As we approach mid-July, we continue to chug along with a constant flow of 4K releases. If blu-ray is your thing, you get a little bit of a break though. Don’t forget, Amazon Prime Day is Tuesday the 16th and Wednesday the 17th.
Welcome to Volume 5 Episode 7 of our weekly release guide. A look at the highlights of what’s coming to disc the week of July 14th – July 20th, as well as a look at announcements from last week.
Import Monday begins with another great looking swag-filled StudioCanal release with Francis Ford Coppola’s The Conversation (1974). It sure looks pretty, but it also looks like 80 bucks when you factor in shipping. Thus far though, any of these I have bought look wonderful!
Keeping with StudioCanal, they like their (Western) SteelBooks to be orange in color, this one being Soldier Blue. It actually works in this case and matches the color pallette of so many such films. The other one that comes to mind is Red Sun, which comes in September.
The U.S. already got theirs, now it’s time for the UK to do so, talking about The Last Starfighter from Arrow Video.
Domestic Releases Tuesday is next….
Kino Lorber offers two titles this week, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956) and Brokeback Mountain. The two Kino Cult titles are bumped to next week.
Criterion Collection this week has the Japanese drama Perfect Days.
Shout Factory has just one offering this week, the horror sci-fi/thriller Phantoms.
Sony Pictures continues to woo us with SteelBooks, this time it’s Captain Phillips starring Tom Hanks. Saw a meme one day that made me chuckle — if you ever board a vessel and Tom Hanks is the guy manning it, leave now, run like hell.
Single title from Paramount this week, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie – 20th Anniversary 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray SteelBook.
Two more SteelBooks and a mega-collection. Warner Bros delivers Rocky V, Rocky Balboa and Rocky: Ultimate Knockout Collection. The latter includes corrected audio for Rocky I – IV. You are not left in the dark though if you bought the original discs, replacement discs can be requested by emailing [email protected]. Generally, if I bought it from Amazon, I state the reason for request, my info, and my Amazon order number.
For a Thursday release, Amazon U.S. has Scarface (1983) – 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray UK Limited Edition Vault Series SteelBook, which was released in the UK on July 8th. I tried really hard to collect this series of movies, but they were too limited in quantity and hard to get. Many of the early ones had a bunch of swag to go with them. The U.S. got the Essentials Collection releases which are nice by themselves, but not as fancy.
With a Friday release date, A24 Shop has The Zone of Interest.
Blu-ray counterparts of the above 4K releases? For imports, and do keep in mind some may be region B locked, The Last Starfighter and Soldier Blue. For domestic releases, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), Brokeback Mountain and Perfect Days. Friday would include A24’s The Zone of Interest.
The rest of the category is a little bit light this week.
Anime highlights include Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works, Rascal Does Not Dream of a Sister Venturing Out, Soul Eater – The Complete Series and Tomo-chan Is a Girl! – The Complete Season, which also comes as a Limited Edition.
Criterion Collection goes Portuguese crime drama with Black God, White Devil.
Kino Lorber has more TV on disc with Columbo: The Return (1989-2003) and Monk: Season Eight. With Monk, that closes out the series. The movie event recently seen on Peacock TV is also slated to be coming to blu-ray soon.
An interesting release from a label called Not Quite Reality, The Flock. Also available in a Collector’s Edition. See… a small unknown label with several different cool looking options! That’s how it is done people.
With a Wednesday release date, Umbrealla Entertainment a couple of skus that might interest you:
Last week we saw a lot of boutique onesie twosie announcements and reveals.
British label Second Sight is releasing Robert Harmon’s 1986 film The Hitcher to 4K and 4K Limited Edition on September 30th.
Stardust is coming to 4K SteelBook on September 24th.
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?
