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“Train To Busan presents: Peninsula” – Race to survive!
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS (1&2) Jung-hyun Lee as Min Jung and Dong-Won Gang as former Marine Captain Jung Seok attempt to...
Kay Reynolds
Nov 27, 20205 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
A binge-worthy bounty for 4K lovers - “Game of Thrones: The Complete Collection”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Season One - Episode Nine: The close-up shots are excellent with fine detail even though the series...
Bill Kelley III
Nov 10, 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
“Dr. No” started it all for Sean Connery
1930 - 2020 4K frame shots courtesy of Apple - “Bond. James Bond,” as agent 007 announces himself to Syliva Trench during “Dr. No.” The...
Bill Kelley III
Oct 31, 20203 min read
Michael Caine’s “The Ipcress File” is overdue for a 4K do-over, but don’t let 2K stop you
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Michael Caine is the unconventional spy Harry Palmer, one of the defining roles in his long and...
Craig Shapiro
Oct 28, 20206 min read
“El Camino” polishes “Breaking Bad” finale
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Aaron Paul returns as Jesse Pinkman and offers $125,000 to the Disappearer, Ed Galbraith for a new life....
Peggy Earle
Oct 25, 20204 min read
“Back to the Future: 35th Anniversary Edition” jumps to 4K with striking results
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Michael J. Fox plays 17-year-old high school senior Marty McFly, who discovers he’s seated beside...
Bill Kelley III
Oct 24, 20206 min read
A true warrior queen arrives in “The Legend of Tomiris”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Almira Tursyn, 26, of Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, plays warrior queen Tomiris. (Click an image to scroll the...
Kay Reynolds
Oct 20, 20204 min read
“District 9” still has a powerful message during these uncertain times
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS (1&2) Afrikaner bureaucrat Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley) was assigned to oversee the...
Bill Kelley III
Oct 16, 20206 min read
Tremble, viewers, with the “Stephen King 5 Movie Collection”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS (1) In Stephen King’s adaptation of the apocalyptic “The Stand,” Stu Redman (Gary Sinise) and a pregnant...
Kay Reynolds
Oct 15, 202012 min read
Billy Wilder’s early, unconventional WWII drama shows the master at the top of his game
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS British Cpl. J.J. Bramble (Franchot Tone), the sole survivor of his tank crew, hides behind the front desk...
Craig Shapiro
Oct 12, 20204 min read
Soaring high with John Wayne and remastered “Flying Leathernecks”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS John Wayne stars as Major Dan Kirby, a commander of a U.S. Marine Corps squadron in the South Pacific. Wayne...
Kay Reynolds
Oct 10, 20204 min read
Zack Snyder’s “300” reveals a new level of grit and grain on 4K
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS King Leonidas played by Gerard Butler, leads his Spartan men into battle against the Persian Empire...
Bill Kelley III
Oct 8, 20205 min read
Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” films shine on Ultra 4K
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS (1) In the reimagined “Sherlock Holmes” right, Robert Downey Jr. plays the eccentric, athletic, and...
Bill Kelley III
Oct 5, 20206 min read
Fox favorite “Home Alone: 30th Anniversary Edition” makes it to 4K Ultra HD
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Nine-year-old Macaulay Culkin plays Kevin McCallister, who’s accidentally left behind when his...
Bill Kelley III
Sep 27, 20206 min read
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