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Beautiful and heartbreaking – “Brokeback Mountain” on 4K UHD
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Left, Australian actor Heath Ledger plays Wyoming cowboy Ennis Del Mar and Jake Gyllenhaal plays...
Peggy Earle
Aug 6, 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
Before Scissorhands, before Sparrow – Johnny Depp was “Cry-Baby”!
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Johnny Depp stars as high school rebel and gang leader Wade “Cry Baby” Walker. Cry Baby’s family and...
Bill Kelley III
Jul 5, 20246 min read
30 Seconds; 30 Bullets in classic “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Left, Kirk Douglas plays John H. ‘Doc’ Holliday, a dentist, gambler, and a gunfighter, suffering...
Kay Reynolds
Jun 7, 20247 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
Chilling and believable – “The Manchurian Candidate”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Denzel Washington stars as Army Major Ben Marco, who tries to get the attention of Vice President...
Bill Kelley III
Apr 19, 20245 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
Who rules “The Last Castle”?
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Robert Redford plays General Eugene Irwin who is serving a 10-year sentence for disobeying a direct...
Bill Kelley III
Mar 8, 20246 min read
John Woo’s “Face/Off” is Gun-Fu gold on 4K
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Nicolas Cage plays terrorist Castor Troy and John Travolta as FBI Special Agent Sean Archer. Troy...
Kay Reynolds
Mar 4, 20247 min read
Need a laugh? - “Kindergarten Cop”
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as L.A.P.D. Detective John Kimble, who substituted as a kindergarten...
Bill Kelley III
Feb 16, 20245 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
Top 10 and a couple more: 4K UHDs of 2023
TRUE 4K MASTERING / HDR SCREENSHOTS THE LIST of movies is the very best in 4K viewing from a physical disc or streaming. The criteria...
High-Def Watch Staff
Jan 11, 202416 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
“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
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
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
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
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...
Craig Shapiro
Aug 7, 20235 min read
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