The unique throwback sci-fi film Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow didn't make the splash it was hoping for with audiences. In fact, we feel it's an overlooked film here at JoBlo as Chris Bumbray tries to shine a light on the alien invasion film with a retrospective video. He recommends it highly by saying, "If you haven't seen this movie, I urge you to check it out. It's a fun, old-fashioned adventure with a great score by Edward Shearmur, who never entirely became the A-list composer he should have been. It has a bouncy pace and even an early example of post-mortem casting with Laurence Olivier playing the bad guy despite having died 13 years before this came out. Give it a shot!"
However, some movies can still find audiences late in life, and perhaps that can happen with the new physical release of Sky Captain. Blu-ray.com has announced that Shout Factory will be distributing a new special 4K remastered Blu-ray this summer. Sky Captain was written and directed by Kerry Conran and stars Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie, Giovanni Ribisi, and Michael Gambon.The new two-disc 4K Blu-ray is due to hit retailers on May 27.
The description reads,
"When giant robots attack New York City, intrepid reporter Polly Perkins (Academy Award winner Gwyneth Paltrow) enlists the aid of ace aviator and old flame Joseph 'Sky Captain' Sullivan (two-time Academy Award nominee Jude Law) to stop a plot to destroy the world before it's too late. Co-starring Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie, Sky Captain And The World of Tomorrow will thrill and amaze you right through to the action-packed finale."
Special Features and Technical Specs:
DISC ONE -- 4K BLU-RAY
DISC TWO -- BLU-RAY
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, in association with Amazon Studios, will release on 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray David Ayer's A Working Man(2025), starring Jason Statham, David Harbour, Michael Peña, Jason Flemyng, and Eve Mauro. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on June 10.
There are no special features listed on the press release.
Description: Levon Cade left behind a decorated military career in the black ops to live a simple life working construction. But when his boss's daughter, who is like family to him, is taken by human traffickers, his search to bring her home uncovers a world of corruption far greater than he ever could have imagined.
Directed by David Ayer ("The Beekeeper", "End of Watch") from a screenplay by Ayer and Sylvester Stallone ("Rocky"), the film is produced by Chris Long, Jason Statham, John Friedberg, David Ayer, Bill Block, Kevin King Templeton.
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, in association with Amazon Studios, will bring to 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray Fallout: Season One (2024), starring Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Moisés Arias, and Walton Goggins. The two releases are scheduled to arrive on the market on July 8.
Description: Based on one of the greatest video games of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there's almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the incredibly complex, gleefully weird and highly violent universe waiting for them above.
I was carrying a hoover downstairs and slipped. The hoover fell down the stairs faster than me and stopped at the bottom obviously. The wire had partially unspooled and the very British three prong plug was sitting on the ground, pointing straight towards the sky.
Guess where my arse landed once I had finished slipping down the carpeted stairs?
Good. The more renewable energy the better!
The problem is the country is in such a fucking mess, it will take Labour years to try and sort it out. The fact Starmer won't even think about joining the single market is stupid too. Probably appeasing the Brexit Labour voters.
What chartered flights? Even the Rwanda airline wants nothing to do with this.
Where are all the extra judges suddenly come from? Are you pulling then off other cases like rape and murder?
No interference from Foreign courts. They're not foreign, it's the European court of which we, the UK, are a member.
Labour keeps voting against the bill! Yes, they do but you have the majority in the house of commons and the Lords. It's the Tory lords voting against this bill because they have the sense to realise how batshit this legislation is.
Rant over.
Check out the examples in the 4K section of the Blu-ray forums. True Lies is the worst, followed by Aliens and The Abyss comes off the best.
The image has been upscaled and with the use of AI, the image has been scrubbed of all the grain.
Unfortunately, the image now looks pretty bad in places with smooth waxy faces and strange anomalies as AI tries to improve the picture.
I would've thought they would scan the original camera negatives, or next best thing, and then apply a little DNR to remove a little of the grain but apparently, this is what Cameron wanted.
Yep, those were different times.
Battlecruiser 3000AD. This advert was later revised and they drew black knickers on the model.
Psycho Pigs UXB. Another British classic?
The complete twat who knew leaving the EU would be bad for the UK. Then Boris made him the Brexit negotiator on the leave deal, which he did. Then Frost complained that the leave deal was bad, which he fucking negotiated. To top it off, Boris then makes him a peer. Ever heard of failing upwards?
Surely that money could've been spent fixing the asylum system and actually processing their claims.
Reminds me of Fraggle Rock. Due to the television station that produced the show being taken over many times over the years, most of the original broadcast masters have been lost. I think all episodes have been found but they're mostly at home VHS recordings.
We have a problem over at feddit.uk, the sole admin has gone missing and no one has been able to contact him. All we wanted is for a few more people to be made admins then problems could be solved. A new server/instance is going to be created and hopefully everyone on feddit can move over. Unless the admin comes back, it will fall behind in updates and become defederated. This happened once a few weeks ago by lemmy.world but we managed to convince them it was in error and they federated us back in.
I've never understood the concept of pre ordering digital content, it's not going to run out of stock. And why pay extra for a few graphical items that don't change the way the game plays?
Also, surely digital games would be cheaper because there's no physical product to send to the customer? But there you go. Base copy of Diablo 4 is £70!! Wow!
Calm down please, this isn't Reddit. Thank you.