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DC Universal’s superhero “Blue Beetle” arrives on 4K Ultra HD (digital) 9/26 & (disc) 10/31
HOT 4K NEWS WARNER BROS. Home Entertainment and DC Universe tell the action-packed, modern origin story of recent college grad Jaime...
High-Def Watch Staff
Sep 20, 20232 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...
Bill Kelley III
Sep 14, 20236 min read
OFFICIAL: Academy Award winner “Terms of Endearment” gets a 40th Anniversary 4K remaster – 11/14
HOT 4K NEWS TO CELEBRATE the 40th Anniversary of James L. Brooks’ five Academy Award winner “Terms of Endearment,” Paramount Home...
High-Def Watch Staff
Sep 13, 20231 min read
OFFICIAL: The highly praised “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” arrives on 4K – 10/31
HOT 4K NEWS SURPRISINGLY Tom Cruise’s seventh installment in the “Mission: Impossible” franchise didn’t set the summer box office on fire...
High-Def Watch Staff
Sep 12, 20232 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...
Bill Kelley III
Sep 8, 20237 min read
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
Sep 1, 20232 min read
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”...
High-Def Watch Staff
Aug 30, 20231 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...
Craig Shapiro
Aug 28, 20234 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...
Bill Kelley III
Aug 25, 20236 min read
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...
High-Def Watch Staff
Aug 21, 20232 min read
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....
Peggy Earle
Aug 18, 20235 min read
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...
Mike Reynolds
Aug 16, 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...
Craig Shapiro
Aug 14, 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...
Peggy Earle & Bill Kelley III
Aug 11, 20236 min read
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...
Craig Shapiro
Aug 7, 20235 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...
Bill Kelley III
Aug 4, 20237 min read
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, 20232 min read
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,...
High-Def Watch Staff
Aug 1, 20231 min read
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 28, 20234 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...
Craig Shapiro
Jul 26, 20235 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.”...
Bill Kelley III
Jul 24, 20239 min read
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, 20232 min read
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...
High-Def Watch Staff
Jul 12, 20232 min read
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...
Mike Reynolds
Jul 7, 20235 min read
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