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Bride of Vengeance (Blu-ray Review)

1 day ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

Review Date: Jun 26, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc Mitchell Leisen 1949 (April 30, 2025) Paramount Pictures (Imprint Films/Via Vision Entertainment) Film/Program Grade: B- Video Grade: B Audio Grade: A- Extras Grade: B [Editor’s Note: This is a Region-Free Australian Blu-ray import.] This is an odd one.
Springfield Rifle (Blu-ray Review)

3 days ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

Review Date: Jun 24, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc Andre de Toth 1952 (April 29, 2025) Warner Bros. (Warner Archive Collection) Film/Program Grade: C+ Video Grade: B+ Audio Grade: A- Extras Grade: B+ In 1952 actor Gary Cooper starred in two films, both Westerns.
Audie Murphy Collection IV (Blu-ray Review)

4 days ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

Review Date: Jun 23, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc Kurt Neumann/Budd Boetticher/Nathan Juran 1950/1952/1954 (May 27, 2025) Universal-International Pictures (Kino Lorber Studio Classics) Film/Program Grade: See Below Video Grade: See Below Audio Grade: See Below Extras Grade: B- Overall Grade: B I hope those reading this review aren’t limited to Audie Murphy Western fans because this release speaks to a larger, potentially ominous trend with the label releasing it: Kino Lorber. Early this year I...
Jaws celebrates its 50th anniversary, plus Disney & Marvel set Thunderbolts* for disc in July & more!

1 week ago | thedigitalbits.com | Bill Hunt

Now then, the big news today is that Disney and Marvel have just set Jake Schreier’s Thunderbolts* (2025) for Blu-ray, DVD, 4K Ultra HD, and 4K Steelbook release on 7/29, with the Digital release due on 7/1. The 4K will include Dolby Vision HDR and Dolby Atmos audio. Extras will include 2 deleted scenes, 3 featurettes (Assembling a Team to Remember, Around the World and Back Again, and All About Bob, Sentry & The Void), a Gag Reel, and audio commentary with the director.
Score: A Film Music Documentary (Blu-ray Review)

1 week ago | thedigitalbits.com | Bill Hunt

Review Date: Jun 20, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc Matt Schrader 2016 (April 23, 2024) Epicleff Media/Kickstarter (Gravitas Ventures) Film/Program Grade: A Video Grade: B Audio Grade: A Extras Grade: B George Lucas once said that “sound is fifty percent of the moviegoing experience,” and that is certainly true.
The Sacrifice (4K UHD Review)

1 week ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stephen Bjork

Review Date: Jun 18, 2025 Format: 4K Ultra HD Andrei Tarkovsky 1986 (February 4, 2025) Sandrew Metronome (Kino Classics) Film/Program Grade: A+ Video Grade: A Audio Grade: B+ Extras Grade: A- Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky left us in late December of 1986 at the far too young age of 54, but not before gifting the world with one final masterpiece that was the perfect summation of everything that he had done up to that point: The Sacrifice (aka Offret). Tarkovsky was living in a self-imposed...
Universal sets 40-Year-Old Virgin, Casper & Meet the Parents for 4K, plus Severin’s Quatermass Xperiment, Daybreakers & Jacob’s Ladder from Lionsgate & more!

1 week ago | thedigitalbits.com | Bill Hunt

In announcement news today, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment has set Brad Silberling’s Casper (1995), Judd Apatow’s The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), F. Gary Gray’s Straight Outta Compton (2015), and Jay Roach’s Meet the Parents (2000) for 4K Ultra HD release on 8/12. Universal (for DreamWorks) has also set Dean DeBlois’ live-action How to Train Your Dragon (2025) for pre-order on Blu-ray, DVD, 4K Ultra HD, and 4K Steelbook. The street date is still TBA.
Abigail (German Import) (4K UHD Review)

1 week ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stephen Bjork

Review Date: Jun 17, 2025 Format: 4K Ultra HD Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett 2024 (April 10, 2025) Radio Silence Productions/Universal Pictures (Turbine Medien) Film/Program Grade: B Video Grade: A Audio Grade: A Extras Grade: B+ [Editor’s Note: This is a Region-Free German 4K Ultra HD import.] While it’s true that there’s nothing new under the sun, every once in a while, a horror movie comes along that may not necessarily reinvent the wheel, but at least manages to reinvigorate it....
Criterion’s September slate includes High and Low, This Is Spinal Tap & Flow in 4K, plus Lois & Clark on Blu-ray & more!

1 week ago | thedigitalbits.com | Bill Hunt

Now then, the big news today is that the Criterion Collection has just revealed its complete September slate of Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD titles, and it’s a whopper! In addition to Wes Anderson’s already announced The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021) (Spine #1282 – 4K + Blu-ray and Blu-ray), Isle of Dogs (2018) (Spine #1281 – 4K + Blu-ray and Blu-ray), and The Wes Anderson Archive: Ten Films, Twenty-Five Years box set (4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray) which are all due on 9/30,...
Abigail: Collector's Edition (4K UHD Review)

1 week ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stephen Bjork

Review Date: Jun 16, 2025 Format: 4K Ultra HD Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler Gillett 2024 (July 8, 2025) Radio Silence Productions/Universal Pictures (Scream Factory/Shout! Studios) Film/Program Grade: B Video Grade: A Audio Grade: A Extras Grade: B+ While it’s true that there’s nothing new under the sun, every once in a while, a horror movie comes along that may not necessarily reinvent the wheel, but at least manages to reinvigorate it. Such was the case with the Radio Silence collective’s...