Some of the most anticipated Steelbooks and Collector’s Editions of the year so far will be heading your way in the next few weeks, including several anniversary 4K restorations and rereleases that you’ll need on your shelf if you still want to call yourself a cinephile.
As always, release dates are subject to change, so keep an eye on our site listings for up-to-date information. At the time of writing, this is what you can expect to hit our shelves every week this month.
Monday, 4th August
This week’s big steelbook is Marvel Studios’ Thunderbolts*, but that’s the only modern blockbuster in a sea of classics. And you don’t get more classic than Billy Wilder’s beloved Hollywood satire/genre-defining noir Sunset Boulevard, which has received a 4K restoration and a Collector’s Edition to mark its 75th anniversary.
From some of our favourite cult labels this week, there’s Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters from The Criterion Collection, a limited-edition release of the Tony Todd-starring gangland thriller Enemy Territory from Arrow Video, and two Peter Sellers comedies (Two Way Stretch and Heavens Above) from Vintage Classics.
Rounding out the week are the second Bleach collector’s set, the complete Dracula legacy boxset from Universal, a 4K remaster of Better Off Dead, and new 88 Films titles including notorious video nasty The Cannibal Man.
Monday, 11th August
A quieter week for new releases, but only in quantity, not quality. Childhood favourite Matilda is getting a 4K steelbook, as is Sylvester Stallone’s arm-wrestling adventure Over the Top, which is getting a mediabook as well.
Arrow Video have a limited-edition 4K of Poseidon, the noughties remake of the 1970s disaster movie classic, as well as the standard edition 4K of The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. Finally, there’s another great Hammer 4K restoration in the shape of vintage private eye flick Blood Orange, and 88 Films have late-period Giallo in 4K with Rats – Night of Terror; that one definitely lives up to the promise of its title.
Monday, 18th August
This week is the exact opposite – again, just in quantity, not in quality. There are two steelbooks leading the pack; the second Ncuti Gatwa season of Doctor Who, and Satoshi Kon’s influential anime series Paranoia Agent, and a ton more 4K restorations.
The BFI have their latest Akira Kurosawa rerelease, The Hidden Fortress, 101 Films have the original Harvey Keitel Bad Lieutenant, 88 Films have gruelling Borstal classic Scum and Criterion have Italian neo-realist gem Shoeshine. Erin Brockovich is also getting a 4K upgrade too.
Next up, Arrow Video have classic thrills from the Old West (The Shootist) and modern pulp thrills (Perpetrator), and Indicator have an array of classic titles, including two classic starring vehicles for Hollywood icons Al Pacino (... And Justice For All) and Bette Davis (Storm Center).
Finally, an eclectic slate of Radiance titles, including 4K restorations of French crime procedurals The Inquisitor and Deadly Circuit, and the second boxset of Shinobi ninja action spectaculars.
Monday, 25th August
The bank holiday weekend is doing nothing to stop the flow of new releases! These include the 20th anniversary Collector’s Edition 4K of Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds, and the 4K steelbook of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Arrow Video’s final titles of the month the limited-edition 4Ks of Michael Mann’s directorial debut – and still one of his finest crime thrillers - Thief and the slasher prequel The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning. Second Sight have 4Ks of Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher crime trilogy and Ti West’s ghost story The Innkeepers, the BFI are resurrecting Werner Herzog’s typically normal Aguirre, The Wrath of God, and Criterion have an Edward Yang double of A Confucian Confusion and Mahjong.
Rounding out August we have a wave of 88 Films titles including a 4K remaster of martial arts classic Come Drink With Me and a limited-edition of the incredibly titled Devil Fetus, Collection 37 of One Piece from Crunchyroll, four films from director Takashi Ishii courtesy of Third Window, and zany Czech comedy Who Wants To Kill Jessie? from Second Run.
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