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Arrow Video gives Sam Raimi’s superb ‘A Simple Plan’ the kid-glove treatment
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS
In one of his few starring roles, the late Bill Paxton is rock-solid as Hank Mitchell, who has a...
Craig Shapiro
Dec 27, 20245 min read
Alain Delon hits “Le Samouraï” with killer style
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS French actor Alain Delon plays cool contract killer Jef Costello, who’s been rounded up as a suspect...
Bill Kelley III
Oct 4, 20245 min read
Criterion hits the bull’s eye with Raoul Walsh’s ‘The Roaring Twenties’
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS In one of his finest performances, James Cagney, left, plays Eddie Bartlett, a Prohibition...
Craig Shapiro
Apr 5, 20245 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
Who will save us now? “The Monster Squad” 4K UHD
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS (1) Canadian actor Duncan Regehr plays Count Dracula. (2) Monster Squad leader Sean Crenshaw (André...
Kay Reynolds
Dec 29, 20235 min read
Can “Titanic” get any better? Yes, it can!
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio were both in their early 20s when they played star-crossed lovers...
Bill Kelley III
Nov 23, 20235 min read
Does the new 4K UHD master of ‘Fargo’ belong on your shelf? You bet’cha.
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS (1) Frances McDormand won her first Best Actress Oscar as Marge Gunderson, the resourceful, very...
Craig Shapiro
Nov 19, 20234 min read
Denzel saves the day again – “The Equalizer 3”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Denzel Washington’s third round as Robert McCall, a former CIA assassin turned vigilante, who tries...
Bill Kelley III
Nov 17, 20235 min read
“The Fugitive” – 30th Anniversary shines on 4K
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Harrison Ford plays respected vascular surgeon Dr. Richard Kimble, wrongly accused of murdering his...
Bill Kelley III
Nov 15, 20235 min read
A road rage horror show – Spielberg’s “Duel” on 4K
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Actor Dennis Weaver took a short break from his role as Marshal Sam McCloud to play salesman David...
Bill Kelley III
Nov 13, 20235 min read
Hold onto your seat! “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One” is here
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS For the seventh time Tom Cruise stars as IMF agent Ethan Hunt, who tries to hang on with...
Bill Kelley III
Nov 3, 20236 min read
Polanski’s lauded ‘The Pianist’ is even more compelling in 4K Ultra HD
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Oscar-winner Adrien Brody plays Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish musician, who was relocated into the...
Bill Kelley III
Oct 20, 20235 min read
Beware below: “U-571” on 4K UHD
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Matthew McConaughey plays U.S. Navy Lieutenant Andrew Tyler who overtakes the German U-571 submarine...
Bill Kelley III
Oct 15, 20236 min read
UPDATE: “Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny” gets 4K supersize 100GB disc – Dec. 5
HOT 4K NEWS LUCASFILM’S will release director James Mangold’s (“Logan,” 3:10 to Yuma”) final chapter in the Indiana Jones saga “Indiana...
High-Def Watch Staff
Oct 11, 20232 min read
‘Batman: Mask of the Phantasm’ in flawless 4K? Yes, please!
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS (1-2) The late Kevin Conroy, a Juilliard-trained actor grounded in Shakespeare, defined Batman – in...
Craig Shapiro
Oct 10, 20234 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
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
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
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
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