{"id":95270,"date":"2018-12-17T05:00:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T13:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/?p=95270"},"modified":"2019-02-05T10:18:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-05T18:18:34","slug":"bluray-highlights-dec-18-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/bluray-highlights-dec-18-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Blu-ray Highlights: Week of December 16th, 2018 &#8211; One Ugly Motherf&#8217;er"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks the last big retail push before Christmas, and the home video slate is jam-packed with lots of new Blu-ray and Ultra HD releases. Not too many of them feel very festive, strangely.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"polls-951\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t<form id=\"polls_form_951\" class=\"wp-polls-form\" action=\"\/blog\/index.php\" method=\"post\">\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_951_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"2ccdd85bee\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" name=\"poll_id\" value=\"951\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"display: none;\"><input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_multiple_ans_951\" name=\"poll_multiple_ans_951\" value=\"75\" \/><\/p>\n\t\t<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Which Blu-rays Interest You This Week (12\/18\/18)?<\/strong><\/p><div id=\"polls-951-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-20311\" name=\"poll_951\" value=\"20311\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20311\"><a 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value=\"20330\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20330\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/65459\/godmarscompleteseriessdbd.html\">God Mars: The Complete TV Series, OVA &amp; Movie<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-20331\" name=\"poll_951\" value=\"20331\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20331\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/67528\/hobbyhorserevolutionse.html\">Hobbyhorse Revolution (Special Edition)<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-20332\" name=\"poll_951\" value=\"20332\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20332\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/66766\/horrorofdracula.html\">Horror of Dracula<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-20333\" name=\"poll_951\" value=\"20333\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20333\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/64084\/thehousewithaclockinitswalls.html\">The House with a Clock in Its 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value=\"20341\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20341\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/64380\/mercysgirl.html\">Mercy's Girl<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-20342\" name=\"poll_951\" value=\"20342\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20342\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/62831\/themiracleworker.html\">The Miracle Worker (1979)<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-20343\" name=\"poll_951\" value=\"20343\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20343\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/64772\/monsterparty.html\">Monster Party<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-20344\" name=\"poll_951\" value=\"20344\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20344\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/63624\/murderbydeath.html\">Murder by Death<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-20345\" name=\"poll_951\" value=\"20345\" \/> <label 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for=\"poll-answer-20349\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ultrahd.highdefdigest.com\/63904\/thepredator4kultrahdbluray.html\">The Predator - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-20350\" name=\"poll_951\" value=\"20350\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20350\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ultrahd.highdefdigest.com\/64008\/thepredator4ksteelbook.html\">The Predator - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray (SteelBook)<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-20351\" name=\"poll_951\" value=\"20351\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20351\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/65781\/predator4moviecollection.html\">Predator: 4-Movie Collection<\/a><\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-20352\" name=\"poll_951\" value=\"20352\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20352\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ultrahd.highdefdigest.com\/65784\/predator4moviecollection4kultrahdbluray.html\">Predator: 4-Movie Collection - 4K Ultra HD 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name=\"poll_951\" value=\"20384\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20384\">Other (Tell us in the Comments)<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<li><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"poll-answer-20385\" name=\"poll_951\" value=\"20385\" \/> <label for=\"poll-answer-20385\">Nothing for me this week<\/label><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><input type=\"button\" name=\"vote\" value=\"   Vote   \" class=\"Buttons\" onclick=\"poll_vote(951);\" \/><\/p><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"#ViewPollResults\" onclick=\"poll_result(951); return false;\" title=\"View Results Of This Poll\">View Results<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n\t<\/form>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"polls-951-loading\" class=\"wp-polls-loading\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-polls\/images\/loading.gif\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading ...\" title=\"Loading ...\" class=\"wp-polls-image\" \/>&nbsp;Loading ...<\/div>\n\n<h2>New Releases (Blu-ray)<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Venom<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 If you wanted a new Spider-Man movie, go see the animated <em>Into the Spider-Verse<\/em>. The webslinger himself does not appear in the standalone spinoff based around one of his most famous villains (last seen in Sam Raimi&#8217;s <em>Spider-Man 3<\/em>). Sony calls the movie an &#8220;adjunct&#8221; to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and hopes to launch a tangential shared universe with other Marvel characters it has the rights to. Tom Hardy plays a lowlife who gets infected with an alien symbiote that turns him into a very toothy monster. Critics were not especially fond of the darkly comic super-antihero flick, but audiences ate it up to the tune of $850 million, so you can definitely expect to see more of him in the future. Disc options include Blu-ray and UHD, with Pop Art SteelBooks for both at Best Buy. Target has a different exclusive (Blu-ray only) with a photo book.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The Predator<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 Hideous monsters abound this week. Ace Hollywood screenwriter Shane Black, who appeared as an actor in the original 1987 <em>Predator<\/em>, helms Fox&#8217;s latest attempt to relaunch the franchise. Despite seeming like a sure bet, the movie turned out to be a huge dud. Reviews were awful and fans didn&#8217;t care for it either, resulting in poor word-of-mouth and disappointing box office. It can&#8217;t be worse than 2010&#8217;s <em>Predators<\/em>, can it? That hardly seems possible. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The House with a Clock in Its Walls<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 In an unexpected twist, gross-out schlockmeister Eli Roth (<em>Cabin Fever<\/em>, <em>Hostel<\/em>) delivers the most family-friendly movie of the week with a PG-rated kids&#8217; adventure about an orphan who learns that his wacky uncle (Jack Black going full ham) is a warlock. The solid reviews and decent business were a big rebound for Roth after his misbegotten <em>Death Wish<\/em> remake with Bruce Willis earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A Simple Favor<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 After the failure of his big-budget <em>Ghostbusters<\/em> reboot, director Paul Feig shifts gears with a much smaller-scale comedic thriller about a mommy vlogger (Anna Kendrick) trying to solve the disappearance of her friend (Blake Lively). Despite a confused marketing campaign that seemed totally at a loss for how to sell the movie (the trailers gave no indication that it&#8217;s at all funny), the picture fared well with critics and made a comfortable profit relative to its modest budget. <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Fahrenheit 11\/9<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 Michael Moore has steadily slid from relevancy ever since he failed to prevent George W. Bush from getting re-elected. That hasn&#8217;t stopped him from doing his usual shtick, but it has stopped a lot of people from paying much attention to him. Moore&#8217;s latest political broadside takes a scattershot satirical look at Trump&#8217;s America. By most accounts, it&#8217;s not one of his stronger efforts.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Life Itself<\/strong><\/em> \u2013 Dan Fogelman, creator of the wildly popular TV series <em>This Is Us<\/em>, writes and directs an ensemble rom-com juggling a big cast of familiar faces through five storylines. He should probably stick to television. The movie was a dreadful flop seemingly liked by no one. <\/p>\n<h2>UHD<\/h2>\n<p><em><strong>Venom<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>The Predator<\/strong><\/em>, <em><strong>The House with a Clock in Its Walls<\/strong><\/em>, and <em><strong>A Simple Favor<\/strong><\/em> all debut on Ultra HD day-and-date with their standard Blu-ray editions. Best Buy has SteelBooks for the first two of those.<\/p>\n<p>If you didn&#8217;t already buy the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/ultrahd.highdefdigest.com\/61275\/predator3filmcollection4kultrahdbluray.html\">Predator: 3-Movie Collection<\/a><\/em> when it was released just a few months ago, Fox reconfigures the package to add the fourth movie. Logically, it&#8217;s now called the <em><strong>Predator: 4-Movie Collection<\/strong><\/em>. As much as I have a guilty pleasure soft spot for <em>Predator 2<\/em>, being forced to buy the lousy <em>Predators<\/em> would really irk me.<\/p>\n<p>Open the pod bay doors, because the much-delayed 4k restoration of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s masterpiece <em><strong>2001: A Space Odyssey <\/strong><\/em> is finally ready to dock. Frustratingly, Best Buy still lists the SteelBook as &#8220;Coming Soon&#8221; and won&#8217;t let me order it.<\/p>\n<p>On the heels of its recent theatrical re-release, Universal delivers a 25th Anniversary Edition of Steven Spielberg&#8217;s Oscar-winning Holocaust drama <em><strong>Schindler&#8217;s List<\/strong><\/em>. <\/p>\n<h2>Catalog Titles<\/h2>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not equipped for 4k yet, Warner Bros. offers a comparably remastered Blu-ray edition of <em><strong>2001: A Space Odyssey<\/strong><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t say for certain whether the new Blu-ray of <em><strong>Schindler&#8217;s List<\/strong><\/em> has also been remastered or is just a recycling of the last release from 2013. Worst case scenario, at least the prior Blu-ray was good quality.<\/p>\n<p>The Blu-ray counterpart for Fox&#8217;s <em><strong>Predator: 4-Movie Collection<\/strong><\/em>, on the other hand, contains pretty crummy old Blu-ray copies of the first two movies. Don&#8217;t be tricked into buying this. Only the 4k editions have been remastered. <\/p>\n<p>A month after that <a href=\"https:\/\/bluray.highdefdigest.com\/61420\/ingmarbergmanscinema.htm\">comprehensive Ingmar Bergman box set<\/a>, the Criterion Collection rolls out a standalone copy of the filmmaker&#8217;s early effort <em><strong>Sawdust and Tinsel<\/strong><\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>Also from Criterion is the 1946 French noir drama <em><strong>Panique<\/strong><\/em>, directed by Julien Duvivier and starring Michel Simon. <\/p>\n<p>Twilight Time&#8217;s latest round of limited editions includes a pair of religious dramas (1955&#8217;s <em><strong>A Man Called Peter<\/strong><\/em> and 1962&#8217;s <em><strong>Satan Never Sleeps<\/strong><\/em>), an Oscar-nominated historical pageant (1969&#8217;s <em><strong>Anne of the Thousand Days<\/strong><\/em>), and a camp melodraman starring Elizabeth Taylor (1972&#8217;s <em><strong>X, Y &#038; Zee<\/strong><\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Due to a rights conflict, Arrow Video was forced to cancel its release of the Spaghetti Western classic <em>Django<\/em> that I mentioned last week. The 1981 slasher <em><strong>Bloody Birthday<\/strong><\/em> should still be on track, though. <\/p>\n<p>Fresh out of the Warner Archive are the 1940 Errol Flynn swashbuckler <em><strong>The Sea Hawk<\/strong><\/em>, the 1968 war adventure <em><strong>Dark of the Sun<\/strong><\/em>, and Hammer Films&#8217; 1958 <em><strong>Horror of Dracula<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Star Christopher Lee returned to the Dracula character for a string of sequels, starting with Hammer&#8217;s 1966 <em><strong>Dracula: Prince of Darkness<\/strong><\/em>. Scream Factory has the rights to this one. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I would personally classify John Carpenter&#8217;s 1984 sci-fi drama <em><strong>Starman<\/strong><\/em> as a horror film, but Shout! Factory has elected to release a Collector&#8217;s Edition of it under the normally horror-centric Scream Factory label for some reason. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Neil Simon&#8217;s mystery spoof <em><strong>Murder by Death<\/strong><\/em> and a 40th Anniversary Edition of the Steve Martin comedy <em><strong>The Jerk<\/strong><\/em> get inducted into the Shout Select line.<\/p>\n<p>Just in time for Robert Zemeckis to give the story a glossy Hollywood sheen, Cinema Guild reissues the acclaimed documentary <em><strong>Marwencol<\/strong><\/em> in a new Special Edition. <\/p>\n<p>Flicker Alley compiles new restorations of over a dozen silent shorts for a collection called <em><strong>M\u00e9li\u00e8s: Fairy Tales in Color <\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>After already skipping to the end, Kino finally finishes off the classic supernatural comedy trilogy with the middle entry, <em><strong>Topper Takes a Trip<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow eluding placement in the Criterion Collection, the notorious X-rated porno comedy <em><strong>Deep Throat<\/strong><\/em> will have to settle for a Collector&#8217;s Edition from a label called Sunset Films. <\/p>\n<h2>Television<\/h2>\n<p>All seven seasons of Shawn Ryan&#8217;s terrific cop drama <em><strong>The Shield<\/strong><\/em> get boxed up into a Complete Series collection from Mill Creek. Be advised, however, that all of the episodes have been reformatted into 16:9 widescreen despite being composed for 4:3 originally. <\/p>\n<p>Judd Apatow explores <em><strong>The Zen Diaries of Garry Shandling<\/strong><\/em> in a 4.5-hour documentary miniseries for HBO that I hear is fascinating. <\/p>\n<p>The 1977 Jim Henson holiday classic <em><strong>Emmet Otter&#8217;s Jug-Band Christmas<\/strong><\/em> arrives on Blu-ray as a manufactured-on-demand disc from Sony. Much like the recent release of <em>Fraggle Rock<\/em>, the special was originally shot on standard-definition video and has been upconverted to HD.<\/p>\n<p>VCI manifests the 1979 TV remake of <em><strong>The Miracle Worker<\/strong><\/em>. Patty Duke, who&#8217;d won an Oscar for playing Helen Keller in the 1962 movie, moved into the role of teacher Anne Sullivan and won an Emmy for her trouble. <em>Little House on the Prairie<\/em> star Melissa Gilbert takes over as Helen in this version. <\/p>\n<h2>My $.02<\/h2>\n<p>I need to get my hands on that 4k SteelBook for <em>2001<\/em>. That&#8217;s my priority for the week. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll probably give <em>The Predator<\/em> a rental but am not planning to blind-buy it. <\/p>\n<p>My ever-growing wish list will expand considerably this week with the additions of <em>Emmet Otter&#8217;s Jug-Band Christmas<\/em>, <em>Horror of Dracula<\/em>, <em>The Sea Hawk<\/em>, <em>Murder by Death<\/em>, the <em>M\u00e9li\u00e8s<\/em> collection, and the complete series set of <em>The Shield<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Will you buy anything for yourself this close to Christmas?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week marks the last big retail push before Christmas, and the home video slate is jam-packed with lots of new Blu-ray and Ultra HD releases. 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