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Choosing between perfect or less-than lessons from Celine Song’s “Materialists”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / SDR SCREENSHOTS (1) Dakota Johnson plays Lucy, an upscale matchmaker, and Chris Evans plays her ex-boyfriend John, a struggling actor in New York City. (2) The film opens with a caveman and his female love, and he twists a small flower into a ring. (Click an image to scroll the larger versions) Screenshots courtesy of A24 - Click for an Amazon purchase “MATERIALISTS” Blu-ray; 2025; R for profanity, nudity, adult situations, smoking Best extra: Commentary b
Peggy Earle
Oct 226 min read
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 214 min read
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 95 min read
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
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 10, 20245 min read
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
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
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
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
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
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 19, 20233 min read
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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