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“Sunset Boulevard” – This picture is BIG, especially in 4K!
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Gloria Swanson plays the aging silent screen legend Norma Desmond, who comes to life during a...
Bill Kelley III
5 days ago8 min read
A film noir landmark, Criterion’s ‘The Big Heat’ grabs you and never lets go
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Glenn Ford, right, plays Homicide Sgt. Dave Bannion, whose investigation of a policeman’s suicide...
Craig Shapiro
Jul 245 min read
Hepburn and Wilder give “Sabrina” its Rom-Com flair in a new 4K remaster
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS (1) Audrey Hepburn in her second leading role as Sabrina Fairchild, the daughter of the Larrabee...
Bill Kelley III
Jun 257 min read
Luis Buñuel’s “Diary of a Chambermaid” gets the Kino Lorber treatment
BLU-RAY REVIEW / SDR SCREENSHOTS (1) French actress Jeanne Moreau stars as Célestine, the chambermaid, who arrives from Paris to work...
Peggy Earle
May 45 min read
More than 70 years on, WWII epic “The Cruel Sea” has lost none of its power
BLU-RAY REVIEW / SDR SCREENSHOTS Survivors of the HMS Compass Rose hang on after the ship is torpedoed by a German U-boat. Lt. Commander...
Craig Shapiro
Apr 204 min read
Find genuine entertainment in remastered “Teacher’s Pet”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / SDR SCREENSHOTS Doris Day plays Erica Stone, a journalism instructor who holds night classes. Clark Gable plays James...
Peggy Earle
Feb 145 min read
Revenge Western “Winchester ’73” finally gets 4K upgrade
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR SCREENSHOTS James Stewart stars as marksman Lin McAdam, and Millard Mitchell plays his riding partner, Frankie...
Bill Kelley III
Jan 316 min read
Criterion delivers again with 4K UHD remaster of Howard Hawks’ influential ‘Scarface’
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR SCREENSHOTS (1) The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Most of the violence in “Scarface” in the shadows or...
Craig Shapiro
Jan 35 min read
Brando at his best – “On the Waterfront” Columbia Classics Collection: Volume 5
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Marlon Brando stars in his Oscar-winning role as former boxer and longshoreman Terry Malloy, who...
Bill Kelley III
Oct 30, 20247 min read
A double dip of Melville crime classics? Thank you, Kino Lorber
4K ULTRA HD REVIEWS / SDR SCREENSHOTS “Bob le flambeur” - Roger Duchesne stars as ex-gangster Bob Montagné, who wins big at the track,...
Craig Shapiro
Sep 19, 20245 min read
Original ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ has its moments in 4K UHD
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Becky Driscoll (Dana Wynter), left, Jack Belicec (King Donovan), Teddy Belicec (Carolyn Jones) and...
Craig Shapiro
Aug 2, 20244 min read
What it takes to wear “The Tin Star”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / 1080p SCREENSHOTS Twenty-four-year-old Anthony Perkins plays the inexperienced and fill-in sheriff Ben Owens, and Henry...
Bill Kelley III
May 31, 20246 min read
Do not forsake “High Noon” 4K remaster!
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS (1) Gary Cooper won the Academy Award for Best Actor as Marshal Will Kane. (2) Outlaws James Pierce,...
Bill Kelley III
May 7, 20247 min read
Before “Dragnet” and “CSI,” there was “He Walked By Night”
BLU-RAY REVIEW / SCREENSHOTS Ruthless killer Roy Morgan (Richard Basehart) shows up at the home of electronic store owner Paul Reeves...
Peggy Earle
Apr 3, 20246 min read
Take a dark walk on “Scarlet Street”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Right, Edward G. Robinson was paid $100,000 to play hapless New York bank cashier Chris Cross, and...
Peggy Earle
Feb 21, 20246 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
“These Nazis ain’t kosher!” – Wilder’s “Stalag 17” now on 4K
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS William Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor as Sgt. J.J. Sefton. The next morning after an...
Bill Kelley III
Dec 4, 20235 min read
Orson Welles makes it personal in Kafka’s classic “The Trial”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / SDR FRAME SHOTS Anthony Perkins stars as Josef K. a young bureaucrat, arrested for an unnamed crime. He appears in...
Peggy Earle
Oct 4, 20235 min read
There’s nothing like it: “Natural Born Killers: Collector’s Edition”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Woody Harrelson and Juliette Lewis as star-crossed serial killers Mickey and Mallory Knox. (Click on...
Josh Boone, producer/writer/director
Sep 29, 20239 min read
Remastered by Kino Lorber in TRUE 4K, ‘The Train’ was worth the wait
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Burt Lancaster stars as French resistance leader Paul Labiche and British actor Paul Scofield as...
Bill Kelley III
Sep 21, 20235 min read
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