary from Adamma Ebo. Read more about the scandalous laughs below and be sure to check out the paid link at the end to score a copy of Honk For Jesus on Blu-ray!
The immortal classic and one of the best stories ever captured to celluloid in the film medium turns 80 this year. Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman has found audience and love with every passing generation. To celebrate its milestone birthday, Warner Bros will be debuting the film on 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray for the very first time. Included with the release, in addition to a digital copy, are a host of commentaries, featurettes and more to load up your passion for wanting every piece of Casablanca you can feast your entertained eyes on. The film arrives on the format on November 8th and you can order a copy from the paid Amazon Associates link that follows the review.
One of the year’s biggest surprises, and that surprise being is mere existence, Pearl will be arriving on Blu-ray on November 15th. The film, a prequel to Ti West’s first film this year, announced itself at as the credits ended to X. With continued great reviews for this series going 2 films strong now, Pearl proved an even more unique experience and showcased more of the strong West/Mia Goth combo. The film comes with a couple featurettes and will be available in 2 different editions. That difference merely being the cover art and that’s it. This review will be for the Wal-mart Exclusive Art Edition which differs from the standard and can only be purchased from the behemoth retailer. The standard edition of Pearl can be pre-ordered using the paid Amazon Associates link that follows this review.
Top Gun: Maverick defied the odds and flew past all doubters on its way to becoming the biggest movie of summer 2022. Could it hold for year’s end? It’ll be tough with Black Panther and Avatar supplying large challenges in the closing months of the year. In old school fashion, it arrives on 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray after a healthy theatrical run with good legs and notably enough still in the box office top 10. This will include a Dolby Atmos track and a nice array of extras to keep you in the cockpit well after viewing the film. You can order yourself a copy of the film (and hopefully watch it properly on your TV as Tom Cruise would like) for when it arrives November 1st using the paid Amazon Associates link that follows the review.
Despite opening to solid reviews, Beast couldn’t go beast-mode at the box office. A decent take wasn’t enough to cover budget, but perhaps the well-liked Idris Elba film can find a life and following in the post-theater afterlife of streaming, digital and physical media. Speaking of physical media, the film was released on Blu-ray on October 11th. The release features a 7.1 surround track and is loaded with a nice array of extras. You’ll also get the DVD version and a digital copy included. If you need to pick it up or are curious after this review, don’t hesitate to click the paid Amazon Associates review that shows up once you scroll down to the bottom after the Summary section.
Nope was probably my most anticipated movie of summer 2022 at the theaters. Something original from one of our best director’s that’s just sort of still even getting off the ground in terms of building a catalog. If Jordan Peele has a film out, you’re there opening weekend. Pretty easy. And his latest, Nope, continued to prove he’s a sellable commodity all on his own in a sea of franchises, remakes and IP. The latest opus of his arrives on 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray just in time for Halloween on October 25th. It’ll feature shifting IMAX aspect rations as well as an Atmos track to best replicate his intended look and feel at home. There is also a nice handful of bonus features stocked on there as well. To pre-order Jordan Peele’s Nope on 4K Ultra-HD, scroll down to the bottom of this review and click the paid Amazon Associates link.
On October 18th, the greatest Punisher experience to ever hit a screen will be getting a packaging update from Best Buy. That’s right, Punisher: War Zone, starring #MyPunisher Ray Stevenson is getting an exclusive steelbook packaging from brick and mortar heroes, Best Buy. No, you cannot pre-order here from this review, you gotta go to Best Buy’s website to get it. There are no new bonus features here, but there is a beautiful new art design and sturdiness to you Punisher that’ll look hot to trot on your movie shelf (Or in the museum-like glass display case for which this relic should appear). Get excited and get punishing again with the movie that will shoot you in the face if you’re not on board – PUNISHER: WAR ZONE!
August was a pretty wide open month in the summer landscape, with Bullet Train being really the only high profile release at the top of the month (Itself moving to take advantage of the field). We got a lot of more low key genre hopefuls and the like that hope to take advantage of being the only thing around at the time. The horror/thriller Fall, with it high concept (yok yok yok) idea, was one of those that had some decent buzz to it. But, the main story around it seemed to be about its utilization of Deep Fake technology to try and rework dialogue and such to land a PG-13 rating. The film will be available on Blu-ray on October 18th. You can order yourself a copy of the film (and make writer Peter Paras a happy man) when you use the paid Amazon Associates link that follows the review. 
On the 30th anniversary of the original Mortal Kombat video game, Warner Bros. gives us the next film in the animated line of the MK Legends series, Snow Blind. This marks the third film in the Legends series following 2020’s Scorpion’s Revenge and last year’s Battle of The Realms. Directed by Rick Morales, a former storyboard artist on the Star Wars: Clone Wars movie, Morales guides us on this 82-minute tale through the Wastelands and back. How does this latest entry fair? Let’s check it out…
A24 is our current dominant cult studio for movies that are actually attempting to stand out, try new things, let creatives be free and put it out to a wider, mainstream audience. They’ve crafted a lot of the popular social media horror films in the last many years. Their latest is a Gen Z slasher called Bodies Bodies Bodies that didn’t really hit their usual nice ding at the box office and under performed compared to their normal output. Nonetheless, its probably destined to become a cult hit of the “Even though I didn’t myself, why didn’t anybody see this in theaters” Twitter classic variety when it goes a bit with digital, streaming and maybe its 4K Ultra-HD Blu-ray release. Which, that release is a Best Buy exclusive, arriving October 18th. Also that day it will be available on standard Blu-ray and DVD from all retailers.
