There’s a lot of appreciable depth and excellent, deep, strong bass response noticeable throughout the movie as well. The wardrobe allows for that added pop of an '80s color palette with hot pinks, yellows, denim, and more. The characters have enough of their own beats and arcs to strangely grow on us – beleaguered cop Isiah Whitlock Jnr’s pining for his little dog really shouldn’t warm the cockles but it does – and so when everyone heads home as the wonderful early morning sun rises over the stunning County Wicklow (doubling nicely for a very American National Park) scenery, it feels scruffily charming. It helps that the ambulance crew are really only introduced for this one sequence, so is removed from the rest of the action, almost feeling like a separate short film – It’s also a great showcase for TikTok star Scott Seiss who imbues his medic with more charisma and injects a serious amount of energy into the film in his brief screentime.

Christian Convery, of Sweet Tooth fame, and Brooklynn Prince are fairly amusing in their respective roles and Kari Russell, who plays things mostly straight, is fine in her part. The colors are equally well-defined, with strong saturation that never pushes past the point of oversaturation, and the contrast range is excellent. Written and directed by Wong Jing, 1986’s Magic Crystal stars Andy Lau as Andy and Wong Jing himself as Pancho, two freelance special agents that wind up being hired by the Hong.Taken together, there’s plenty of interesting material contained in those two true stories that could be used to craft a genuinely fascinating feature film—and that’s not even including some of the bizarre ancillary stories surrounding what came to be known as the “Bluegrass Conspiracy.

There’s still plenty of life left in the Blu-ray format, and it’s more than adequate to give a film like Cocaine Bear the consideration that it deserves. Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will release on 4K Blu-ray Elizabeth Banks' Cocaine Bear (2023), starring Keri Russell, Alden Ehrenreich, O'Shea Jackson Jr. It’s a gorgeous colour palette and overall aesthetic that further enhances the heightened reality of the film. For more about Cocaine Bear 4K and the Cocaine Bear 4K Blu-ray release, see Cocaine Bear 4K Blu-ray Review published by Martin Liebman on September 22, 2023 where this Blu-ray release scored 3. The bear’s body is currently on display at the Kentucky for Kentucky Fun Mall in Lexington, an ignominious end for an inadvertent victim of the war on drugs.

like Disney's 4K disc releases, digital versions of the film come with a Dolby Vision grade to compliment their HDR10 base layer and no matter how great the image currently looks - and it does look very, very good - it's difficult not to wonder if the inclusion of the alternative HDR grade wouldn't have added just that last little bit of sparkle. However the image’s defining characteristic – and one noticeable from having seen an SDR version of the film digitally just a few weeks ago – is the massively high contrast colour grade the HDR pass further enhances. The thing is though, even the biggest, dumbest horror comedy should be well-written but when it isn’t, you can tell and this serves as an object lesson in this. The detail is sharp and vivid as well with great closeups that reveal individual hairs, acne, pores, makeup applications, gory entrails and bone, and some wider shots of the wooded landscape.

soundtrack, while all digital releases from the likes of iTunes keep the theatrical Atmos track, albeit in its Dolby Digital + variant…yet this supposed premium home video format somehow gets the most basic of the soundtracks across all of its release formats, a relatively skinny 5. Extras start off with a feature commentary with Director/Producer Elizabeth Banks and Producer Max Handelman. Opening strongly with a dart through its swollen cast, we meet all manner of seemingly cardboard cut-out stereotypes – from the strong but struggling single mother (Keri Russell) to the dealer with a broken heart (Alden Ehrenreich), on to the park ranger with delusions of grandeur (Margo Martindale) and even a handful of spunky and way too old for their years kids (Brooklyn Prince and Christian Convery). When Dee Dee’s mom , Sari (Kari Russell), realizes her daughter has skipped class, she heads out to look for her. In fact, the trailer moments feel oddly out of place with the rest of the film, leaving it feel like it was conceived around a handful of set-piece flashes, which frankly it most likely was.Characters disappear from the film and/or face no repercussions for their often reprehensible actions, which in and of itself is fine I guess; not every wrong needs to be righted in a film, and often this leads to some brilliantly ambiguous endings, but here it feels more like these plot elements just get forgotten. Based on the true story of a bear that ate a block of cocaine, this is really the only true story part of the story – in real life the bear ate the cocaine and immediately died, whereas in Banks’ film, it goes on a bloodthirsty rampage, killing all who cross its path. It’s not all bad though, the bear effects are impressive, and when you watch the film from the bear’s point of view it’s even more appealing. Either way, paying a premium for the premium release should get you the premium formats available for both sound and vision.

Namechecking creature feature classics such as Tremors and Lake Placid were for once not idle boasts.That's good news for original horror in general, especially since the studio also scored big with M3GAN earlier this year. Truth is often stranger than fiction, and chronicling the events surrounding the demise of Andrew C.