1957 on 4K UHD

dir. Delmer Daves

Dan Evans, a small time farmer, is hired to escort Ben Wade, a dangerous outlaw, to Yuma. As Evans and Wade wait for the 3:10 train to Yuma, Wade's gang is racing to free him.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Budd Boetticher

S-Tier Criterion 4K. Budd Boetticher Ranown Cycle western.

Criterion Collection · The Ranown Westerns: Five Films Directed by Budd Boetticher Starring Randolph Scott

dir. Stanley Kubrick

S-Tier Eureka 4K with a perfect 5.0 score. Early Kubrick with Kirk Douglas, and the Eureka release beats the Criterion transfer according to people who've compared them. Kino Lorber also has a US version with reversible cover art. People keep hoping for Barry Lyndon and Eyes Wide Shut on 4K next.

Eureka Entertainment · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Budd Boetticher

An independent former ranch foreman and an heiress are kidnapped by a trio of ruthless outlaws.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. David Lean

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson, the commander who supervised the bridge's construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans.

Sony Pictures · 60th Anniversary Edition

dir. Terence Fisher

The cornerstone Hammer horror release, now on 4K through Warner Archive (US, Oct 2025) and Hammer's own UK Limited CE. The Digital Bits gave it Video Grade A+, and the set carries both UK and US theatrical cuts. One caveat, some owners report the UK-cut 4K disc failing to play on the Panasonic UB820.

Hammer Films · Limited Collector's Edition

dir. Ingmar Bergman

When disillusioned Swedish knight Antonius Block returns home from the Crusades to find his country in the grips of the Black Death, he challenges Death to a chess match for his life. Tormented by the belief that God does not exist, Block sets off on a journey, meeting up with traveling players Jof and his wife, Mia, and becoming determined to evade Death long enough to commit one redemptive act while he still lives.

BFI · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

dir. Sidney Lumet

A-Tier Kino Lorber 4K with a perfect 5.0 specs score. Every scene is a close-up of a sweating face in a jury room, and the 4K grain and detail make you feel the claustrophobia. The Kino disc also includes In the Heat of the Night as a bonus feature, which the Criterion edition doesn't have.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Akira Kurosawa

The BFI 4K is the version collectors are buying while everyone else waits for a Criterion Kurosawa box that may or may not happen. Kurosawa's Macbeth adaptation with Mifune at full intensity, and the fog sequences are exactly the kind of high-contrast material that rewards a good restoration.

BFI · 4K + Blu-ray (United Kingdom)

dir. John Sturges

C-Tier Kino Lorber 4K. Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas at the O.K. Corral.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Val Guest

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.