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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High-Def Watch Staff
- Sep 1
- 2 min
Sports favorite “Rudy: 30th Anniversary Edition” jumps to the 4K big leagues – Nov. 14
HOT 4K NEWS THE 30th Anniversary of the football classic “RUDY” will feature two cuts of the crowd-pleaser. Sony Pictures and director...
High-Def Watch Staff
- Aug 30
- 1 min
Disney catches the 4K fire releasing the classic “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” – Oct. 10
HOT 4K NEWS AFTER THE recent 4K restoration of animation classics “Cinderella” (1950) and Tim Burton’s “The Nightmare Before Christmas”...
Craig Shapiro
- Aug 28
- 4 min
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...
Bill Kelley III
- Aug 25
- 6 min
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...
High-Def Watch Staff
- Aug 21
- 2 min
Disney+ series “Loki,” “WandaVision” and “The Mandalorian,” will arrive on 4K disc – this fall
HOT 4K NEWS STARTING SEPTEMBER 26, Disney Company will release the Disney+ series “Loki: The Complete First Season.” on physical discs 4K...
Peggy Earle
- Aug 18
- 5 min
Ida Lupino pushes Hays Code envelope with “Outrage”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS 18-year-old Mala Powers, a newcomer to Hollywood plays Ann Walton, who’s raped after a late night at work....
Mike Reynolds
- Aug 16
- 6 min
Home on the range with Heston’s favorite: “Will Penny”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Charlton Heston plays Will Penny, an aging cowhand, searching for work after a long cattle drive in Montana...
Craig Shapiro
- Aug 14
- 6 min
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...
Peggy Earle & Bill Kelley III
- Aug 11
- 6 min
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...
Craig Shapiro
- Aug 7
- 5 min
Kino Lorber’s remastered ‘Force of Evil’ is a must for your film noir library
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS John Garfield, left, gives one of his finest performances as Joe Morse, an unscrupulous attorney who tries...
Bill Kelley III
- Aug 4
- 7 min
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...
High-Def Watch Staff
- Aug 2
- 2 min
Friedkin’s supernatural classic “The Exorcist” gets a 50th Anniversary 4K Ultra HD – 9/19
HOT 4K NEWS PART OF the year-long centennial celebration of Warner Bros. 100th Anniversary, the iconic supernatural film “The Exorcist:...
High-Def Watch Staff
- Aug 1
- 1 min
Sony’s second installment of the Sider-Verse saga arrives on 4K Ultra HD – Sept. 5
HOT 4K NEWS SONY PICTURES has made it official. Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar-winning Spider-Verse saga (2018,...
Craig Shapiro
- Jul 28
- 4 min
Fritz Lang’s ‘Human Desire’ checks all the film noir boxes
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Gloria Grahame and Glenn Ford, who starred in Fritz Lang’s “The Big Heat” in 1953, reunited the next year...
Craig Shapiro
- Jul 26
- 5 min
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...
Bill Kelley III
- Jul 24
- 9 min
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.”...
High-Def Watch Staff
- Jul 12
- 2 min
DC’s “The Flash” gets a 4K Ultra HD release – Aug. 29
HOT 4K NEWS EVEN THOUGH it struggled at the box office domestically and worldwide, DC’s “The Flash” gets a 4K Ultra HD release on...
High-Def Watch Staff
- Jul 12
- 2 min
The enchanting “Roman Holiday” gets a 4K Ultra HD upgrade for its 70th Anniversary – Aug. 15
HOT 4K NEWS THREE YEARS after its Paramount Presents release on Blu-ray, the classic “Roman Holiday” starring Audrey Hepburn will jump to...
Mike Reynolds
- Jul 8
- 5 min
A war story for adults – “The Bridges at Toko-Ri”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS William Holden plays Lieutenant Harry Brubaker, a former WWII Navy pilot reactivated for the Korean conflict...
Craig Shapiro
- Jun 30
- 6 min
‘The Manchurian Candidate’ is even more electric thanks to Kino Lorber’s 4K master
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Angela Lansbury received a supporting actress Oscar nomination as the ruthless, manipulative Mrs....
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