The resurgence of physical media as the popular way to enjoy your filmic favourites again and again has been a joy to behold. As well as the myriad ways to see the the films you love outside of the cinema, audiences are rediscovering the joys of actually owning the movies they love. And owning them on the best possible format.
Last year we picked out favourites from the Epic Movies 4K UHD physical disc promotion, and there were many great picks which are still worthy of a recommendation today. As Father’s Day approaches, we wanted to jump back into the arena, and pick out the very best from the new promotion that is doing the rounds, and give our thoughts on the films we’d choose to watch in glorious 4K UHD.
To find your own selection, check out the Epic Movies promotion, which is available until 21st June at Amazon, HMV, and Rarewaves.
Searchlight Pictures’ A Complete Unknown
James Mangold’s film on the early life and music of Bob Dylan is much about as the changin’ times as it is about the cultural revolution which ran parallel. A million miles away from the experimental 2007 film I’m Not There by Todd Haynes, Mangold and Co. faithfully depict the rise of Dylan and the company he kept. Timothée Chalamet gives a remarkable performance as The Voice of a Generation, and a world in uneasy motion provides a suitable backdrop to the star of the show, the music.
Worth your time, Dylan fan or not. It brings the music to life in extraordinary fashion.
Marvel Studios’ The Fantastic Four: First Steps
For years Marvel fans waited for the MCU’s own take on Marvel’s First Family. Many attempts were made by other studios, some good, others not so much. But fans never lost their faith, and last year their patience was rewarded with a perfectly-cast ensemble film set in an alternative Retro-Futuristic world. They even got Galactus right! No more clouds of cosmic detritus…
This film and the world it creates are sure to look incredible in 4K UHD. We loved the film, and the future it promised. Not least for the introduction of a certain Latverian polymath…
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
It’s been twenty-three years since Peter Weir’s bombastic adaptation of Patrick O’Brian’s acclaimed series of books set during the Napoleonic wars. Russell Crowe and Paul Bettany fully inhabit their roles as Captain Jack Aubrey and his ship’s surgeon Stephen Maturin, It’s budget was huge, and its potential just as grand though no sequels were ever made. Its reputation has grown over the decades, and it looks set to be one of those films who star never dims, bit sits alone in its corner of the cinematic skies, to be rediscovered and marvelled over by each new generation.
If you’ve never stepped aboard the HMS Surprise, there’s never been a better time.
TRON ARES
The 2025 third film in the Tron Trilogy was directed by Joachim Rønning, and was, as we said in our review, a decent, heartfelt evolution of the Tron franchise. Given the tech-enabled/addicted world we live in today, it seems only right that a film series wholly concerned with humanity and the machine should grapple with the big questions of consciousness and humanity.
The film itself looks incredible (and the 4K UHD gloss should make it an unforgettable experience), but the score Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross elevates the film to new heights. It was a huge surprise to us that the film gave as much thought to its concepts and ideas as to its visual splendour. But we loved to be surprised. Maybe you will too..?
20th Century Studios’
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
When he was cast as the titular Bruce, Jeremy Allen White was no stranger to the ’80s biopic. A couple of years earlier we witnessed his intense turn as Kerry Von Erich in Sean Durkin’s The Iron Claw, but here he steps onto the stage alone and leads a meditative maelstrom of musicianship.
This is a very deliberate distillation of a legendary showman, and specificity in its telling becomes its greatest strength. Set between The River and Nebraska albums, with the release (in both sense of the word) of Born in the USA still a few years away, this is a concentrated examination of the struggles of creation and expectation, and the fertile, troubled ground between the two.
You’re bound to find a favourite in amongst our picks or the full selection (which you can find below). But for Father’s Day and beyond, there has never been a better time to own your films in the best possible format.
For more info and to check out the 2 for £30 offer on selected 4K Ultra HD™ titles, including Marvel Studios’ THE FANTASTIC FOUR: FIRST STEPS, TRON, TRON: LEGACY, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW and THE SOUND OF MUSIC, check out the Epic Movies promotion, available until 21st June at Amazon, HMV, and Rarewaves.
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