THE POOP SCOOP: Spring Picks of the Litter!

UPCOMING KIBBLES THAT MAKE US PURR!

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER 4K Collector SteelBook Coming June 2 from Warner Bros. This year’s Oscar winner for Best Picture, One Battle After Another will be available to own on in collectible steelbook packaging in 4K UHD + Blu-ray from online and physical retailers. The collectible steelbook will include a Blu-ray bonus disc with special features created by Paul Thomas Anderson along with a 24-page booklet with behind-the-scenes photos. 

“WUTHERING HEIGHTS” on Digital March 31 and Blu-ray, 4K & DVD May 5 from Warner Bros. Academy Award- and BAFTA-winning filmmaker Emerald Fennell’s bold and original interpretation of one of the greatest love stories of all time, debuts Digitally at home on March 31and physical media May 5. “Wuthering Heights” has earned over $230 million at the worldwide box office, and stars Academy Award and BAFTA nominees Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Cathy and Heathcliff, alongside Oscar nominee Hong Chau, Shazad Latif, Alison Oliver, BAFTA winner Martin Clunes and Ewan Michell.

Sam Raimi’s SEND HELP on Digital NOW and on Blu-ray & 4K April 21 from 20th Century Studios. Featuring over two hours of bonus content that takes audiences deeper behind the scenes of Sam Raimi’s twisted survival thriller, Send Help arrives on Digital today, including Prime Video, Apple TV, and Fandango at Home. Sam Raimi describes Send Help as a darkly comedic reversal of power: “What if a woman was cheated by the boys’ club at work, held down by corporate management and a terrible, mean boss who treats her unfairly? And what if they crash-landed on an island and the roles were reversed?” That premise erupts onscreen through the explosive performances of Rachel McAdams (“Linda Liddle”) and Dylan O'Brien (“Bradley Preston”), whose ferocious clash for survival delivers both brutal tension and bursts of unexpected humor. 

PRIMATE on Blu-ray and DVD April 21 from Paramount. Lucy’s tropical island homecoming was supposed to be beaches and best friends—not a fight for her life. When her family’s exceptionally clever chimp spirals into a savage rabid frenzy, the night explodes into terrifying chaos. With her father away and no help coming, paradise becomes a prison as Lucy and her friends fight to survive a deadly predator they once trusted. From the director of 47 METERS DOWN.

STRANGER THINGS: THE COMPLETE SERIES Coming to 4K and Blu-ray July 26 from Arrow Video. Special and Deluxe editions of Stranger Things: The Complete Series will be available for purchase, featuring an array of exclusive bonus content. The Deluxe Edition is presented in custom packaging featuring newly commissioned artwork, alongside a wealth of extra material. PRE-ORDER HERE!

The Fantasy Thriller, DUST BUNNY Coming to 4K and Digital from Lionsgate. Some monsters are real in this fantastical and wickedly inventive feature directorial debut from visionary creator Bryan Fuller.

MERCY Coming to Blu-ray, 4K and DVD from Alliance Entertainment. Mercy follows Detective Chris Raven (Chris Pratt), who stands accused of murdering his wife. On trial before the advanced A.I. Judge (Rebecca Ferguson) he once championed, he has just 90 minutes to convince it that he’s innocent and stave off execution. 

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE coming to 4K and Blu-ray April 21 from Sony. In the world of The Bone Temple, the infected are no longer the greatest threat to survival—the inhumanity of the survivors can be stranger and more terrifying.

Gore Verbinski’s GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE on Digital Now, on Blu-ray, 4K and DVD April 21 from Universal. A man claiming to be from the future (Sam Rockwell) recruits an unlikely group of diner patrons to join him on a genre-defying adventure to save humanity from the perils of social media brainrot and the impending AI apocalypse! 

INNERSPACE on 4K and Blu-ray April 28 from Arrow Video. Director Joe Dante (Gremlins) takes his brand of cinematic fun inside the body of a man with Oscar-winning visual effects. The limited edition release features a brand-new restoration from the original 35mm negative.

SLEEPERS 30th Anniversary Edition on 4K April 21 from Warner Bros Discovery. Based on the book of the same name by Lorenzo Carcaterra, Barry Levinson’s film features an all-star ensemble cast, including Academy Award winners Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman, and Brad Pitt, along with Kevin Bacon and Jason Patric.

SOLDIER, Starring Kurt Russell, on 4K April 28 from Arrow Video. The limited edition release features a brand new 4K restoration by Arrow Films approved by director Paul W.S. Anderson, hours of special features and newly commissioned extras.

Finally! BLUE THUNDER Limited Edition 4K Coming May 5 from Arrow Video. A landmark of analog-age futurism, it remains a razor-sharp thrill ride that fires on all cylinders from beginning to end. Includes numerous new and archival bonus features.

GREENLAND on 4K March 31 from Lionsgate. A family fights for survival as a planet-killing comet races to Earth. John Garrity, his estranged wife Allison, and young son Nathan make a perilous journey to their only hope for sanctuary. 

THE BLACK BELLY OF THE TARANTULA on 4K and Blu-ray May 12 from Celluloid Dreams. This giallo classic will arrive in a beautiful slipbox that features the film, along with a vast array of bonus features that provide more insight into the film and its production than ever before. It is now available for preorder on the Celluloid Dreams website.

GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION on Blu-ray, 4K and DVD March 31 from Lionsgate. In the aftermath of a comet strike that devastates most of the Earth, GREENLAND 2: MIGRATION follows devoted family man John Garrity (Gerard Butler) and his wife and son (Morena Baccarin, Roman Griffin Davis) after they’re forced to leave the safety of their bunker in Greenland to search for a new home in a shattered world. 

POINT BLANK Coming to 4K and Blu-ray April 21 from Criterion Collection. Free Kittens’ CEO bought himself an older Blu-ray copy of this action classic, then literally the next day, Criterion announces this release! In addition to a 4K restoration, this disc comes with a bunch of bonus features.

MONTY PYTHON’S LIFE OF BRIAN on 4K and Blu-ray April 14 from Criterion Collection. Featuring ribald Roman puns, sharp political commentary, and an audacious crucifixion-themed musical number, the Pythons’ most ambitious film is a hilarious satire of dogma and blind faith in which nothing is sacred.

EVIL NUN and the Ultimate Sin

EVIL NUN (DVD)

2025 / 90 min

The Asylum

Review by Josey, the Sudden Cat🙀

For a fleeting moment, Evil Nun got my hopes up with its genuinely disturbing prologue, which has a nun crouched on a church floor, screaming in blood-curdling agony while in labor. After she gives birth, a dark-robed figure takes her baby away, then brains her with a hammer. It’s a scene more unnerving than anything in The Nun, the inexplicably popular film that mockbuster masters The Asylum are obviously ripping off.

Then the moment’s over, and the story itself starts with yet-another carload of young people who get stranded. And I gotta say…few things kill my enthusiasm for a horror movie faster than one that opens with a batch o’ kids stuck in the middle of nowhere. It’s one of the most overused horror tropes in history and the kids are always the same, which is indicative of a complete indifference to offering anything original. 

When all else fails, shine the flashlight directly at your own face.

But I get it. Originality has never been The Asylum’s modus operandi, so why start now? And admittedly, they’ve managed to crank out a few that are genuinely entertaining (if sometimes at their own expense). Not this time, however. The plot eventually has its characters trapped in the same church where the nun from the prologue died. Then they start getting picked off by an unseen entity…but not the nun herself, who instead “possesses” one of the girls, imploring her and her dwindling group of friends to find her missing baby. 

That’s right, kids…despite the misleading title, there is no evil nun (unless you count her being knocked up in the first place). But that’s the least of the movie’s problems. While performances are serviceable, a few of the kills are okay and the film is competently made, the story and characters are hopelessly generic. Since it doesn’t even qualify as so-bad-it’s-good, Evil Nun ends up committing the ultimate sin of being boring and forgettable.

Revisiting CUTTER’S WAY in 4K

CUTTER’S WAY (4K + Blu-ray)

aka Cutter and Bone

1981 / 109 min

Radiance Films

Review by Mr. Paws😺

Cutter’s Way (aka Cutter and Bone) is yet another film that was destined to be a tough sell and ultimately thrown away by a studio that had no clue what to do with it. But its stature has steadily grown over the years. While not necessarily a cult film, critics and historians continue to cite it as a unique, character-driven and thematically-rich example of neo-noir.

But even today, Cutter’s Way remains somewhat polarizing, at least among those who’ve actually seen it. I know people who absolutely love the film, and just as many who wish they could get 109 minutes of their life back. Then there are those (such as yours truly) who didn’t care for it at first, but grew to appreciate it upon subsequent viewings. 

Jeff Bridges plays Richard Bone, a shiftless, womanizing salesman who thinks he might have witnessed a powerful local businessman, J.J. Cord (Stephen Elliott), dump the body of a teenage girl into a trash can. Bone’s best friend, disabled Vietnam veteran Alex Cutter (John Heard), takes a keen interest in this and comes up with a plan to blackmail Cord…not to get money out of the man, but to incriminate himself for trying to buy their silence. Cutter even manages to coerce the victim’s sister, Valerie (Ann Dusenberry), to go along with the plan.

Bone, however, is repeatedly wishy-washy over the idea (typical of his noncommittal tendencies). Sometimes he’s onboard, other times Cutter has to talk him into it. None of this sits well with Cutter’s beleaguered wife, Maureen (Lisa Eichorn), who remains committed to her husband while never being particularly happy with him (or herself). But here’s the most intriguing aspect of the plot…it’s never made quite clear who actually dumped the body in the first place. We also get the impression that Cutter doesn’t really care.

After his escape from New York, Snake unwinds with a road trip.

As a character, Cutter’s a real piece of work. Having lost an arm, leg and eye during the war, he’s both physically and psychologically damaged. Compounded by severe alcoholism, he’s also an unhinged conspiracy theorist who not-only resents the cards life has dealt him, but the wealthy elites who seem to get away with everything. It’s entirely possible that Cutter is more obsessed with what Cord represents than whether or not he’s actually guilty.

Most of the time, Bone is a hapless observer of both Cutter’s actions and Maureen’s spiral into depression (though it doesn’t stop him from sleeping with her). I suppose comparisons could be made between Bone and Bridges’ most iconic character, Jeff Lebowski, though the former is better looking, more sharply dressed and far less likable. He’s well played by Bridges, but the movie belongs to Heard, whose all-in performance makes Cutter a morbidly fascinating trainwreck. 

Elsewhere, moral and narrative ambiguity permeates the film, which has always intrigued some viewers and frustrated others. But Cutter’s Way was never intended as a straight crime thriller. While drawing clear inspiration from film noir, it’s just as much a character study of two protagonists whose lives were already on the downturn before we even meet them. And though their relationship is often antagonistic, the unconditional love and loyalty these two have for each other is ultimately touching, which renders the climax pretty powerful.

Those who consider Cutter’s Way an underappreciated gem will love this new 4K release from Radiance Films, who pulled out all the stops in putting together a sturdy, handsomely packaged boxed set with great new artwork. It features an excellent transfer on both 4K and Blu-ray, as well as an abundance of new and archival bonus features. 

EXTRA KIBBLES

4K AND BLU-RAY COPIES

PIETY, PATRIOTISM AND VIOLENCE: THE LEGACY OF CUTTER’S WAY is a new retrospective analysis and appreciation of the novel and film.

FEATURETTES - Cut to the Bone: Inside the Score features music editor curt Sobel; Bertrand Tavernier is a French director who discusses his love for the film.

3 AUDIO COMMENTARIES - 1) By novelist Matthew Specktor; 2) By assistant director Larry Franco & production manager Barrie Osborne; 3) By Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman.

INTERVIEWS - Individual interviews with director Ivan Passer, actor Lisa Eichorn, producer Paul Gurian, United Artists exec Ira Deutchman.

SUPPLEMENTAL BOOKLET - A 77-page, perfect-bound book featuring three brand new essays, a Q&A with director Ivan Passer from 1989, cast & crew credits

ISOLATED SCORE TRACK

INTRO BY JEFF BRIDGES

PLAY WITH ORIGINAL CUTTER AND BONE TITLE SEQUENCE

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ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT: When You Don't Get Your Way, Make A Movie Anyway

ZODIAC KILLER PROJECT (Blu-ray)

2025 / 92 min

Music Box Films

Review by Princess Pepper😾

Just a heads-up…this is not another documentary about the notorious serial killer. It’s about a director who didn’t get his chance to make one.

Charlie Shackleton’s biggest claim to fame is a film called Paint Drying. He made it in response to the British Board of Film Classification’s requirement that all films must be screened by the board before being released (which Shackleton believes is tantamount to censorship). This means he forced the board to sit through a 10-hour film that is literally a single shot of a white-painted brick wall.

As a joke, that’s pretty damned funny.

I learned all this from a few of the bonus features that are included with his latest effort, Zodiac Killer Project, which are far more interesting (and entertaining) than the movie itself. Essentially a documentary about a documentary he never got to make, I get the impression this one is also intended as a joke. If so, it’s a really long-winded one with no punchline, though some viewers might appreciate the meta aspects of the film.

Well...at least there's no CGI.

 At one time, Shackleton was close to securing the rights to adapt The Silenced Badge, a book about a cop’s independent investigation to reveal the Zodiac Killer’s identity, into a documentary film. The director was well into the planning stages when the rights were unexpectedly ranked away from him. Undeterred, Shackleton decided to make a documentary about what his film would have been.

The bulk of the movie consists of the places he would have shot, the spots where he’d have inserted dramatic reenactments and, of course, his initial dismay over losing the rights to the book in the first place. Shackleton himself narrates, mostly off-screen, and he goes into a lot of detail over how each scene would’ve looked. He also displays a little smugness, especially when discussing overused tropes in other true crime documentaries (which is admittedly spot-on).

Ultimately though, Zodiac Killer Project comes across as sort of a f**k you to those who kept a guy from doing the film he wanted to make. While there’s nothing wrong with that, I don’t think he needed 90 minutes for a joke that could’ve been succinctly told in 20. Shackleton at-least deserves an attaboy for salvaging what he could from the debacle, but his efforts are marginally more interesting than watching paint dry.

EXTRA KIBBLES

FEATURETTES - Charlie Shackleton Q&A Session from Chicago Premiere; Rejected Sundance Meet the Artist Video; Camera Test Short Film; Charlie Shackleton on Paint Drying. 

FULL EVOCATIVE B-ROLL REEL

DIRECTOR UNCOMMENTARY TRACK - Same film, without any narration. Essentially a gag feature.

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