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■ Pulp Fiction
At the time when I asked the question he was drinking beer. Mat also said that Brett had a fetish for pliers and medieval torture devices. So, they fancied the line in Pulp Fiction about “getting’ medieval on yo’ ass.”

Go (1999)

The 1999 crime/comedy film Go is finally getting a new 4K remaster, courtesy of Arrow Video. The upcoming release (set for September 29, 2026), will feature a brand-new audio commentary by film critics Bryan Reesman and Max Evry, as well as an old original audio commentary from director Doug Liman and editor Stephen Mirrione.

For those unfamiliar with this film, it’s considered a knock-off of Pulp Fiction, who pre-dated this film by four years. The similarities are there: three stories, all related and through different characters… set in a fast-paced, kinetic quick cuts and snappy dialogues. Pulp Fiction aside, Go is a really good film. I think it suffers from the bad title – ‘go’ is such a generic term.

The entire cast are young actors, notably the beautiful Katie Holmes (and her giant anime eyes) and a really young “Mr Justified” Timothy Olyphant, as the drug dealer. Olyphant wasn’t even supposed to be in the film, but apparently he got “fired” from another film at the time and quickly landed in Go.

The other stand-out acting is by Desmond Askew, who plays Simon. This may be the English actor’s first major film roles, as I only see previously that he had a role in a TV show and music video. I can’t remember seeing him again in another film, but I really liked him in Go.

The main star is Sarah Polley, who, for whatever reasons, I have misremembered as Uma Thurman… maybe it’s the Pulp Fiction thing. But at the time, I don’t think I’ve seen Polley in anything else. She would later resurface as the star in James Gunn’s Dawn of the Dead in 2004… which introduces “fast zombies”.

I do own a very cheap DVD of Go and, yeah, it desperately needs a remaster. While I don’t necessary want a 4k version (I just need the Bluray disc), I’m happy to see that Arrow has given the time and love to remaster this “cult classic” film. As usual, I’ll wait for a sale to pick this up.

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■ 28 Days Later
28 Days Later is the film that started it all. You have to remember that at the time (2002), zombie films weren’t all the rage (if you’ll excuse the expression)… and it’s often credit as reinvigorating the zombie genre with its fast-running zombies. All that despite the fact that the writer and director dismissed it as zombies. They’re infected with the “rage virus”.

28 Days Later (Remastered)

With 28 Years Later Trilogy being released as a boxset (assuming will include the original film), Sony Pictures has gone back and remastered the first film for a 4K release.

You may recall that I did a special re-watch of the first two films in 2025 and said, “I did end up watching the original 28 Days Later to refresh my memory, and right off the bat, the film hasn’t aged well. The digital technology that they used at the time just looks bad. At least with true film, they have the technology to rescan the original print in higher resolution, resulting in old 70s/80s film looking gorgeous for the modern age. With digital files, you’re pretty much stuck with the resolution that it was filmed at. So yeah, I can attest, the film doesn’t look good.”

I haven’t bought the 4K release yet, on account that I’m waiting for a boxset, but also am very skeptical that they can make 28 Days Later look good. Remember, this film started its life as 512-line interlaced digital video at 25FPS. To double the lines to 1080p standard looks rough. Now we are talking about 4,000 lines of resolution? I supposed with AI and new tech, it is possible to make it look decent, but I wouldn’t compare it to other truly HD films.

I’ve seen samples online, it doesn’t look good, even at 4K. But that’s not all that is disappointing – apparently some scenes were cut out on the new 4k – particularly a quick cut to a zombie’s eyes after the tunnel chase scene, according to @hxll_mxtt.

The missing scene(s) were probably not intentional, as one user noted that Sony went back to the original digital master and they didn’t realize those inserts in post-productions were not present.

I own both the DVD and Bluray of 28 Days Later and I can confirm that the “red eyed zombie” is in my DVD and Bluray copies. I hope future reissues of 28 Days Later will restore the missing scenes.

A couple of missing scenes doesn’t change the film and it’s likely you probably won’t miss them, but that red-eyed zombie certainly stood out as a memorable/horrific moment – at least to the one fan that noticed it missing.

The 4K disc came out September 1, 2026, and I’ve yet to see any official comment addressing the missing scenes. At the moment, the 4K release is the best version (in terms of image quality) of the film, boasting “fully remastered, with Dolby Vision picture and Dolby Atmos sound approved by director Danny Boyle”.