THE BLIND SWORDSMAN: ZAOTICHI slashes it's way onto Australian blu-ray with fine release from Imprint Films

A gem of the 80s, *batteries not included gives us a host of great characters and a lot of heart. Imprint Films brings the film to blu-ray with a nice selection of special features.

Kino Lorber has detailed their Turbulence 4K Blu-ray release which releases on 6/18/2024. Ray Liotta ( GOODFELLAS ), Lauren Holly ( DUMB AND DUMBER ) and Brendan Gleeson ( IN BRUGES ) face off at 35,000 feet above sea level in the high-impact action-thriller TURBULENCE . A handful of last-minute Christmas Eve passengers are boar…

Umbrella Entertainment out of Australia brings a host of films to blu-ray on August 7th, 2024.

One of the classic Wuxia films and a kickass 70s grindhouse classic have been released in a nice 2 disc blu-ray.

Retromedia and Makeflix announce and release Fred Olen Ray's Bikini Airways . Included in the special features is a second feature, Nicole Sheridan's "Hot Housewives: Truth or Dare". I could not find ANY information about the second feature. Nothing on imdb or tmdb. I also used three different search engines and t…

101 Films presents groundbreaking 90s sci-fi The Lawnmower Man (1992) and its sequel, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (1995) on Blu-ray in the UK for the very first time. Presented in a 3-disc set including both the theatrical and director’s cuts of The Lawnmower Man , in limited edition packaging featuring newly commissione…

Back in January of 2023, MVD Entertainment Group announced they were releasing the first two GHOULIES films to blu-ray along with the first film getting a 4K blu-ray release. Many were wondering why part wasn't getting a 4K release with MVD saying they were trying to get the rights holder to do a 4K scan and restoration. They se…

MVD finally brings Albert Pyun's Mean Guns to blu-ray with a beautiful transfer and a wealth of awesome special features.

Arrow Video has announced their June 2024 line up which includes a studio flick, a giallo-like horror flick, and a Madman in 4K.

The STAR WARS parody film, HARDWARE WARS, had previously been announced for a blu-ray release from MVD Entertainment Group as part of their MVD Rewind Collection. This release had originally been announced for a February 20th, 2024 release (delayed to April 23rd, 2024). It was delayed and we now know why: HARDWARE WARS: UPDATE Just …

Severin has announced their MAMMOTH Bruceploitation box set and this thing is a dozy. Fourteen films, 8 Discs, tons of features. Release of the year? Who knows?

The 3 Ninjas get their very own blu-ray collection from Via Vision.

Imprint Films out of Australia has announced their June 2024 blu-ray releases.

This long forgotten William Shatner horror flick gets a new lease on life from Grindhouse Releasing, which brings us a smorgasbord of special features along with two of William Grefe's other films, The Devil's Sisters and The Godmothers.

Film Masters gives us a very different double feature with this awesome blu-ray release.

Film Masters brings us two 50s sci-fi classics with their brand new blu-ray of The Giant Gila Monster and The Killer Shrews.

The final Paul Naschy /  Waldemar Daninsky film comes to blu-ray with a nice selection of extras.

Retromedia gives us a double dose of Ed Wood exploitation with this blu-ray of Married Too Young and The Violent Years.

Imprint Films brings us the life and times of comedian Lenny Bruce with this striking blu-ray.

I am sure I have said this before but I have been a physical media collector since 1991 (my family collected all of the Disney VHS before that but I never thought of "My Collection") and have been going strong ever since. I have been through multiple format wars including VHS vs BETA , HD-DVD  vs Blu-ray , and DVD vs DIV…

Studio: Arrow Video Release Date: February 9th, 1979 (theatrical) / December 19th, 2023 Run Time: 1 hour 33 minutes 9 seconds (theatrical) /  Region Code: FREE Disc Count: 2 (2 BD-100s) Picture: 2160p (1.85:1 aspect ratio) (theatrical), 2160p (1.78:1) 2005 version) Sound:   English LPCM 1.0, English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0, Dolb…

Jet Li and Sammo Hung join forces to fight the bad guys and talk about boners in Kung Fu Cult Master.

A notorious 80s splatter film makes its blu-ray debut.

Imprint Films goes deep into the Columbia Pictures vault to bring us this forgotten heist film starring James Coburn

For the final 2023 list, I have saved the best for last, the best of the year that is. Here are my favorite ten films from 2023.

Imprint Films brings another forgotten film noir, The Man in Half Moon Street, to blu-ray, for the first time, with a brand new transfer taken from a new 2K scan.

2023 was a pretty great year for physical media. We got so many great releases. We got SNAKE AND CRANE ARTS OF SHAOLIN ,  ICEMAN COMET ,  TWIN DRAGONS ,  and   BATTLECREEK BRAWL ,  from 88 Films,    SLUMBER PARTY MASSACRE 1 and 2 ,  and   TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE  in 4K from Scream Factory, HOPPING MAD: THE MR. VAMPIRE SEQ…