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The eco-sci-fi Silent Running comes to 4K UHD courtesy of Arrow, but is it as good as you remember?  

Mike "Get Carter" Hodges' 1998 neo-noir helped catapult a young Clive Owen into the Hollywood limelight, earning a deluxe Arrow set 4K release and an opportunity for fans and newcomers to (re)discover this gem in style.  

Dino De Laurentiis’ ill-advised and deeply flawed remake of one of golden age cinema’s first blockbusters arrives on 4K from Studiocanal with an interesting new colour grade…  

German expressionism has never looked so good; The Cabinet of Dr Caligari comes to 4K UHD - you won't sleepwalk through this!  

It certainly wasn't just the name that led people to suspect that Nicolas Winding Refn's 2011 masterpiece, Drive, may have been inspired by Walter Hill's ultra-cool neo-noir, gifted a 4K restoration by Studiocanal.  

Jacques Becker’s cult classic that influenced so many of the French New Wave directors that followed in his footsteps is given a new 4K restoration thanks to Studiocanal… but it seems they forgot to include one teeny, tiny, but all-important element…  

Ignoring any sense of trying to hide the insanely stupid but gloriously brilliant twist of the first film, this decade-too-late prequel to the bonkers ‘Orphan’ instead tries to out-gonzo it. And goddamn it, it almost succeeds…  

Kevin Reynolds' 1991 Box Office hit is a rip-roaring old school action adventure with prime Costner, prime Rickman and prime Freeman tearing up the screen, and Arrow's lavish set doing them justice in 4K.  

Tarantino's first and finest comes to 4K in a bloody steelbook whose native 4K image made our eyes bleed.  

John Hughes' classic Steve Martin/John Candy comedy Planes, Trains & Automobiles lands on 4K with Dolby Vision and a boatload of processing.  

We look at the Orson Welles' inscrutable The Trial, given a newly minted 4K scan for its 60th anniversary  

We take a look at Jordan Peele's third film as director - Nope - that might just have best Dolby Atmos track ever  

If you’re only going to buy one disc this month……buy Top Gun: Maverick. But if you can buy TWO discs this month, let’s see what else may tickle your fancy in our November release round-up… UPDATED WITH MORE TITLES AND MORE COMPETITIONS!  

No one would have believed in the early 21st century, how 4K Blu-rays would be watched keenly and closely, by cool and envious eyes, with a view to taking over the world, and slowly and surely they drew their graphs against us  

Martin Scorsese’s glorious grotesquery of 80's excess still packs a massive punch thanks to a powerhouse turn from muse Leonardo DiCaprio and a sense of hedonistic revelry that matches its subject beautifully. And now on a 2160p disc from Arrow that shows its paltry 1080p cousin how it should be done...  

James L. Brooks' 1997 Best Actor / Best Actress winner is the last great Jack Nicholson movie, and one of those rare romantic comedy-drama masterpieces, rounding out an eclectic 4K Columbia Classics Collection Volume 3  

The late Peter Bogdanovich's breakthrough directorial effort was a multi-Oscar-nominated 1971 coming of age drama and a worthy entry in Volume 3 of the 4K Columbia Classics Collection.  

Winning 8 of its 13 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay, Fred Zinnemann's 1953 adaptation of James Jones' classic novel is a stark early reflection of messy military mayhem on the eve of war, and a worthy entry in Volume 3 of the 4K Columbia Classics Collection.  

The first - and arguably least - of three successive social race & relations features the legendary Sidney Poitier embarked upon, this role-reversal to his earlier Blackboard Jungle, and precursor to Dangerous Minds is a quaint and well-meaning fairy tale that only Poitier could steer, included in Volume 3 of the 4K Columbia Classics Collection.  

The first film to ever win all five major Academy Awards (Picture, Director, Actor, Actress, Screenplay), Capra’s 1934 classic still stands the test of time, landing in 4K as part of the Columbia Classics Collection Volume 3.  

Only Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson at the absolute height of their powers could have conjured up a horror sequel that worked as both a skewering of the notion of reruns and retreads yet in some ways, not only equals but surpasses its originator... and Paramount, in an unironic twist, also delivers yet another stellar 4K re-release that corrects all the horrible digital problems of the first one…  

One of the best blockbusters in years, one of the best sequels of all time, and - nostalgia notwithstanding - not only a better follow-up than anybody could have possibly hoped for, but arguably the better film too. And now... the best 4K release of the year.  

David "John Wick" Leitch's Brad Pitt-starring smash-up of Joe Carnahan's Smokin' Aces, Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, Guy Ritchie's anything, and every cheesy style-over-substance witty action romp from the nineties/noughties, is dangerously scattershot and gleefully over-the-top - UPDATED WITH 4K COMPETITION  

Sandwiched awkwardly between perennial cinematic masterpieces Commando and Predator, John Irvin’s Raw Deal half-heartedly tries to convince that Austrian man mountain Arnold Schwarzenegger can go undercover in an organised crime family. But you just can’t keep a good Arnold down. Or even a relatively poor one... especially not in 4K.  

Cronenberg's take on the video world comes to 4K in a suitably icky package.  

From the sublime – a century old silent classic – to the ridiculous – another Jeepers Creepers? Really? – and everywhere in between, it can only be a genre fans favourite release month of the year! UPDATED - 10 COMPETITIONS NOW ADDED  

Russell Mulcahy’s music video writ large transcends every part of its subjectively flawed DNA to become and remain an all-time classic. And Studiocanal do it true justice with this glorious 4K set that thankfully leaves its yellow and teal leanings where they belong… the '90s.  

Somewhat late to the party, and inspired by the Poltergeist 4K release, we finally take a look at the other 1982 release from Spielberg - ET.  

Lavish and luxurious, Coppola's magnificent ode to Bram Stoker's epistolary novel is the auteur's last great feature, a flawed but fabulous fable that earns a curiously convenient 30th Anniversary 4K reissue with added Dolby Vision.  

Mortal Kombat Legends: Snow Blind proves that, no matter what is happening in the live action realm, the animated realm is still ripe for rich and rewarding sequels, caked in carnage.  

Both admirably scrappy and disappointingly scrappy, Gia Elliot's film walks a similar route of hyper-allegory as Jordan Peele's US but falls short when it comes to the nitty gritty.  

Delia Owens' novel makes for Olivia Newman's sophomore directorial effort, giving Normal People's Daisy Edgar-Jones another deserved lead vehicle, but playing it too safe, clean, whimsical and ultimately YA for its own good.  

Criterion release Thor: Love and Thunder in 4K Dolby Vision with optional IMAX Enhanced aspect ratio, a full-bodied Atmos track and a second disc packed with extras... in the future, at some point when Disney get bored of not doing any of that.  

A ‘Baz Luhrmann’ film in every sense of the word, the Australian master of gaudy excess dives with gusto into the legend of Elvis Aaron Presley and delivers an experience for the senses befitting of them both.  

Joel Schumacher’s Bat Pack teen classic shines brighter than it ever has before on this stunning new 4K release from Warner Bros.  

Improbably managing to both be worse than the last entry, and waste the return of the original cast, Dominion is shot and edited so incompetently you might find it unintentionally amusing, though that's still not worth 161 minutes of your waking life.  

Eureka's first foray into 4K is Jackie Chan's classic Police Story Trilogy, boasting stunning native 4K/DV presentations, and marking the first time that Supercop has been released in the UK in a high def format.  

As scary now as it was back then, Poltergeist comes to 4K Blu-ray sending chills down your spine.  

Monty Python’s final messy cinematic masterpiece comes to 4K with songs about sperm, Christmas, all manner of male genitalia and the universe itself, given a new lease of life thanks to its amusingly unnecessary DTS:X soundtrack...  

One of the quintessential 80's bonkbusters from one of the 80’s quintessential director-star line-ups gets a very disappointing 4K release from Paramount…