1940s | High-Def Watch

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...

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...

Warner’s “The Maltese Falcon” in 4K Ultra HD – ‘The stuff that dreams are made of’

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS (1) The package is quickly opened and everyone touches the statue of the Maltese falcon. (2)...

Blending film noir & melodrama, “Mildred Pierce: Criterion Collection” gets the 4K treatment

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Joan Crawford won an Oscar for Best Actress as Mildred Pierce, a businesswoman, mother, and wife....

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...

Top 10: 4K UHDs of 2022

TRUE 4K MASTERING / HDR FRAME SHOTS THE LIST of movies is the very best in 4K viewing from disc or streaming. The criteria required the...

You want monsters? Universal serves a second 4K helping in ‘Icons of Horror Collection’

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS The great Boris Karloff takes the guise of Egyptian historian Ardeth Bey 10 years after the mummy of...

We’ll always have “Casablanca: 80th Edition” – Now on 4K

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS (1) Humphrey Bogart plays American ex-patriot Rick Blaine, owner of Rick’s Café Americain, a popular...

Remastered in 4K UHD, Criterion’s “Double Indemnity” is one of the year’s top titles

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Barbara Stanwyck stars as the cunning Mrs. Phyllis Dietrichson and Fred MacMurray as Walter Neff,...

Hitchcock’s “Rebecca” arrives with a striking 4K restoration

BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS “Rebecca” is the only Alfred Hitchcock film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. The original camera...