The 9 best Blu-rays and 4K UHD releases of March 2023
polygon.comMarch is overflowing with underrated movies getting loving transfers to Blu-ray and 4K UHD. One of my top 10 films — a pop-rock musical set in an alternate-reality New York — drops in the middle of the month, and is bookended by fantastic retro horror, a rarely printed John Woo film, a ’90s time capsule, and a Hitchcockian cult classic from the 2000s.
Each month, in an effort to help you find your next favorite discs, we curate a list of our most anticipated releases. We haven’t had the opportunity to try these discs just yet, but if you want the formal thumbs up, no worries — in the coming months we will begin our rolling list of the best Blu-rays and 4K UHD discs of the year. But each of these releases has potential and comes from a label we’ve enjoyed in the past.
Streets of Fire (4K UHD + Blu-ray) — March 14, 2023
Walter Hill’s lost masterpiece Streets of Fire doesn’t feel quite so lost these days. Thanks to a couple of limited Blu-ray releases, more regular appearances at repertory movie theaters, and a skyrocketing reputation on Letterboxd, the ’80s pop-rock musical has received the full cult-classic status it’s long deserved.
The film has Diane Lane belting rock anthems and Willem Dafoe with a fit I can only describe as rockabilly leather kink. But the reason to watch this film over and over and over is the first guitar-shredding 10 minutes — and the last. Hill shoots concerts as well as any of the best music documentarians, converting your living room into the best seat in the house.
This disc, from Shout Select, includes two feature-length documentaries and a bunch of other retro featurettes, like music videos and on-air promos.
John Wick 1-3 Stash Book Collection — Feb. 28, 2023
The John Wick movies are an
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