Description: For the first time ever, all 114 theatrical shorts from originally created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera are brought together in one definitive collection, offering the ultimate way to revisit every chase, gag, and laugh that defined generations.
Since their debut in 1940, the legendary cat-and-mouse duo became global icons, setting the standard for animated shorts with their blend of slapstick humor and inventive storytelling. This new anthology not only preserves the legacy of their golden era, but also enhances it, featuring several fully remastered shorts and quality improvements made to many others. These beloved Tom and Jerry shorts look and sound better than they ever have since their original film presentations. The complete collection of Hanna Barbera's Tom and Jerry Oscar winning masterpieces, available at last! Including three shorts, Casanova Cat, Mouse Cleaning and His Mouse Friday which are now completely remastered and uncut for the very first time.
Spanning nearly two decades of Academy Award®-winning animation, this landmark anthology showcases the wit and groundbreaking craft that made Tom and Jerry cultural icons. For collectors, families, and fans of animation history, this is a must-own set.
Warner Archive's Blu-ray box set of Tom And Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology is a six-disc set. All 114 shorts are on five discs with DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono (and three shorts in Stereo) audio tracks. Over three hours of extras are mostly placed on a dedicated sixth Blu-ray disc and include the new featurettes Lady of the House: The Story of Mammy Two Shoes and Animal Hijinks: The Friends and Foes of Tom and Jerry, 20 audio commentaries, nine vintage featurettes and the bonus shorts Good Will to Men (1955), Give and Tyke and Scat Cats (both 1957). Also included is "a collectible 28-page booklet with artwork and essays".
Coming to Blu-ray from Flicker Alley is the two-disc set Laurel & Hardy: Year Three (1929), starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
Description: Following the acclaimed Laurel & Hardy: Year One and Laurel & Hardy: Year Two collections, Flicker Alley and Blackhawk Films® are proud to announce the culmination of the duo's silent years. Laurel & Hardy: Year Three brings to Blu-ray disc nine of L&H's most beloved classic shorts, newly restored and joined by a host of rare archival material that also includes several of their earliest sound films.
Unparalleled in their ability to adapt to the changing cinematic landscape, Laurel and Hardy's upwards trajectory was only bolstered by the arrival of sound. Their first sound short, appropriately titled Unaccustomed As We Are, begins to incorporate sync sound gags and was so well received by audiences that the duo would go on to win the Academy Award for The Music Box just a few years later, an impressively rare feat for the time.
Flicker Alley's Blu-ray release of Laurel & Hardy: Year Three contains newly restored versions of the films Liberty, Wrong Again, That's My Wife, Big Business, Unaccustomed as We Are, Double Whoopee, Berth Marks (Silent Version) Bacon Grabbers and Angora Love. Each film has a newly-recorded music score (including three in 5.1 sound) by composers including Neil Brand, Andreas Benz, Robert Israel and Maud Nelissen. Extras include audio commentaries for all films with historians and authors Randy Skretvedt and Richard W. Bann, alternate audio tracks, including original Vitaphone tracks on Liberty, Wrong Again, That's My Wife, Bacon Grabbers and Angora Love, a locations video essay by historian John Bengtson, the sound shorts They Go Boom! and The Hoose-Gow (both 1929), an excerpt of The Hollywood Revue of 1929 featuring Laurel and Hardy, a dubbed presentation of Double Whoopee from 1970, an MGM convention announcement from 1930 with Laurel and Hardy and image galleries. Also included is a "souvenir booklet - Containing new introductions by Leonard Maltin and Serge Bromberg, film notes by Richard W. Bann and Randy Skredvedt, and restoration text by Serge Bromberg".
Coming to Blu-ray from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment are four catalog titles with Claudette Colbert: Frank Lloyd's Maid of Salem (1937), also starring Fred MacMurray, Harvey Stephens, Gale Sondergaard, Louise Dresser and Benny Bartlett, Wesley Ruggles' I Met Him in Paris (1937), also starring Melvyn Douglas, Robert Young, Lee Bowman, Mona Barrie and George Davis, George Cukor's Zaza (1938), also starring Herbert Marshall, Bert Lahr, Helen Westley, Constance Collier and Genevieve Tobin and Mark Sandrich's Skylark (1941), also starring Ray Milland, Brian Aherne, Binnie Barnes, Walter Abel and Grant Mitchell. All four titles are released on Blu-ray for the first time worldwide.
Coming from the Criterion Collection is a new 4K UHD edition of Howard Hawks' His Girl Friday (1940), starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall and Ernest Truex. Previously released on 4K UHD as part of Sony's Columbia Classics Collection: Volume 4 box set in 2024, Criterion's standalone 4K UHD edition presents His Girl Friday with LPCM Mono audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras replicate Criterion's own 2017 Blu-ray edition and include a second Blu-ray disc with Lewis Milestone's The Front Page (1931), an interview with film scholar David Bordwell, archival interviews with Howard Hawks, the featurettes On Assignment: His Girl Friday (2006), Howard Hawks: Reporter's Notebook, Funny Pages and Rosalind Russell: The Inside Scoop (all 1999), a 1940 radio adaptation of His Girl Friday, a featurette on the restoration of The Front Page, a featurette on screenwriter Ben Hecht, two radio adaptations of The Front Page from 1937 and 1946 and trailers. Also included are "essays on His Girl Friday and The Front Page by film critics Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow".
Description: The swirling surrealist dreams of Man Ray are high-water marks of 1920s avant-garde cinema, a nexus of cryptic themes, dark eroticism, and playful abstraction. Seemingly plucked from an unconscious realm, these four shorts—Le retour à la raison, Emak bakia, L'étoile de mer, and Les mystères du château du dé—find the visionary artist experimenting with the limitless possibilities of montage, superimposition, distortion, and even the application of objects directly onto celluloid. Set here to an ethereal score by the Jim Jarmusch–Carter Logan collaboration SQÜRL, these cine-poems are optical carnival rides that surprise, delight, and unsettle with each tantalizing frame.
Criterion's Blu-ray of Return to Reason: Four Films by Man Ray contains DTS-HD MA 5.1 audio. Extras include an interview with Jim Jarmusch and Carter Logan of SQÜRL, a 2023 concert of SQÜRL performing their score and a trailer. Also included is an essay by author Mark Polizzotti.
Coming to Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Arrow Video is Pupi Avati's The House with Laughing Windows (La casa dalle finestre che ridono) (1976), starring Lino Capolicchio, Francesca Marciano, Gianni Cavina, Giulio Pizzirani and Bob Tonelli. Sourced from a new 4K master, Arrow presents The House with Laughing Windows with Italian: LPCM Mono audio, optional, newly-translated English subtitles and HDR on the 4K UHD edition. Extras include two new audio commentaries: one with Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Josh Nelson and another with Eugenio Ercolani and Troy Howarth, Federico Caddeo's feature-length documentary Painted Screams ("featuring interviews with co-writer/director Pupi Avati, co-writer Antonio Avati, assistant director Cesare Bastelli, actors Lino Capolicchio, Fancesca Marciano, Giulio Pizzirani, and Pietro Brambilla, production designer Luciana Morosetti, assistant camera operation Toni Scaramuzza, sound mixer Enrico Blasi, and Emanuele Taglietti (son of assistant production designer Otello Taglietti)"), new visual essays by Chris Alexander and Kat Ellinger and an Italian theatrical trailer. Limited edition content includes an "illustrated perfect bound collector's booklet featuring new writing by Matt Rogerson, Willow Maclay, Alexia Kannas, Anton Bitel, and Stefano Baschiera". For full release breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
Also coming to Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Arrow is Charlie Ahearn's Wild Style (1983), starring 'Lee' George Quinones, Fab 5 Freddy, Rammellzee, Kool Moe Dee, Kara Vallow and Lisa Lee. Sourced from a new 4K scan of the film's original camera negative, Arrow presents Wild Style with LPCM Mono audio and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD edition. Extras include two new audio commentaries: one with Jeff 'Chairman' Mao and Andrew 'Monk One' Mason and another with Charlie Ahearn and Fred 'Fab Five Freddy' Brathwaite. A second Blu-ray disc of extras includes a 2022 interview with Lee Quiñones and Fred 'Fab 5 Freddy' Brathwaite, a second interview with Quiñones begun in 2012 and completed in 2025, two panel discussions and footage from the Wild Style 40 exhibition, a German ZDF TV featurette on the film's 30th anniversary, the featurette Rammelizee in the Battle Station, additional featurettes from the 20th, 25th and 30th anniversary shows, outtakes, live performances, trailers and more. For full release breakdowns, read Jeffrey Kauffman's Blu-ray review and 4K UHD review.
Coming to Blu-ray from Shout Factory is the box set Shaw Brothers Classics: Vol. Eight (1981-1984), a 12-disc set with Return of the Sentimental Swordsman (魔劍俠情), Perils of the Sentimental Swordsman (楚留香之幽靈山莊), The Duel of the Century (陸小鳳之決戰前後), The Emperor and His Brother (書劍恩仇錄), Ambitious Kung Fu Girl (紅粉動江湖), The Treasure Hunters (龍虎少爺) (all 1981), Cat vs. Rat (御貓三戲錦毛鼠) (1982), Ghosts Galore (滿天神佛), The Enchantress (妖魂) (both 1983), New Tales of the Flying Fox (新飛狐外傳), Return of the Bastard Swordsman (天蠶變之布衣神相) and Secret Service of the Imperial Court (錦衣衛) (all 1984). All 12 films are presented with Mandarin: DTS-HD MA Mono audio and optional, newly-translated English subtitles. Extras include audio commentaries for all 12 films with James Mudge (veteran Hong Kong film critic at easternKicks), additional audio commentaries with film historian Brian Bankston (on Return of the Sentimental Swordsman, The Treasure Hunters, Return of the Bastard Swordsman and Secret Service of the Imperial Court) interviews with film historian Frank Djeng (on Return of the Sentimental Swordsman and Cat vs. Rat) academic and author Gary Bettinson (on The Treasure Hunters), actor Chu Ko and author Daniel O'Brien (on Ghosts Galore) and academic and author Leon Hunt (on Secret Service of the Imperial Court). Also included are trailers for all films (except Ghosts Galore and Secret Service of the Imperial Court), as well as image galleries for all films.
Coming to remastered Blu-ray and 4K UHD from Shout Factory is John Woo's The Killer (喋血雙雄) (1989), starring Chow Yun-Fat, Danny Lee, Sally Yeh, Kong Chu, Kenneth Tsang and Fui-On Shing. Sourced from a new 4K master, Shout presents The Killer with Cantonese: DTS-HD MA Mono audio, optional, newly-translated English subtitles, an English dub option and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras are spread over the 4K UHD and two Blu-ray disc and include two new audio commentaries: one with John Woo and film journalist Drew Taylor and another with David West, the new feature-length documentary The Hero of Heroic Bloodshed: A John Woo Documentary (featuring interviews with John Woo, stuntman Bruce Law, producer Michael Colleary, writer Mike Werb, producer Lori Tilkin de Felice, director Roel Reiné and others), as well as separate new interviews with John Woo, producer Terence Chang, editor David Wu and author Grady Hendrix. Additional extras include the Criterion Collection Laserdisc / DVD audio commentary with John Woo and Terence Chang, deleted and extended scenes, trailers and an image gallery.
Coming to 4K UHD from Kino Lorber is The Ninja Trilogy (1981-1984), a six-disc set comprised of Menahem Golan's Enter the Ninja (1981), starring Franco Nero, Susan George, Shô Kosugi, Christopher George, Will Hare and Constantine Gregory, as well as Sam Firstenberg's sequels Revenge of the Ninja (1983), starring Shô Kosugi, Keith Vitali, Virgil Frye, Kane Kosugi, Professor Toru Tanaka and Mario Gallo and Ninja III: The Domination (1984), starring Shô Kosugi, Lucinda Dickey, Jordan Bennett, David Chung, Dale Ishimoto and James Hong. All three films are presented from new 4K scans of their original camera negatives, with a choice of lossless 2.0 or 5.1 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD discs. Extras include audio commentary on Enter the Ninja and Revenge of the Ninja with action film historians Mike Leeder and Arne Venema, on Revenge of the Ninja with Sam Firstenberg and stunt coordinator Steven Lambert and on Ninja III: The Domination with Firstenberg and Lambert, moderated by Robert Galluzo. Also included is an isolated score with audio interviews on Ninja III: The Domination, an introduction to Revenge of the Ninja with Sam Firstenberg, interviews on Ninja III: The Domination with actors Lucinda Dickey and Jordan Bennet and producer and stuntman Alan Amiel, a behind-the-scenes photo gallery on Revenge of the Ninja and theatrical trailers for all three films. Note that while all three films are available in a box set, the three individual releases will also come with limited edition slipcovers. For full release breakdowns, read Svet Atanasov's Enter the Ninja 4K UHD review, Revenge of the Ninja 4K UHD review and Ninja III: The Domination 4K UHD review.
Finally this week, Kino has a 4K UHD upgrade for Greg Mottola's Paul (2011), starring Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Jason Bateman, Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader. Kino presents the theatrical cut of Paul from a new 4K scan of the original camera negative (approved by Greg Mottola), with a choice of lossless 2.0 or 5.1 audio tracks and Dolby Vision HDR on the 4K UHD disc. Extras include the unrated version of the film on a dedicated second Blu-ray disc, audio commentary with Greg Mottola, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Bill Hader and producer Nira Park, a making of documentary, several featurettes, bloopers, trailers and both US and UK TV spots.