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“The Invisible Swordsman” approaches. The 1970 film, which was released in Japan on a double bill with “Gamera vs. Jiger,” is getting the deluxe home video treatment thanks to our friends at Arrow.

The new release features a new high-definition transfer, lossless Japanese mono audio and newly translated English subtitles, along with a host of special features including an audio commentary from author Jonathan Clements, a new interview with film critic Kim Newman about the history of invisibility in cinema and an interview with critic Jasper Sharp.

Plus, we’ve got a brand-new trailer for the release (out June 24), which you can watch below.

“The Invisible Swordsman” was directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda, who was the director of special effects on the eye-popping “Daimajin” trilogy (which were all released in 1966), before going on to direct things like “Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare” in 1968 and “Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell” in...

Warning: Contains spoilers for Frieren: Beyond Journey's End chapter #135.One of the best characters Frieren: Beyond Journeys End introduced in season 1 was Sein, the resident priest of Frierens adventurer party. Sein came off as a natural fit for the groups dynamic, and that made it all the more surprising when he left the story a few episodes later, a fact made even worse in the manga by how hes been absent for nearly four years in real-time.

Seins absence from Frieren: Beyond Journeys End has been a major sticking point to some, but fortunately, thats finally come to an end. The mangas current arc involves Frieren, Fern, and Stark working with the Magic Association to prevent the Empire from assassinating Serie during her stay in the capital, and in a surprise turn of events, Frieren: Beyond Journeys End chapter #135 revealed that Sein is also in the capital as he continues looking for his friend,...

Since the release of DVDs in the late ‘90s and freeze frame technology becoming highly accessible, movie makers and manufacturers have been hiding secrets for viewers to discover. Every genre and every studio has likely done it by now; we’ve started to compile them all in a series of posts with the help of the Internet. Happy hunting!

It’s the Pulp Fiction special edition where all the Easter eggs will be from, you guessed it, Pulp Fiction. A few of these are new to me, 20 years later I’m telling you, Pulp Fiction is one of the most layered movies ever made.

The Movie: Pulp Fiction (1994)

The Eggs: Unfortunate Lady

I laughed at this, then felt bad. In the film Reservoir Dogs when Tim Roth and Harvey Keitel are escaping from the failed heist, they pull over a lady in a car who shoots Roth before she is taken care of.