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4K Ultra HD Review – The Mexico Trilogy

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The Mexico Trilogy Directed by Robert Rodriguez. Starring Carlos Gallardo, Antonio Banderas, Consuelo Gómez, Peter Marquardt, Reinol Martínez, Jaime de Hoyos, Joaquim de Almeida, Salma Hayek, Steve Buscemi, Cheech Marin, Quentin Tarantino, Johnny Depp, Mickey Rourke, Eva Mendes, Danny Trejo, Enrique Iglesias, Marco Leonardi, Rubén Blades, Willem Dafoe. SYNOPSIS: It’s a bit of a misnomer […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Watchmen: Chapter 1 (2024)

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Watchmen: Chapter 1, 2024. Directed by Brandon Vietti. Featuring the voice talents of Kelly Hu, Katee Sackhoff, Adrienne Barbeau, Grey Griffin, Titus Welliver, Matthew Rhys, Troy Baker, Jeffrey Combs, Yuri Lowenthal, Kari Wahlgren, Phil LaMarr, Dwight Schultz, Geoff Pierson, Michael Cerveris, Corey Burton, Jason Spisak, John Marshall Jones, Rick D. Wasserman, and Max Koch. SYNOPSIS: […]

Movie Review – Watchmen: Chapter 1 (2024)

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Watchmen: Chapter 1, 2024. Directed by Brandon Vietti. Featuring the voice talents of Kelly Hu, Katee Sackhoff, Adrienne Barbeau, Grey Griffin, Titus Welliver, Matthew Rhys, Troy Baker, Jeffrey Combs, Yuri Lowenthal, Kari Wahlgren, Phil LaMarr, Dwight Schultz, Geoff Pierson, Michael Cerveris, Corey Burton, Jason Spisak, John Marshall Jones, Rick D. Wasserman, and Max Koch. SYNOPSIS: […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, 2024. Directed by George Miller Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, and Alyla Browne. SYNOPSIS: George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which serves as a prequel to Fury Road that’s focused on Mad Max’s sidekick from the last movie, arrives on 4K Ultra HD from Warner Bros. There’s […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Collateral (2004)

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Collateral, 2004. Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Bruce McGill. SYNOPSIS: Paramount is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Michael Mann’s edge-of-your-seat action film Collateral with a reissue of the 2020 4K Ultra HD disc in a new SteelBook package. The film looks great, and you […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Run Lola Run (1998)

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Run Lola Run, 1998. Directed by Tom Tykwer Starring Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Joachim Król, Armin Rohde, Heino Ferch, Suzanne von Borsody, Sebastian Schipper SYNOPSIS: The 1998 German classic Run Lola Run gets an encore release on 4K Ultra HD, courtesy of Sony. This is the same disc they released in […]

Blu-ray Review – Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

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Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956. Directed by Don Siegel. Starring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Jean Willes, Ralph Dumke. SYNOPSIS: Philip Kaufman’s excellent 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers gets tons of attention, and deservedly so, but the 1956 original should get some love too. Kino Lorber […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Captain Phillips (2013)

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Captain Phillips, 2013. Directed by Paul Greengrass. Starring Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener, Michael Chernus, David Warshofsky, Corey Johnson, Chris Mulkey, Barkhad Abdirahaman, Faysal Ahmed, and Yul Vazquez. SYNOPSIS: Captain Phillips, a 2013 film directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks, arrives on 4K Ultra HD in a SteelBook edition that also includes […]

Movie Review – Aliens Expanded (2024)

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Aliens Expanded, 2024. Directed by Ian Nathan. Featuring James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Mark Rolston, Jenette Goldstein, William Hope, Carrie Henn, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Robert Skotak, John Lee, Graham Hartstone, Alan Dean Foster, Mark Verheiden, V. Castro, Charles de Lauzirika, Derek Dafoe, Drea Letamendi, and […]

Blu-ray Review – Brokeback Mountain (2005)

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Brokeback Mountain, 2005. Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, and Randy Quaid. SYNOPSIS: Ang Lee’s 2005 classic Brokeback Mountain arrives on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD from Kino Lorber, which commissioned a sparkling new 4K scan of the original camera negative. The company also […]