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.
Whether you're a seasoned cinephile looking for the best editions of the market or an amateur wishing to maximize its home-cinema installation, follow the recommendations of our expert and prepare to be amazed by a quality image and sound you thought so far reserved for cinemas. Good reading and enjoy every issue to come! #WeLovePhysicalMedia 📀✨
It is brought to the attention of our dear readers that, in addition to the specified and used viewing equipment, the rendering may differ from one installation to another, whether or not it is calibrated, as well as personal preferences and expectations may influence notation.
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
Ghost Killer (2024)
Source United States | Publisher : Well Go USA | Release date : 23 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 2K
Soundtrack
Japanese Dolby Atmos
Japanese DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 9 | Audio : 9
WORK – Ghost Killer slices in the vibe of Japanese action cinema: stylish battons, black humour and avenger spirit make good sharing. Akari Takaishi is a student inhabited by a hired killer (Masanori Mimoto), for a duo as barred as effective. Kensuke Sonomura orchestrates his plans as a kendō master (they just aim, without unnecessary gestures) and the final, furiously choreographed, slams like a ritual of deliverance. In every sense of the word, a movie that kills.
IMAGE – Compared to its counterpart 1080p, this UHD transfer is a subtle yet sharp range: spectral sharpness, sharp details and slightly fantasy hues. The DV makes bloom colors (from flamboyant reds to mordorated yellows) and contrasts (more sumptuous reflections), while the textures gain in relief, especially on the knitted cups of Fumika. Only a hint of aliasing betrays the scaling, like a blade that hangs on the sheath.
SON – In real sound blade, the Japanese Dolby Atmos track is precise, immersive and sharp. From the opening, marked by the death of Kudo, everything was sounded with accuracy: shots, impacts, movements of killers. Throughout, the surrounds activate with surgical violence. The ambiences (from the bar and the outside), animating the verticality, enjoy a living spatialisation. Voices remain clear, even when action rages. A mix without blush, like Fumika possessed.
Funeral weddings
Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date : 24 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 2K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Digital 5.1 EX
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – In this gothic fable where love stumbles between two worlds, Tim Burton dissects the fakes of marriage with a biting irony. The animation in stop-motion is a jewel of thoroughness, the beyond overflows with life, and the black humor sfeuille in tenderness, like a rose on a tomb. It's macabre, crunchy and terribly touching. Thus, even six feet underground, this posthumous romance that still beats the heart makes you want to say "yes".
IMAGE – Almost 20 years after its release, this image-by-image animation returns to UHD HDR10 with a bluffing visual restoration. The details gain in clarity, the shadows in depth, and the gothic atmosphere always bewitches as much. The contrast (inverse) between the world of the living, cadaveric, and that of the dead, bursting, is more natural and striking, with subtly intensified colors. To make Victor and Emily pale, this 4K resurrection revives the flame.
SON – The original 5.1 EX mix, equivalent to 6.1, offered enhanced rear spatialization, faithful to cinema diffusion. Resuming its essence, the new Atmos soundtrack certainly does not chamboule the tombs, but adds some vertical effects (wildlife, reverberations) and subtle panoramic ones. The dialogues are well anchored, the atmosphere enveloping, and Danny Elfman's score resonates with a spectral richness. More dull and less mischievous, the unchanged VF is too sober.
2 sisters
Source France | Publisher : The Jokers | Release date : 19 June 2024
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
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 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 7 | Audio : 9
WORK – Under his silk sheets, this psychological scare hides nightmares sewn hand. The story folds, twists, like a hanji doll with a split smile. Each plan is a mirror: cloudy, deceptive, tragic. The mourning there dances with madness, in silent heels. Between illusion and truth, confusion and elegance (such as a bloody hanbok), painful memories tangle and reality wave. While silence whispers a secret that the house refuses to forget, it is shaken.
IMAGE – Restored in 4K since the negative 35 mm under the eye of Kim Jee-woon, Lee Mo-gae's photograph reveals an unhopeful visual richness: organic texture found, amazing details (from wallpaper to faces) and unexpected palette... For freed from its former yellow dominant, the latter is more enchanting than ever (cf. the density of reds). Unfortunately, the encoding does not follow: blacks struggle to stabilize and silver finesse is often shaken.
SON – Deploying precise and immersive spatialization, this blend encoded in DTS-HD MA 5.1 accurately exploits the rear scene. The cracks of the house, gusts of wind and other oppressive silences invite into space with surprising clarity... Like the building whispered its secrets. By a brutal dynamic, the effects that arise cold ice the blood. An acoustic sorority... troubling if desired, to see in VO (diminished in VF).
Spawn
Source United Kingdom | Publisher : Arrow Films | Release date : 06 October 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
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 : 4 | Video : 9 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – This is an adaptation (from the eponymous comics created by Todd McFarlane in 1992) that should have remained in the Gehenna: failed SFX cacophony, frickin' punchlines and as clear a scenario as a Luciferian swamp. John Leguizamo cabotine as if ridicule could save the affair (spoiler: no) and far from exploring the damnation, redemption and moral dilemmas of the Paper Spawn, the film is only an uncreated photocopy that burns in his attempt to blaze the screen.
IMAGE – From the original negative 35 mm, the editor invoked Spawn (TC & DC) for a demonic UHD transfer: the 1.85 frame of origin overflows with details, the photograph of Guillermo Navarro sees its shades warmed (and its carnation assaine), and the light grain is never hindered by a solid encoding like hell. A controlled polish stroke where the Dolby Vision ignites flames, lightnings and contrasts, giving relief to darkness. CGI SD cracks under sharpness.
SON – Despite the unfortunate absence of an Atmos mix, a heresy for such a demon, the DTS-HD MA 5.1 remains furiously effective... Especially, coupled with a virtualization DSP. The action spills over the canals with a staggering accuracy: thunderstorms, rain, shootings and rumbles saturate the acoustic space. Dialogues are clear, dynamics robust and low fleshy. Calibrated as an infernal symphony, this soundtrack honours the tormented HellSpawn universe.
Awakening in terror
Source Australia | Publisher : Umbrella Entertainment | Release date : 04 June 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 8 | Audio : 7
WORK – A hallucinated descent into the dusty hell of Outback, where flies stick to temples like illusions to soul. Each liter of lukewarm beer swallowed is one more step towards self abdication, in a desert where blood dries faster than consciousness. An oppressive and visceral solar nightmare that, between drinking, hunting and group submission, exposes Australian virile rites as brutal masquerades that erode man's identity. Uppercut!
IMAGE – It is in UHD Dolby Vision that the Southern Purgatory finds its most « Beautiful » grain (thickness, rightly), but not only: the burning hues (red, yellow, brown) regain their original fever (the greenish drifts of the 2009 HD Master have evaporated), the details appear on all sides (‘Docs' Tydon sweats more than ever), and the gap between shadow and light has been accentuated. But like a hangover, dirt persists. Coding FiM is a model of the genre.
SON – The track DTS-HD MA 2.0 (dual mono) wakes up the sound of Wake in Fright with clarity and power far superior to previous editions. Despite some (dynamic and precision) sobbing inherited from wild shooting (the hunting sequences were not tamed), the dialogues remained stable and clear. No distortion upsets Christmas holidays, just a slight persistent breath. Balanced, this mix is true to the authentic, raw and unfailing spirit of the film.
Over the Top: The Iron Arm
Source Germany | Publisher : Capelight Pictures | Release date : 11 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.35
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English LPCM 2.0
German DTS-HD MA 5.1
German LPCM 2.0
Subtitles
English
German
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7.5 | Video : 9 | Audio : 8
WORK – Over the TopIt's the arm of the heart. This muscular road movie of the 80s, worn by a Stallone (Rambo, Expendable) in softness-testosterone mode, we shake hands and soul. Between the overturned cap and the overturning truck, we board for a ride where emotions make the weight. It's kitsch, it's manly, it's touching, and it's mostly an ode to the magnificent losers who win the game. In short, Sly with arms-the-body, with a handful of nostalgia
IMAGE – A Dolby Vision UHD transfer that puts double bites: rich textures, chiselled faces and diesel fuel clarity. A few punctual blurs betray the limits of the era capture, but nothing that makes the whole wave. The 35 mm grain is controlled, solid encoding, and the WCG gives colors worthy of Vegas without crushing the blacks. There are a little soft contrasts here and there, but the upgrade remains spectacular in front of the Blu-ray dsantan. The geometry has been corrected.
SON – Between the rich music of stereo and the muscular bass of 5.1, Over the Top plays on two sound boards. Track 2.0, bolder in mediums, offers immediate richness from the opening credits. The multichannel mix, on the other hand, focuses on the rear engagement, even if discreet out of the action scenes and the championship. The voices are clear and well set in both cases, with a slight volume advantage for stereo. In short, a sound duel that returns the speakers.
Tron
Source France | Publisher : Disney | Release date : 08 October 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.20
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
French SDR 5.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 6 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – Tron is a visual feat (at least for a 1982 film) that forgot to press the key « narration ». Because if the digital universe fascinates, the script stays in standby mode. Dialogues are as rudimentary as polygons, emotion struggles to connect and actors are frozen in the code. A computer odyssey that, despite its cult and the gap it has opened in the digital imagination, gives the impression of a beta program. Where's the patch?
IMAGE – Scanned in 8K from the 65 mm negative, the photograph benefited from a meticulous restoration supervised by Steven Lisberger. CGIs have been reworked in 6K, DV calibration enhances the contrasts (black density) and colours (blue and red) of the Grid, practical settings benefit from impressive clarity (such as aliasings in the computer interface), and grain remains fine. Despite a slight degreasing in real life, fans' RAM memory will sparkle.
SON – Signed Audio Mechanics, this new Atmos mix propels us into an immersive sound dimension, with precise surround effects (the panoramas of the Light Cycle) and bluffing vertical spatialization (the Recognizers, the voice of the MCP, the impacts in the virtual). The atmosphere varies subtly between the two worlds, revealing new nuances compared to the old tracks. Discreet but efficient bass (Carrier ship). VF DTS 5.1 functional but wiser.
Tron: Heritage
Source France | Publisher : Disney | Release date : 08 October 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.78, 2.35
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 2K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
French DTS-HD HR 7.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8.5 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 10
WORK – A dizzying dive into a hypnotic beauty cyber universe where Sam Flynn, the new Orpheus, descends into digital hell to find his father. This thrilling journey, between light and transmission, contrasts man to his own creation (Clu, algorithmic variation of Prometheus) in Grid 2.0, Digital Olympus inverted to inhabited pixels (a soul), arena of a mythical confrontation that electrifies like a good shot of Light Discs. Sprinkling.
IMAGE – Although oversampled from a 2K source, this 4K restoration surprises with its sharpness and mastery of physical textures (hair, skin, textile fibres). The DV calibration, supervised by Kosinski, literally transcends the digital scenography (at the variable ratio) of the Blu-ray: intensified blacks, sublimated cold shades (even slate greys take lustre), exalted chromatic spouts (orange, blue), and increased luminous fulgurances (neons).
SON – As if it overwhelms a live data stream, the VO Dolby Atmos propels us to the heart of the system. Immersive and muscular, it operates with brilliance every channel: the surrounds fuse, the aerial scene is a playground in its own right, and the bass roar (but then really) like superheated servers. The dialogues are crystal clear and the electro score Daft Punk propelled like a futuristic rave. Without reaching the heights of his colleague, the VF lossless assures.
Incubus (1966)
Source France | Publisher : The Smoker Cat | Release date : 11 December 2023
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
Esperanto DTS-HD MA 1.0
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 8 | Audio : 7.5
WORK – Turned in Esperanto with William Shatner (Captain Kirk in Star TrekThis film chimera is a pagan ritual under celluloid. Its glacial beauty and expressionist shadows evoke a Bergman under LSD. Intrigue? A macabre dance between purity and temptation, where even succubbs seem to hesitate. It's esoteric cinema that haunts the screen like a feverish dream. In short, a damned work that deserves to be told: Bonan nokton, Incubus!
IMAGE – Restored in 4K from the last existing 35 mm copy found in France, Incubated Reborn waters like a silver shadow. The scan made by the Eclair Group and the signed restoration of the publisher offer an image of a rare majesty: surgical pique, preserved granularity, abyssal blacks and celestial whites. Even in the dark, the level of detail is confusing, sublimated by a Dolby Vision calibration of demonic stability. Impurities practically eliminated.
The only two known copies are French, both with inlaid subtitles. As a bonus (on the Blu-ray), the 16 mm version is open matte 1.37, revealing more images at the top and bottom... sometimes up to the microphones. At the 1.85 ratio (which is operated in 4K Ultra HD), an additional slight cache appears in the bottom of the image when the subtitles made three lines (very rarely).
SON – The soundtrack in DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 scrupulously respects the spirit of the work: sober, clear, and exemplary fidelity to the original Esperanto recording. A tenuous breath remains, discreet vestige of the material of the era, but it never disturbs listening, fluid and immersive (for mono). Dialogues, well chiseled, are clearly required. A minimalist soundtrack, which proves that one can make simple and large (the threatening wind) to whisper malice.
Coffee Flesh
Source France | Publisher : Carlotta Films | Release date : 16 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.33 or 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 2.0
French DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
French
Rated 2.5 out of 5
Artistic : 6.5 | Video : 6.5 | Audio : 5
WORK – While it dissects desire as a disease of the eye, this dark freak show, where only the « sex-positive » (in Uncensored version) under the eyes of « sex-negative », exposes sex, not as a promise of pleasure, but as a stylized punishment, a grotesque dance for frustrated eyes. Here, Voyeurism becomes ritual, and frustration, spectacle. A movie orgy where the flesh is sad, but the show must go on... John Waters applauds!
IMAGE – This 4K SDR copy supervised and approved by Stephen Sayadian, despite the absence of negative 35 mm, delivers a surprisingly stable, warm and carnal image, almost too clean for this porn nightmare with raw and baroque aesthetics. The rendering is as detailed as it can be and the grain vibrates, but the calibration that soft band (fashionous blacks, too pink carnations) reminds us that the desire is untrapped in this place. To watch, two formats of choice (1.33 or 1.85). You want to see my ass?
SON – On the acoustic level, this mysterious cabaret is made in the dual mono 2.0 (VO and VF), with a mix that sucks as much frustration as its customers. The VO, which is more clear, murmurs with its lancinating tablecloths, while the VF, in erectile dysfunction, undergoes a dubbing as artificial as the orgasms of the performers. Regardless of the choice, the sound lacks relief: dialogues with erratic clarity, distant effects and flat dynamic. Blow (very) perceptible in places.
28 Years later
Source France | Publisher : Sony Pictures | Release date : 22 October 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.76
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
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 : 9.5
WORK – Following on from the previous two 28... later, the post-apo horror debunks like a mutant virus: unpredictable, furious, and deliciously degligued. In a stylized chaosiPhone, Boyle films the infection, biological and social, with the energy of an acid punk. In the post-Brexit wink, Garland uses contamination as a metaphor for UK identity retreat. It's kamikaze cinema, biting, screaming, bleeding. The suite is about to run...
IMAGE – A UHD transfer that flows with textures that are much more sharpened than in HD and a much better saturated primary palette: lush foliage, scarlet blood, azure water. The DV, with stunning brilliance (natural light), delivers increased visual immersion (strengthening contrasts)... even though some anomalies, related to the capture, still surface: loss of precision in some dark and merry stealth, mainly by day. No wandering noise.
SON – As biting as an infected rabid, once the volume is pushed, the VO Atmos transforms terror into an acoustic assault: screams, flashing jaws, grunts, blood splashes. Spatialization is surgical, with every effect/ambience finding its place (leaves that rustle, bise that blow, skulls that bubble) without ever encroaching on clear dialogues, even whispered. Verticality and bass (alphas) make body with horror. VF quali, though less enveloping.
The Last of Us - Season 2
Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date : 24 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.78
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 : 7.5 | Video : 10 | Audio : 10
WORK – If she manages to extend her universe with boldness, by more nuanced narrative bows and secondary characters that gain in thickness, this season 2 to contagious emotion sees her rhythm wave, like a slapper with a knife in fungal zone, and some narrative choices (Abby's motivations revealed too early) make the effect of a toxic fungus. Nevertheless, careful realization and balanced dramaturgy give breath to this renewed journey in desolate Lands.
IMAGE – Thanks to a striking visual mastery, where practical decors (the village of Jackson) mix perfectly with subtle digital backgrounds, this UHD transfer refines the precision of the frame (already remarkable in 1080p), even when poorly lit, with improved details on costumes, faces and environments. The Dolby Vision, which sublimates the shades, from the orange tones of the 3rd episode to the glacial and estival contrasts, reinforces the richness of the blacks. Robust encoding.
SON – With remarkable immersive power, the VO Dolby Atmos makes a brilliant use of all channels to project shots, storms, and crowd atmospheres into a dynamic and accurate acoustic space. Even the quieter scenes vibrate delicate environmental effects, while the action unleashes a spectacular low-infra avalanche. The whole remains clear, with perfectly audible voices. In lossy format, VF lacks clarity and depth.
Parthenope
Source Italy | Publisher : Eagle Pictures | Release date : 09 April 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
Italian DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
Italian
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 6 | Video : 10 | Audio : 9
WORK – From the 1950s to the present, this feminine epic about the mysteries of youth (and the city of Naples), seen under the posture of anthropology, offers an aesthetic (postcards) as beautiful and sensual as its divine heroine. But ridiculed and abiding in an over-yearly vision of the woman (that of the old white male), this photo novel at the border of the sacred and the profane is as pompous as it is. Yes, The great beauty drowned in the waters of the Parthenopean city!
IMAGE – Like Parthenope, this HDR10 UHD transfer reveals itself sumptuous, charming and magnetic precision. The photograph Daria D的Antonio, which evokes a dream of summer bathed in Mediterranean light, radiates there (cf. the sun), even in the night scenes (high contrasts), with perfectly mastered saturated colours (the burning blue sea) and a relief that caresses every detail. Where the Blu-ray slips into the color banding, the 4K disc proudly holds the wave.
SON – Like a sea breeze on the sails of Parthenope, VO 5.1 unfolds with remarkable sobriety but total immersion. Spatialisation favours the atmospheres: cicadas, clapottis, distant murmurs, not on the cobblestones... Everything is finely distributed with elegant consistency. Not much demonstrative effects, but a sound correctness to slow and contemplative staging. Enchanting, Lele Marchitelli's score punctuates this acoustic painting with fingering.
The Surfer
Source United States | Publisher : Lionsgate Films | Release date : 15 July 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
English
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 10 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – Blossomed by a toxic gang of masked surfers, an excellent Nicolas Cage (Volt/Face, Lord of War, A talent in solid gold), ready to sell his soul for a real estate, will surf the vague nightmare of a Lorcan Finnegan (The Nocebo Effect) which, stationing in places on the fourth dimension of its Vivarium, delivers a sandy closed up to addictive sweet madness. Because under the burning sun of Australia, paranoia infiltrates like sand into the ego. Eat the rat!!!
IMAGE – Captured with Arri Alexa 35 and mastered in 4K, The Surfer deploys a hypnotic cinematography, willingly granular (more than in HD), often sublime. The DV calibration transforms the sarcella and bruises into liquid hallucinations, while the pushed contrasts (even more) and solar filters (more overwhelming) give the film a postcard look from the 70s. From twisted squares to extreme close-ups, fine details gain significantly in sharpness.
SON – From the first waves, this Dolby Atmos soundtrack literally splashes us. Between beach and beachside parking, the effects of ambience invite unabated (resac, intensive cymbalization of cicadas), all the more so when Cage leaves in a spin. The score of François Tétaz (Wolf Creek) envelopes the space with a psyched refinement, and the dialogues remain clear despite the surrounding disorientation. In short, a mix that makes us surf in our own head.
Silverado
Source France | Publisher : Sony Pictures | Release date : 15 October 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
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 | Video : 10 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – As he rips off the classic western with contagious energy and a four-star casting (Scott Glenn, Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Kevin Costner), Lawrence Kasdan plays the narrative colt as a harmonica, chaining action scenes with a saloon cadence. It is a flashing tribute, sometimes caricatural, but always jubilatory, where one rides between pastiche and plume, without ever losing the north... nor the horse. In this Far West, it shoots in a mile!
IMAGE – This UHD Dolby Vision transfer draws a breathtaking visual quality: sumptuous colours, delicate granularity, chiseled contrasts, textures to empty the saddle. Thanks to a meticulous 35 mm scan and calibration worthy of a duel to the sun, the image that easily surpasses the 2009 Blu-ray crackles like a campfire under the stars. The blue sky pierces the screen, the reds blaze, the blacks ink with elegance. A visual overlap towards the top of the format.
SON – A rare scale for a catalogue remix, the VO Atmos resonates with an accuracy and grandeur worthy of a desert wind: clear voices, bluffing spatialization (effects ricocate from everywhere such as lost bullets), and hoofs that tumble like gun bursts (the LFE channel has nerve). The score of Bruce Broughton (Tombstone) raises with panache, wrapping each scene with an epic breath. More dull, the VF Dolby Digital 5.1 breathes much less.
James Bond 007 vs. Dr. No
Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date : 15 October 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.75
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 2.5 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 7.5 | Audio : 6 (track 2.0)
WORK – James Bond enters the stage, phlegmatic like an ice cube in his martini. Dr. No, a laboratory villain, threatens the world with the charism of an optical manual. Ursula Andress comes out of the water, and the cinema will never recover. The scenario is based on a shaker, but Sean Connery's eyebrows (Highlander, In pursuit of Red October) do the rest. First 007, still running, but already armed with a permit to seduce. The myth is on, Walther PPK in hand...
IMAGE – An overall net UHD transfer, where increased resolution sharpens every detail without betraying the softness of the era negative (where Blu-ray was artificially reinforced). The Eastmancolor, which exposes itself with denser primaries (the blue sky, the red t-shirt of Quarrel) and a beautifully vintage carnation, warms the whole, while the DV plays the card of restraint, betting on discretion and not extreme contrasts. An unstable grain betrays an insistent digital hand.
SON – The VO Dolby Atmos has been licensed to sabotage: suffocated and/or truncated dialogues, insertions of musical sources not in accordance with the original mix, sound effects absent and/or poorly integrated, spatialization as flat as the VF lossy ... therefore frontal with rare visits (hassardous) to the rear. An automated cleaning Q way, but without flair. Fortunately, the dual mono track, a little strident but not filtered, has more biting and natural (see the analog tone of the voices).
Flow, the cat who was no longer afraid of water
Source United States | Publisher : Criterion | Release date : 23 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.00
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
Music DTS-HD MA 7.1
Subtitles
English
Rated 5 out of 5
Artistic : 9.5 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – This feline meditation is a visual caress, a murmur of water and wind where the licked drawings slide like fugitive memories. Here, no round eyes or human smiles: nature refuses anthropomorphism and expresses itself in its own tongue, fluid and mute. Every encounter between species becomes silent pact, a solidarity without words, woven in the current. The animation embodies a liquid memory, where the past fades without getting lost. It's creepy!
IMAGE – Approved by Gints Zilbalodis, this 4K transfer flows with rare technical clarity. The backgrounds, rich and radiant, shine in CSD* thanks to subtle hues (blue, green) and binary flow flirting with 90 Mbps. Despite the bands and pixelizations inherent in the graphic leg, the added silver texture melts with grace. The black cat, a central silhouette, remains impeccable velvet. A deluge of beauty that touches to the maximum the domestic flowtentiel.
* Unlike HDR calibration CG Entertainment (IT), much more contrasted and saturated, the Criterion (US) returns the director's intent as closely as possible, with a more refined grain and a contemplative palette more faithful to the cinematic experience. Between the glorification of one and the subtlety of the other, two reflections of the same current, but one flows from the source... Flow prefers shade to brightness.
SON – A subtle sound wave that embraces the rhythm of the story without ever shaking it... But where the DTS-HD MA 5.1 dominates elsewhere, Flow keeps his breath in 7.1, faithful to his nature. Ambient, progressive and perfectly dosed, it lets music and effects blend into space with crystal elegant. The rear scene envelops without invading, the LFE channel rumbles without crushing, harmony is maintained from end to end. It's not atmos, it's flowcalised, damn well-tipped.
Close dialing on: Elsewhere (2019)
As bonus to the 4K UHD edition Criterion of the Flow, we discover the first feature film by Gints Zilbalodis, directed solo in 2019 with Autodesk Maya. Presented in 2160p CSD, it suffers from audio encoding limited to Dolby Digital 2.0 (192 kbps), but the visual experience largely compensates. This hypnotic silent tale follows a young boy lost in a desert world, hunted by a titanic creature who aspires life around her. Between a yellow bird, a vintage motorcycle and an army of cats, the film unfolds a strange artisanal poetry. Even if the animation of the characters is rather summary, the sets are sumptuous and intrigue, tense at will, captivating by its simplicity. No 4K revolution here, clean textures oblige, but a minimalism that makes all the charm of this beautiful animated odyssey.
Clown Night
Source United States | Publisher : RLJ Entertainment | Release date : 09 September 2025
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
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
English
Rated 3.5 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 8.5 | Audio : 8.5
WORK – With Frendo as a pop croquemitaine and avenger, this micro-budget slasher turns the cornfield into a generational battlefield. Teens? Targets too conscious to just be stupid. Murder? A macabre parade where every killing, between bloody pogo and lethal confetti, rivals grotesque ingenuity. The script? A grinning masquerade using the red nose to hide an acidic criticism of provincial conservatism. Laughter, horror, revenge.
IMAGE – Despite the absence of HDR, this 4K SDR net slice transfer: corn, disguises, masks and decorations come out with much more precision (a higher definition) than in 1080p. The rural colours (between green and yellow ochre) come out well, the shadows are threatening without crushing the details (even at night) and the color banding has disappeared, replaced by an encoding that holds the road. Since the bottom stings where it makes sense, the image attacks from the foreground.
SON – Supporting the atmosphere without ever dizzying, this mix at the same time accurate and balanced delivers an acoustic carnival as studied as a clown smile that hides its game. Drizzle in corn fields and directional effects create palpable tension. The lows, discreet, but effective, reinforce the impact without saturating the space. Dialogues are clear, well-centered, even when it's agitating. Stay the dynamic, not violent enough when the party is interrupted.
Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning
Source France | Publisher : Paramount Pictures | Release date : 22 November 2023
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 10
WORK – Pure action and palpable tension make sparks in this episode sum of the saga where Ethan Hunt, more a pain in the ass than ever, attacks a malicious AI, ironic mirror of our time, not without running amazing stunts at a hell of a train. While waiting for the continuation, this high-flying entertainment already succeeds its mission: an explosive cocktail of « Cruise control » and algorithmic chaos, which culminates in a millimetre climax, suspended between dizziness and mastery.
IMAGE – A brilliant visual mission: this UHD Dolby Vision transfer pushes the image towards a formidable sharpness, fine-tuning every detail (from pores to panoramas of Abu Dhabi and Italy). Deeper colours (and carnation assaine), blacker inkler and brighter white, MIF Wouldn't have done better... especially since no compressive artifact plays spying infiltrated. Where the Blu-ray already succeeds the operation, the brightest 4K Ultra HD runs with more plume.
SON – As it explodes the standards, this Dolby Atmos mixing, available in VO and VF (both bluffing), balances abyssal bass from the intro with the submarine, swallows us in the sand storm and pushes us into the tunnel, on the roof of the train. The race-continuation in the streets of Rome illustrates a staggering rear activity, while the score (of Lorne Balfe) and the effects (most often thundering) hammer each scene with formidable precision.
Screamboat
Source France | Publisher : Factoris Films | Release date : 26 August 2025
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
English DTS-HD HR 5.1
French DTS-HD HR 5.1
Subtitles
French
Rated 3 of 5
Artistic : 6 | Video : 8 | Audio : 8.5
WORK – When David Howard Thornton pitched the ferry with a cartoonist sadism worthy of his Art the clown (Terrifiing), this frankly playful slasher transforms Mickey's innocence by having her capsized in a second-degree bloody bath. A horrific rereading of a character who fell into the public domain (like Winnie-the-Pooh), which revisits floating butchery Steamboat Willie in a joyful shipwreck never taking himself seriously. Enjoying without a buoy!
IMAGE – This SDR UHD transfer stays straight in its deck boots, with a chiselled piqué like a cartoon chopper blade. Despite a few scattered tinglings that invite to the carnage, the encoding holds the bar (the fog of Staten Island). Pop colors splash the screen with assumed pulp energy and contrasts, which keep the course, navigate with ease in the ambient darkness. Even in the midst of an absurd storm, the visual crossing does not take water.
SON – Between the squeaking diversion of the partitions of antan, the floating tension from the dock to the hold distilled by the maritime atmospheres and the noises, deliberately exaggerated, during the killings (cries, blows, viscera), these tracks encoded in DTS-HD HR 5.1 never lose the north. Dialogues are clear, dynamics measured and low impacting. At the price of an overflow on the frontal mix, French dubbing brings an additional comic touch.
If the A/V services roam in the peaceful waters of the support, the technical information of the edition takes violently the wave... At the front, PAL 25 fps rather than 4K SDR 23.976 fps. On the disk, BD25 and Blu-ray embark instead of BD66 and 4K Ultra HD. As a bonus, what about the "Public" fault that stings your eyes? Vigilance in the future: a shell, and the consumer drowns.
9 Weeks 1⁄2
Source France | Publisher : LCJ Editions | Release date : 07 October 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.77
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 2K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
French DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
French
Rate 2 of 5
Artistic : 7.5 | Video : 3 | Audio : 6
WORK – In this erotic video under neon, where desire is not told but is performed, Mickey Rourke and Kim Basinger touch like two models in search of chills. A fantasy that, with its power games and trance bodies, sniffs the senses... without making the heart vibrate. And if the script fits on a thong, the aesthetics are pretty ecstasy. It's sulphurous, it's cult, it's a torrid slow on slippery slope. To be consumed with ice cubes... and a little back.
IMAGE – A rough scale by IA (very certainly automated) of the previous Blu-ray Warner : heavy pass from DNR, botoxed details, false grain (assuming we can call it so) plated any way. In addition, an encoding as flaccid as a forbidden fruit too ripe... especially in low light (macroblocs, smearing, drags). In fact, despite the more voluptuous brightness and the more agile counters, avoid frequenting this UHD Dolby Vision transfer.
SON – If the temperature rises (punch and spatialization) when the tubes of the era (including worship) You Can Leave Your Hat On) sound, the VO DTS-HD MA 5.1 sees its fever fall for the rest of the time: timid laterals and dialogues, sometimes covered, which encourage to increase the volume... but be careful about musical flights. Despite the presence of a slight breath, the wisest but well held VF 2.0 (less erotic tension) is provided with clear voices and homogeneous atmospheres.
Elio
Source France | Publisher : Disney | Release date : 22 October 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 : 10 | Audio : 9
WORK – When cosmic humour comes close to earthly emotion, Pixar (WALL•E, Elementary) embarks us in an intergalactic odyssey alongside Elio, young hero propelled ambassador of humanity. A starry adventure with the sweet visual melody, an anthem of otherness and self-acceptance, which, through the themes of identity, loneliness, rejection and family ties, will speak as much to the budding explorers as to the great dreamers. In short, a first contact... from the heart.
IMAGE – While each pixel seems to dream elsewhere, this UHD transfer deploys a constellation of details and textures that are more palpable than in Blu-ray. Thanks to the HDR and WCG, light games and bioluminescent landscapes explode before our eyes. Within the galactic brilliance, apart from the earth's rigour, its unique visual identity (large format, simulated 35 mm grain, anamorphic effect) radiates the screen of sarcella, purple and yellow tones. Eyes up in heaven...
SON – Since each channel becomes a porthole to the unexpected, the Dolby Atmos VO seems like a shuttle trip to the Communivers. The mix, precise and poetic, envelops the listener in a sound bubble: the bass roam with malice and the effects gravitate with accuracy. Even on Earth, spatialization is treated and dynamics well balanced. Clear dialogues and score as wide as warm. Even if set in space, the VF lossy is less expressive. dB to be pushed.
M3GAN 2.0
Source France | Publisher : Universal Pictures | Release date : 05 November 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 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – This follow-up M3GAN, delusional update of genre cinema, is a Terminator 2 girly where IA is just a techno-pop toy, used for fun, without morals or instructions. More stylish, more spectacular and more barred, it pushes all sliders thoroughly not without a glittered grace, flirting with the grotesque to better surprise (such as the clinically smeared Malignant). And dancing on the circuits of the tech bazaar, she sets up her digital diva reign. When's version 3.0?
IMAGE – Digital surgery that, from the texture of bricks to textile fibres, is even more precise and rich in detail than its HD counterpart. The colours, programmed to evolve with the narrative tension, pass from dull to brilliance with a whole other peps (primary during the infiltration of the A.I. convention). Blacks gain in depth without swallowing anything and brighter light sources are better capped. In short, a DV UHD transfer to make the retinas drink.
SON – Often discreet, sometimes tedious, the majority of the frontal VO Atmos really explodes as soon as the androids enter the stage: low (very) well-blown, effects that send and surgical sound circulation. At the end, by the way, immersion climbs with a welcome rise in power and a verticality that unfolds (finally) without restraint. As for the VF, which is rather large and evenly distributed, it remains less defined... as if M3GAN blurred the signal.
Night of the Dead (1990)
Source United States | Publisher : Sony Pictures | Release date : 23 September 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
English DTS-HD MA 2.0 (Theatrical Cut)
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 8.5
WORK – If he struggles to breathe a new soul into him, Tom Savini exhumes the classic of Romero with special care for SFX. The zombies are cooler, Barbara passes from passive victim to lucid predator, and the closed camera keeps her tension. The hick is that the staging is a little stiff and the emotion in decomposition, yet this faithful tribute manages to plant its fangs where it needs to. Between respect and dust removal of the zombie flick, the classic horror rises... and walks.
IMAGE – For its 35th anniversary, this remake benefits from a real technical resurrection in UHD DV: finer details (make-up), more natural colours (in vibrating primary), deeper contrasts. The 35 mm grain was kept elegantly and the previous calibration, doubtful, was indeed buried. The first minutes of the uncensored version, previously unpublished, display a black and white (nostalgic) with remarkable grey scale and well marked shadows.
SON – The Dolby Atmos mix gives a beautiful vitality to this besieged farm: clear dialogues, immersive atmosphere and shots (with a revised stamp) dry. Special mention to the high canals that capture the aerial agitation of the basement through the walls... as if the living dead were renovating the floor. Some hesitant effects arise briefly. The DTS-HD MA 5.1 tracks are equally solid and 2.0, reserved for the Theatrical Cut, surprisingly claustro-efficient.
The Tenant
Source France | Publisher : Carlotta Films | Release date : 21 October 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.85
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English DTS-HD MA 2.0
French DTS-HD MA 2.0
Subtitles
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 9 | Video : 9 | Audio : 7
WORK – In the latter part of the « Trilogy of the cursed apartments », Polanski moves into the felt alienation with suitcases full of anguish and a lease signed by the paranoia. And as she transforms the intimate space into a silent court, where each neighbour becomes judge and every noise, accusation, this adaptation of a Topor novel slowly slides towards a mental metamorphosis, where identity dissolves in the wallpaper. So, tenant or squatter?
IMAGE – Restored in 4K from negative 35 mm, The Tenant regain clinical sharpness worthy of his paranoid nightmare. The textures of skin, textile fibres and other oppressive decorations are considered as under a Kafkaian magnifying glass. The cold palette, punctuated with bright hues and thick browns, marries the creeping anguish of the film without betraying the carnation. Grain remains organic, deep black, and Dolby Vision sublimates shadows. The previous Blu-ray can make his boxes.
SON – In VO as in VF, single-encoded mixing in DTS-HD MA restores clear dialogues, often post-synchronized, with clarity that resists the limits of its dynamics (distortions during episodes of panic disorder). Despite a perfect sound fidelity, the score by Philippe Sarde, all in dissonance and deaf fever, marries the psychic meanderings of the story without ever giving in to the emphasis. Such a distress contained between the walls of a closed Paris, it is tense.
Mr. Wolff 2
Source France | Publisher : Warner Bros. | Release date : 15 October 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 7 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9
WORK – Nine years after the first opus, this lighter suite repeats the accounts... with well-placed touches of humor and a warmer fraternal dynamic. Ben Affleck regains his role as an accountant-killer, a little less rigorous this time, in a scenario that too often remains in the nails. That said, the alchemy with Jon Bernthal works as a well-positioned equation and the action, almost autistic in its dexterity, is well calibrated. Of course, the formula is square.
IMAGE – With surgical precision, this UHD Dolby Vision transfer is in the image of his hero. From the glauque warehouses to the burning deserts of Juarez, from the urban shadow to the bright lights, each plan is even more chiseled than the Blu-ray tax balance. Weared by a generous encoding on 100GB disc, the blacks enjoy a depth of ink, the cold and metallic palette is rendered with greater precision and the light flashes increase in intensity. A flawless visual audit.
SON – The VO Atmos shoots its maps with brilliance: crystalline dialogues at the front, worked sound effects and immersive spatialization... without free demonstration. While the enlivened sequences, including the final shooting, fully exploit the vertical and rear canals, between nervous ricochets (ball trajectories) and controlled rumbles (trenched basses), the calm, predominant scenes remain sobriety. Although lossy, VF is almost as methodical.
Ballerina (2025)
Source France | Publisher : Metropolitan Video | Release date : 16 October 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 7.5 | Video : 10 | Audio : 10
WORK – When Ana de Armas, heiress of Baba Yaga, takes up arms in Wick-verserevenge turns into a bloody ballet with lethal elegance. The familiar rituals are killing (sanctuary hotels, felted hierarchy, millimetre shootings) and even if the scenario remains classic, Len Wiseman (Underworld) orchestrate a symphony of stylized batons where each pirouette is a killing. So without revolution, this spin-off shoots in the right direction.
IMAGE – A UHD Dolby Vision transfer as sharp as the dove tips: irreproachable definition, surgical textures and optimal contrast. The photograph preserves the visual leg of the saga (violet, blue and yellow neon) while daring more natural hues (especially in Hallstatt). The HDR calibration magnifies each shade (from the Director's lipstick to the brilliant snow) and the digital effects are seamlessly integrated. A visual demonstration that doesn't miss its target.
SON – In the first seconds, these two Dolby Atmos tracks (difficult to separate) hit hard: surgical spatialization, hyperactive surrounds and lows as nervous as a raging eve jet. The wide and playful mix consists of a whirlpool of shots, grenades and flames, without ever saturating. The atmospheres, immersive and directional, persist until the (rare) lulls. A real step between acoustic brutality and atmospheric finesse.
Dragons (2025)
Source France | Publisher : Universal Pictures | Release date : 22 October 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.90, 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 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8 | Video : 10 | Audio : 9
WORK – An epic breath goes through this Dragons in flesh and bone, where magic never evaporates under the weight of the real. Even better, the staging tames the skies with rare elegance, and each wing beat awakens the child taped in us. If Harold grows up, the film also: darker, denser, but always carried by an indomitable flame. On the back of Furie Nocturne, this live action that spits the fire to move, not impress, flies above the competition.
IMAGE – The photo of Bill Pope (Matrix) evokes a reptilian chill in UHD DV. Surgical piqué, palpable textures (from the leather of armor to the scales of Krokmou) and subtle but effective HDR: Beurk displays with the purity of a fjord at dawn. The 50 minutes at the ratio 1.90 IMAX are grandiose (training arena, aerial volutes), and the WCG enriches the shades (luxury glass, incandescent flames of the queen).
SON – The VO Dolby Atmos deploys its wings with formidable precision: surgical sound trajectories and immersive vertical effects, dragons generously split air just above our heads. John Powell's reworked partition (a new solemnity) is enveloping, the dialogues are clear and the LFE channel is just vibrating. Still a less roaring dynamic than expected. The VF lossy, despite a somewhat braided magnitude, is well distributed. Finely integrated dubbing.
Remember... last summer (2025)
Source France | Publisher : Sony Pictures | Release date : 19 November 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
English DTS-HD MA 5.1
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4 out of 5
Artistic : 6.5 | Video : 9.5 | Audio : 9.5
WORK – If he pulls out the hook with respect and, unlike the previous suites, does not take his feet in the rope, this legacyquel who does not rust the formula (Southport hosts all the codes of the teen slasher) leaves emotion at dock. But the blood is flowing, the blinks of the eye are buzzing and the murders, more graphic, are slit in the alive. A return to the sources whose nostalgia, such as a familiar mist on the port, permeates the atmosphere... of a good little summer chill that was thought to be forgotten.
IMAGE – Impacting contrasts (for a more legible shadow), deep black and bright red (including hemoglobin): this UHD transfer magnified by a dreadful Dolby Vision (it juggles between shadow and light with a rare mastery) fly. The photograph, which is more gloomy than that of 1997, is gaining in density without sacrificing the details... rich. Make-up aside, the carnation remains natural. No artifact comes to parasitize the carnage: the flow breathes, the blood too.
SON – With a formidable spatialization, visceral bass and a frontal scene that doesn't fit in the lace, the VO Dolby Atmos hits hard. Every murder, every hunt is amplified to better plant us... by surprise on the couch. Dynamics are in the box, the voices are very clear, the verticality is fully exploited and the score is voluntarily supported. Even if very solid, the VF DTS-HD MA 5.1 does not have as much relief as its 3D counterpart.
Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
Source France | Publisher : Paramount Pictures | Release date : 15 October 2025
Video format
2160p24 | Ratio 1.90, 2.39
HDR10 | Dolby Vision | BT.2020
HEVC encoding | DI 4K
Soundtrack
English Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos
Subtitles
English
French
Rated 4.5 out of 5
Artistic : 8.5 | Video : 10 | Audio : 10
WORK – Ethan Hunt is still running, but this time, it's towards his own reflection, that of an agent haunted by his choices, his losses, and that damn rabbit's leg. Between algorithmic paranoia and pyrotechnic ballet, The Final Reckoning exhumes the spectra of the saga to blow them up in terminal fugue. Tom Cruise (Top Gun: Maverick) plays the funambules of fate, McQuarrie orchestrates a mellow chaos, and suspense, tense like this famous Langley cable, never let go.
IMAGE – Paramount Do not joke with goodbyes, this UHD DV transfer explodes the support standards with formidable sharpness and flawless encoding (on BD100). The 40 min at the ratio IMAX 1.90 (see diving and biplace) offer a total spectacle: abyssal blacks, textures of a crazy richness, chiselled lights, brilliant primary. No artifacts, no flexions, even in the most perilous scenes. Reds slam, blues vibrate, contrasts ensure.
SON – An elite Atmos mix, where each sequence of action triggers an acoustic earthquake via a rare ferocity LFE channel. The bass roar, the propellers scream, the submarines crack: immersion is total, from sky to abyss. Directional effects sculpt 3D environments with organic vivacity, and partition ignites all with kinetic intensity. VO and VF at elbow-to-neck, with always clear dialogues, even in full spin. Ultimate demo. Final point.
The Top / Flop of the Month
Funeral weddings | A 4K Resurrection That Rekindles the Flame
Silverado | A visual overlap towards the top of the format
Flow | 
: This is not Atmos, but faithful to its nature, of the 7.1 damn well flowed
Elio | Irradiating the constellation HC, this visual journey invites to respond to the call of the cosmos
Ballerina (2025) | A step between acoustic brutality and atmospheric finesse
Tron | Even if digitized in 8K, the real world displays a « bug » Drainage
Coffee Flesh |
James Bond 007 vs. Dr. No | VO Dolby Atmos mixed under sabotage license
9 Weeks 1⁄2 | A digital trompe-l'oeil heated at the AI, painted like a stolen truck
Dragons (2025) | The dynamics, more docile than expected, have been tamed for the family
Editorial waste
Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning | A technical masterclass (A/V performances worthy of an IMF plan) for an honor baroud in high voltige. If Entité had had access to this edition, it would probably have given up the apocalypse. Successful mission.
The claw
9 Weeks 1⁄2 | Between technological striptease and pixel fantasy, 4K remasterization heats you, but never goes to the end. Without sweat, without the trouble and without the taste of the true, nothing remains of the Silicone digital. Desire? Simulated. The chill? Compressed.
Tops of support:
- The best 4K Blu-ray in support v.1, v.2
- The best 4K Blu-ray to test 3D sound v.1, v.2
- The best 4K Blu-ray 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
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Too nice the Flow bonus. And sacred is the passage in 4K Ultra Hd from the night of the living dead!
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