Dazzler Media

[levcore]

Originally Posted by Jonathan McLeod

This has just hit cinemas in the UK now. (Friday) The poster makes it look like it's a rip-off of The Black Phone. The degree of similarity cannot be accidental.

At least this has a Halloween theme, pity they couldn't get it into cinemas last month.

[CelestialAgent]

Dazzler will release Sky Original The Last Rifleman (based on the same events with Bernard Jordan escaping a care home to travel to Normandy for the D-Day anniversary as The Great Escaper, but with an aged up Pierce Brosnan rather than Michael Caine’s last role) on February 19th.



https://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=33621

[rapta]

More excitingly, they'll also be releasing Todd Haynes' May December on Blu-ray in February. Another title I'll likely blind-buy at some point in the near future!

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0CP2N3KSM/

[rapta]

Oh, and even better is Alexander Payne's The Holdovers coming in April. Perhaps my most anticipated film this year that failed to come out this year theatrically, thanks to the studio deciding to dump it in January 2024 (though I noticed one or two previews on Boxing Day if you're lucky and don't have other plans). Will definitely be getting this one, can't wait.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Holdove.../dp/B0CP45ML5Z

[CelestialAgent]

Following your lead I decided to check Amazon

Stranger in My Own Skin - 15th January



The Portable Door - 22nd January



The Prince of Egypt: The Musical, Dead Shot - 12th February



Freaks vs. the Reich - 26th February (follows a limited theatrical release in January, better known as Freaks Out and has an Italian 4K release without English subtitles, about a group of circus freaks surviving the Holocaust)



Rumble Through the Dark - 4th March



Padre Pio - 11th March (directed by Abel Ferrara about the Italian priest)



Prancer: A Christmas Tale - 4th November (why not a year earlier instead of next Christmas?)



DVD only: Killing Sherlock, Searching for Mexico, Uncanny, Julius Caesar, The Toy Hospital, Tree on a Hill, Cats in the Museum, The Unseen, Mog’s Christmas

[Nedoflanders]

Originally Posted by rapta

Oh, and even better is Alexander Payne's The Holdovers coming in April. Perhaps my most anticipated film this year that failed to come out this year theatrically, thanks to the studio deciding to dump it in January 2024 (though I noticed one or two previews on Boxing Day if you're lucky and don't have other plans). Will definitely be getting this one, can't wait.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Holdove.../dp/B0CP45ML5Z

Most bizarre for what is essentially a Christmas film. You'd get the impression from my local, playing the trailer continually, that it's due next week.

The Picturehouse previews are sponsored by Kia and priced at £18 (£15 with membership) per ticket... Yeah, I can wait.

[CavebobSpongeman]

Originally Posted by Nedoflanders

Most bizarre for what is essentially a Christmas film. You'd get the impression from my local, playing the trailer continually, that it's due next week.

The Picturehouse previews are sponsored by Kia and priced at £18 (£15 with membership) per ticket... Yeah, I can wait.

Ikr, it's ridiculous. They think they can get away with it because they give you a mince pie and a drink or something.

[rapta]

It can be worse, to be fair. My local is any Everyman and they were charging £25+ a ticket for Killers of the Flower Moon with a ‘complimentary’ bar of Green & Blacks and enforced cocktail. I just waited a few days and saw the film for nearly half that cost (still expensive of course).

[Nedoflanders]

Originally Posted by rapta

It can be worse, to be fair. My local is any Everyman and they were charging £25+ a ticket for Killers of the Flower Moon with a ‘complimentary’ bar of Green & Blacks and enforced cocktail. I just waited a few days and saw the film for nearly half that cost (still expensive of course).

Yeah, reading that, I should consider myself lucky - tickets are often £5-8 with the membership and previews are normally free. They opened an Everyman in town recently and I've yet to step inside it.

[JosephNYC]

Does anyone know if Dazzler's blu-rays are region free??

[The Hornets]

Originally Posted by Nedoflanders

Yeah, reading that, I should consider myself lucky - tickets are often £5-8 with the membership and previews are normally free. They opened an Everyman in town recently and I've yet to step inside it.

Everyman at least our local one used the excuse of Covid to up the prices dramatically plus membership rewards seem to have been cut back. Why I never go there these days.

They also have unbelievably complex prices charging a fortune whenever I can go. Only seems cheap Monday and Tuesday early afternoon when I have to be in office.

May be a function that they now only really show Hollywood films with the more art house stuff they were known for lucky to get a single screening or nothing. They obviously think the Hollywood stuff draws an audience so they can charge more.

Don’t know who goes there as like me all the people at work go to the other cinema we have where prices are a fraction of Everyman.

[RossyG]

Originally Posted by JosephNYC

Does anyone know if Dazzler's blu-rays are region free??

I’ve no way of testing it, but my copy of Maigret has a Region B logo on the cover.

[Nedoflanders]

Originally Posted by The Hornets

Everyman at least our local one used the excuse of Covid to up the prices dramatically plus membership rewards seem to have been cut back. Why I never go there these days.

They also have unbelievably complex prices charging a fortune whenever I can go. Only seems cheap Monday and Tuesday early afternoon when I have to be in office.

May be a function that they now only really show Hollywood films with the more art house stuff they were known for lucky to get a single screening or nothing. They obviously think the Hollywood stuff draws an audience so they can charge more.

Don’t know who goes there as like me all the people at work go to the other cinema we have where prices are a fraction of Everyman.

All the more reason why I've avoided the one near me.

Weren't they the first of the chains to introduce zero-hour contracts? If so, screw them!

I'm very grateful to have one decent arthouse cinema in town - two from next year (Filmhouse is reopening).

[The Hornets]

Originally Posted by Nedoflanders

All the more reason why I've avoided the one near me.

Weren't they the first of the chains to introduce zero-hour contracts? If so, screw them!

I'm very grateful to have one decent arthouse cinema in town - two from next year (Filmhouse is reopening).

Probably true as always saw them as money grabbing after their Covid and post Covid antics and the new pricing strategy.

Used to meet up with a friend who lived in London and was a Curzon and Picturehouse member for my art house fix once a month, but he moved to the coast of Kent last year so that’s cut off much of my cinema viewing. One of those with the Covid flight to the countryside from a London flat to house in Kent by the sea.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by CelestialAgent

Released on July 24th

[Show spoiler]

Released on October 9th

[Show spoiler]

Have double-checked before making this post and there doesn't appear to be existing UK & Ireland discussion threads for Dazzler Media's Blu-ray releases of The Jester, along with the following television titles released by the boutique label:

Blindness: Those Who Kill
Darkness: Those Who Kill
SurrealEstate: Season One.

I already had Blindness and Darkness on my list of Blu-ray titles want list. The Jester is a possibility, but I haven't read any comments on here about the UK Blu-ray. SurrealEstate I'm thinking about getting, as what I've read about the show it's certainly the sort of television series I'd like (the second season is currently being shown in the UK on Sky Sci-Fi).

[levcore]

The Jester was good, I really enjoyed it. A fun Halloween set horror which starts off a bit like a Terrifier rip off but evolves into its own thing.

[Foggy]

Seeing May December pushed back hurts, hope they don’t consider pulling the release due to the lack of Awards presence it had.

[CelestialAgent]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Seeing May December pushed back hurts, hope they don’t consider pulling the release due to the lack of Awards presence it had.

Even though I’m not rushing to get it as I watched it in the cinema (I still might just to be complete on owning Haynes’ films), I still think it’s an essential release just so people aren’t forced to subscribe to Sky/NOW in order to watch it, or for people in the US to have to subscribe to Netflix.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by levcore

The Jester was good, I really enjoyed it. A fun Halloween set horror which starts off a bit like a Terrifier rip off but evolves into its own thing.

You hadn't quoted my post, but thanks for the helpful comments about The Jester.

[Nitroes]

Dazzler has grown some 4K balls https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?p=21834317