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Lee Marvin’s poignant ‘Monte Walsh’ is a must for your Western collection
BLU-RAY REVIEW / SDR SCREENSHOTS Lee Marvin, left, and Jack Palance star as Monte Walsh and Chet Rollins, aging cowboys who are facing a...
Craig Shapiro
Jan 224 min read
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Controversial “Conclave” earns Oscar buzz
BLU-RAY REVIEW / SDR SCREENSHOTS (1) Ralph Fiennes plays English Cardinal Thomas Lawrence, who’s in charge of the election of a new Pope...
Peggy Earle
Jan 105 min read
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Still top of its game: “Topkapi” 60th Anniversary Edition
BLU-RAY REVIEW / SCREENSHOTS (1-3) Austrian actor Maximillian Schell plays Walter Harper, who leads the gang on top of the Topkapi...
Peggy Earle
Dec 6, 20245 min read
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Acclaimed courtroom drama “Anatomy of a Fall” gets the Criterion treatment
BLU-RAY REVIEW / 1080p SCREENSHOTS Sandra Voyter (Sandra Hüller) and her attorney friend Maître Vincent Renzi (Swann Artaud) determine...
Peggy Earle
Jun 11, 20245 min read
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Arrow Video gives the Duke a solid Blu-ray sendoff in ‘The Shootist’
BLU-RAY REVIEW / SCREENSHOTS Actor John Wayne in his last on-screen performance as Shootist J.B. Books, who’s suffering from prostate...
Bill Kelley III
Apr 30, 20246 min read
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The essential films for Easter & Passover
HERE’S A guide to some of the most powerful stories about the Jewish people and a man called Jesus – now available on disc or streaming....
Bill Kelley III
Mar 30, 202410 min read
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Dive into suspense: “Run Silent, Run Deep”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / SCREENSHOTS Right, Clark Gable - “The King of Hollywood” - plays Commander P.J. “Rich” Richardson, and co-star Burt...
Kay Reynolds
Feb 5, 20245 min read
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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
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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
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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
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Despite a misfire or two, ‘Max Fleischer’s Superman’ soars
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Superman to the rescue during the eight-minute short “Volcano,” which premiered on July 10, 1942. (Click an...
Craig Shapiro
Jun 20, 20233 min read
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“The Crimson Rivers” – French thriller hits all the noir notes
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS French actors Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel play Detective Commissioner Pierre Niemans from Paris and local...
Mike Reynolds
Apr 12, 20233 min read
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Before “Kill Bill,” “The Bride Wore Black”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS French actress Jeanne Moreau plays Julie Kohler, the widow of a man who was shot to death on the church...
Peggy Earle
Feb 22, 20234 min read
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She’s nothin’ but trouble – “The Lady from Shanghai”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Writer/director/actor Orson Welles and his wife actress Rita Hayworth, play a forbidden couple Michael...
Peggy Earle
Jan 30, 20236 min read
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Huston, Williams and Burton deliver a classic on Blu-ray: “The Night of the Iguana”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Richard Burton plays Reverend T. Lawrence Shannon, a disgraced, defrocked Episcopal minister, who is pursued...
Peggy Earle
Jan 8, 20234 min read
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1950s taboos drive William Wyler’s “Detective Story”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Kirk Douglas plays James McLeod, a hard-edged New York City police detective, who rough-ups Karl Schneider...
Peggy Earle
Dec 23, 20224 min read
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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 11, 20204 min read
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Bachelors and Bachelorettes light up the screen in two versions of “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS CinemaScope 2.55:1 ratio - Director Stanley Donen and cinematographer George J. Folsey filmed the musical in...
Kay Reynolds
Jul 8, 20186 min read
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Newman stars in Warner Archive restored “Harper” and “The Drowning Pool”
BLU-RAY REVIEW /FRAME SHOTS Paul Newman played Ross Macdonald’s Lew Archer – who became Lew Harper onscreen – in “Harper” and “The...
Kay Reynolds
Mar 22, 20185 min read
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Frankenheimer’s “Seven Days in May” resonates now more than ever
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Burt Lancaster stars as General James M. Scott and Kirk Douglas as Colonel Martin Casey, who intercepts a...
Bill Kelley III
May 10, 20173 min read
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