Table of contents<\/h2>- The Fast and the Furious 25th Anniversary Edition 4K (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)<\/a><\/li>
- Troy 4K Limited Edition (Arrow)<\/a><\/li>
- Out of the Past 4K (Warner Archive Collection)<\/a><\/li>
- The 7th Voyage of Sinbad 4K (Sony)<\/a><\/li>
- Ju-On: The Grudge 4K Limited Edition (Arrow)\u00a0<\/a><\/li>
- Money from Home Blu-ray 3D (Kino Lorber Studio Classics)<\/a><\/li>
- Wicked Priest \u00a0Collection Blu-ray (Arrow)<\/a><\/li>
- New York, New York 4K (MVD Marquee Collection)<\/a><\/li>
- Looney Tunes Collector’s Vault Volume 3 Blu-ray (Warner Archive Collection)<\/a><\/li>
- Pressure 4K (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)<\/a><\/li>
- Auntie Mame 4K (Warner Archive Collection)<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nThe Fast and the Furious<\/em> 25th Anniversary Edition 4K (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nYes, it really has been a quarter of a century since Dom, Brian, and their sick rides first roared onto the scene and changed the car-chase movie forever. The FBI\/undercover LAPD plot and gritty characters provide a solid setup for some of the best, most intimate action ever captured, with the visual effects used judiciously to enhance<\/em> the excitement before later films careened off into fantasyland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"fast-furious-25th-anniversary-4k\"](\"https:\/\/www.ecoustics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/fast-furious-25th-anniversary-4k.jpg\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nNot content to simply repack last year\u2019s model, Universal has rolled out a new driving experience that goes beyond a mere paint job, upgrading the film to Dolby Vision HDR, with some interesting changes to the color grade, while also switching to reference-quality Dolby Atmos for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A trunkload of legacy features carries over across the 4K and included HD Blu-ray discs, joined by a new half-hour retrospective featuring the three surviving stars plus Meadow Walker, daughter of the late Paul Walker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n
★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere to buy:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n$29.98 at Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTroy<\/em> 4K Limited Edition (Arrow)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nWith Trojan horses becoming a big deal on the big screen this summer, there\u2019s never been a better time to revisit Wolfgang Petersen\u2019s take on Helen, Achilles, and yes, even Odysseus, here played by Sean Bean. The scale of Troy<\/em> is big and bold, and the action is plentiful, owing much to Brad Pitt\u2019s intense performance as the ultimate Greek warrior and the sweeping script by future Game of Thrones<\/em> co-creator and showrunner David Benioff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"troy-4k\"](\"https:\/\/www.ecoustics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/troy-4k.jpg\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nThere are no audio commentaries and no new extras of any kind in Arrow\u2019s new three-disc 4K upgrade of both the theatrical version and the vastly different director\u2019s cut, aside from some new writing in the included booklet. The archival bonus material, however, is quite substantial. Most notably, the \u201cIn-Movie Experience\u201d picture-in-picture commentary, first seen on the Warner HD DVD, carries over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both versions have been newly restored and remastered in Ultra HD with Dolby Vision from the archival camera negatives, and the results are truly stunning. One more reason to consider adding this Troy<\/em> to your shelf: Reportedly, Disc 1, containing the 4K theatrical cut, will only be available in this limited-edition package and not in future releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOur Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n
★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere to buy:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n$49.95 at Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nOut of the Past<\/em> 4K (Warner Archive Collection)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nThis was the movie that established film noir\u2019s stylistic vocabulary, combining Robert Mitchum\u2019s sleepy-eyed apathy, Jane Greer\u2019s lethal elegance, and Nicholas Musuraca\u2019s shadowy cinematography to indelible effect. A weary ex-investigator (Mitchum) finds his quiet town compromised when events he couldn\u2019t outrun, and the femme fatale who engineered his downfall, pull him back into a web of deceit, money, and murder.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n![\"out-of-the-past-4k\"](\"https:\/\/www.ecoustics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/out-of-the-past-4k.jpg\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nThe new restoration comes from a scan of the nitrate camera negative, finished with Dolby Vision HDR and paired with the original mono audio. The legacy film critic commentary, 2022 introduction, and four radio shows from 1947, the year Out of the Past<\/em> debuted, are included on both the 4K disc and the supplied HD Blu-ray featuring the new master.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOur Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n
★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere to buy:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n$29.98 at Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nThe 7th Voyage of Sinbad<\/em> 4K (Sony)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nIt has begun! 1958\u2019s 7th Voyage<\/em> was the first of Ray Harryhausen\u2019s \u201cDynamation\u201d extravaganzas to be marketed with that term, denoting a process he had refined over several previous films. Basically, by sandwiching his meticulous miniatures between foreground and background elements in-camera, he created more thrilling, more lifelike effects. As a result, audiences were treated to adventures never seen before, like our hero (Kerwin Matthews) doing Sinbattle with a stop-motion Cyclops, a fire-breathing dragon, and a lone bony warrior. (That last foe served as proof of concept for the climactic seven-skeleton army fight in Jason and the Argonauts<\/em>. Can Sinbad<\/em> on 4K be the portent of more awesomeness to follow?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"7th-voyage-sinbad-4k\"](\"https:\/\/www.ecoustics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/7th-voyage-sinbad-4k.jpg\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nSony provides a new restoration from the 1.66:1 camera negative with Dolby Vision HDR. Because Dynamation involves re-photographing previously shot film, and stop-motion animation has its own unique look, this isn\u2019t a showoff disc, but I would argue that it is an exemplary preservation of the movie in its authentic form. The satisfying 5.1 remix goes a long way toward helping sell the illusions, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Disc Two is a repack of the previously released HD Blu-ray of the movie, loaded with extras: a Harryhausen audio commentary, interviews, featurettes, and even a music video for the tongue-in-cheek promotional song \u201cSinbad May Have Been Bad, But He\u2019s Been Good to Me.\u201d Newly added on the Ultra HD disc is a career-spanning, star-studded, hour-long TV special from 1998 covering Ray\u2019s entire career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n
★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere to buy:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n$36.47 at Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJu-On: The Grudge<\/em> 4K Limited Edition (Arrow) <\/h2>\n\n\n\nHistorically, Takashi Shimizu\u2019s original Ju-On: The Grudge<\/em> stands alongside Hideo Nakata\u2019s Ringu<\/em> as a cornerstone of the turn-of-the-millennium J-horror explosion, helping inspire modern horror\u2019s preference for atmosphere over graphic violence. It captivates with its nonlinear structure, dread-inducing sound design, including vengeful ghost Kayako\u2019s iconic throat rattle, and surreal domestic hauntings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"ju-on-4k\"](\"https:\/\/www.ecoustics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ju-on-4k.jpg\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nRather than relying on jump scares, it weaponizes quiet spaces and revels in its unrelenting, daylight terror. That deceptive sunshine looks fabulous in Arrow\u2019s new 4K master with Dolby Vision, accompanied by DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 in either Japanese or an English dub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are also two audio commentaries, one featuring director Sam Raimi, along with an extensive collection of new and archival on-camera interviews with the filmmakers and experts, deleted scenes, and a couple of \u201ctrue\u201d ghost stories. The slim, slipcased package includes a companion booklet and reversible cover art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n
★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere to buy:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n$49.95 at Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMoney from Home<\/em> Blu-ray 3D (Kino Lorber Studio Classics)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nHow \u201950s can you get? Martin & Lewis headline\u2014in 3D!\u2014this Damon Runyon-style \u201cgangland comedy,\u201d with slick ladies\u2019 man \u201cHoney Talk\u201d (Dean Martin) roping gullible veterinarian Virgil (Jerry Lewis) into an elaborate scheme to fix a big horse race and pay off his debt to the mob.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n![\"money-from-home-blu-ray\"](\"https:\/\/www.ecoustics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/money-from-home-blu-ray.jpg\")
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nKLSC presents Money from Home<\/em> in both stereoscopic and anaglyph 3D, as well as standard 2D for those self-conscious about wearing glasses, all on a single disc. There are also not one but two film historian audio commentaries, along with other genuinely excellent supplements.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe extensive 4K restoration effort, with the final result presented here in 1080p, required double the work, as the 35mm \u201cDynoptic 3-D Technicolor\u201d camera negatives for the left and right eyes had to be scanned and graded separately, with plenty of painstaking but necessary adjustments along the way. The results are absolutely gorgeous and worth checking out in any and all versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n
★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n
\n\n\n\n
The Fast and the Furious<\/em> 25th Anniversary Edition 4K (Universal Pictures Home Entertainment)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nYes, it really has been a quarter of a century since Dom, Brian, and their sick rides first roared onto the scene and changed the car-chase movie forever. The FBI\/undercover LAPD plot and gritty characters provide a solid setup for some of the best, most intimate action ever captured, with the visual effects used judiciously to enhance<\/em> the excitement before later films careened off into fantasyland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nNot content to simply repack last year\u2019s model, Universal has rolled out a new driving experience that goes beyond a mere paint job, upgrading the film to Dolby Vision HDR, with some interesting changes to the color grade, while also switching to reference-quality Dolby Atmos for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A trunkload of legacy features carries over across the 4K and included HD Blu-ray discs, joined by a new half-hour retrospective featuring the three surviving stars plus Meadow Walker, daughter of the late Paul Walker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n
★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere to buy:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n$29.98 at Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nTroy<\/em> 4K Limited Edition (Arrow)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nWith Trojan horses becoming a big deal on the big screen this summer, there\u2019s never been a better time to revisit Wolfgang Petersen\u2019s take on Helen, Achilles, and yes, even Odysseus, here played by Sean Bean. The scale of Troy<\/em> is big and bold, and the action is plentiful, owing much to Brad Pitt\u2019s intense performance as the ultimate Greek warrior and the sweeping script by future Game of Thrones<\/em> co-creator and showrunner David Benioff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nThere are no audio commentaries and no new extras of any kind in Arrow\u2019s new three-disc 4K upgrade of both the theatrical version and the vastly different director\u2019s cut, aside from some new writing in the included booklet. The archival bonus material, however, is quite substantial. Most notably, the \u201cIn-Movie Experience\u201d picture-in-picture commentary, first seen on the Warner HD DVD, carries over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both versions have been newly restored and remastered in Ultra HD with Dolby Vision from the archival camera negatives, and the results are truly stunning. One more reason to consider adding this Troy<\/em> to your shelf: Reportedly, Disc 1, containing the 4K theatrical cut, will only be available in this limited-edition package and not in future releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOur Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n
★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere to buy:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n$49.95 at Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nOut of the Past<\/em> 4K (Warner Archive Collection)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nThis was the movie that established film noir\u2019s stylistic vocabulary, combining Robert Mitchum\u2019s sleepy-eyed apathy, Jane Greer\u2019s lethal elegance, and Nicholas Musuraca\u2019s shadowy cinematography to indelible effect. A weary ex-investigator (Mitchum) finds his quiet town compromised when events he couldn\u2019t outrun, and the femme fatale who engineered his downfall, pull him back into a web of deceit, money, and murder.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nThe new restoration comes from a scan of the nitrate camera negative, finished with Dolby Vision HDR and paired with the original mono audio. The legacy film critic commentary, 2022 introduction, and four radio shows from 1947, the year Out of the Past<\/em> debuted, are included on both the 4K disc and the supplied HD Blu-ray featuring the new master.<\/p>\n\n\n\nOur Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n
★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere to buy:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n$29.98 at Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nThe 7th Voyage of Sinbad<\/em> 4K (Sony)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nIt has begun! 1958\u2019s 7th Voyage<\/em> was the first of Ray Harryhausen\u2019s \u201cDynamation\u201d extravaganzas to be marketed with that term, denoting a process he had refined over several previous films. Basically, by sandwiching his meticulous miniatures between foreground and background elements in-camera, he created more thrilling, more lifelike effects. As a result, audiences were treated to adventures never seen before, like our hero (Kerwin Matthews) doing Sinbattle with a stop-motion Cyclops, a fire-breathing dragon, and a lone bony warrior. (That last foe served as proof of concept for the climactic seven-skeleton army fight in Jason and the Argonauts<\/em>. Can Sinbad<\/em> on 4K be the portent of more awesomeness to follow?)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nSony provides a new restoration from the 1.66:1 camera negative with Dolby Vision HDR. Because Dynamation involves re-photographing previously shot film, and stop-motion animation has its own unique look, this isn\u2019t a showoff disc, but I would argue that it is an exemplary preservation of the movie in its authentic form. The satisfying 5.1 remix goes a long way toward helping sell the illusions, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Disc Two is a repack of the previously released HD Blu-ray of the movie, loaded with extras: a Harryhausen audio commentary, interviews, featurettes, and even a music video for the tongue-in-cheek promotional song \u201cSinbad May Have Been Bad, But He\u2019s Been Good to Me.\u201d Newly added on the Ultra HD disc is a career-spanning, star-studded, hour-long TV special from 1998 covering Ray\u2019s entire career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n
★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere to buy:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n$36.47 at Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nJu-On: The Grudge<\/em> 4K Limited Edition (Arrow) <\/h2>\n\n\n\nHistorically, Takashi Shimizu\u2019s original Ju-On: The Grudge<\/em> stands alongside Hideo Nakata\u2019s Ringu<\/em> as a cornerstone of the turn-of-the-millennium J-horror explosion, helping inspire modern horror\u2019s preference for atmosphere over graphic violence. It captivates with its nonlinear structure, dread-inducing sound design, including vengeful ghost Kayako\u2019s iconic throat rattle, and surreal domestic hauntings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nRather than relying on jump scares, it weaponizes quiet spaces and revels in its unrelenting, daylight terror. That deceptive sunshine looks fabulous in Arrow\u2019s new 4K master with Dolby Vision, accompanied by DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 in either Japanese or an English dub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There are also two audio commentaries, one featuring director Sam Raimi, along with an extensive collection of new and archival on-camera interviews with the filmmakers and experts, deleted scenes, and a couple of \u201ctrue\u201d ghost stories. The slim, slipcased package includes a companion booklet and reversible cover art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n
★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere to buy:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n\n$49.95 at Amazon<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n\n\n\nMoney from Home<\/em> Blu-ray 3D (Kino Lorber Studio Classics)<\/h2>\n\n\n\nHow \u201950s can you get? Martin & Lewis headline\u2014in 3D!\u2014this Damon Runyon-style \u201cgangland comedy,\u201d with slick ladies\u2019 man \u201cHoney Talk\u201d (Dean Martin) roping gullible veterinarian Virgil (Jerry Lewis) into an elaborate scheme to fix a big horse race and pay off his debt to the mob.<\/p>\n\n\n
\n<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nKLSC presents Money from Home<\/em> in both stereoscopic and anaglyph 3D, as well as standard 2D for those self-conscious about wearing glasses, all on a single disc. There are also not one but two film historian audio commentaries, along with other genuinely excellent supplements.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThe extensive 4K restoration effort, with the final result presented here in 1080p, required double the work, as the 35mm \u201cDynoptic 3-D Technicolor\u201d camera negatives for the left and right eyes had to be scanned and graded separately, with plenty of painstaking but necessary adjustments along the way. The results are absolutely gorgeous and worth checking out in any and all versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n
★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\nNot content to simply repack last year\u2019s model, Universal has rolled out a new driving experience that goes beyond a mere paint job, upgrading the film to Dolby Vision HDR, with some interesting changes to the color grade, while also switching to reference-quality Dolby Atmos for the first time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A trunkload of legacy features carries over across the 4K and included HD Blu-ray discs, joined by a new half-hour retrospective featuring the three surviving stars plus Meadow Walker, daughter of the late Paul Walker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our Ratings<\/h3>\n\n\n
★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\n With Trojan horses becoming a big deal on the big screen this summer, there\u2019s never been a better time to revisit Wolfgang Petersen\u2019s take on Helen, Achilles, and yes, even Odysseus, here played by Sean Bean. The scale of Troy<\/em> is big and bold, and the action is plentiful, owing much to Brad Pitt\u2019s intense performance as the ultimate Greek warrior and the sweeping script by future Game of Thrones<\/em> co-creator and showrunner David Benioff.<\/p>\n\n\n There are no audio commentaries and no new extras of any kind in Arrow\u2019s new three-disc 4K upgrade of both the theatrical version and the vastly different director\u2019s cut, aside from some new writing in the included booklet. The archival bonus material, however, is quite substantial. Most notably, the \u201cIn-Movie Experience\u201d picture-in-picture commentary, first seen on the Warner HD DVD, carries over.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both versions have been newly restored and remastered in Ultra HD with Dolby Vision from the archival camera negatives, and the results are truly stunning. One more reason to consider adding this Troy<\/em> to your shelf: Reportedly, Disc 1, containing the 4K theatrical cut, will only be available in this limited-edition package and not in future releases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\n This was the movie that established film noir\u2019s stylistic vocabulary, combining Robert Mitchum\u2019s sleepy-eyed apathy, Jane Greer\u2019s lethal elegance, and Nicholas Musuraca\u2019s shadowy cinematography to indelible effect. A weary ex-investigator (Mitchum) finds his quiet town compromised when events he couldn\u2019t outrun, and the femme fatale who engineered his downfall, pull him back into a web of deceit, money, and murder.<\/p>\n\n\n The new restoration comes from a scan of the nitrate camera negative, finished with Dolby Vision HDR and paired with the original mono audio. The legacy film critic commentary, 2022 introduction, and four radio shows from 1947, the year Out of the Past<\/em> debuted, are included on both the 4K disc and the supplied HD Blu-ray featuring the new master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\n It has begun! 1958\u2019s 7th Voyage<\/em> was the first of Ray Harryhausen\u2019s \u201cDynamation\u201d extravaganzas to be marketed with that term, denoting a process he had refined over several previous films. Basically, by sandwiching his meticulous miniatures between foreground and background elements in-camera, he created more thrilling, more lifelike effects. As a result, audiences were treated to adventures never seen before, like our hero (Kerwin Matthews) doing Sinbattle with a stop-motion Cyclops, a fire-breathing dragon, and a lone bony warrior. (That last foe served as proof of concept for the climactic seven-skeleton army fight in Jason and the Argonauts<\/em>. Can Sinbad<\/em> on 4K be the portent of more awesomeness to follow?)<\/p>\n\n\n Sony provides a new restoration from the 1.66:1 camera negative with Dolby Vision HDR. Because Dynamation involves re-photographing previously shot film, and stop-motion animation has its own unique look, this isn\u2019t a showoff disc, but I would argue that it is an exemplary preservation of the movie in its authentic form. The satisfying 5.1 remix goes a long way toward helping sell the illusions, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Disc Two is a repack of the previously released HD Blu-ray of the movie, loaded with extras: a Harryhausen audio commentary, interviews, featurettes, and even a music video for the tongue-in-cheek promotional song \u201cSinbad May Have Been Bad, But He\u2019s Been Good to Me.\u201d Newly added on the Ultra HD disc is a career-spanning, star-studded, hour-long TV special from 1998 covering Ray\u2019s entire career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\n Historically, Takashi Shimizu\u2019s original Ju-On: The Grudge<\/em> stands alongside Hideo Nakata\u2019s Ringu<\/em> as a cornerstone of the turn-of-the-millennium J-horror explosion, helping inspire modern horror\u2019s preference for atmosphere over graphic violence. It captivates with its nonlinear structure, dread-inducing sound design, including vengeful ghost Kayako\u2019s iconic throat rattle, and surreal domestic hauntings.<\/p>\n\n\n Rather than relying on jump scares, it weaponizes quiet spaces and revels in its unrelenting, daylight terror. That deceptive sunshine looks fabulous in Arrow\u2019s new 4K master with Dolby Vision, accompanied by DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 in either Japanese or an English dub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n There are also two audio commentaries, one featuring director Sam Raimi, along with an extensive collection of new and archival on-camera interviews with the filmmakers and experts, deleted scenes, and a couple of \u201ctrue\u201d ghost stories. The slim, slipcased package includes a companion booklet and reversible cover art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Picture<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Sound<\/p>\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Extras<\/p>\n\n\n\n How \u201950s can you get? Martin & Lewis headline\u2014in 3D!\u2014this Damon Runyon-style \u201cgangland comedy,\u201d with slick ladies\u2019 man \u201cHoney Talk\u201d (Dean Martin) roping gullible veterinarian Virgil (Jerry Lewis) into an elaborate scheme to fix a big horse race and pay off his debt to the mob.<\/p>\n\n\n KLSC presents Money from Home<\/em> in both stereoscopic and anaglyph 3D, as well as standard 2D for those self-conscious about wearing glasses, all on a single disc. There are also not one but two film historian audio commentaries, along with other genuinely excellent supplements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The extensive 4K restoration effort, with the final result presented here in 1080p, required double the work, as the 35mm \u201cDynoptic 3-D Technicolor\u201d camera negatives for the left and right eyes had to be scanned and graded separately, with plenty of painstaking but necessary adjustments along the way. The results are absolutely gorgeous and worth checking out in any and all versions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n ★★★★★★★★★★<\/span><\/span> Movie<\/p>\n\n\nWhere to buy:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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