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Still relevant – Elia Kazan’s “A Face in the Crowd,” now on Criterion
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS “A FACE IN THE CROWD: THE CRITERION COLLECTION” Blu-ray and DVD, 1957, unrated Best extra: Interview with...
High-Def Watch Staff
Apr 30, 20193 min read
“The Great Buster” celebrates the life and career of a Hollywood visionary
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Buster Keaton’s greatest gag - “Steamboat Bill, Jr.” (1928) “The General” (1927) - No. 18 in the American...
High-Def Watch Staff
Apr 29, 20193 min read
“The Quake” rumbles beyond Hollywood disaster porn
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Geologist Kristian Eikjor (Kristoffer Joner) tries to rescue his daughter Julia (Edith Haagenrud-Sande)...
High-Def Watch Staff
Apr 26, 20194 min read
“On the Basis of Sex” – RGB bio-segment – entertaining but sentimental
BLU-RAY REVIEW “ON THE BASIS OF SEX” Blu-ray, DVD, Digital copy; 2018; PG-13 for some profanity and suggestive content; streaming via...
High-Def Watch Staff
Apr 14, 20192 min read
Irony, humor and politics fill McKay’s “Vice”
BLU-RAY REVIEW “VICE” Blu-ray, DVD, Digital copy; 2018; R for profanity and some violent images; streaming via Amazon Video/Prime,...
High-Def Watch Staff
Apr 13, 20194 min read
“Stan & Ollie” paints a moving, wholehearted portrait of the comedy greats
BLU-RAY REVIEW “STAN & OLLIE” Blu-ray, 2018, PG for some language and for smoking; Streaming Amazon Video/Prime, FandangoNOW, Google...
High-Def Watch Staff
Apr 9, 20193 min read
“Four Weddings and a Funeral” gets a complete 4K makeover for its 25th Anniversary
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Uh oh. Charles (Hugh Grant), the best man in wedding No. 1, forgot the rings. (Frame shots courtesy of...
High-Def Watch Staff
Mar 28, 20193 min read
Shout’s “Legally Blonde Collection” gets a 4K makeover
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Reese Witherspoon stars as Elle Woods and her sassy chihuahua Bruiser - in signature pink - arrive at the...
Kay Reynolds
Mar 8, 20194 min read
Three great performances rule “The Favourite”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS An upset last month when Olivia Colman as Queen Anne won the Best Actress Academy Award over the...
High-Def Watch Staff
Mar 8, 20194 min read
Thirty-four years on, Michael Cimino’s “Year of the Dragon” is still a drag
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS NYPD Capt. Stanley White (Mickey Rourke), a Vietnam vet has been assigned to Chinatown controlled by the...
High-Def Watch Staff
Mar 6, 20193 min read
French coming of age classic “Peppermint Soda” now on Blu-ray
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS “PEPPERMINT SODA” Blu-ray; 1977; PG Best extra: Interview with Director Diane Kurys FRESH FROM a 40th...
High-Def Watch Staff
Feb 21, 20193 min read
Capturing Van Gogh’s vision “At Eternity’s Gate”
BLU-RAY REVIEW “AT ETERNITY’S GATE” Blu-ray and Digital copy; 2018; PG-13 for some thematic content; streaming via Amazon Video/Prime,...
High-Def Watch Staff
Feb 9, 20194 min read
“Boy Erased” uncovers a dangerous practice
BLU-RAY REVIEW “BOY ERASED” 4K Ultra HD, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital copy; 2018; R for sexual content including an assault, some profanity and...
High-Def Watch Staff
Jan 31, 20192 min read
Glenn Close closes in on her first Oscar with “The Wife”
BLU-RAY REVIEW “THE WIFE” Blu-ray, DVD, Digital copy; 2017, R for language and some sexual content; Streaming via Amazon Video,...
High-Def Watch Staff
Jan 29, 20193 min read
Errol Flynn swings into HD action in “The Sea Hawk”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS “THE SEA HAWK: WARNER ARCHIVE COLLECTION” Blu-ray; 1940; Not Rated, contains action violence Best extra:...
High-Def Watch Staff
Jan 24, 20194 min read
Hitchcock’s “Notorious” gets a complete Criterion 4K restoration
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Cary Grant plays U.S. intelligence agent T. R. Devlin, who arrived to rescue German-born Alicia Huberman...
High-Def Watch Staff
Jan 23, 20196 min read
Calling all Samuel Fuller fans: You need a copy of “Forty Guns”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Desperate to escape the hangman’s noose after being convicted of murder, Brock Drummond (John Ericson), uses...
Craig Shapiro
Jan 21, 20194 min read
The classic romantic comedy “When Harry Met Sally...” celebrates a milestone
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS “WHEN HARRY MET SALLY…”: 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION Blu-ray and DVD; 1989; R for adult material including...
High-Def Watch Staff
Jan 18, 20194 min read
Good story, fine extras, “Interpreter” is finally on Blu-ray
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS “THE INTERPRETER” Blu-ray; 2005; PG-13 for violence some sexual content and brief strong profanity;...
High-Def Watch Staff
Jan 10, 20193 min read
Paramount’s “Yellowstone” captures the new West
BLU-RAY REVIEW “YELLOWSTONE: SEASON 1” Blu-ray and DVD; 2018; not rated but plenty of scenes of violence, sex, disturbing images...
High-Def Watch Staff
Jan 7, 20194 min read
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