Wish Keoma got released with alternate soundtrack 
No SWs announced from Arrow this month, overall disapointing I would say.
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The Grand Duel review:
Has anyone come across any new info on the many releases Koch Media is planning on this year and with Artusā other two Western announcements? I pre-ordered Artusā Mediabook of The Ugly Ones with Tomas Milian directly from their site (the price was too good to pass up) and am planning on pre-ordering their release of A Dollar Between the Teeth aka A Stranger in Town. I was planning on pre-ordering them together, but I wanted to make sure my new debit card worked right before I made big purchases.
none so far aside from whatās been posted at the beginning of the year. since they have already announced (in forums) everything up to june/july, I suspect itāll be in the fall or winter when something gets released.
Keoma Blu Ray:
Mill Creek:
Arrow:
Mill Creek image looks better IMO.
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Thereās a little more frame info with the Arrow version, but little difference in overall image quality.
Plus, I think the price for these releases is getting way out of order ā¦ Ā£26 approx.! No way am I even half interested.
Iāve seen Nero and Castellari interviews on this movie before ā¦ and I frankly donāt care about some āJoe Bloggs - Video Essayā
To me, itās an average B movie at best ā¦ so Iām not getting sucked into buying a so called āSpecial Editionā at these ludicrous prices.
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Mill Creekās is brighter but thatās about it.
Arrowās looks far more natural.
To be fair to companies like Arrow, Criterion, Eureka!, etc, they put the upmost high quality effort into their releases and never skimp on any aspect of the release. These companies are film lovers giving other film lovers releases that might not see the light of day anywhere else. Yes, the price can be a little much at times, but because they do such a fine job every time I donāt mind paying $25-28 on Amazon. In the long run I think itās quality over quantity.
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They do an excellent job, agreed ā¦ but ALL costs are going back to the customers. If a film like āKeomaā can be released by Mill Creek, at a minimal price or given away free on DVD in Spanish and Greek newspapers, then the licencing fee must be next to nothing.
The companies in question who release this material arenāt your buddies doing you a favour - theyāre making a very decent profit, or they wouldnāt exist ā¦ targeting hardcore fans and selling them a product that they all ready own multiple copies of is a pretty nifty marketing trick.
Just wait a few years, and these titles will be reissued in UHD 4K versions, making the current releases obsolete.
Each to their own ā¦ but I am not playing along with this game. 
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But then the price doesnāt matter if you donāt want to buy the release at all anyways?
By the way I only paid just over $26 including shipping from the States. Not a fabolous price, agreed, but closer to Ā£20 than Ā£26. Sometimes amazon isnāt the cheapest option.
Some releases will come out on UHD of course but everything? I doubt it very much.
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Totally understandable. It getās a bit tiring to have to shell out money for the same film over and over again. But Iāll be honest Arrows release finally does it right. The release looks and sounds a million times better than Blu Underground and Mill Creeks releases.
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A million times better!? That has to be hyperbole. Looking at the screen captures above, the difference is not spectacular, but more to the point, I watched the Mill Creek Keoma and Grand Duel on an 8 foot wide screen and was impressed by the quality of both. I just canāt imagine the new scans being vastly superior.
I think Iām something of a perfectionist and suffer from collector-completism, but feel weāre up against the law of diminishing returns here.
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I guess like with everything else how the picture quality appears depends on the eye of the person watching. So far many of the films Iāve seen on both DVD and Blu Ray, the majority of the Blu Rays have had a crisper and more detailed look to them. Iām a little bit of a perfectionist myself, but I try to go into every Blu Ray viewing not expecting to be blown away by the image quality, but a good bit of the time I am For me I just look for good quality filming style, good acting, and fine sounding audio with the Italian tracks.
I guess Iām way over exaggerating on the image quality, though you have to admit that there is more detail in Arrows release,
This I agree with. I canāt imagine much more we can get from another release of this film besides it being in 4k or some other larger resolution.
Apparently Synapse Films is going to release Django the Bastard on blu-ray.
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I saw that on the TBA 2019 and Beyond section of the Blu Ray news page. Itās been there a while too it seems. Is there any hint that Synapse is definitely moving forward with it for later this year, early 2020?
I got it from this post on Facebook so sounds like we will see it this year:
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Very nice!! 
I hope they include the original Italian audio with translated subtitles as I missed out on an earlier DVD double bill of it and Boot Hill that had the Italian audio included (still kicking myself for that one). Looks good to me. 