Home Video (VHS, DVD, Blu-ray, 4k)

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In celebration of the show’s thirtieth anniversary, Warner Bros. Discovery Home Entertainment (say that three times fast) is releasing the series on Blu-ray this December. All 110 episodes have been remastered in HD, and the set also includes Babylon 5‘s pilot movie, The Gathering.

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The set will be available December 5, 2023 at your favorite retailer and, in the U.S., will cost you $99.99 for 4,730 minutes of Babylon 5 goodness.

They are:

• Don't Look Now 4k
• Don't Look Now
• Nanny
• The Others 4k
• The Others
• Todd Browning's Sideshow Shockers
• Videodrome 4k

Technical details at Blu-ray.com

One of the most infamous movies branded with Hong Kong's 'adults only' Category III rating, Taxi Hunter bravely tackles the under-explored scourge of – er – unprofessional taxi drivers. After his pregnant wife is perishes through the actions of a careless (and callous) cabby, mild-mannered Ah Kin (Anthony 'king of the Cat III's' Wong) declares war on the entire profession – and you don't need 'The Knowledge' to know he won't be leaving a tip...

Directed by Herman Yau (who unleashed Ebola Syndrome on an unsuspecting world) 88 Films are pleased to present this important treatise on public transport in a wonderful new blu-ray edition

I've been trawling the charity shops recently but Blu-rays are coming up short. Usually the mass market films everyone already owns.

However, this week I picked up Free Fire from CEX (£1.50) cracking little film, and managed to find Shazam! from a charity shop for just £1.

How are you searches going?

Uh oh, my wallet is hurting just thinking about this!

• Arrow Films (UK)
• Arrow Video (US)

See anything you fancy?

I am going to have to purge my shopping basket or the bank will be on the phone.

They are:

• Gorgo 4k
• Terror at Tenkiller 4k
• Delirium 4k
• The Demon Rat
• Psycho Girls

Technical details at Blu-ray.com

They have the entire Shawscope series on at the moment and Sonny Chiba in street fighter. You know that film where he rips the guys dick off in a kung fu battle.

It’s £50 for the year for the streaming app catalogue and totally worth it

A large slate of releases with some fancy sets:

• The Psycho Collection (1960-1990) 4k - UK
• The Psycho Collection (1960-1990) - UK
• Ringu (1998) 4k - UK, US, CA
• Carlito's Way (1993) 4k - UK, US, CA
• Blood and Black Lace (1964) 4k - UK
• Blood and Black Lace (1964) - UK
• The Prodigal Son (1981) - US, CA
• Borsalino (1970) - US, CA

The Ringu, Carlito's Way and Blood and Black Lace 4k releases also come in Arrow exclusive original art packaging (not available in Canada).

Blu-ray.com have the technical specifications.

Personally, I'd have been all over Prodigal Son but have Eureka's set with Warriors Two, so I'm fine skipping that. I think Ringu is the instant buy there for me and, while they have an Arrow exclusive release, I like the cover art of the ordinary limited edition (where the Arrow exclusive of the Bruce Lee set won me around).

The Psycho Collection is a tricky one - the original will look great in 4k but the quality of the sequels drops away hard but none are truly terrible (3 is the worst and I gave that 5/10). It's one I might buy, stare at for a while and then, in the cold light of day, bung it on eBay or not (the booklet and what looks like a transparent shower curtain slipcover could definitely win me round).

Some good films in there - Zombies for Sale and Hagazussa would be my top picks from that but I am intrigued by Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway as that description is probably worth a tenner:

The year is 2035, and Special Agent Gagano (Daniel Tadesse, Crumbs) dreams of leaving the CIA to open a business with his wife Malin (Gerda-Annette Allikas). Before he can hand in his resignation, however, a strange cyber virus attacks Psychobook, the CIA's operating system, forcing Gagano to enter cyberspace via virtual reality to combat the threat. Before long, however, the virus starts to reach out into the real world, destabilising the fragile socio-political order for its own ends, and Gagano, trapped in the VR world, must find a way out before it's too late.

Featuring encounters with an Irish-accented Joseph Stalin, a kung-fu-fighting Batman, and Jesus Christ himself, to name but a few, Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is absurd, audacious and like nothing you've ever experienced before.

Sale ends Monday.

Any good hauls? Picked up a grail? Found something interesting in a charity shop? Good, this is the place to show it off.