If you’re looking for information about the latest 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD releases coming this week, you have an incredible number to choose from. This edition is incredibly busy with just about every genre represented. I’ve tried to cover the highlights here to give an idea of just some of your options. So, if you can’t make it out to the movies or need to stay indoors for a while, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

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BAD BOYS: RIDE OR DIE: The fourth picture in this action/comedy series sees the two lead characters, a pair of Miami police detectives, starting to settle down. Upon learning that their deceased captain has been accused of associating...

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Running Time: 138 minutes

This film from Lionsgate will open exclusively in theaters and on IMAX screens on Friday, Sept. 27.

For decades, Francis Ford Coppola has been following the beat of his own drummer, from commercially successful ventures like The Godfather series, Apocalypse Now, The Outsiders and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, to smaller and more intimate films including The Conversation. For the past 20 years, he’s been working on even more unique and esoteric independent projects like Youth Without Youth and Tetro, which have garnered a variety of responses. If you’ve read the papers recently, then you may be aware that his latest venture is...

Welcome to another look at some of the highlights arriving on 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray and DVD. This is a slower week, but there are still a couple of notable pictures coming your way. So, if you can’t make it out to the movies this week, or need to stay indoors for a few days, be sure to give one of these titles a try!

BIG NEW RELEASES!



CALIGULA: THE ULTIMATE CUT: Curiously enough, one of the week’s biggest releases is a film that was shot 48 years ago. In 1976, Tinto Brass shot an expensive biopic written by Gore Vidal about the Roman emperor Caligula.



It begins during his childhood when the title character’s family is murdered. He survives and over time slowly rises in...

Rating: 3 out of 4 stars

Running Time: 104 minutes

This animated feature from Paramount Pictures opens exclusively at theaters on Friday, Sept. 20.

I’m aging myself here, but as a child I will admit to being a fan of the Hasbro “Transformers” toy line (most kids of the 1980s were). In addition to the popular cartoon T.V. series right around the height of their popularity, the following years saw a 1986 animated feature and, starting in 2007, a live-action series of blockbusters. Honestly, those recent efforts did little to impress me. The visual effects were impressive, but the stories were nonsensical at times with little within them to grab and engage me as an adult viewer....