Can you believe we’re already a quarter of the way through 2025?
This month sees the first batch of major movies which were released in UK cinemas during this calendar year arriving in 4K, in what feels like two minutes since we saw them on the big screen. We’re not complaining though – alongside a wide variety of remastered and rediscovered cinematic treasures, and some gorgeous steelbooks, they’ll all fit perfectly in our personal collections.
Here’s your monthly week-by-week breakdown of the titles you can expect this month. As always, release dates are subject to change, and more cracking titles may be announced in the coming weeks, so keep your eyes peeled on our site for the most up-to-date listings.
Monday, 7th April
We’re starting off the month strong with two recent, but very different, horror hits; director Robert Eggers’ haunting take on Nosferatu, and Hugh Grant’s devilish reinvention as a psychopathic villain in Heretic, both of which arrive with 4K steelbooks in tow. For something a bit lighter, you can also monkey around with Robbie Williams as his musical biopic Better Man arrives home in Ultra HD too.
As for remastered titles, one of Arrow Video’s big 4K Collector’s Edition sets this month is for the Samuel L. Jackson action-comedy The Long Kiss Goodnight, scripted by the incomparable Shane Black. A lesser-known arrival from the studio is Booger, a darkly comic tale of grief and missing cats, which is arriving in a limited-edition Blu-ray with everything you’d expect from the studio’s releases; gorgeous artwork, collector’s booklet with new essays, and a ton of bonus features.
From there, a mixture of highbrow and lowbrow, with Criterion remastering underseen Charlie Chaplin vehicle A Woman Of Paris, and ICON reissuing the 1988 Oscar-nominated Chet Baker documentary Let’s Get Lost, which stand in sharp contrast to the latest lines from 88 Films and the Warner Bros. Archive. The former has two more slasher classics – The Incubus and Wacko – and more remastered softcore (Night Of The Felines), whilst WB are resurrecting forgotten titles including Showdown In Little Tokyo, Mark Hamill’s first post-Star Wars vehicle Corvette Summer, and a four-film boxset of horror thrillers including titles by Abel Ferrara and John Landis.
Monday, 14th April
A trio of steelbooks lead this week’s new releases, with two Clint Eastwood classics – The Outlaw Josey Wales, and a 40th anniversary edition of Pale Rider – arriving alongside two separate editions of Sonic the Hedgehog 3, a film we can confirm Clint didn’t direct.
The 90s French classic La Haine has been remastered in 4K by the BFI, both F/X movies arrive in a boxset from Arrow, Crunchyroll deliver a Limited-Edition set of Spy X Family Season 2, and 101 Films deliver two cult horror oddities, Shrunken Heads and Creepozoids.
Monday, 21st April
A lot of our favourite cult labels have new arrivals this week, including Arrow with a limited-edition 4K set of A Fistful Of Dollars – alongside their standard 4K releases of Demolition Man and Inglourious Basterds – and Criterion with a 4K of director Wong Kar-wai's sumptuous Chungking Express. Rounding out the big 4K releases are two more 2025 movies; horror remake Wolf Man, and Nicole Kidman’s BDSM comedy Babygirl.
Next up, the BFI have more underseen British cinema – 1970s drama Eclipse – and remastered titles from world renowned auteurs (Takeshi Kitano’s Brother), and 88 Films keep up their incredible track record of rediscovering vintage Asian cinema with titles including Jakoman and Tetsu, Lady With a Sword and Yakuza Wives. Going back west, and Indicator have a whole host of hidden gems from Old Hollywood; Behold a Pale Horse, Dangerous To Know, Little Man, What Now? and Spawn of the North.
If this all sounds too highbrow for you, then Final Cut Entertainment have the antidote, with both Delta Force movies, starring Chuck Norris, in a Blu-ray double pack.
Monday, 28th April
The final steelbooks of the month include one classic from the 1970s (Dirty Harry), two very different titles from the 1980s (Gandhi and Stripes), and the limited-edition physical release of a recent streaming hit (Star Trek: Section 31). Other 4K releases to round out April include two Oscar favourites – A Complete Unknown and The Brutalist – and two more remastered Russ Meyer titles from Severin, Motorpsycho and Up!.
Collector’s edition sets worth shouting about include Second Sight’s reissues of The House Of The Devil and The Coffee Table, and Arrow Video’s five-disc set of V-Cinema Essentials, for those who want to go deeper into the sleazy side of Japanese genre movies. As we continue to pay tribute to Gene Hackman, Criterion bring back one of his most beloved performances in Night Moves, available in both 4K and standard format Blu-ray.
It’s another eclectic month for Radiance releases, with the directorial debut of acclaimed filmmaker Kelly Reichardt (River Of Grass), an iconoclastic Japanese satire (A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness), the final work by French director Jacques Rivette (Va Savoir) and an Italian neorealist coming of age tale (Girl With A Suitcase). Radiance’s genre offshoot Raro Video has trashier Italian cinema thrills via the violent 70s thriller Killer Cop, which absolutely delivers on the promise of its title.
Finally, an early Pierce Brosnan role – Nomads, from Treasured Films – two murder mysteries from 88 Films - Night Train Murders and Nine Guests For A Crime – and a limited Collector’s Edition of Scottish art rock band Mogwai’s documentary If The Stars Had A Sound.
