I’m tempted but seem to be shelling out a fortune these days on 4K, especially the boutique style releases. Attractive and talented, she enjoyed parts in other action movies before headlining the underrated Witchblade series - but she’s never really had that huge star-making movie role. It can vary from shot to shot - Donald Gibb's rough, hairy look at times impressively rendered, at other times looking a smidge hazy but it's clear that several shots were incapable of being better resolved due primarily to the source - patent zooms being the biggest culprits to outright softer focus.

Bloodsport 4K Blu-ray (DigiBook) (Germany)

But Laurent, to her credit as director, is less interested in how a shootout can work as an aphrodisiac, and more invested in how it would affect a female friendship. This native 4K 2160p Dolby Vision transfer (with HDR10) easily outpaces all previous home video releases. I was hoping for a marked improvement over past releases but this is honestly better than I expected! This blank slate also makes it possible for the emotionally frigid Millie (Michelle Fairley), daughter of Phil’s boss, Angus (Julian Glover), to pull a While You Were Sleeping-style fast one on him by pretending they were in a relationship. The “It” girls of North Shore High School are back — except this time, they are suburban parents pitching Walmart deals.

It lacks the wit and energy of something like ' Road House,' and is too serious and grisly for anyone looking for anything besides people getting kicked in the head, to find appealing. You can see the beads of sweat across Van Damme's muscles while he does his ridiculous moves, the lines on the craggy face of Forest Whitaker's older CIC companion, the detailing on the wood panelling and background nuances.

Bloodsport Blu-ray (4K Remastered) (Germany)

Certainly don't let the sound mix factor into your decision of whether or not to pick up this too-expensive-for-what-it-is double feature. Topped off with a bunch of great new bonus features, this two-disc Mediabook is well worth the import effort. To achieve the highest honor as a fighter, he’ll have to come face-to-face against the deadly Chong Li (Bolo Yeung) - and survive. Now the film comes in stunning 4k HDR+10 Dolby Vision , the picture is such an upgrade to its original release in Germany a few moons ago. Timecop' is a more full, but that may just because of the variety of the sequences in 'Timecop' – like the aforementioned western and gangster sequences – while 'Bloodsport' is pretty doggedly committed to the sound of people walloping each other.

After The Silence of the Lambs and Candyman, Kasi Lemmons completes her notable supporting role trilogy as a cynical but determined detective. So yeah, maybe Hard Target doesn’t actually deserve the full five-star rating - but I’m an unabashed fan with a big nostalgic heart - so I’m keeping it. What begins as a fight to stay alive becomes one woman’s journey of courage and cunning in this horror series bridging three compelling films. Anyone else should be directed elsewhere in the Muscles from Brussels' oeuvre, like the underrated 'Die Hard'-in-a-hockey-stadium thriller 'Sudden Death.

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But under-heralded 'Hard Target' actually has some level of artistry, and (as noted several times in ' JCVD') is noteworthy as the English language debut of Hong Kong director John Woo (as well as for going through 17 cuts with the MPAA before securing an R-rating). Disney and Lucasfilm have set a December 1st premiere date for “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” on the Disney+ service. We will introduce you exclusively to Newpay finance products provided by NewDay Limited under this Introducer Appointed Representative arrangement. And so the first time we see her and BFF, played by Adèle Exarchopoulos, fresh from Passages, they’re bantering about the latter’s lacklustre love life while trying to avoid getting shot at by some fighter drones. Inside a hidden Hong Kong arena, elite combatants clash in the Kumite, the little-known but hotly contested world championship of full-contact fighting.Presenting Woo’s preferred 100-minute Unrated International Cut, there are still some uneven bits, small instances of slight speckling. Hot off getting down and funky in Breakin’ (as an extra) and repeatedly passing out on the set of Predator in a goofy insect costume, JCVD was finally given the chance to show his incredible skills as a martial artist and make it big as a movie star. Not that I was expecting 'Avatar'-like levels of controlled video precision, but what I did want was a noticeable upgrade from the grainy VHS and DVD releases that preceded it. It follows Will Andrews, a dreamy 23-year-old Harvard dropout, as he tags along with Miller, a buffalo hunter targeting hidden valleys in the Colorado territory in the late 19th century. Exercises in oral and visual history, these films follow strong narrative conventions, perhaps modelled on criminal trials: opening arguments, methodical presentation of evidence, climaxing with quavering testimony from victims.

Bloodsport 4K Blu-ray (DigiBook) (United Kingdom) Bloodsport 4K Blu-ray (DigiBook) (United Kingdom)

Will hopes to learn “more about this country”; what he gets, as the four-man crew shoots and hacks its way through dwindling herds in ever more treacherous conditions, is a lesson in remorseless brutality. Kylie Minogue has arrived in Las Vegas for her first-ever Sin City residency, and while tickets are selling out online, there are still a few ways to score seats to the singer’s big show.There they used the matte finish with spot-gloss, that I like more than the coarse leather ones, they use for their UHD-releases. Vivid portrait of the great playwright of inertia points up the contrast with his real-life romantic entanglements and daring work for the French resistanceDirector James Marsh has boldly, maybe even sacrilegiously, given us a Hollywoodised biopic of Samuel Beckett. I’m definitely interested in a spruced up version as this was one of my “go to” films on vhs circa 1988. Stereo is good, it holds its own nicely and is a great option for fans, but this Atmos track was a welcome surprise. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising.