2002 on 4K UHD

dir. Hideo Nakata

A woman in the midst of an unpleasant divorce moves to an eerie apartment building with her young daughter. The ceiling of their apartment has a dark and active leak.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Kathryn Bigelow

S-Tier Shout Factory 4K. Kathryn Bigelow's submarine thriller with Harrison Ford. Shout picked it up for 4K. Not much collector excitement, with one person calling it a sleep aid.

Shout! Studios · 4K + Blu-ray Combo Pack Collector's Edition

dir. M. Night Shyamalan

The HMV steelbook misspelled Shyamalan's name on the cover, which is both hilarious and telling. The original steelbook with metallic finish and debossed artwork is a $200 USD grail that people refuse to sell. The standard release artwork is universally hated. The film itself gets strong collector affection, and the S-Tier Disney 4K with archival features is well-stocked.

Walt Disney Studios · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Curtis Hanson

S-Tier Universal 4K. The gritty Detroit photography translates well to HDR and the dimly lit rap battle venues look good on this disc.

Universal Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Spike Jonze

S-Tier Sony 4K. Charlie Kaufman and Spike Jonze at peak meta. Sony handled the transfer cleanly and the disc mostly just sits quietly in people's collections without much active discussion.

Sony Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Neil Marshall

S-Tier Second Sight Films 4K. Neil Marshall's werewolf film. Second Sight's genre releases from the UK are well packaged.

Second Sight Films · Limited Edition

dir. Bill Paxton

S-Tier Lionsgate 4K. Bill Paxton's directorial debut. Southern Gothic horror with a strong transfer.

Lionsgate · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Takashi Shimizu

S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Takashi Shimizu's Japanese horror. Arrow's announcement came alongside a pile of other re-releases, and people noted that Arrow keeps repackaging the same catalog. Japanese horror is getting a real moment in boutique 4K right now between Arrow, Eureka, and the Daiei Gothic sets.

Arrow Video · 4K Box Set (Ju-on: The Grudge Collection)

dir. Joe Carnahan

S-Tier Arrow Video 4K. Joe Carnahan's undercover cop film with Ray Liotta and Jason Patric, scoring a perfect 5.0 overall. The Arrow limited edition was not expected to sell out during pre-order, and it didn't. People who attended a preview screening with the cast in 2002 are now buying the 4K.

Arrow Video · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. David Fincher

Fincher collectors hold onto this one and the steelbook has a steady second-hand market. The 4K disc delivers what you want from a Fincher film.

Sony Pictures · Steelbook (4K + Blu-ray)

dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

S-Tier Criterion 4K with a 4.5 score. PTA's romantic comedy with Adam Sandler, and the Criterion 4K and the Sony 4K from the Columbia Classics box have slightly different aspect ratios from different masters. People want more PTA on 4K, especially Boogie Nights, Magnolia, and There Will Be Blood. A Boogie Nights steelbook was announced separately, which suggests PTA's catalog won't all land at Criterion.

Criterion Collection · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Don Coscarelli

Scream Factory's first 4K for this is due June 2nd with a standard edition and a Limited Edition Steelbook at $39.98 USD with two posters. There's some irritation about the standard edition costing $4 extra if you want the slipcover, but people are mostly just glad Coscarelli is getting any 4K treatment at all.

Shout! Studios · Limited Edition Steelbook

dir. Chris Columbus

Cars fly, trees fight back, and a mysterious house-elf comes to warn Harry Potter at the start of his second year at Hogwarts. Adventure and danger await when bloody writing on a wall announces: The Chamber Of Secrets Has Been Opened. To save Hogwarts will require all of Harry, Ron and Hermione's magical abilities and courage.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Steven Spielberg

A-Tier Paramount 4K. Spielberg's sci-fi thriller, and the 4K announcement alongside Catch Me If You Can was one of the biggest Paramount reveals of the year. The Catch Me If You Can artwork was universally panned while Minority Report's was better received. The steelbook inner photo is oddly from a 2009 Empire magazine shoot, not the film itself.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Paul W. S. Anderson

Sony's November 2020 4K of Paul WS Anderson's first Resident Evil is the visual high point of the series, since it's the only one shot on film. The 2023 Complete Collection 4K Steelbook box (six films, all in Dolby Vision, Apocalypse Director's Cut included) is what's actually moving. Best Buy has been stocking it for collectors who want the full Anderson run.

Sony Pictures · Resident Evil: The Complete Collection 4K Steelbook

dir. Sam Raimi

Sony A-Tier 4K. The transfer is sharp enough to catch the twin towers reflected in Peter's eyes, a shot that survived the post-9/11 edit and still catches people off guard. Manta Lab's exclusive steelbook artwork got a mixed reaction for reusing Green Goblin art and just flipping it, which feels lazy for what they charge.

Sony Pictures · 4K Box Set (Limited Edition Collection)

dir. Peter Jackson

DeepDiscount cancellation emails went out this week and the last Gruv restock was February 11. WB does fewer reprints than Sony or Paramount, and Moviesunlimited is showing an April 13 availability date. Check Zavvi if you're in the UK.

Warner Bros. · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Oxide Pang Chun, Danny Pang Phat

Arrow's April 2026 Limited Edition is the first 4K of any Pang Brothers film, twenty-four years after release. Arrow did the restoration themselves and AVForums called it a 9/10 picture, the kind of work that pulls a film out of being a J-horror also-ran. Region-free, original Cantonese/Mandarin/Thai audio intact, plus a booklet by Asian-cinema specialist Hayley Scanlon. Mostly sold through already.

Arrow Video · Limited Edition

dir. Marina de Van

After a disfiguring leg injury, a young woman develops an unsettling secret relationship with her own body in which pain is pleasure, mutilation is love and hungers of the flesh have a mind of their own.

Radiance Films · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois

A-Tier Disney 4K. Disney animation from 2002. The animated original's 4K steelbook was a surprise find at Walmart, possibly a return. Not much dedicated collector discussion around the 4K disc.

Walt Disney Studios · Ultimate Collector's Edition

dir. Marcell Jankovics

Marcell Jankovics's 2002 Hungarian animated epic on 4K from Deaf Crocodile, based on Finno-Ugric creation myths told in four sections about half-human characters. Dolby Vision transfer from a new master. The kind of adult animation that gets lost outside its home country without a label willing to restore and ship it.

Deaf Crocodile · Limited Edition

dir. Stuart Baird

En route to the honeymoon of William Riker to Deanna Troi on her home planet of Betazed, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise receives word from Starfleet that a coup has resulted in the installation of a new Romulan political leader, Shinzon, who claims to seek peace with the human-backed United Federation of Planets. Once in enemy territory, the captain and his crew make a startling discovery: Shinzon is human, a slave from the Romulan sister planet of Remus, and has a secret, shocking relationship to Picard himself.

dir. Park Chan-wook

A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situation spirals rapidly into a cycle of violence and revenge.

Capelight · 2 Disc Limited Collector's Edition

dir. Roger Michell

A rush-hour fender-bender on New York City's crowded FDR Drive, under most circumstances, wouldn't set off a chain reaction that could decimate two people's lives. But on this day, at this time, a minor collision will turn two complete strangers into vicious adversaries. Their means of destroying each other might be different, but their goals, ultimately, will be the same: Each will systematically try to dismantle the other's life in a reckless effort to reclaim something he has lost.

dir. Phil Alden Robinson

When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.

dir. Steven Spielberg

C-Tier Paramount 4K. Spielberg and DiCaprio. Paramount announced this alongside Minority Report. The C-Tier might improve with a future rescan.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Brett Ratner

Most of the discussion around Red Dragon circles back to Manhunter instead. Collectors keep asking when Mann's version will get a proper 4K, and Red Dragon threads reliably turn into Manhunter appreciation posts. The Kino disc is competent but the C-Tier rating reflects Brett Ratner's direction more than the transfer itself.

Kino Lorber · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Roman Polanski

The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. When the Jews of the city find themselves forced into a ghetto, Szpilman finds work playing in a café; and when his family is deported in 1942, he stays behind, works for a while as a laborer, and eventually goes into hiding in the ruins of the war-torn city.

StudioCanal · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Randall Wallace

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.

Paramount Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Satoshi Kon

D-Tier Anime Limited. Satoshi Kon's animated love letter to Japanese cinema. No 4K version exists yet, though Shout Factory's Blu-ray release was welcomed after it was the last Kon film without a proper home video edition. People are hoping for a 4K with HDR and asking about a Paranoia Agent restoration.

Anime Limited

dir. Doug Liman

D-Tier Universal 4K. An early 4K release that hasn't aged well. The Bourne series was shot on film with a lot of handheld, and the transfer doesn't do much with it.

Universal Pictures · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Danny Boyle

No 4K scan exists for this one because it was shot on standard definition digital video. The upcoming Sony steelbook is an upscale from 480p source material. The current Blu-ray already looks rough, and the hope is that Sony's upscaling and HDR grading can at least make it watchable. The Raid pulled off a similar trick with low-res source and turned out well.

Sony Pictures · Limited Edition Steelbook

dir. Alain Chabat

History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.

dir. David Twohy

In the dark silence of the sea during World War II, the submarine USS Tiger Shark prowls on what should be a routine rescue mission. But for the shell-shocked crew, trapped together in the sub's narrow corridors and constricted spaces, this is about to become a journey into the sensory delusions, mental deceptions and runaway fears that lurk just below the surface of the ocean.

dir. Guillermo del Toro

Del Toro announced 4K releases for four of his films and Blade II was the one that got the biggest reaction. No release date yet, but the announcement alone had people excited. Wesley Snipes in del Toro's vampire sequel with Ron Perlman and Norman Reedus.

Warner Bros. · Pre-Order

dir. Vincenzo Natali

An unsuspecting, disenchanted man finds himself working as a spy in the dangerous, high-stakes world of corporate espionage. Quickly getting way over-his-head, he teams up with a mysterious femme fatale.

dir. Ron Shelton

Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.

Orbit Pictures · Limited Edition

dir. Rick Rosenthal

Reality programmers at DangerTainment select a group of thrill-seeking teenagers to spend one night in the childhood home of serial killer Michael Myers. Their planned live broadcast turns deadly when Michael decides to crash the party.

dir. Alan Mak Siu-Fai, Andrew Lau Wai-Keung

Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, respectively, race against time to expose the mole within their midst.

dir. Christopher Nolan

Warner 4K. Nolan's remake of the 1997 Norwegian thriller with Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank. Often overlooked between Memento and Batman Begins, and the Alaska photography benefits from HDR in the perpetual daylight sequences. Collectors who buy the Dark Knight trilogy usually pick this up to complete the early Nolan set.

Second Sight Films · Pre-Order

dir. Barry Sonnenfeld

Kay and Jay reunite to provide our best, last and only line of defense against a sinister seductress who levels the toughest challenge yet to the MIB's untarnished mission statement – protecting Earth from the scum of the universe. It's been four years since the alien-seeking agents averted an intergalactic disaster of epic proportions. Now it's a race against the clock as Jay must convince Kay – who not only has absolutely no memory of his time spent with the MIB, but is also the only living person left with the expertise to save the galaxy – to reunite with the MIB before the earth submits to ultimate destruction.

dir. Walt Becker

Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he stops paying his son's tuition fees, Van must come up with the money if he wants to stay in college, so he and his friends come up with a great fund-raising idea – throwing parties. However, when the college magazine finds out and reporter Gwen is sent to do a story on Van Wilder, things get a little complicated.

dir. George Lucas

Following an assassination attempt on Senator Padmé Amidala, Jedi Knights Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi investigate a mysterious plot into the heart of the Separatist movement and the beginning of the Clone Wars.

Walt Disney Studios · 4K + Blu-ray

dir. Chuck Russell

In ancient Egypt, peasant Mathayus is hired to exact revenge on the powerful Memnon and the sorceress Cassandra, who are ready to overtake Balthazar's village. Amid betrayals, thieves, abductions and more, Mathayus strives to bring justice to his complicated world.

Universal Pictures · 4K Ultra HD

dir. Walter Hill

Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. When these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.