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 – A Bittersweet Life (2005)
A Bittersweet Life, 2005. Directed by Kim Jee-woon. Starring Lee Byung-hun, Shin Min-a, Kim Yeong-cheol, Hwang Jung-min, and Jin Goo. SYNOPSIS: A mobster with a conscience falls foul of his boss when he disobeys an order, forcing him on a path of revenge. No country does revenge movies quite like South Korea, and Kim Jee-woon’s […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Captain Phillips (2013)
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 […]
Blu-ray Review – Brokeback Mountain (2005)
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 […]
Blu-ray Review – The Last Starfighter (1984)
The Last Starfighter, 1984. Directed by Nick Castle. Starring Lance Guest, Robert Preston, Kay E. Kuter, Catherine Mary Stewart, Dan O’Herlihy, and Dan Mason. SYNOPSIS: A video game whizzkid ends up being recruited to join a team of starfighters to defend an alien planet from attack. It takes about five seconds of the opening credits […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Civil War (2024)
Civil War, 2024. Directed by Alex Garland. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, and Nick Offerman. SYNOPSIS: Alex Garland’s harrowing film Civil War arrives on 4K Ultra HD in an edition that also includes a Blu-ray as well as a code for a digital copy. There’s only one bonus […]
Blu-ray Review – True Detective: Night Country
True Detective: Night Country, 2024. Directed by Issa López. Starring Jodie Foster, Kali Reis, Fiona Shaw, Finn Bennett, Isabella Star LaBlanc, John Hawkes, and Christopher Eccleston. SYNOPSIS: The fourth and latest season of True Detective, sub-titled Night Country, arrives on Blu-ray with a smattering of bonus features. While it would have been nice for the […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Twister (1996)
Twister, 1996. Directed by Jan de Bont. Starring Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton, Jami Gertz, Cary Elwes, Alan Ruck, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Lois Smith, and Todd Field. SYNOPSIS: Jan de Bont’s Twister arrives on 4K Ultra HD with impressive image quality, along with some visual tweaks by the director that he couldn’t pull off way back […]
20 Essential Criterion Collection Films
It’s time to cast an eye on the Criterion Collection, a distribution company renowned for giving cult, classic and world cinema a new lease of life… Christopher Nolan and Guillermo del Toro have come out recently and spoken of the importance of physical media and the dangers of everything shifting to digital. The art of […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, 2004. Directed by Adam McKay. Starring Will Ferrell, Christina Applegate, Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, David Koechner, Fred Willard, and Vince Vaughn. SYNOPSIS: Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy makes its 4K Ultra HD debut in an edition that ports over all of the very funny bonus features found in […]
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