STACK #210 Apr 2022

4K UHD HIGHLIGHTS

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4K UHD BEST-SELLERS for MARCH 2022

THE GREEN PLANET I f you’re a 4K Ultra HD convert and you haven’t had the pleasure of revelling in one of Sir David DISC OF THE MONTH

then reveals the battles that they face, and the inventive ways they’ve devised to survive over time. The series takes us to microscopic levels that the human eye just can’t capture, and has been a long time in the making – some 20 years in fact. In many ways it’s a sequel to 1995’s fascinating The Secret Life of Plants , but the advances in filming technology since then have led to even more brilliant discoveries. As for the disc itself, all five episodes are presented in native 4K, that at times can look much like your screen is a window directly into this fascinating green world, with HDR just bolstering that reality. If that’s not exciting enough a prospect,

Attenborough’s absolutely stunning nature series on the format, then this just may be a very good place to start. The Green Planet is the latest documentary from the natural world’s greatest champion, taking us deep into the secret life of plants all over our incredibly diverse planet, presenting our Earth from their perspective. Running to five parts, each of which falls just shy of an hour in length, they’re loosely categorised into the regions of ‘Tropical’, ‘Water’, ‘Seasonal’, ‘Desert’ and ‘Human’. Each of these episodes introduces us to a set of plants,

1 Dune (2021) 2 Venom: Let There Be Carnage 3 The King’s Man 4 Eternals 5 No Time to Die 6 West Side Story (2021) 7 The Suicide Squad (2021) 8 Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings 9 Nightmare Alley 10 Encanto

the entire aural experience comes to us in Dolby Atmos. As a bonus, a 40-minute behind-the-scenes presentation entitled On Location promises a fascinating insight into the technological magic that the BBC team pull off to bring us such astonishing footage. Out Apr 13

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March was the biggest 4K release month in quite a while, causing all sorts of consternation – which to add to the collection first? How’s this for a festival of recent cinema releases on 4K Ultra HD with Dolby Atmos sound ready to be let loose in our own home theatres? Denis Villeneuve’s take on Frank Herbert’s Dune , Guillermo del Toro’s stunning remake of noir classic Nightmare Alley , Spielberg’s passion project West Side Story , video game-based series reboot Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City , another reboot in the very fun Scream , Kenneth Branagh’s Death on the Nile , Buster and the gang’s return in Illumination’s animated gem Sing 2 , and the return of Neo and Trinity in The Matrix Resurrections …Whoa!

ESCAPE FROM L.A. Snake Plissken returns to do to Los Angeles what he did to New York, in this cool futuristic (well, it was upon release in 1996) sequel – surf scene and all! The gang of John Carpenter, Debra Hill and star Kurt Russell are back together, with Snake setting about retrieving a doomsday device after a 9.6 magnitude quake turns L.A. into a pancake. Expect a

native 4K transfer that’ll come with Dolby Vision enhancement, accompanied by DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 in the sound department. Out Apr 6

26 MARCH 2022 Fantasy themes and infrequent mild coarse language. Some scenes may scare young children

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