The decision whether or not to pick up the eight-film Steven Spielberg: The Spotlight Collection probably depends on whether you have all or most of these movies on 4K Ultra HD already and, if so, how important a collectible like this is to you. It’s a nice presentation, with SteelBooks for all the movies — […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Blue Thunder (1983)
Blue Thunder, 1983. Directed by John Badham. Starring Roy Scheider, Warren Oates, Candy Clark, Daniel Stern, and Malcolm McDowell. SYNOPSIS: John Badham’s Blue Thunder makes its 4K Ultra HD debut courtesy of Arrow Video. I think it’s very much the lesser of the two films the director released in 1983 (WarGames was the other one), […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Jaws 50th Anniversary Edition
Jaws, 1975. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfus, Lorraine Gary and Murray Hamilton. SYNOPSIS: Jaws gets its eighty billionth home video release this week, but I’m happy because I have always loved, and will always love, that film, despite the disinterest in it shown by my family. For the film’s […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Jaws (1975)
Jaws, 1975. Directed by Steven Spielberg. Starring Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfus, Lorraine Gary, and Murray Hamilton. SYNOPSIS: Jaws arrives on 4K disc looking and sounding as close to its theatrical glory as you can get on home video these days. The sound and picture are top-notch, and while Universal didn’t include anything new […]
The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #16 – Film critic Sarah Buddery on Jaws
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite movie. This week, film critic Sarah Buddery talks about Steven Spielberg’s fishy blockbuster Jaws… This week, the guest is film critic Sarah Buddery, who chose Steven Spielberg’s iconic shark attack horror Jaws as her favourite movie. […]
Blu-ray Review – Cohen & Tate (1988)
Cohen & Tate, 1988. Directed by Eric Red. Starring Roy Scheider, Adam Baldwin, Harley Cross, Suzanne Savoy, Cooper Huckabee and Kenneth McCabe. SYNOPSIS: Two hitmen kidnap a young boy to take back to their mob bosses for questioning about a murder but the boy plays the mismatched pair off against each other. Coming from the […]
Blu-ray Review – 52 Pick-Up (1986)
52 Pick-Up, 1986. Directed by John Frankenheimer. Starring Roy Scheider, Ann-Margret, Vanity, Kelly Preston, John Glover, Robert Trebor, Clarence Williams III, Kelly Preston. SYNOPSIS: A cheating husband is blackmailed by a gang who threaten to publicly reveal his affair, thwarting his politically ambitious wife’s plans and forcing him to take matters into his own hands. […]
