From the Walt Disney Studios press release:

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Con Air and National Treasure, two of Nicolas Cage’s most iconic films, will release on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray™ SteelBook on November 10. National Treasure will also launch on 4K Ultra HD Digital the same day (Con Air previously released on 4K HD Digital in 2025). Having captivated theater-goers around the world, the 4K releases deliver an exhilarating showcase of Cage at the peak of his action stardom. From high-altitude thrills to an adventure-filled treasure hunt, both films transport audiences with intensity and edge-of-your-seat suspense.

Con Air, directed by Simon West and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, is packed with memorable one-liners, exhilarating stunts and an incomparable ensemble cast, including John Malkovich, John Cusack, Steve Buscemi and Dave Chappelle. The R-rated action classic earned two Academy Award® nominations and remains a hallmark of ’90s blockbuster cinema.

Seven years later, action adventure took a historical turn with National Treasure, also produced by Bruckheimer and directed by John Turteltaub. Cage stars as Benjamin Franklin Gates, a determined historian and cryptologist racing against rivals to decipher a hidden map on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Balancing age-old puzzles with intense chase scenes, the beloved film, which carries a PG rating, continues to excite audiences across generations.

Both films have been restored in stunning 4K, Dolby Atmos, and Dolby Vision, therefore, home viewers can experience every explosion, clue, and chase again (or for the first time) in optimum picture and sound quality. National Treasure will arrive on physical media as a collectible SteelBook 4K UHD and will include 4K UHD bonus feature commentary with director John Turtletaub and actor Justin Bartha. Con Air will debut in a limited-edition 4K UHD SteelBook release that includes the 4K UHD, a Blu-ray disc with bonus features “A View from Above” and “The Destruction of Las Vegas," and a digital code.

Con Air Film Synopsis
Former US Army Ranger, Cameron Poe, has just been paroled for manslaughter, but must stop a group of violent and deadly criminals from escaping the country after they seize control of the prison transport plane he is on.

Product Specifications
Release Dates
Physical: November 10, 2026

Product SKUs
Physical: SteelBook 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Code

Feature Run Time
Approx. 115 minutes

Rating
US Rated R For Strong Violence and Language

Disc Size
4K UHD Blu-ray: 66GB
Blu-ray: 50GB

Aspect Ratio
Physical: 2.40:1

Audio
4K: English Dolby Atmos and 2.0 Dolby Digital Descriptive Audio, Spanish and French 5.1 Dolby Digital Language Tracks
Blu-ray: English 5.1 DTS-HDMA and 2.0 Dolby Digital Descriptive Audio, Spanish and French 5.1 Dolby Digital Language Tracks

Subtitles
4K: English SDH, Spanish and French
Blu-ray: English SDH, Spanish and French

Bonus Features
Blu-ray Bonus Features

• A View from Above
• The Destruction of Las Vegas

*Bonus features may vary by product and retailer



National Treasure Film Synopsis
Benjamin Franklin Gates, in hot pursuit of a legendary treasure, must steal one of America's most sacred and guarded documents — the Declaration of Independence — or let it, and a key clue to the mystery, fall into dangerous hands.

Product Specifications
Release Dates
Digital: November 10, 2026
Physical: November 10, 2026

Product SKUs
Digital: 4K UHD
Physical: SteelBook 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Code

Feature Run Time
Approx. 131 minutes

Rating
US Rated PG For Action Violence and Some Scary Images

Disc Size
4K UHD Blu-ray: 100GB

Aspect Ratio
Physical: 2.35:1

Audio
4K: English Dolby Atmos and 2.0 Dolby Digital Descriptive Audio, Spanish and French 5.1 Dolby Digital Language Tracks

Subtitles
4K: English SDH, Spanish and French

Bonus Features
4K ULTRA HD™ BONUS FEATURES

• Commentary with Director John Turteltaub and Actor Justin Bartha

*Bonus features may vary by product and retailer

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I'm surprised it's taken this long for National Treasure to get a 4K UHD treatment.  This should be a big seller for the upcoming Christmas season.

Studio:  Paramount Pictures
Release Date:  9/22/2026
Rating:  R
Film Grade:  C-

The Story:  More than two decades have passed since Ghostface terrorized Cindy Campbell and Brenda Meeks.  Now, their children are threatened as the killer returns to victimize a new generation.

My Take:  I haven’t kept up with this franchise, but it’s gone through a number of changes.  For this entry, various members of the Wayans family have returned after splitting with the producers after the second film.  Given that 25 years have passed since that last effort, one might be worried that they’ve lost touch with the characters, but not that much has changed.

The narrative is thin as can be, with the movie serving as more of a lose assembly of skits spoofing the Scream series along with other horror films and their tired tropes.  Self-referential humor abounds and the fourth wall is broken.  The horror elements here never come close to scary, and the few gross out moments are handled for laughs. 
Some scenes just end without completely resolving the conflicts, lasting just long enough to get some chuckles, but destroying any sense of continuity.

But audiences aren’t watching this to be frightened or to follow a solid plot, their watching for the comedy.  One’s satisfaction with this movie will be dependent on what kind of humor you like.  There are some genuinely clever moments when the film is parodying other recent movies, like Final Destination:  Bloodlines, Weapons, Sinners, and even John Wick.  Others are thrown in with little connection to the plot, like Longlegs.  Some of this may be attributed to the five writers that are credited for it.  This adds to the disjointed feel of the movie, and could have been handled better following the anthology nature of the V/H/S series, rather than try to force them into the story.

The humor itself can be genuinely witty, but is predominated by the crude and vulgar, with plenty of drug and sexual references.  There were a number of physical comedy and sight gags that had me laughing out loud.  There’s a fun anatomy poster, a Christmas scene set in Gacy’s department store, a city population sign that counts deaths, and a hospital banner promoting liposuction for tubby infants, all of which work surprisingly well. 

On the other hand, I’m not particularly amused by the lowbrow comedy that makes up the vast majority of the film.  Many of those jokes are not just crass but also obvious, the kinds of things that the average teenage boy would find hilarious (if they’re watching with friends and not their parents).  There’s zero concern about being politically correct, which is highly unusual these days and kind of refreshing for those not easily offended.

There are a ton of actors in the movie and performances are all over the board.  I’m imagining that Anna Faris, Marlon Wayans, and Regina Hall are all intentionally overacting, but that got old rather quickly.  The new cast members follow suit, which indicates that’s what the director was going for.  Some of the guest appearances are surprisingly fun and effective.  Much like with the plot, this is of secondary concern to the comedy, there’s not much point in judging it too harshly.

Visuals:  Video quality is surprisingly good.  Starting with the opening scene there’s good contrast, strong black levels, and bold colors.  Skin tones look natural.  There are some digital effects that work better than others, but the overall look of the movie is solid for a comedy.

Audio:  The disc comes with an Atmos mix.  Just like the video quality, audio is above average for a comedy.  I didn’t find any scenes for my usual bird test, but there was a helicopter flying overhead early on.  The extra speakers are mostly used for music but every once in a while, they’ll add some emphasis to the action.  Subs are primarily used for the music and don’t otherwise distinguish themselves.  Dialog is clear for the most part.

The score Haim Mazar is played completely straight and actually pretty good as horror.  It has the right underlying tone to fit the genre and pairs off well with the humor.

Special Features:  The four shorts are only about 20 total minutes and features the talent in front of and behind the camera.  Special emphasis is made on the first two films, with little to nothing on the other sequels.  They do seem to have had a lot of fun making the movie.  It’s a good watch for anyone looking for a dose of nostalgia.

• Scream Together
• Fresh Meat
• Wayans World
• Scene Dissection

Final Verdict:  If you’ve liked the previous installments, enjoy extremely crude jokes, and want to see some horror parodies this is worth your time, so knock the grade up a level or two.  On the other hand, if you’re easily offended by expletives, rude language, politically incorrect themes, or drug humor, stay away.  My wife was not amused and gave it a D.  I’d have preferred more clever comedy that really pokes at film conventions, and less of the boring “edgy” stuff. 

Watching the trailer doesn’t give that much away and will give you a good idea of how you’ll react to it.  It was a big hit at this summer’s box office, so there’s wide audience appeal.  If you do watch, stay through the credits for a couple of bonus bits.

Unexpected Quote:  "They gentrified The Jeffersons?"

WARNING:  Trailer contains expletives, NSFW



This review was written by a human without the use of AI.

My Review System:
JVC DLA-RS3100 4K Ultra High-Definition Front Projector
Elite Screens Sable Frame B2 117” Width with Infinitely Variable Height
Monolith by Monoprice HTP-1 16 Channel Processor with Dirac Live
Monolith by Monoprice 7x200 Watts Amp
Monolith by Monoprice 3x200 Watts + 6x100 Watts Amp
JBL Studio 590 for Left, Center, Right, Wides, and Rears
JBL Studio 580 for Side Surrounds
JBL Studio SCS 8 for Tops
JTR Captivator 1400 Subwoofer X 4
Panasonic DP-UB420 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player
NVIDIA Shield Android TV - 4K
Xbox One X
HTPC Running madVR (work in progress)
Remote: URC MX-780
Mini DSP 2X4 HD controlling all subwoofers
APC S15 Power Conditioner with Battery Backup

Thanks for taking one for the team. Definitely not my cup of tea.

Yeah, I don't think you'd care for this one, but you could always surprise us.  

Studio:  DECAL - NEON
Release Date:  9/22/2026
Rating:  R
Film Grade:  D

The Story:  Corvette has grand dreams of becoming a fashion designer.  In the meantime, she teams up with Sade, Mariah, and a few others to form the Velvet Gang.  The group shoplifts from a series of high-end stores, known as the Metro Fashion Designers and then resells them for a third of their retail price.  That doesn’t pay all of the bills, so Corvette still has to resort to squatting in an abandoned chicken restaurant. 

The subsequent losses have caught the attention of Christie Smith, the brilliant scientist turned designer, who’s frustrated by the gang cutting into her profit margin.  But the Velvet Gang isn’t her only concern as there’s another thief about to enter the game, with a completely different motivation.

My Take:  Ignorant of the alternate meaning of the term booster, I expected this to be a biting satire about the vaccine mandates we all lived through at the start of this decade.  Anyone else remember the fanatical movements on both sides?  From Stephen Colbert’s cringy Vax-Scene skit or the wild conspiracy theories about injected nanobots, there’s a plethora of viewpoints ripe for skewering.

Well, that’s not what this movie is.  Writer/producer/director Boots Riley expands on his 2006 song of the same name as the inspiration for this film.  The result is an intentionally pointed political commentary encouraging workers of the world to unite against the ultrapowerful corporations that take unfair advantage of their workers. 

Strangely disparate themes and narrative threads are haphazardly mixed into the story, ranging from pyramid schemes to corporate espionage to media conspiracies and many others.  All of this might have been handled in an entertaining way, but the continual lack of focus never allows the movie to gel into a cohesive vision.

Also harming the narrative are the stark tonal shifts.  There are a few lightly humorous gags at the start of the movie, such as a discussion about shoe sizes that turns a well-worn double entendre on its head, the absurdist visual of the bloated boosters as they waddle out of a store, overstuffed with stolen goods, and a massage chair that’s a little too handsy.  Those are coupled with surprisingly crude and sophomoric humor that feels like it belongs in an entirely different genre.  Then there’s the pseudo-philosophical shift to the word salad used to explain one of the fantastical elements of the story.  Throwing all of that together serves as a distraction from the simplistic central thesis of the movie rather than aiding it or adding some fun.

The cast does an adequate job of portraying their characters but are limited by the script’s lack of depth.  Keke Plamer gives Corvette a mixture of righteousness tinged with a lack of confidence, haunted by delusions of literal crushing debt.  Taylour Paige and Naomi Ackie are relegated to secondary parts and do little more than support the convoluted plot.  Demi Moore plays Christie Smith as a cartoonishly ruthless businesswoman with underdeveloped motivations.  None of these characters show growth in the movie.  One has a shot at both redemption and legitimately benefiting the world, but tosses it aside for the shallowest of reasons, just to toss in a defiantly snarky comment simply meant to elicit laughs.
   
Visuals:  Like the muddled plot, the visuals are mixed bag.  While the colors of the fashions and playful graphics stand out, there are surprisingly soft and drab sequences, likely due to the specific lenses that were paired with the digital cameras. The overall aesthetic is almost cartoonish, and in stark contrast to both the movie’s serious themes and general crudeness.  Perhaps it’s intentional, but the obvious use of practical miniatures and rough stop motion animation that were used for the most absurd scenes stand apart from the rest of the movie, further detaching viewers from the film.  Comparing it to the included Blu-ray, colors are a bit more dynamic and there appears to be some sharpening applied to the BD that’s absent from the 4K.  This is a passable presentation but not demo worthy.

Audio:  Both discs come with a simple 5.1 DTS-HD MA mix.  There’s not much noteworthy here with the presentation relying on the front speakers for most of the work.  There’s an instance of playing with those three with a split screen scene, and a few instances of panning to the surrounds including a circling helicopter, but the extra speakers aren’t overly used.  Subs get almost all of their work from music, starting with an early nightclub scene. There were missed opportunities for extra punch during a chase scene and some gunshots.  I had occasional issues understanding some of the dialog, but that can be attributed to enunciation and overpowering music rather than anything technical.

The peppy and irreverent score is provided by Tune-Yards and feels vaguely reminiscent of Danny Elfman’s early soundtracks, with a prancing beat that almost feel circus-like.  A number of atypical instruments are used, accompanied by some punchy vocals.  Unlike Elfman’s work, it feels limited, repetitive, and fatiguing by the end of the movie.  An assortment of other songs is tossed in for additional flavor.

Special Features:  The documentary spells out the political motivation behind the movie for any viewers that may have somehow missed it.  There’s some revealing behind the scenes segments showing the makeup and special effects work.  It’s also clear that the people behind the movie had a fun time making it.  I didn’t listen to the commentary or all of the interview tracks, so curious viewers will need to sample those on their own.

• Audio commentary with Boots Riley
• Never before seen cast interviews
• "The Making of I LOVE BOOSTERS" documentary program
• Blooper reel

Final Verdict:  This is a film meant to appeal and influence a growing segment of the nation’s current political environment.  There are clear similarities to the counter cultural movement of the 60s and 70s, which were exemplified by things such as Abbie Hoffman’s Steal This Book.  As a result, it left me completely cold and unengaged.  There’s not enough humor to consider it a comedy, the disjointed story jumps around too much to feel cohesive, and the characters were unsympathetic underdeveloped slaves to the plot.  The 113-minute runtime feels much longer as the story drags under its own convoluted weightiness.

I’ll give credit to Riley for bringing his vision to the screen without compromise.  Check out the trailer for a taste of what the movie looks and feels like, as it doesn’t give away any of the way-out elements.  Those who identify with the political themes are likely to find this to be much more engaging, but I’d recommend watching it before buying it.  Unlike the movie’s central theme, I don’t advocate boosting it.

Director’s Conceit:  "That being said, I think that this is a film that has a place in this trajectory of, of history."



This review was written by a human without the use of AI.

My Review System:
JVC DLA-RS3100 4K Ultra High-Definition Front Projector
Elite Screens Sable Frame B2 117” Width with Infinitely Variable Height
Monolith by Monoprice HTP-1 16 Channel Processor with Dirac Live
Monolith by Monoprice 7x200 Watts Amp
Monolith by Monoprice 3x200 Watts + 6x100 Watts Amp
JBL Studio 590 for Left, Center, Right, Wides, and Rears
JBL Studio 580 for Side Surrounds
JBL Studio SCS 8 for Tops
JTR Captivator 1400 Subwoofer X 4
Panasonic DP-UB420 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player
NVIDIA Shield Android TV - 4K
Xbox One X
HTPC Running madVR (work in progress)
Remote: URC MX-780
Mini DSP 2X4 HD controlling all subwoofers
APC S15 Power Conditioner with Battery Backup

Finally got this one from the library and it was well worth the wait.  The movie does a fantastic job of highlighting the human side of the process of war on the leadership level.  I found myself sympathizing with Stagg, despite his prickly nature, especially when he's asking for and using the data that's so desperately needed.

One of the top films for 2026, for sure.