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Bill Kelley III
Nov 15, 20235 min read
“The Fugitive” – 30th Anniversary shines on 4K
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Harrison Ford plays respected vascular surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble, wrongly accused of murdering his...
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Bill Kelley III
Nov 13, 20235 min read
A road rage horror show – Spielberg’s “Duel” on 4K
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Actor Dennis Weaver took a short break from his role as Marshal Sam McCloud to play salesman David...
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Peggy Earle
Nov 6, 20236 min read
Behind the veil with “The Others” – The Criterion Collection
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR FRAME SHOTS Nicole Kidman stars as Grace Stewart, a devout Roman Catholic mother, who lives with her two young...
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Bill Kelley III
Nov 3, 20236 min read
Hold onto your seat! “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” is here
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS For the seventh time Tom Cruise stars as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, who tries to hang on with...
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Bill Kelley III
Oct 25, 20235 min read
REVISITED: “The Revenant” wins again in 4K Ultra HD
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Leonardo DiCaprio won an Academy Award for Best Actor as mountain man Hugh Glass. The story is...
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Bill Kelley III
Oct 20, 20235 min read
Polanski’s lauded ‘The Pianist’ is even more compelling in 4K Ultra HD
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Oscar-winner Adrien Brody plays Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish musician, who was relocated into the...
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Bill Kelley III
Oct 16, 20236 min read
Beware below: “U-571” on 4K UHD
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Matthew McConaughey plays U.S. Navy Lieutenant Andrew Tyler who overtakes the German U-571 submarine...
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Craig Shapiro
Oct 10, 20234 min read
‘Batman: Mask of the Phantasm’ in flawless 4K? Yes, please!
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS (1-2) The late Kevin Conroy, a Juilliard-trained actor grounded in Shakespeare, defined Batman – in...
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Peggy Earle
Oct 4, 20235 min read
Orson Welles makes it personal in Kafka’s classic “The Trial”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR FRAME SHOTS Anthony Perkins stars as Josef K. a young bureaucrat, arrested for an unnamed crime. He appears in...
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Josh Boone, producer/writer/director
Sep 29, 20239 min read
There’s nothing like it: “Natural Born Killers: Collector’s Edition”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as star-crossed serial killers Mickey and Mallory Knox. (Click on...
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Bill Kelley III
Sep 22, 20235 min read
Remastered by Kino Lorber in TRUE 4K, ‘The Train’ was worth the wait
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Burt Lancaster stars as French resistance leader Paul Labiche and British actor Paul Scofield as...
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Bill Kelley III
Sep 14, 20236 min read
Baddies don’t have a chance with “Matilda”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Precocious Matilda is played by Mara Wilson and her cruel parents (Harry & Zinnia), played by Danny...
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Bill Kelley III
Sep 8, 20237 min read
Politics and paranoia highlight “Three Days of the Condor”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Robert Redford stars as Joe Turner, a “reader” at Manhattan’s Upper East Side, American Literary...
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Craig Shapiro
Aug 28, 20234 min read
Done up in 4K Ultra HD, ‘Swamp Thing’ is f-u-n with a capital ‘F’
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Move over, Jean Cocteau: Adrienne Barbeau is government agent Alice Cable and stuntman Dick Durock...
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Bill Kelley III
Aug 25, 20236 min read
Filling your dreams with delight: “The Nightmare Before Christmas: 30th Anniversary Edition”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Skeleton Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon) has Santa (Edward Ivory) abducted from Christmas Town and...
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Craig Shapiro
Aug 14, 20236 min read
William Friedkin’s ‘To Live and Die in LA’ punches even harder in 4K
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS William Petersen, in his big-screen debut, plays hotshot Secret Service agent Richard Chance, who...
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Peggy Earle & Bill Kelley III
Aug 11, 20236 min read
Paramount’s classic “Roman Holiday” gets a 4K update for its 70th Anniversary
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS 4K Ultra HD vs. Blu-ray: (top) The new HDR grading is darker than the 2020 Blu-ray (bottom), and...
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Bill Kelley III
Aug 4, 20237 min read
Warner celebrates one of its best – “Rio Bravo” – on 4K
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS John Wayne plays Presidio County Sheriff John T. Chance in West Texas. He and his two deputies and...
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Craig Shapiro
Jul 26, 20235 min read
Criterion goes 3-for-3 with Terry Gilliam’s marvelous, magical ‘Time Bandits’
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS A history buff of the first order, 11-year-old Kevin (Craig Warnock, third from the left) joins the...
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Bill Kelley III
Jul 24, 20239 min read
Yippie-yi-oh – Saddle up for Criterion’s “The Ranown Westerns: Five Films by Budd Boetticher”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS The leathered Randolph Scott was in his late 50s when he starred in Budd Boetticher’s “The Tall T.”...
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