4-Film Collection: Tennessee Williams SYNOPSIS: Warner Archive turns its focus to playwright Tennessee Williams and four films based on his plays: Baby Doll, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Sweet Bird of Youth, and A Streetcar Named Desire. My look at Warner Archive’s series of 4-Film Collections rolls along with a package of movies based […]
Airplane II: The Sequel flying onto 4K Ultra HD
Kino Lorber has announced that the 1982 comedy Airplane II: The Sequel is set for a 4K Ultra HD release this September, complete with a brand-new HDR/Dolby Vision remaster; check out the cover artwork and details here… There’s a mad bomber on board, the first lunar shuttle is about to self-destruct, the engines are not […]
Blu-ray Review – Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Extreme Prejudice, 1987. Directed by Walter Hill. Starring Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Maria Conchita Alonso, Michael Ironside, Rip Torn, William Forsythe, Clancy Brown, Marco Rodriguez. SYNOPSIS: A Texas Ranger ranger and a drug kingpin who used to be friends find themselves going up against one another. In Extreme Prejudice, Texas Ranger John Benteen (Nick Nolte) […]
R.I.P. Rip Torn (1931 – 2019)
Emmy Award-winning American actor Rip Torn has passed away aged 88, his representatives have announced. Born in Temple, Texas in 1931, Torn moved to Hollywood in the 1950s, making his feature film debut in 1956’s Baby Doll before studying at the prestigious Actors Studio in New York and earning a Tony Award nomination for his […]
Blu-ray Review – RoboCop 3: Collector’s Edition (1993)
RoboCop 3: Collector’s Edition, 1993. Directed by Fred Dekker. Starring Robert John Burke, Nancy Allen, Rip Torn, John Castle, Jill Hennessy, C.C.H. Pounder, Mako Iwamatsu, Robert DoQui, and Bruce Locke. SYNOPSIS: Shout! Factory has released a Collector’s Edition of RoboCop 2, so it’s not a surprise that they did the same for the third installment, […]
