Cinemaniac Mark

Arrow Video brings Wolfgang Peterson's take on THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE, POSEIDON (2006) to 4K UHD in a sharp and loaded edition. A remake that takes the basic premise of the original and goes in its own direction, this thrilling edge-of-your seat pulse-pounder is definitely worth a look for both fans of the original and newcomers. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4giJoiJ (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Crime is a disease. Meet the cure...in 4K! Arrow Video brings George P. Cosmatos' Sylvester Stallone supercop slasher saga COBRA (1986) to 4K UHD, porting over all the extras from the previous Shout! Studios edition, along with the extended TV version (ever wanted to see where the main maniac worked when not stalking the streets?). Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4lWzV2M (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.)

  Arrow Video brings William Friedkin's controversial CRUISING (1980) to 4K UHD in a loaded set that is every bit worth double-dipping on. Featuring a new 4K presentation of the film, along with vintage and copious new extras including deleted scenes, commentaries, interviews and more that shine a light on this crime/horror classic. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3Xc3m6z (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Arrow Video brings director Tarsem Singh's visionary sci-fi/horror film THE CELL (2000) to Blu-ray and 4K UHD in a loaded 2-disc set, featuring three versions of the film and loads of extras. Revisiting it for the first time in 25 (!!!) years, I still found it to be visually lush but fairly empty, though its fans will love the new razor-sharp transfer and hours of extras. Director Singh is a lot of fun to listen to in discussing the film, and critics, scholars and crew are along for the ride in extras new and old to dig into how it was made, received, and looked at a quarter of a century later. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/40RNLeL (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Arrow Video resurrects the long-lost (then found and released in 2001 by Winstar Entertainment, which then went out of print) William Shatner-starring Esperanto horror film INCUBUS (1966), now in sparkly new Blu-ray and 4K HDR UHD editions, with archival and new supplements. Directed by Leslie Stevens, creator of THE OUTER LIMITS, it plays very much like an episode of that series, a spooky, dreamlike, black and white supernatural thriller with some memorable imagery, a good late night spooker. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4a3jNr3 (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Arrow Video brings indie horror/sci-fi comedy THE LAST VIDEO STORE (2023) to Blu-ray in an extras-laded edition of this candy-colored ode to analog media and the days of 2-day rentals. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3ZbmBNP (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Arrow Video brings Sam Raimi's 1998 rural neo noir nailbiter A SIMPLE PLAN to 4K UHD HDR Blu-ray with a sharp transfer and extras that take you back and behind the scenes in the production of this masterful little rollercoaster of anxiety, with Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton as brothers come into an unexpected windfall, and have a very SIMPLE PLAN to keep their discovery under wraps... Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/48ScnGk (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  I've never been a fan of 2007's TRICK 'R TREAT, though I know I'm in the minority on this Halloween-set interlocking anthology film. Arrow Video brings out a sparkly new extras-laden (combining fresh and archival insights into the film) 4K UHD HRD edition, along with a standard Blu-ray set. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3ACdBsG (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  I'd skipped 2007's THE INVASION upon initial release, figuring it couldn't do better than the 1950s and 1970s versions of INVADERS OF THE BODY SNATCHERS that I loved, so it was interesting to finally see it via Arrow Video's new 4K edition. I found it to be a solid updating of the story, perhaps playing better now, post COVID shutdown era than it did 15 or so years ago. Arrow's edition looks fabulous and is loaded with extras, both newly hatched and from previous disc releases. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4fkVDdv (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  A quick pre-review look at upcoming November 12-26, 2024 releases (with Amazon links for full specs and purchasing):  SHAWSCOPE, VOLUME THREE, on Blu-ray from Arrow Video (Street Date: 11/26/24): https://amzn.to/3CdVqdq   SLAP THE MONSTER ON PAGE ONE (1972) on Blu-ray from Radiance Films (Street Date: 11/19/24): https://amzn.to/3Yx40eH   KID FROM KWANGTUNG (1982) on Blu-ray from 88 Films (Street Date: 11/12/24): https://amzn.to/3CcgIIm   FACETS OF LOVE (1973) on Blu-ray from 88 Films (Street Date: 11/12/24): https://amzn.to/3AdJqbi   THE KUNG FU INSTRUCTOR (1979) on Blu-ray from 88 Films (Street Date: 11/12/24): https://amzn.to/4edbsl0   SILENT BITE (2024) on Blu-ray from Cleopatra Entertainment (Street Date: 11/12/24): https://amzn.to/4ft6O3m   BLUE CHRISTMAS (1979) on Blu-ray from VCI Entertainment (Street Date: 11/12/24): https://amzn.to/3C9YFCy   Reviews coming soon!  As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Arrow Video re-presents Sergio Martino's giallo classic TORSO (1973) in a new 4K UHD HDR edition, looking phenomenal and carrying over their previous loaded Blu-ray edition's extras. A stunner! Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3BoT6j7 (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  A quick pre-review look at upcoming September 10th-24th, 2024 releases (with Amazon links for full specs and purchasing):  BLUE DESERT (2013) on DVD from IndiePix Classics (Street Date: 9/10/24): https://amzn.to/4d5bP0d   FRIDAY THE 13TH (2009) on 4K UHD from Arrow Video (Street Date: 9/17/24): https://amzn.to/4ehpSRv   THE THREAT (1966) on Blu-ray from Arrow Video (Street Date: 9/24/24): https://amzn.to/3ATKRLY   TORSO (1973) on 4K UHD from Arrow Video (Street Date: 9/17/24): https://amzn.to/3zawPoG   THE CHRONICLES OF RIDDICK (2004) on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Arrow Video (Street Date: 9/17/24): https://amzn.to/3MDjhFb   THE MILLION EYES OF SUMURU on 4K UHD and Blu-ray from Blue Underground (Street Date: 9/24/24): https://amzn.to/3Xzexqm   THE SHADOW BOXING (1979) on Blu-ray from 88 Films (Street Date: 9/24/24): https://amzn.to/3Xmss1X   THE PROFANE EXHIBIT (2013) on Blu-ray from Unearthed Films (Street Date: 9/24/24): https://amzn.to/4dUk...

  I really enjoyed this in the theater back in 2015, and had a blast revisiting Guy Ritchie's big-screen adaptation of THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E., now out on 4K UHD HDR and Blu-ray from Arrow Video, starring Henry Cavill as Napoleon Solo and Armie Hammer as Ilya Kuraykin. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3YLmyJN (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

For my money, one of the best modern (I know, it's 20 years old...) horror films to come out of Japan, DARK WATER (2002) comes to 4K UHD HDR with every damp detail visible onscreen, courtesy of Arrow Video. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4cpKXYQ (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Arrow Video brings the solid DePalmaesque thriller MUTE WITNESS (1995) to Blu-ray and 4K in a crisp new transfer with fun extras. What happens when a mute member of a film crew witnesses nefarious after-hours activity at a Russian film studio? A tense and expertly-shot cat-and-mouse game where the stakes are sky high and the twist keep coming. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3ziw6Bl (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

Arrow Video brings Joe Carnahan's NARC (2002) to 4K and Blu-ray, a gritty cop drama that must have had a sizable lozenge budget for co-star Ray Liotta. Solid, grim crime thriller with Jason Patric as an undercover narc who teams up with senior loose cannon officer Liotta to root out the killer of a fellow deep cover cop. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3WPl4x6 (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  Arrow Video brings the original two-part pilot TV-Movie for THE UNTOUCHABLES, THE SCARFACE MOB (1959) to Blu-ray looking like a lost noir gem, with Robert Stack and Keenan Wynn leading a group of uncorruptible law officers on a mission to bust up the Chicago Prohibition-Era rackets run by Al Capone (Neville Brand). Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/4buf410 (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

Former lawman and current bounty hunter Henry Fonda helps milquetoast sherrif stand up against a local trigger-happy bully in Anthony Mann's Paramount western THE TIN STAR (1957), now available in a crisp black and white transfer on Blu-ray from Arrow Video. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/3UnBUlo (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here:

  A quick pre-review look at upcoming March 26 - May 7, 2024 releases (with Amazon links for full specs and purchasing):  NIGHT OF THE BLOOD MONSTER (1970) on 4K UHD + Blu-ray from Blue Underground (Street Date: 3/26/24):  https://amzn.to/3J2WnVP   ZERO WOMAN: RED HANDCUFFS (1974), on Blu-ray from Cauldron Films (Street Date: 5/7/24):  https://amzn.to/43ExnxF   YUNI (2022), on DVD and VOD from Film Movement (Street Date: 4/16/24):  https://amzn.to/3VBTmnd   AGONIE (2020), on DVD from Indiepix Classics (Street Date: 4/8/24):  https://amzn.to/43AouFm   THE TIN STAR (1957), on Blu-ray from Arrow Video (Street Date: 4/8/24):  https://amzn.to/4aAjmUf   BASKET CASE (1982), on 4K HDR UHD from Arrow Video (Street Date: 4/30/24):  https://amzn.to/3IZqaip   THE SCARFACE MOB (1959), on Blu-ray from Arrow Video (Street Date: 4/23/24):  https://amzn.to/43Apklu   ALL LADIES DO IT (1992), on 4K UHD + Blu-ray from Cult Epic...

  Peter O'Toole stars in Peter Yates' gritty, grumpy and great WWII action thriller MURPHY'S WAR (1971), in which a wounded survivor of a German U-Boat ambush of a British vessel off the coast of Venezuela decides to wage one-man war on the submarine with only a downed biplane and a fire in his belly. O'Toole is a magnetic mix of mischievous and malevolent, and the action is fantastic in this crisply-transferred new Arrow Video release with insightful extras. Get your copy now from Amazon at: https://amzn.to/48xXsQ5 (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) Full review here: