Death Stranding
505 Games, who published the PC port of the regular edition of Hideo Kojima’s “Death Stranding,” has announced that the upgraded ‘Director’s Cut’ version will hit PC this year, likely sometime in Spring.
The title will have a simultaneous release on both the Epic Game Store and Steam with the latter already putting up a page for it. The game will also be one of the first to utilize Intel’s promising new XeSS supersampling technology (Intel’s version of Nvidia’s DLSS/AMD’s FSR). More details will be announced in late January. [Source: Steam]
Ordinary People
Robert Redford’s Oscar Best Picture winner “Ordinary People” is finally receiving an updated release with a 4K remastered Blu-ray coming from Paramount Home Entertainment on March 29th.
The story follows the Jarretts (Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland) struggle to overcome the attempted suicide of their son Conrad (Timothy Hutton), an attempt that was brought on from unresolved grief and guilt after the death of his brother Buck in a sailing accident. [Source: Paramount Home Entertainment]
Jackass Forever
Paramount has premiered a new featurette introducing the new additions to the Jackass crew in the upcoming fourth official full-length movie “Jackass Forever”. Barring any unexpected delays again, the film is slated for a theatrical run on February 4th.
Ozark
Netflix has premiered the full trailer for the first part of the fourth and final season of its dark drama “Ozark” premiering on January 21st. The new seven-episode run will see Jason Bateman and Laura Linney’s Marty and Wendy Byrde dealing with the Navarro cartel’s retribution for last season’s murder of the group’s attorney.
Archive 81
Netflix has released a full trailer for supernatural found-footage series “Archive 81,” loosely based on Daniel Powell and Marc Sollinger’s horror podcast. Rebecca Sonnenshine (“The Boys”) serves as showrunner on the series which premieres on January 14th.
The series follows an unsuspecting archivist (Mamoudou Athie) swept away by a dangerous mystery after taking a job restoring damaged videotapes from 1994. He begins piecing together the lost work of a documentary filmmaker (Dina Shihabi) investigating a dangerous cult.
