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Getting this month’s Ultra HD highlights off to a roaring start: MAD MAX ANTHOLOGY (out now), which includes all four films, plus Fury Road: Black And Chrome (a black and white version) and a bonus DVD of feature-length 2015 doc The Madness Of Max. We said, variously: “A punky, lo-fi explosion of cinematic energy”; “A master-class in action filmmaking”; “Top gear, in the sense of an amphetamine rush liable to make you chew half your face off.” To celebrate its 20th anniversary, there’s a Collector’s Edition of David Lynch’s surrealist mystery MULHOLLAND DRIVE (6 December). Physical goodies: two posters (original poster/new art), five art cards and a booklet. Our chums at Total Film said: “The director at his purest and most fearless, trawling through one woman’s delusion towards a shocking vision of mental collapse.” You’ve got a choice of three different 30th anniversary editions of TERMINATOR 2: JUDGMENT DAY (6 December). The first’s a steelbook; the second comes with a double LP of Brad Fiedel’s soundtrack and a 12” lenticular picture; the third a 29cm-high Terminator skull sculpture (with the discs inserted into the base). That’ll confuse future archaeologists. Finally, Robert Zemeckis’s ground-breaking 1988 blend of live-action and animation WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT (out now), teams Bob Hoskins’s gumshoe with a toon accused of murder. We said: “A film unlike anything seen before… a showstopping effects triumph.”