STACK #202 Aug 2021

HIGHLIGHTS 4K UHD

4K UHD BEST-SELLERS for JULY 2021

WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY DISC OF THE MONTH

Master Audio mix. The 4K disc will also include a commentary from grownup Wonka Kids Peter Ostrum (Charlie Bucket), Julie Dawn Cole (Veruca Salt), Paris Themmen (Mike Teevee), Michael Bollner (Augustus Gloop) and Denise Nickerson (Violet Beauregarde). Out Aug 4

2021 marks 50 years since the first musical fantasy movie adaptation of Roald Dahl’s Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory hit cinema screens and wonderfully weirded out audiences the world over. Gene Wilder was perfectly cast as the slightly alluring, yet also kind of disturbing, Wonka, owner of a mysterious candy factory staffed by curious little orange fellows known as Oompa-Loompas. Five prize- winning kids received the full Wonka experience – some for the better, some not so much… As a part of anniversary celebrations, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is heading to 4K Ultra HD in a scrumdidilyumptious limited edition collectors box set that’s full of fabulous goodies. What sort of goodies? These sort of goodies! First up, there’s a full colour 32- page book, then a

collection of trippy art cards. Next, a two-sided theatrical poster and, most excitingly (well, if it gave us what the movie one did it would be) a Wonka’s golden ticket. As for technical details, Willy’s set to pop from our screens via a super-colourful, HDR-enhanced, native 4K transfer, which will be accompanied by a DTS-HD 5.1

1 Godzilla vs. Kong 2 Zack Snyder’s Justice League 3 Indiana Jones: 4-Movie Collection 4 Nobody 5 Godzilla (2014) 6 Speed 7 The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 8 Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children 9 1917 10 Space Jam (1996)

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BASIC INSTINCT

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Some genuine classics make their way to 4K Ultra HD in September – where do we start? Star Trek is always a good place, and the first four movies based on the original series – Star Trek: The Motion Picture , The Wrath of Khan , The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home – are on their way in a tidy box set, all remastered with Dolby Vision encoding and Dolby TrueHD 7.1 audio. Stephen King-based favourite of many, The Shawshank Redemption is also slated for release, as is Stanley Kubrick’s Droog-fuelled adaptation of A Clockwork Orange . We’ve no technical details on those last two currently, but would expect native 4K transfers at the very least.

Shakespearean takes by legendary director Akira Kurosawa, whose works have inspired everybody from George Lucas to Peter Jackson to Quentin Tarantino, this action epic takes

Paul Verhoeven’s 1992 erotic thriller has been lovingly remastered from the original 35mm negative, with the process overseen by the director himself. It’s set to arrive on disc

King Lear and sets it in sixteenth century feudal Japan. Expect HDR-enhanced native 4K vision on this quadruple Oscar-nominated treat that was Kurosawa’s final movie, the transfer of which has been approved by director of photography Shôji Ueda. Out Aug 25

with a native 4K transfer coupled with DTS-HD 5.1 Master Audio sound, and it will be the full-length uncut version with, erm, all the naughty bits on show. Amongst various extras will be a brand new 52-minute documentary entitled Basic Instinct: Sex, Death & Stone . Out Aug 25

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