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Kazan’s controversial “Baby Doll” remains a shocker
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Carroll Baker plays 19-year-old Baby Doll Meighan and Eli Wallach in his first major role as the seductive...
Peggy Earle
Feb 25, 20215 min read
“Freaky” delivers a lot of horror, and a chunk of heart
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS (1) Vince Vaughn plays serial killer “The Blissfield Butcher,” while Kathryn Newton as high school...
Kay Reynolds
Feb 18, 20216 min read
“Ammonite” swims in risk and romance
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Kate Winslet plays Mary Anning a lifelong fossil-collector and paleontologist and Saoirse Ronan plays...
Peggy Earle
Feb 17, 20214 min read
Kevin Costner and Diane Lane propel the redemptive drama “Let Him Go”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Diane Lane gives a powerful performance as Margaret Blackledge, grandmother to little Jimmy. She...
Craig Shapiro & Bill Kelley III
Feb 15, 20215 min read
Paramount Presents a handsome “Love Story” for Valentine’s Day
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Ryan O’Neal and Ali MacGraw became instant stars after “Love Story,” the biggest box office movie of 1971....
Bill Kelley III
Feb 13, 20216 min read
Danny Kaye rules in “The Court Jester” – Paramount Presents
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Danny Kaye in one of his best onscreen performances as Hubert Hawkins, an ex-carnival performer. "The Court...
Kay Reynolds
Feb 6, 20216 min read
“The Lost Weekend,” Billy Wilder’s sobering Oscar winner, gets terrific upgrade
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Welsh actor Ray Milland won an Academy Award for Best Actor as alcoholic New York writer Don Birnam. (Click...
Peggy Earle
Jan 20, 20214 min read
All hands on deck for Warner Brothers’ “Mister Roberts”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Henry Fonda, right, reprising his Broadway role as Lt. JG Douglas Roberts. James Cagney plays the psycho...
Kay Reynolds
Jan 5, 20214 min read
“Rio Grande” rides on in Olive Signature Collection
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS John Wayne teams up with Maureen O’Hara for the first of their five films together. As Lieutenant Colonel...
Kay Reynolds
Dec 25, 20206 min read
Beautifully remastered “The Shop Around the Corner” still has holiday charm
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan play co-workers, Alfred Kralik and Klara Novak. Both have an anonymous...
Peggy Earle
Dec 20, 20204 min read
Warner Archive brings Hammer’s game-changing “The Curse of Frankenstein” back to life
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Christopher Lee, a fixture of Hammer horror films, brought a real sense of pathos to his memorable...
Craig Shapiro
Dec 15, 20205 min read
UPDATED: It’s Grand, it’s Bold – it’s the 60th Anniversary Edition of “The Big Country”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / NEW FRAME SHOTS (1) Gregory Peck as Jim McKay the ex-ship captain who traveled to Texas to marry Pat Terrill played by...
Bill Kelley III
Dec 9, 20206 min read
Criterion’s exceptionally remastered “Brute Force” has lost none of its punch
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Already a leading man in his second role, the great Burt Lancaster stars as Joe Collins, who plots an escape...
Craig Shapiro
Dec 6, 20204 min read
Mementoes are the right recipe for “The Broken Hearts Gallery”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Geraldine Viswanathan plays the witty Lucy and Dacre Montgomery as Nick, a dreamer who’s converting a...
Toni Guagenti
Dec 4, 20203 min read
Scorsese trades sentimentality for poignancy in rich, rewarding “The Irishman”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Robert De Niro plays Frank Sheeran, the mob hit man and Teamsters leader whose memoir, “I Heard You Paint...
Craig Shapiro
Nov 27, 20208 min read
The rise of Nazi Germany infuses the little-known “The Mortal Storm”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Martin Breitner (James Stewart) and Freya Roth (Margaret Sullavan) are shocked at how quickly Nazism has...
Peggy Earle
Nov 17, 20204 min read
Cue up “Two Mules for Sister Sara” and watch the stars come out
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Shirley MacLaine is Sister Sara, a nun – maybe – who is helping the Mexicans in their fight against the...
Craig Shapiro
Nov 15, 20204 min read
Celebrating a hero: “Sergeant York” – Warner Archive Collection
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Gary Cooper won an Academy Award as Sergeant Alvin York, the most decorated United States Army hero of World...
Kay Reynolds
Nov 11, 20206 min read
NYC lives and breathes in Criterion’s 4K remastering of “The Naked City”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Homicide Detective Jimmy Halloran (Don Taylor, left) and Lt. Dan Muldoon (Barry Fitzgerald, center) pursue a...
Craig Shapiro
Nov 6, 20205 min read
Tragic love story still touches the heart in “Waterloo Bridge”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS After the success of “Gone with the Wind” (1939), British actress Vivien Leigh was given top billing as...
Peggy Earle
Nov 5, 20204 min read
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