Babylon, The Whale and Plane lead March’s best Blu-ray and 4K UHD releases
Plus 4K debuts of David Lynch's Inland Empire and Disney's Cinderella are coming for collectors who love physical media (we know you're still out there)
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Margot Robbie in Babylon Image: Paramount Pictures
Physical media may be devalued by some in our streaming-dominated world, but you’d be surprised how many great titles are only available on disc. Or maybe you’ve forgotten how rewarding some DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K UHD offerings can be, especially when they’re loaded with special packaging and bonus features. With that in mind, here’s a look at all the best films and shows you can spin starting in March, including the physical debuts of Babylon, The Whale, and Plane. Also on tap are the 4K UHD debuts of Cinderella, The Exorcist III, Phenomena, Dragonslayer, and many more. Read on!
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The FOMO of living in a town with no cineplex and not having seen Avatar or Quantumania is hitting hard lately. How the hell are these films not on digital release and DVD yet Quantumania and Avatar aren’t projected for ever pay-per-view home release until like… the summer? Bah. It just feels greedy. I understand that everyone’s still exhausted form COVID talk but like…. totally alienating people who wont go to the cineplex still for reasons beyond my “no cineplex in small town” issue. All for what? Box office numbers?
Quantumania I get but Avatar… come on man. Google told me it’s projected for July. What IS that?
Obligatory: I have seen Babylon, Margot Robbie is so hot in this.
I would think they don’t want to release Avatar because people are still buying tickets to it and they don’t want to slow that down. That sucks for you, to be sure.But you are ahead of us on Babylon. The day we were supposed to see it there was a leak in the theater and they cancelled that showing. We had dinner plans so we couldn’t see a later showing that day. Then we got COVID so couldn’t go to a theater for a week or so. Then other movies came out and we just never got a chance. The long runtime made it harder since there were fewer showings available and even in downtown Chicago, there are far fewer weekday matinee showings than there were in 2019.
Phenomena is one of the Argento movies that skirts the edge of unwatchable without going over. Parts of it are really tremendous – basically anything where he lets the music do its thing. But his usual trick – withholding the murderer while graphically showing the murders – ends up being visually incoherent when he can’t even show a hand or a silhouette. And the exposition is actually more painful when it’s coming from Donald Pleasance, who really deserves better. But holy shit, that ending – once Jennifer Connelly finds herself in the basement, the whole movie comes to life for twenty minutes. It’s hallucinatory and shocking.
I’ve been waiting for Dragonslayer for a long time. The dragon, Vermithrax Perjorative, is one of the dragons Viserys names in the first season of Game of Thrones.
I was wondering about Dragonslayer’s release, or re-release, I guess. Sounds loads better than Hollywood self-service schlok like Babylon.
After the Lord of the Rings trilogy, it’s my favorite fantasy movie.
That bad of a month, huh?