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January 28th, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
Gerard Butler and O’Shea Jackson Jr. reform their unlikely duo when DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA arrives on Premium Video on Demand on January 28 and on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD March 4th from Lionsgate. Written and directed by Christian Gudegast (London Has Fallen), DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA returns to everything fans loved about the original film, while answering unresolved questions and diving deeper into the lives of each character.
Continue reading ‘DEN OF THIEVES 2: PANTERA and DEN OF THIEVES Heist Your 4K Player March 4th!’
January 22nd, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
Jackie Chan and Jet Li star in the martial arts action adventure The Forbidden Kingdom, arriving on SteelBook February 25 from Lionsgate. A discovery made by a kung fu-obsessed American teen sends him on an adventure to ancient China, where he joins up with a band of martial arts warriors in order to free the imprisoned Monkey King. The Forbidden Kingdom will be available on 4K + Blu-ray™ SteelBook + Digital for the suggested retail price of $34.99.
Continue reading ‘THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM Debuts on 4K UHD Blu-ray Steelbook February 25th!’
January 21st, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
As audiences continue to succumb to the darkness in theaters across the nation, Focus Features’ NOSFERATU debuts exclusively on digital platforms to own or rent today from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. Certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and hailed by critics as “a feast of horror-movie splendor” (USA Today) and “a stunning directorial achievement” (Screenrant), the hauntingly suspenseful horror will be available on 4K UHD, Blu-ray™ and DVD on February 18, 2025. Own NOSFERATU with an extended cut never-before-seen in theaters, bonus content including deleted and behind-the-scenes footage as well as Robert Eggers’ exclusive director’s commentary only when you purchase from participating retailers nationwide including Apple TV, Fandango at Home (formerly Vudu), Comcast Xfinity, Cox, Google/YouTube, Microsoft Movies & TV, and Movies Anywhere.
Continue reading ‘NOSFERATU Asks To Come Home On Digital Now and 4K, Blu-ray and DVD February 18th!’
January 21st, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
Sonic, Knuckles, and Tails return for their most epic adventure yet in the blockbuster hit SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3, arriving to buy on Digital January 21, 2025 from Paramount Home Entertainment. The film will also be available on Digital as part of a 3-movie collection that includes the first two feature films. SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3 will arrive on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray™, and DVD on April 15, 2025. The 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Combo will also be available in two collectible SteelBooks™ while supplies last.
Continue reading ‘SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 3 On Digital Now and On 4K, Blu-ray and DVD April 15th!’
January 20th, 2025 by Aaron Neuwirth
2025 is kicking off with a lot of style on 4K UHD with the releases of Quentin Tarantino’s hyperviolent Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, along with his low-key crime film, Jackie Brown, the subject of this review. The 1997 Elmore Leonard adaptation was once seen as a comedown from a man who caused a major jolt in independent cinema following the arrival of Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. However, over time, more and more have begun to see Tarantino’s neo-noir-ish blaxploitation tribute as one of his most mature and best features. Personally, Jackie Brown sits highest and is one of two or three films I currently state as my favorite of all time when asked. Certainly high marks for any movie to live up to, but it’s not without my own justification. Now presented with a new 4K restoration, many more can enjoy how the score goes down in Jackie Brown, with the film looking as good as possible. Booyah!
Continue reading ‘Jackie Brown (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)’
January 19th, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
Parker Finn’s Smile was an unexpected hit back in 2022. Two years later, Finn returns with Smile 2, hoping to once again terrify us with a delicious blend of scares and gore. Does it hit the mark or does it shoot for the sky? Skye Riley that is… Read on and find out for yourself. But don’t stare into the eyes of the creep you might find smiling at you in the corner, ok? It could be a horrible idea…
About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley (Naomi Scott) begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her dark past to regain control of her life before it spirals out of control.
Continue reading ‘Smile 2 (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)’
January 18th, 2025 by Aaron Neuwirth
Following Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction, a few more of the earlier Quentin Tarantino films have found their way to 4K UHD, and these releases have been served quite well. Here we have a look at Kill Bill: Volumes 1 and 2, which tell a rip-roaring rampage of revenge story too big for just one movie. Uma Thurman stars as the vengeful bride in what amounts to Tarantino’s version of a comic book movie – an epic mashup of inspirations drawn from 70s exploitation films, spaghetti westerns, and kung-fu flicks, among other sources. The results are two incredibly entertaining features, each with stylistic and character-related choices to establish them as singular entries while fitting together as a blood-soaked tale of a scorned woman who went after those responsible. These 4K releases offer nothing new in terms of special features, but the visual remastering, complete with HDR grading, is worth highlighting. Now it’s time to get into this A Band Apart production.
Continue reading ‘Kill Bill Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)’
January 15th, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
Lionsgate Home Entertainment has just announced the February titles for its direct-to-consumer site, Lionsgate Limited. You’re Next and The Third Man will make their debut on 4K UHD on February 25, 2025. Each release will come in a steelbook variant with new artwork! Details for each release is available here along with artwork reveals!
Continue reading ‘LIONSGATE LIMITED Announces February 4K Collectible Titles!’
January 15th, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
Director Jake Kasdan’s (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Bad Teacher) Christmas action-adventure comedy Red One, from Metro-Goldwyn Mayer Pictures, will be available for purchase on 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD on March 4, 2025. Red One stars Dwayne Johnson (the Fast & Furious franchise), Chris Evans (Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe), Lucy Liu (Charlie’s Angels, Kill Bill), Kiernan Shipka (Twisters), Bonnie Hunt (Jerry Maguire), Kristofer Hivju (TV’s Game of Thrones), Nick Kroll (Get Him to The Greek), Wesley Kimmel, and Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons (Whiplash) as Santa Claus.
Continue reading ‘RED ONE Sleighs On 4K, Blu-ray and DVD March 5th!’
January 15th, 2025 by Aaron Neuwirth
Coming in April: Anora from The Criterion Collection, a whirlwind anti–Cinderella story, and Prince of Broadway, a moving exploration of the illusory nature of the American dream, from the singular modern auteur Sean Baker; Jean de Florette / Manon of the Spring, a sprawling tale of greed and betrayal amid the French countryside, directed by Claude Berri; and Basquiat, Julian Schnabel’s impressionistic portrait of the celebrated artist. PLUS: Ugetsu, an exquisite ghost story directed by Kenji Mizoguchi; Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express, a defining work of 1990s cinema; and Billy Wilder’s Some Like It Hot, one of the funniest, most beloved films of all time—now on 4K UHD.
Continue reading ‘Anora, Basquiat, Chungking Express 4K, and More Coming to The Criterion Collection April 2025’
January 13th, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
KRAVEN THE HUNTER is the action-packed, R-rated, standalone story of how one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. AARON TAYLOR-JOHNSON plays Kraven, a man whose complex relationship with his ruthless gangster father, Nikolai Kravinoff (RUSSELL CROWE), starts him down a path of vengeance with brutal consequences, motivating him to become not only the greatest hunter in the world, but also one of its most feared.
Continue reading ‘KRAVEN THE HUNTER – On 4K, Blu-ray and DVD on March 4th!’
January 13th, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the epic historical film’s 8 Academy Awards, Amadeus, from acclaimed director Milos Forman (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest), will be available for the first time Digitally in 4K Ultra HD and on 4K UHD Blu-ray Disc on February 25.
One of the most celebrated films in cinematic history, the theatrical version of Amadeus will be available to purchase on Ultra HD Blu-ray Disc online and in-store at major retailers and available Digitally from Amazon Prime Video, AppleTV, Fandango at Home and more.
Continue reading ‘Rock Us, AMADEUS – On 4K UHD Blu-ray for the 40th Anniversary, February 25th!’
January 6th, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
One can never fault David Fincher for not having a style. His films are full of images that are dense with detail. The stories are always different. Fincher never tells the same kind of story, and I love his work for that very reason. When Se7en was released in 1995, the grisly thriller was a huge success universally and spawned a style that people still try to replicate 30 years later. Now, we get the long awaited 4K UHD Blu-ray release of Se7en, and of course, we want to know, “what’s in the box?”
Continue reading ‘Se7en (30th Anniversary 4K UHD Blu-ray Review)’
January 6th, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
IT’S OFFICIAL! Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown and Kill Bill Volume 1 and Kill Bill Volume 2 make their debut on 4K UHD along with a re-print release of his debut feature Reservoir Dogs via limited edition collectible SteelBooks® on January 21, 2024. Jackie Brown, Kill Bill Volume 1, and Kill Bill Volume 2 will also have standard national retail releases.
Continue reading ‘Coming 1/21/25: 4 QUENTIN TARANTINO MASTERPIECES Debut on 4K UHD Blu-ray!’
January 2nd, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
At the time of its first episode, Saturday Night Live was being set up to fail. The whole story leading up to the live premiere was lore, retold times over. Chaos, musical performances, improv… it was an insane proposition in 1975. Now here we are on the eve of the 50th Anniversary of SNL, and the film Saturday Night presents the whole evening leading up to that iconic phrase “Live from New York, It’s Saturday Night!”Read more about Jason Reitman’s Saturday Night, and see if those crazy 90 minutes pre-premiere are movie worthy.
Continue reading ‘Saturday Night (Blu-ray Review)’
January 2nd, 2025 by Adam Toroni-Byrne
Once upon a time, the action genre wasn’t all superheroes and spies. We had cops or criminals, action stars like Stallone and Schwarzenegger, and usually even the bad would do decent box office business. Jean Claude Van Damme was one of the 80s’ biggest prospects at one point. Handsome with an accent and a very well-conditioned body, he was goals for the men in the audience, and eye-candy for their dates. Bloodsport ushered in the resurgence of martial arts films in the US. Following up with Kickboxer it is clear that Van Damme and his collaborators from Bloodsport wanted to add some depth to the very simple story they’d created. How does it fare 35 years later and in 4K? Shake your booty into the review and find out!
Continue reading ‘Kickboxer (35th Anniversary 4K UHD Blu-ray Steelbook Review)’
December 30th, 2024 by Gerard Iribe
A landmark in the history of Japanese cinema, Cure was the breakthrough film for director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who would go on to make several further modern masterpieces in Pulse, Creepy and Tokyo Sonata. Released to critical acclaim in both the East and the West, this nerve-shredding thriller charts the hunt for a depraved serial killer in a bleak and decaying Tokyo. A series of murders have been committed by ordinary people who claim to have had no control over their actions, many of them having killed friends, co-workers or even their spouse. There are only two links between each crime: an X carved into the neck of each victim, and a mysterious stranger who seems to have had brief contact with the perpetrator a short period of time before each killing. But to follow these leads and end a seemingly inexplicable wave of terror, police detective Kenichi Takabe (Koji Yakusho, 13 Assassins) will need to put his own sanity on the line and endure a descent into hell. Described as one of the greatest films of all time by Bong Joon-ho, the filmmaker behind Memories of Murder, The Host, Snowpiercer and Parasite, Cure is a cerebral and deeply unsettling hybrid of police procedural, serial killer film and horror movie to stand with The Silence of the Lambs and Se7en. Having given the film its UK Blu-ray premiere in 2018, the Masters of Cinema series is now proud to present the film on 4K UHD Blu-ray January 27, 2025! Continue reading ‘Cure (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)’
December 27th, 2024 by Aaron Neuwirth
Sitting as one of the premiere entries in their filmography, if not the greatest one they’ve made, No Country for Old Men is an incredible film from Joel and Ethan Coen. Adapted from the 2005 novel by the late Cormac McCarthy, this neo-noir western thriller finds the brothers exploring fate, self-determination, nihilism, and circumstance, not unlike many of their other features but handled brutal sincerity and pitch-black humor. The film would go on to be one of the Coens’ biggest successes in terms of both box office and critical acclaim, as it would go on to win many major awards, including Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The Criterion Collection has now seen fit to bring this masterpiece to 4K, complete with a terrific new transfer and a few new extras. That’s good enough for a coin toss.
Continue reading ‘No Country for Old Men – The Criterion Collection (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)’
