Posted November 2, 2025 08:57 PM by Sean Greenwood
For the week of November 3rd, Bushell Productions has a 4K UHD release for David L. Bushell's documentary Cheech & Chong's Last Movie, starring Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong.
Description: Cheech & Chong's Last Movie defies documentary expectations, offering a wildly imaginative take on genre convention; a true-life tale told through a mix of animation and archival madness, all underscored by a classic cinematic road trip comedy. Tracing the enduring legacy of pioneering comics Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, the film features interviews, sketches, and never-before-seen footage spanning the duo's five-decade career. The result is an unlikely story of friendship and fame, turmoil and defiance, rebellion and ultimately - redemption.
Bushell Productions' 4K UHD release of Cheech & Chong's Last Movie contains "never before seen bonus features". It is currently available only in Limited Edition SteelBook packaging.
New on Blu-ray from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will release on Blu-ray Happy's Place: Season One (2024-2025), starring Reba McEntire, Belissa Escobedo, Melissa Peterman, Rex Linn, Pablo Castelblanco and Tokala Black Elk.
Description: Country music legend Reba McEntire returns to comedy with the new muti-camera sitcom "Happy's Place," in which Bobbie (Reba McEntire) inherits her father's restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in the half-sister she never knew she had. The series stars Reba McEntire, Belissa Escobedo, Melissa Peterman, Pablo Castelblanco, Tokala Black Elk and Rex Linn.
Universal's Blu-ray of Happy's Place: Season One is a two-disc set with all 18 episodes.
New on Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Apple Studios is Sian Heder's CODA (2021), starring Emilia Jones, Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Marlee Matlin, Eugenio Derbez, Amy Forsyth and Daniel Durant.
Description: Gifted with a voice that her parents can't hear, seventeen-year-old Ruby (Emilia Jones), is the sole hearing member of a deaf family—a CODA, Child of Deaf Adults. Her life revolves around acting as interpreter for her parents (Marlee Matlin, Troy Kotsur) and working on the family's struggling fishing boat every day before school with her father and older brother (Daniel Durant). But when Ruby joins her high school's choir club, she discovers a gift for singing and finds herself drawn to her duet partner Miles (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo). Encouraged by her enthusiastic, tough-love choirmaster (Eugenio Derbez) to apply to a prestigious music school, Ruby finds herself torn between the obligations she feels to her family and the pursuit of her own dreams.
Description: 2,600 years ago, Aesop said... Long before Paul Terry found success with Mighty Mouse, he spent the 1920s producing the Aesop's Fables series starring his original character Farmer Al Falfa and an endless cast of violent, funny animals.
Loosely connected to those ancient tales and bookended with a "sugar-coated pill of wisdom," the cartoons were an all-encompassing umbrella of new dynamics and concepts. In Aesop's Fables - The 1920s, Volume 1, Cartoon Logic has meticulously assembled and restored 20 Paul Terry cartoons giving the animation pioneer his first high-definition silent film collection, and showcasing why Walt Disney once said he had hoped to one day make animated shorts as good as Aesop's Fables.
Sourced from the best surviving elements archived at Blackhawk Films, Volume 1 features cartoons ranging from the birth of the series in 1921, to 1928's Dinner Time (the first theatrical cartoon with synchronized sound ever released). Each short comes with an optional commentary track by animation historians Thad Komorowski and Charlie Judkins teaming up to tell the full story of Paul Terry and Farmer Al. Charlie also lends his accomplished musical stylings with newly recorded original scores for each short.
ClassicFlix's Blu-ray of Aesop's Fables: The 1920s Volume One contains 20 shorts with musical scores in LPCM 2.0. Extras include audio commentaries on all shorts with Thad Komorowski and Charlie Judkins, a fragment of Charlie in Carmen and the short Charlie in Cuckoo Land (both 1916) and the Commonwealth version of the short Dinner Time (1928). For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review.
Coming to remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD from 88 Films is Sergio Garrone's SS Experiment Love Camp (Lager SSadis Kastrat Kommandantur) (1976), starring Giorgio Cerioni, Attilio Dottesio, Mircha Carven, Paola Corazzi, Giovanna Mainardi and Serafino Profumo. Sourced from a new 4K master, 88 Films presents SS Experiment Love Camp with a choice of Italian or English: LPCM 2.0 Mono audio tracks, English or English SDH subtitles and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD edition. Extras include audio commentary with Italian cinema experts Eugenio Ercolani and Nanni Cobretti, interviews with Sergio Garrone, music historian Pierpaolo De Sanctis, editor Eugenio Alabiso and cinematographer Maurizio Centini. Also included are Italian opening and closing titles and a trailer. For a full release breakdown, read Svet Atanasov's 4K UHD review.
Coming to 4K UHD from Arrow Video is Peter Hyams' Outland (1981), starring Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen, James B. Sikking, Kika Markham and Clarke Peters. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative by Warner Bros.' MPI, Arrow presents Outland with Dolby Vision HDR and a choice of original LPCM 2.0 or DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio tracks. Extras include a new audio commentary with film critic Chris Alexander, new interviews with writer / director Peter Hyams, director of photography Stephen Goldblatt, and visual effects artist William Mesa, a new appreciation by film scholar Josh Nelson and a new visual essay by film historian Howard S. Berger. Also included is audio commentary with Peter Hyams, an image gallery, teaser and theatrical trailer. Limited edition content includes a double-sided, fold-out poster with original and new artwork, as well as an "illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing by film critics Priscilla Page and Brandon Streussnig." For a full release breakdown, read Jeffrey Kauffman's 4K UHD review.
Coming to 4K UHD from the Criterion Collection is John Hughes' The Breakfast Club (1985), starring Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, John Kapelos, Judd Nelson and Molly Ringwald. Sourced from a new 4K master, Criterion presents The Breakfast Club with Dolby Vision HDR and a choice of original LPCM Mono or DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio tracks. Extras replicate Criterion's 2018 Blu-ray edition and include audio commentary with Anthony Michael Hall and Judd Nelson, interviews with actors Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Judd Nelson and Paul Gleason, as well as studio teacher Irene Brafstein, interviews with John Hughes from 1985 and 1999, over 50 minutes of deleted and extended scenes, the documentary Sincerely Yours, a John Hughes video essay read by Judd Nelson, a trailer and more. Also included is an essay by author and critic David Kamp.
Finally this week, coming to 4K UHD from Shout Factory is John Woo's Hard Boiled (辣手神探) (1992), starring Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Teresa Sun-Kwan Mo, Chow Yun-Fat, Anthony Chau-Sang Wong, Philip Chan and Phillip Chung-Fung Kwok. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative, Shout presents Hard Boiled with a choice of original Canontese or dubbed English DTS-HD MA Mono audio tracks, optional, newly-translated English subtitles and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras are spread over the 4K UHD disc and two Blu-rays and include two new audio commentaries: one with John Woo and Drew Taylor and another with Frank Djeng. Also new are interviews with John Woo, Anthony Wong, producer Terence Chang, screenwriters Chung Hang Ku and Gordon Chan, composer Michael Gibbs, authors Grady Hendrix and Leon Hunt and academic Lin Feng. Also included is archival audio commentary with John Woo, Terence Cheng, Roger Avary and Dave Kehr (from the Criterion Collection), deleted and extended scenes, an image gallery and trailers. Also included is a "52-page booklet with four expert essays and extensive art".