Ghost delivers with one of the best dramedy hard rock concert movies I have seen in recent years with RITE HERE RITE NOW. It is a mix of drama bits inserted between songs and concert footage shot over two nights at the sold out Ghost concerts in Inglewood, California at the Los Angeles' Kia Forum in the Fall of 2023 as a finale to Ghost's Imperatour. I loved watching this movie on the big screen which is the next best thing to watching Ghost in concert. The concert director did a great job in capturing the concert footage edited together for this almost two and a half hour event. I am glad to see it again on 4K disc (which it is present on at least a BD-66) with bit rates averaging between 65 MBps and 80 MBps with the movie sometimes going under 60 MBps and as high as 97 MBps. Any flaws in the disc has to do with the flaws in the cameras used to shoot it and the movie being presented in 4K SDR (even though some systems may think it HDR10) which I think it is a budgetary issue because Ghost decided to take a risk of having this movie available on VHS, DVD, blu-ray, and 4K.

SPECIAL FEATURES:
There are three extras included on the disc which includes a premiere Q&A with the three directors of the movie: Tobias Forge (the front man and genius behind Ghost). Alex Ross Perry, and Jim Parsons (who directed the live concert footage). You learn some insight about the film and how it came together from start to finish.

The animated music video for "The Future Is A Foreign Land"

17 webisodes (from the YouTube channel) that provide the prequel back story for the drama bits in RITE HERE RITE NOW

The two things missing from this release is the theatrical trailer and a concert only option (including the concert footage for Mary On A Cross.

FINAL ANALYSIS: I am glad that RITE HERE RITE NOW got a 4K release despite some fans complaining about no Dolby Atmos track or HDR (but I do understand both do cost lots of money and his physical media release had a budget to maintain since the 4K release could be seen as a risk).

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