Welcome to The 4K Ultra HD Bazaarvo monthly appointment to find out all about the latest 4K releases and the visual and audio experience they offer. Born of his author's passion for physical media and his desire to share with you the pleasures of cinema at home in his most accomplished form, each issue is the opportunity for the celest wolf to test and evaluate the audio/video performances of many discs released in France and internationally, guiding you through the subtleties of the HDR, the nuances of the WCG and the immersion of 3D soundtracks.
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Video broadcaster (QD-OLED 4K) : Sony Bravia XR-65A95L
Universal reader : Oppo UDP-203 Audiocom Reference
Multimedia player : R_volution PlayerPro 8K Signature Edition
Pregnant (7.1.4): Sennheiser AMBEO Soundbar Plus, SB-4000
Image Modes : Professional (SDR or HDR) | Dolby Dark Vision | IMAX Enhanced
Listening modes : Dolby Atmos | Dolby Surround | DTS:X | DTS Neural:X
Contents
Master and Commander: Across the world
Source United States | Publisher : 20th Century Studios | Release date : 05 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.40
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
French (Parisian) Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 10 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – A masterful naval fresco from Patrick O H.M.S Surprise splits the waves in a breathtaking reconstitution. Between roaring storms, sharpened war tactics and shrill maritime duels, this martial odyssey embarks us in a life-size strategy game led by Captain Jack Aubrey (an Imperial Russell Crowe). And stretched like a rope in full gust, this very great spectacle never loses course. At collision!
IMAGE – Restored from original elements (but which ones?), this visual crossing that holds the bar close reveals refined details, especially in the textures of the uniforms, and more worked shadows because of the contribution of the Dolby Vision. Few flamboyant colours, deliberately deaf palette obliges, but a few sharp bursts (linked to candles and lanterns) pierce like signals in the mist. In the face of grain and smoke, compression remains imperturbable.
SON – From the first breaths of the wind, the VO Atmos lifts the sails, diving the listener into a fiercely agitated 3D sound sea. Each floor crack, each wave, each order yelled by the crew fuse from one channel to the other like a well-positioned gunball. The score, as majestic as a three-mast in the middle of a storm, envelopes the action. Once ferocious, the dynamics and bass now roam in calmer waters. Offshore, VF lossy preferred to anchor.
The Ministry of Sale War
Source United States | Publisher : Lionsgate Films | Release date : 25 June 2024
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
English
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7.5 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – In this muscular pasticheInglourious BasterdsGuy Ritchie (Snatch, The Gentlemen) plays the saboteurs of the great historical story in fuel to the bruff. Guns, sneezes and swings next to a "non-gentleman" squad James Bond for an intern) in the so british style, even if it goes a little empty sometimes. But since elegance is next to the baton to better take it to the conveniences, smile around the market, we will do with it!
IMAGE – Captured in 8K and finalized in 4K, here is a UHD presentation worthy of a report ranked top secret: surgical sharpness coming to light every detail, sumptuous colorimetric palette enriched by the WCG (orange atmospheres) and contrasts calibrated by a high precision HDR (water reflections, darkness, explosions). Nevertheless, the rise in resolution reveals everything, including the mediocrity of some CGIs (like some flames), briefed in haste.
SON – Welcome to the Ministry of Sound Chaos, where the bullets whistle, the rear scene ignites, the bass beats (a physical discharge in the infra) and verticality has a sense of spectacle (a real aerial ambush). Christopher Benstead flirts with Morricone without ever marrying him when the dialogues, between punchlines and verbal tensions, remain intelligible even during shootings at close range. The acoustic war is total, far away from the wet firecracker blown by Premium Video.
The Innkeepers
Source United Kingdom | Publisher : Second Sight | Release date 25 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.35
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
English
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 10 | Audio : 9
WORK – As each crack becomes a riddle, Ti West transforms the Yankee Pedlar Inn in a mental trap where the chapters open like doors that one would have preferred to leave closed. And if humor serves as incense to mask fear, creeping anxiety settles down like an unwanted customer. A descent into the invisible where visions, never quite safe but covering the walls of our memory, make us waver in uncertainty... which haunts long after the credits.
IMAGE – Validated by the director, this new 4K restoration is faithful to the soft and discreet aesthetic desired by him and his chef op The HDR/WCG rendering remains attenuated but precise, with imposing blacks and a deliberately dull carnation. Even if more perceptible, fine details are deliberately leveled to preserve a resolutely organic texture (the grain), well helped by encoding of FiM. From the very solid that prefers the spectrum of the natural to the brightness of the spectacular.
SON – As felted as it is penetrating, this soundtrack converts each door squeak to spectral shiver. The voices are clear, perfectly integrated with deliciously orchestrated spatialization. The LFE channel subtly pushes to torment mixing without ever saturating space. The dynamic, electrifying, plays with frequencies (like Claire with its amplifier) in order to better awaken minds. As for the surrounds, they shudder in the insides of the hotel.
Daybreakers
Source Australia | Publisher : Umbrella Entertainment | Release date : 06 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.35
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 2K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English DTS-HD MA 7.1
Subtitles
English
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 9 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – In a world where humanity is squeezed like a bottle of organic blood juice, the Spierig brothers revitalize the vampirical myth between bestial degeneration and hemoglobined capitalism. A concentration of fantastic nervous, bleeding and clever, that comes to resurrect the soul of the series B d的antan with an Ethan Hawke in Dracula corporate and a Willem Dafoe with well-positioned stake. But too short to bite full teeth in his universe, he leaves us on our hunger.
IMAGE – Stylized to the extreme, the unsaturated photo finds a new youth by the contribution of WCG and HDR, sublimating the depth of blacks, the glacial atmosphere of shades and the vivacity of urban lights. (4K Ultra HD US including) burned in the sun, and encoding Fidelity in Motion promotes the breathing of a fully recovered 35 mm grain. Far from the artificially reinforced piqué of the old Blu-ray, this version prefers finesse to fireworks.
SON – Focusing as much on the spatialized effects/ambiences with generosity (the surrounds circle like a vampiric patrol in hunting) as on the voices, always audible even at the heart of the attacks, this Dolby Atmos mix tracks us in every corner like an open space hungry vampire. Dynamics have punch, bass roar violently, and vertical activity voltigates balls, explosions and bats in a particularly lethal night ballet.
Hell of duty
Source France | Publisher : The image workshop | Release date : 19 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – Ladies and gentlemen of the film jury, I plead for Hell of duty, this judicial burn where Friedkin (Exorcist) exposes the workings of a court martial more loyal to the state than to the truth. For in this court, transformed into a moral battlefield, where Samuel L. Jackson is shooting at our certainties, justice can only waver in the face of war, which no one can ignore that it does not have clear rules of engagement. Verdict: guilty of excellence.
IMAGE – This edition offers a native 4K restoration from the original 35 mm negative, sublimated by a tactical precision HDR10 (DV to the States). Visual rendering impresses with its surgical definition, stability and depth. The colours, vibrating and perfectly calibrated (the earthy hues), show no weakness in the theatre of operation. The blacks gain in shade without ever capitulating, and the high luminance strikes strongly. Uniform grain.
SON – For a drama essentially cloistered in a courtroom, the VO DTS-HD MA 5.1 deploys striking dynamics and exemplary spatialization. The atmospheres envelop space with precision, and the fighting scenes compete with The Fall of the Black Falcon by a warrior LFE channel and an optimal distribution of pyrotechnic effects. Dialogues are clear and partition faithful. Even though the lossless VF remains operational. Monotonous dubbing.
Counseling: The Warren Files
Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date : 10 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.40
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 2K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 8 | Audio : 10
WORK – A millimetre nightmare signed James Wan (Saw, Malignant), where even silence becomes a threat. True tribute to classical horror cinema (of Exorcist to Amityville), « Ghost train » never derails, supported by surgical staging, insidious appearances and crescendo tension. The Perrons not only moved into a haunted house, they opened the Hell Gate! Will you cross the threshold of fear?
IMAGE – Always faithful to the haunted aesthetics of John R. Leonetti, The Counseling retains its grim patina, enhanced here by an HDR10 that accentuates the contrasts. The reds bleed better, the shadows shudder harder, and the textures become sharper, especially in close-up. No DV, but a strong HEVC encoding for UHD transfer which, with its increased clarity, searches the corners of the frame in search of invisible. But curse, violet drifts are observed here and there.
SON – If the VF lossy is exorcized by its full power, the VO DTS-HD MA 5.1 invokes an infernal soundtrack, both felt and furious. The effects circulate like spirits in the walls, the bass roam like a deaf threat, and the surrounds whisper in the ear like a familiar entity. Every breath, every crack, every bird flight, every break of glass nails us to the armchair. Without Atmos mix by choice of real, convening a DSP 3D is not irrelevant.
Cabal (1990)
Source France | Publisher : ESC Films | Release date : 07 May 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1 (Directors Cut)
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
French DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
French
Rated 3 of 5
Artistic : 5 | Video : 8 | Audio : 7
WORK – Clive Barker wanted to open the doors of Midian, but the producers preferred to close them with scissors. Remains a carnival of fascinating creatures, alas truncated by a chaotic montage leaving more monsters behind the scenes than on stage. And if Cronenberg as a killer shrink steals the star, the scenario is as confused as a Nocturne in the middle of an identity crisis. Ambition is there, implementation much less. A gothic fresco cult... unfortunately amputated.
IMAGE – This DV presentation magnifies the contrasts between the human and monstrous worlds, revealing Midian in all its twilight splendour. The colours burst (flaming reds, sharp greens), the details are finer returned (paintings, decorations) and the blacks, abyssals, sculpt each plane. Unedited, the 4K source of DC (with carefully upscaled and calibrated exclusive sequences) remains consistent despite variations in grain and pitch.
SON – The audio tracks follow the standards already known: two fresh and accurate DTS-HD MA 2.0, and a wider 5.1 English, which gives life to Danny Elfman's melodic atmospheres and flights. Where stereo provides more surgical listening, the multichannel proposal plays the show card (the rear presence and the bass punch), but without reaching peaks (the monotony of dynamics and distortions). On the director cut, the VF is fatally fragmented.
Massacre with chainsaw (2003)
Source United States | Publisher : Arrow Films | Release date : 26 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 7.1
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 9 | Audio : 10
WORK – Michael Bay produces, Leatherface executes, and the viewer gets his nerves cut with sadistic precision. Still inspired by Ed Gein, Plainfield Butcher, this remake of the 1974 classic plunge us into a moist and visceral horror, where each cry resonates like a blade on the flesh. No second degree in Hewitt, just a rough nightmare, without anesthesia. In this contemporary slasher, the only thing that survives is the smell of human leather.
IMAGE – Scanning the 35 mm negative in 4K/16 bits, calibration Dolby Vision and sharp quality control of encoding: a UHD restoration that saw in detail. The image gains in finesse (including number) and the colorimetric palette, as desaturated as it is malady, reveals greenish shades once the carnage has begun. The definition reaches the threshold of malaise, the grain (more palpable in archives) is no longer subject to DNR, and the raw light is even more overwhelming.
SON – A DTS-HD MA 7.1 track that slices into the alive with a formidable spatialization: stridulant insects, disturbing runoff and metal ratchets infiltrate everywhere. The surrounds are exploited with brilliance, directional effects (gunshots, vrombing chainsaw) arise violently, while the bass, deep and anxiogenic, make the walls vibrate as if Thomas(sacre) roamed in the listening room. Version 5.1 less lively and immersive.
Massacre with chainsaw: The Beginning
Source United Kingdom | Publisher : Arrow Films | Release date 25 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 7.1 (Unrated Cut)
English DTS-HD MA 5.1 (Unrated Cut)
English DTS-HD MA 2.0 (Unrated Cut)
English DTS 5.1 (Theatrical Cut)
English DTS 2.0 (Theatrical Cut)
Subtitles
English
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 9 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – More gore than his predecessor but less malaising, this nihilist bloodbath cuts the bodies as much as the nerves of his gritty staging and his infernal rhythm. The scenario that deepens the madness and cruelty of the Hewitts makes R. Lee Ermey's faux sheriff bleak (the unforgettable sergeant instructor of Full Metal Jacket) in sadic icon, and each killing is a demonstration of barbarism. A prequelle that does not make in lace, but in living flesh.
IMAGE – Nostalgic softness of the 16 mm from Hooper, granularity brutality and feverish texan yellows: a UHD Dolby Vision transfer (drawn from the original 35 mm) craze and stylized with concrete encoding. Ultra-contrast, photography slices better into the shadows. Often capricious, the grain is much better controlled. The colorimetric palette is becoming more toxic. And even if intentionally attenuated, the pique benefits from a better cut of textures.
SON – An incandescent frontal opening, surgically spatialized circular effects and an oppressive atmosphere that extends like a fog table. The rear is very active, especially at the slaughterhouse, where the mix awakens echo of the place. The LFE vrombit as a chain saw at rest, the mediums are fleshy, and the sharps clear. From the first cry to the last breath, in 5.1 as in 7.1 (more open), the DTS-HD MA encoding precisely sculpts the tension.
Shutter Island
Source France | Publisher : Paramount Pictures | Release date : 24 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.35
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 2K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9.5 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – In the mists of Shutter Island, Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon) orchestrates a mental maze where each corridor sows doubt. DiCaprio (Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood) takes us into an awakened dream with disturbing contours and the island, the theatre of a savourily distilled paranoia, sweats the discomfort in each plane. Illusions are piled up, truths are wavering, and the viewer becomes patient despite him. Like an uncertain memory, this psychological thriller header.
IMAGE – Without achieving clinical sharpness, this 4K transfer, which increases in precision (the 35 mm grain) is marked by elegant ambient madness. Hagard faces are hollowing, cliffs are crumbling, and the island breathes in its smallest textures (see the panoramas loaded with misfortune). The Dolby Vision sculpts shadows as buried memories, between dense blacks and whites (expressionists) controlled, and the shades flame during the wounds of the mind. Rare compressive echoes.
SON – If the work deserved an acoustic immersion worthy of its hallucinations, it is a solid mix of original DTS-HD MA 5.1 that will have to be satisfied. So no 3D track, but a horizontal wrap that keeps us locked in the asylum. The dialogues are clear, the effects subtly threatening, and the oppressive score plays the sound jailers. As for the storm, it allows the LFE channel to give to heart joy. Less intense, the VF Dolby Digital 5.1 is just a simulac.
Lilo & Stitch (2025)
Source France | Publisher : Disney | Release date : 24 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7.5 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – If he's more cajole than he is, this remake live action of the classic Lilo and Stitch managed to capture his mischievous spirit while offering him a new wave of emotion. Stitch remains an adorable gremlin, Lilo a tornado of tenderness, and Hawaiian culture sees itself deepened for a fairer and vibrant representation of the soul of Ohana... which means « family ». Where animation vibrated like a ukulele under the stars, here we dance on softer strings. Tender and faithful.
IMAGE – This UHD Dolby Vision transfer surfs a mastered technical wave: sharper Stitch fur, better controlled contrasts (deeper blacks and high lights with preserved details), and tropical palette that makes the oceanic and green plant blues dance (better saturation) without turning into a cartoon. With almost tactile precision, the fineness of textures hides nothing from the seams between digital and practical. More sieved, interior lighting becomes more intimate.
SON – The VO Atmos makes the 626 experience leap in all directions: verticality, immersion, and galloping effects to the key. Cosmic escape and surfing scene « Earthbound » exploit the sound space as a diving surge. The outdoor atmospheres overflow with life, the dynamics are sunny, the dialogues do not drown, and Hawaiian music vibrates like a Kamaka In a shell. Too bad the VF, flat like a swellless board, stays at the bottom of the palms.
Future Cop
Source United Kingdom | Publisher : 101 Films | Release date : 21 April 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.78
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Digital 5.1
English Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 1.5 out of 5
Artistic : 4 | Video : 3 | Audio : 5
WORK – From TechBlack discount with supplement nostalgia unintentional, such as a Terminator (intention) to grilled circuits. The big arm of the future (a stoic-looking cop) patrol in the shots, with more bugs than bullets, and rusty punchlines, which are meant to be badass, fall flat. As for the SFX, it looks like they were DIY in the Papi garage, with passion but no bubble level. Bancale but full of d'élan, this craft B series rushes into the wall with enthusiasm.
IMAGE – From a 4K scan of the 35 mm negative before being slaughtered with a digital scalpel, this dreadful Dolby Vision UHD transfer seems to have been shot by Max Headroom. A visual blush of every moment, where the softness of the frame gives way to aggressive sharpening (artificially reinforced contours). Cooled colorimetry without subtlety, disorderly granularity, unbalanced contrasts ( opaque blacks and neons) and pâtés of pixels complete the table.
SON – Shamefully not HD (which of the LPCM track?), the acoustic part remains stuck in the VHS years (including breath). From the time-out where the 5.1 mix is just an illusion: zero spatialization, pulpy effects, deafening explosions and stealth volume. Only the central channel holds the line, delivering the dialogues with certain clarity. Fortunately, the stereo saves furniture with a more faithful and consistent rendering, despite its modesty (limited atmospheres).
Lost in space (1998)
Source United Kingdom | Publisher : Arrow Films | Release date : 1 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English LPCM 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 3 of 5
Artistic : 5.5 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – If there is a lack of emotional fuel and is lost in a black screenplay hole, this intergalactic journey, which was aimed at the stars, remains no less entertaining. The tribute to the original series works, the artistic direction makes take off the imagination, the adventures (thinked for a family audience) quickly chain up and Gary Oldman cabotine just what it takes. Spectacular for the time, the eye-catching visuals now show their digital wrinkles.
IMAGE – Digitalized in 16-bit 4K, the 35 mm negative reborn in this Stephen Hopkins approved UHD DV transfer. If the CGIs are frozen in time, the practical sets and costumes shine with a star sharpness unprecedented until then. The grain fluctuates slightly, but remains well resolved. The chromatic palette is becoming brighter, especially in solar yellows and cosmic blues. As for the shadows, they reveal some secrets without leaving the orbit of reasonable.
SON – Certainly dated visually, Lost in space is propelled by a mix DTS-HD MA 5.1 always as wide and immersive. The sound environment is full of space effects and impressive surround signals, especially during the chaotic launch and the maneuvers of Jupiter 2. The atmospheres coming elsewhere populate the back channels with brilliance, Bruce Broughton's score unfolds an elegant dimension, and dialogues remain clear throughout.
The Legend of Ochi
Source Germany | Publisher : Plaion Pictures | Release date 28 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.66
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
German DTS-HD MA 7.1
Subtitles
German
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – Fine writing and vintage aesthetic beauty (rich of meaning) make up this family fantasy (a first for the production house) A24) author, whose initiatory narrative delivers a strong message about the environment and progressism. One E.T. eco-friendly and anti-mainstream with mischievous casting (Willem Dafoe, Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson) and expressive puppets, for a hybrid adventure with a gentle nostalgia of the 80s. Nice to meet you.
IMAGE – Organic and worthy of a book of stories that comes to life, this UHD DV transfer is carried away by sylvan magic. The sweetness evocative of the framework (the use of objectives) Baltar In combination with matte paints printed on film and then rescanned, it reveals a living picture in each plane... where the details (furnished), soft soils with hirsute furs, bathe in watercolour (enriched) colors sumptuously worked. Diffuse lights and misty darkness adjusted.
SON – The Dolby Atmos mixing envelops the listener in a sound cocoon as mystical as precise. The natural elements (rain, wind, fauna and flora) merge with the grunts or trills of the Ochis (with a very well spatialised resonance in the cave) to create an acoustic landscape worthy of the enchanted Carpathians. Dasha's ethereal flute reinforces the fairy side of the story and dialogues, almost meditative, are clear as a mountain river.
Innocents: The Dreamers
Source France | Publisher : Metropolitan Video | Release date : 16 May 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 10 | Audio : 8
WORK – In this carnal camera where the revolution rumbles under the sheets, Bernardo Bertolucci (Little Buddha) films bodies as manifests. Paris becomes the scene of an intimate insurrection, dreams rub with (hard) reality and innocence is consumed in beauty. Between cinemaphile games and sensual explorations, an ode to the awakening of senses and ideas in the felt intensity of an incandescent trio (Eva Green, Michael Pitt, Louis Garrel). Freedom, equality... sensuality.
IMAGE – Restored from the original negative (preserved at the Cineteca Nazionale) under the supervision of Fabio Cianchetti, Innocent is just sumptuous in her beautiful UHD DV clothes. The Parisian palette is sublimated (vibrating reds, woody browns and healthy carnation), the fine grain perfectly authentic (number included) and the one thousand league definition of the 2004 DVD. The details about the bodies abound and the apartment, now bathed in mastered clarity, has nothing to hide.
SON – Intimate with the need for a sound revolt (the May 68 protests), these two 5.1 tracks are based on a clear frontal scene (where dialogues clearly dominate) without refusing a welcome (but limited) sound scale when the crowd exits the street (at the beginning and end in short). Although little enveloping (except for eclectic score and some urban effects), spatialization remains balanced, both inside and outside. French dubbing well.
The Phoenician Scheme
Source France | Publisher : Universal Pictures | Release date : 08 October 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.47
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8.5 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – When filial reconciliation (a grim industrialist in search of redemption through his religious daughter) serves as an adventure comedy for the Tintin, the texan filmmaker and scholar unfolds his espionage pastiche through a geopolitical theatre in internal stop-motion (architect cadres populated by well-conceived figures) where death hovers as much as absurd humor. Less guinded than use and filled with felted irony, an anti-capitalist work that fills the « Gap ».
IMAGE – From the very beginning, this UHD Dolby Vision transfer imposes its mastery: deep blacks without crushing, bright whites better bruised, richly saturated palette (even if consciously attenuated under the burning sun of the desert) enhanced, rich decors with even more details (from vintage jet to lush jungle). A rendition with incriminating sharpness, worthy of Zsa-Zsa's ploy, in which his face, mask of duplicity, is a topographical of scars and secrets.
SON – Subtle constant spatialization, delicate fantasy mix, dynamic with discreet energy, clear staggered dialogues, faithful eccentric music, LFE channel to turbulence under control: a Dolby Atmos VO that plays the map of refinement with the precision of a Swiss watchmaker (cf. Arbalete tiles). Deprived of the mischievousness of verticality (resonance in the tunnel, the club of Marseille Bob) and of the millimetred play of the actors (a dubious dubbing), the VF lacks uniform.
The Convoy of Fear
Source United States | Publisher : Criterion | Release date : 24 June 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 8 | Audio : 8.5
WORK – Radical revision of the masterpiece by Clouzot, this mechanical nightmare, oozing with sweat and oil, smells fatality every turn. The bitumen becomes a purgatory, the trucks of the rolling coffins and the tension, particularly peasy, sticks to the existential craze of its protagonists. At this level, even nitroglycerin seems less unstable than humanity... Where the original distilled the anguish in the dust, Friedkin (TrackedInjects into mud and chaos.
IMAGE – Drawn from an inverted 35 mm interpositive, this 4K restoration (based on color references validated by Friedkin) to the revisionist coldness and sometimes too treated appearance, remains no less impressive density. Because even if modernized by new colorings, photography delivers its thick granularity with stability and its desperate blacks with what it takes to density. When they are not reinforced (so in 95% of cases), the details amaze.
SON – In 2013, Friedkin was valid for a loss-free 5.1 remix, cut for the Convoy shakes. But the original 2.0 surround track, restored from the 35 mm magnetic track, offers a more raw dynamic, in which the Tangerine Dream And the explosions are better restored. But for a significant increase in the atmosphere of the jungle and the movement of trucks, the 5.1 flow is to be preferred. Two mixes, two tensions: you choose your sound route.
When Evil Lurks
Source United Kingdom | Publisher : Second Sight | Release date 28 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
Spanish DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
English
Rated 5 out of 5
Artistic : 9.5 | Video : 10 | Audio : 10
WORK – While the churches have long died, this demonic possession which spreads like an infectious disease celebrates the advent of the « end of the world » by doing a large carnage on a growing scale. Traumatic and up to the Buttist (she saves no one), this horrific work of Turny with the macabre falcian hints and inevitable fatality plays on an unpredictable fear... At a thousand places, therefore, facilities revived from a rhymed genre since Exorcist.
IMAGE – A UHD transfer as clear as an axe in the skull: surgical definition, striking depth and controlled compression. The DV (approved by Demián Rugna) transforms the landscapes into a rural, moist and suffocating furnace, as if evil roamed in heat. The blacks are abyssal, the high lights blinding, and the saturated palette sticks to the peaty atmosphere. No artifacts, just demonic clarity. The rare images jumps are convulsions desired.
SON – An audio track that roams like a malicious entity: each speaker becomes a vector of tension, Pablo Fuu's crawling notes sinsinuate like a sound infection, and the subwoofer descends into the deepest abyss. A mix DTS-HD MA 5.1 worthy of Nolan (Tenet), where the least effect is intentional and each atmosphere, a sensory possession. Aggressive surround like a demon hunting and clear dialogues. Everything is under control, everything is threatening.
Released on September 24, the French edition signed Factoris Films HDR produced by Second Sight for the 4K SDR master Shudder. It's very beautiful, but the shades are less nuanced and the darkness too bright. The DTS-HD HRA, privileged at MA to maximize video flow (BD-66 forces), frequents the same darkness... a bit more contained. French dubbing as inhabited as a corpse.
Chungking Express
Source France | Publisher : The Jokers | Release date : 04 June 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.66
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
Cantonese DTS-HD MA 5.1
French DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
French
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 7 | Audio : 8.5
WORK – Like a heartbeat suffocated in a fast-food soul, love with Wong Kar-wai sauce seems like a forgotten order: too late, too blurred, too beautiful. Each plan is a letter never sent, each song a memory that refuses to die. A romantic comedy where one runs (to lose water that makes one cry) after ghosts, with outdated pineapples for only companions. It is the spleen of Hong Kong, served sweet bitter, with supplement solitude.
IMAGE – Supervised and approved by WKW, this 4K restoration offers increased sharpness and refined granulosity vis-à-vis the previous Blu-ray. But under the Hong Kong neon, everything is not clear: the new yellow shade (typical of Immagine Ritrovata) alters the colours (red, green and white) and the dynamic native range has been severely darkened. If it thus gains in stability and definition, this UHD Dolby Vision transfer also loses the chromatic soul of the city.
SON – Even though recently remixed (several changes have been made by his director), the VO DTS-HD MA 5.1 breathes a remarkable sound vitality into urban atmospheres and music, an emotional pulse of the work projecting with clarity and without distortion in the listening room. Dialogues are clear and spatialization is balanced. Frozen in time (without recent adjustments) and limited in scale, the VF 2.0 dual mono is otherwise more tightened.
Erin Brockovich, alone against all
Source France | Publisher : Sony Pictures | Release date : 03 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.78
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – Served with high heels and acid distribution, this judicial drama sees Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman), in heroine without a degree, but with a doctorate in determination, do not let go, except perhaps one or two well placed swears. Activist cinema based on a real fact, which exposes the ravages of a toxic enterprise with radioactive clarity, where justice takes on modern western airs... Because as an ethics sheriff, Erin Brockovich shoots faster than his legal shadow.
IMAGE – Driven by natural (more subtle) lighting and fine grain, this UHD DV heat transfer (more nuanced) near documentary is faithful to the original silver rendering. The details are there, with a sharp leap in front of definition (rebellious loops, wrinkles and leather textures), and the colorimetric palette, with a controlled sweetness, gains saturation (cf. the yellow shade of the desert). Without fail, this welcome upgrade breathes true, like Erin. Why the fucking 1.78 who's ripping the frame?
SON – No big argument for Erin Brockovich, but two frontal and clear DTS-HD MA 5.1 tracks, centered on the incisive dialogues of his heroine. The atmospheres remain discreet but efficient: traffic, offices, children and photocopies keep pace with the survey. Timely lows and dynamics on the spin of the bikes and the inaugural accident. Discreet score by Thomas Newman, between felted tension and restrained emotion. French dubbing a bit too much forward.
Timecop
Source France | Publisher : ESC Films | Release date : 17 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.35
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – Van Damme (Bloodsport, Manhunt) in all its temporal splendour: charisma screwed into the future, sautéed bastons, and petaradant paradoxes. The script? A muscular back and forth between the years and the abs, where Jean-Claude plays the watchmakers of destiny with the flexibility of a Swiss karateka (special mention at the scene of the great gap on the kitchen plane). So, in this 90s actuator, every kick goes back time... and kicks fate.
IMAGE – Drawn from the negative 35 mm, this 4K restoration sublimes the image with a controlled DV that reveals previously lost shadows and bright high lights. Hyams, faithful to his taste for natural lighting, finally sees his aesthetics respected. Despite a slight loss of quality on the period SFX, the rest of the film shines with its sharpness and refined grain. More vibrant and nuanced, colorimetry returns to a new youth. A visual leap in time to healthy encoding.
SON – Mix 5.1* VO hits hard: nerve spatialization, impacting effects, clear dialogues. The rear atmosphere is almost constant (80% of the time), even with track 2.0 surround (more frontal though that said) that surprises with its sharp percussions and heavier basses. Close to the latter, the VF DTS-HD MA 5.1 is just as much at the height of the chrono-combat that is being played, despite too prominent dubbing coming to blur some atmospheres at the front.
* For this edition, ESC Films certainly had to use the VO DTS-HD MA 5.1 of the previous Blu-ray Warner and not that of the recent 4K Ultra HD Shh! Studios. The second, despite a high flow rate, suffering from ridiculous separation, low surround effects and an anemic LFE channel. Blocked in a deserted and unrelief present, it remains far from the multichannel proposal of its consœur.
Black Sheep (2006)
Source Australia | Publisher : Umbrella Entertainment | Release date : 03 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.35
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 2K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 3 of 5
Artistic : 6 | Video : 7.5 | Audio : 8
WORK – This tasty New Zealand delirium mixing gore and black humor, with a thick wool, is a parodic horror film that, granting its revenge to sheep, grazes the conventions of the genre and digests them with a bloody rictus. A pastoral carnage, hilarious and absurd, where the practical special effects, signed Wśtā Workshop (trilogy The Lord of the Rings), are as crazy as the bleeds of mutant sheep. The leg? Sometimes it bites.
IMAGE – In addition to regaining its cinema format 2.35, far from the 177-open matte of the French Blu-ray, this series B ovino-gore was vermifuged by the present 4K restoration (supervised by Jonathan King himself). The palette gains in luxuriance (yellows, reds and greens), the Super 35 grain sage more and the details, despite a slight strengthening of the contours here and there (scale-up required), abound in the pasture. Even if boosted by the DV, the contrasts are still fragile.
SON – The track DTS-HD MA 5.1 is doing the job: murderous bleeds slam well and ovine attacks (the sound heart of the mix), with bloody shrapnel well placed, do not lack biting. A woolly apocalypse to spatialization, albeit sober but effective (especially during teddy offensives), which looses in the near (volunteerly shifted) clear dialogues and a felted score (subtly placed in the background a good half of the time) of Victoria Kelly.
Lawrence of Arabia
Source France | Publisher : Sony Pictures | Release date : 03 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.19
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 10 | Video : 9 | Audio : 9
WORK – In this cinematic odyssey that mixes sand, epic breath and inner loneliness, David Lean orchestrates a desert as vast as the dilemmas of his hero, incarnated with intensity by Peter O And while each plane is a fresco where the horizon becomes a mirror of the soul, the Orient becomes the scene of an identity quest during a (sublime) mirage of greatness and contradictions. On the dunes of destiny, the epic of a man and the vertigo of a changing world. Masterpiece.
IMAGE – Captured in Super Panavision 70 and restored in 4K (scan 8K of negative 65 mm) in 2012 for its 50 years, Lawrence of Arabia comes back in a UHD DV version (on 2 discs) taken from the same master's degree: surgical definition, solid granularity, palpable sandy textures, flamboyant desert colour (reds, blues), abyssal blacks, bright light sources. A caravan of perfection... slowed down by the appearance of digital mirages (compressive instability here and there).
SON – From the opening where the orchestra (the unforgettable music of Maurice Jarre) extends in 3D, with strings suspended above the desert, the VO Atmos imposes: immense spatial separation, perfectly directed dialogues, active verticality (echoes, plane overflights), naturally enveloping atmospheres, carefully spatialized effects (sabots, shots, trains), bass to awaken dunes (bombings). Just lacks the clarity of modern mixes. The VF lossy is not the royal way.
Shrouds
Source France | Publisher : Pyramid Video | Release date : 16 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
CSD | BT2 BT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
French DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
French
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 6 | Video : 9 | Audio : 9
WORK – If he crashes in his vaporous investigation against the background of conspiracy theories, Cronenberg delivers his most personal work where an icy Vincent Cassel, his avatar in the sweat of his autobiographical grief, embarks on a neurasthenic logorrhea to probe the stages of mourning by looking death in front of him. But if inventing stories can bring comfort to the bereaved when the absence of the loved one becomes unbearable, refusing to let any emotion shine is criminal... At least for the spectators. Indeed, there is no doubt that commemorative ornaments would have made it easier to collect on this cold 2.0 tomb like death!
IMAGE – This UHD SDR transfer burys any technical fear: the carnal intimacy of the image is a sharp funeral, without any filtering. The encoding, as precise as a scalpel, restores each reflection and texture (more softened on the Blu-ray) with a cold elegance. Even without HDR, the contrast between the shadows of mourning and the (stamped) flashes of memory is perfectly controlled. Unlike its HD counterpart, digital noise is discreet as a whisper from beyond.
SON – Two tracks encoded in DTS-HD MA 5.1 (VO and VF stand in a handkerchief) that wrap a felted sound veil, like its posthumous theme. Mixing favours silences and clinical atmospheres, with subtle but efficient spatialization. The dialogues are clear, the effects discreet but well placed. The music of Howard Shore, rare and introspective, acts like a murmur of mourning. An acoustic dressing that is body with the obsession of the film.
The Choruses
Source France | Publisher : Pathé | Release date : 03 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.35
CSD | BT2 BT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
French DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
French
English
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 7.5 | Audio : 8
WORK – Between lost eyes and found voices, this dramatic comedy weaves a simple but sincere melody, carried by children who sing as they breathe. The staging remains discreet, leaving the delicate music of Bruno Coulais (The Purple Rivers) make the link. For like a note suspended in the silence of a dormitory, it touches just, making the sensitive rope vibrate. And as he makes humanity breathe again, this hymn to redemption accords hearts.
IMAGE – Between the absence of HDR and the newly vintage colorimetry « school sepia »), this UHD transfer will not school. But far from being the core of the class, this 4K restoration (by Lighting Classics Since the negatives 35 mm) keeps its silver grain, fine and homogeneous, while allowing the depth of field, deeper than in HD (despite more details in restraint), to give it. The imperfections of the film were erased without a false note.
SON – This track DTS-HD MA 5.1 does not scream, it whispers gracefully. The voices (light and moving) fly away, the choirs caress space, and Jean-Baptiste Maunier shivers the walls of the boarding school. Few basses, little effects (especially at the back), but a well tuned emotion, for a mix that remains wise, almost too high. A little more daring wouldn't have been a problem in this score... but the song remains master. And now we forgive everything.
Substitution - Bring Her Back
Source United States | Publisher : A24 | Release date : 19 August 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.00
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
English
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 10 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – As mourning turns into a curse and love into an obsessive spectrum, this funeral drama hits us in a nightmare that exhumes pain with icy precision. The staging, in plain darkness and heavy silences, transforms each piece into an emotional crypt, the script, woven like a canvas of grief and damnation, plays skillfully with the codes of the supernatural thriller and the actors, inhabited, seem themselves haunted. To shiver... to the bone.
IMAGE – Clinical and disturbing, the photograph of Aaron McLisky (often using a narrow focal point) ices the blood in UHD Dolby Vision. Close-ups, regularly disoriented, reveal almost invasive precision on faces and textile fibres. Cold hues, especially blues and greens, strongly accentuate mental drift. As for the contrasts, well dosed, they skillfully play the map of malaise, carried by anxiogenic blacks and parsimony light.
SON – Very quickly, the sound opening of this Dolby Atmos mix hits with its spatial mastery: water effects (recurrent for reasons quickly obvious that I would be writing here) fall in cascade around the listener, projected by a meticulous sound design. The atmospheres, sometimes stealthy, sometimes more frontal, circulate between all the channels, creating all along an immersive tension. The music of Cornel Wilczek (Hand) has a good ventilation and dialogues remain clear.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Source France | Publisher : Metropolitan Video | Release date : 11 October 2024
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
CSD | BT2 BT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
Korean DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
French
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 7 | Audio : 8
WORK – Social drama to cold violence and disillusioned romanticism, this human tragedy with brilliant narration, high-tenure interpretation and aesthetic staging demonstrates that love blinds when its characters, complex and anchored in our reality, will be guided by pain, despair and revenge by gradually forgetting the consequences of their actions. A dizzying descent to hell where tension and horror will crescendo.
IMAGE – Despite a real gain in precision (good-bye artificial accentuation), this visual patchwork struggles to convince: dotted silver grain (even if recovered in part), pallet too full of life, excessive contrasts and lack of technical coherence from one plane to another. However, the SDR rendering is much less glaring than HDR10+ in Capelight. Still present, digital artifacts (mouldings and/or blocks of pixels in the background) betray the absence of a return to negative 35 mm.
SON – True to the 2012 track (at the same publisher) despite avenger clips on the power station, VO 5.1 is as accurate as it is immersive. The ambiences (scientically stifled sometimes) and the music (discreet) envelop the rare dialogues with surgical spatialization (the noise nuisances of the neighborhood), and the dynamics never lose its bite. With the exception of sound revenge, the LFE channel remains silent. If it follows closely, the VF pushes too much the voices forward.
Old Boy (2003)
Source France | Publisher : Metropolitan Video | Release date : 11 October 2024
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.35
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
Korean DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 8.5
WORK – Grand Prix du Festival de Cannes 2004, Old Boy is a technically sophisticated and scriptually controlled hybrid dramatic thriller. Plenty of complex characters masterfully interpreted, this incredible story of revenge with ultra-violent scenes and permanent tension is carefully designed to manipulate us from A to Z. Sequestered for 15 years. By whom? Why? To find out, it's up to you to discover this visceral Shakespearean drama...
IMAGE – Validated by Park Chan-wook and obtained from the same 4K masterArrow, this DV remasterization makes new skin: closed black farewell, burnt white, excessive green, edge enhancement and digital noise. The colours gain in neutrality, the stitch in finesse and the contrasts in legibility, not without making the light sources shine correctly. As for impurities and other chromatic aberrations of the first edition CapelightThey're buried... like a tooth in the sink.
SON – Like Dae-su's hammer, VO 5.1 punches hard... despite an unsolicited LFE channel. More disciplined than Runway 7.1 of Wild Side, subject to clipping, it offers a convincing spatialization (with a sustained surround environment) and a reactive dynamic, especially during the bassons that shake well properly. The voices (limpid) and music (ample) dominate, while the blows carried shake the atmosphere. Less striking VF with unnatural dubbing.
Lady Vengeance
Source France | Publisher : Metropolitan Video | Release date : 11 October 2024
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.35
CSD | BT2 BT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2 NT2
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
Korean DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
French
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8.5 | Video : 7.5 | Audio : 8
WORK – Sublime tragedy in search of a lost humanity, the final strand of The Trilogy of Vengeance, with the ever-renewed emotional power and baroque staging, desires to atone for his sins once the angel of anger has passed. But in the end, linked to his own guilt, the quest for (Revenge) remission of Lee Geum-ja, (eaten) animated by many feelings, shows that redemption cannot be reached by a personal vendetta.
IMAGE – Even if coming from a 4K scan, this new SDR master is very little defined for a 35 mm capture (precision remains shy), the excessive softness leaving the doubt as to the origin of the source. However, it is framed and recalibrated (the bloody rosé replacing the malady green), but it reveals a silver grain to subscribers who have been absent until then. More balanced in its (less hard) contrasts and saturation (less high), it fortunately avoids the excesses of the German DV.
SON – Little focused on dynamics (this is not the subject) but populated by atmospheric atmospheres, this blend encoded in DTS-HD MA 5.1 serves the sound elegance of punishment with clear dialogues (and voice off), perfectly localized sounds and sharpened violins like a revenge blade. Absent from the 2012 track (the one from the Blu-ray Metropolitan), the VO suffers from a few clasps on the plant. Due to a deafer dubbing, the frontal VF is unbalanced.
Tightening on: The Trilogy of Vengeance
Despite reservations about two of the three 4K copies, the best of the market said, the FR box of The Trilogy of Vengeance has every chance to delight the cinemaphiles. Exterior sobriety, but inner richness: neat digipacks, unpublished booklet with interview of director and complete storyboard of Old Boy. Discs HK Video full of bonuses, between making-of, cut scenes, audio comments and the director Lady Vengeance, finally revealed in its version gradually turning to the failed N&B (HD / VO DTS-HD MA 2.0). Cherry on the kimchi: the documentary Old Days (turned in 2016) revisits the scene and memories of the 2003 film shock with emotion. A limited collector's edition as generous as a well-cooked revenge, back to sale on October 6.
Thunderbolts*
Source France | Publisher : Disney | Release date : 03 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 10 | Audio : 8.5
WORK – When MCU plugging the electrodes on his left-for-account, he surprises: behind the bastons and punchlines, beat cabosed hearts. This group of lost souls, welded by pain and black humour, offers an explosive and emotional adventure, mixing muscular introspection and grinning sarcasm. Florence Pugh, brilliant, and his acolytes prove that even the darkest lightnings can illuminate. A real lightning strike for marginals looking for light.
IMAGE – A UHD DV transfer chiselled like Walker's shield, between striking textures and HDR that electrifies the screen. Not too much CGI here, but a visual mastery that sublimates every detail, from Sentry's latex to the palpable dust of Utah. The blues are reinforced by green shades, the reds grow stronger, and the yellows gain in « fishing ». In the almost monochrome finale, the Void emerges, more icy than ever. Anyway, it smells like the ground, not the green background.
SON – More subtle than demonstrative, the VO Atmos focuses on a certain finesse of restitution: immersive spatialization (effective verticality and committed backstage), clear dialogues and well-positioned ambient effects. But when the action explodes, the dynamics and bass remain in retreat. So the super cuts lack biting and the detonations don't really shake. Even if solid and well distributed over the seven channels, the VF lacks precision. Well-integrated dubbing.
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Hell of duty | An HDR10 calibration of tactical precision
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Counseling: The Warren Files | VF lossy exorcized of its full power
Lilo & Stitch (2025) | At the bottom of the palms, the VF is flat like a swellless board
Erin Brockovich | (original ratio 1.85) hired by PG&E to sabotage the frame
The Choruses | The colorimetry today vintage (of « school sepia ») will not attend school
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