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...
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Bill Kelley III
Apr 306 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
Mar 3010 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....
Kay Reynolds
Feb 55 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...
Peggy Earle
Aug 18, 20235 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....
Mike Reynolds
Aug 16, 20236 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...
Craig Shapiro
Jul 28, 20234 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
Jun 20, 20233 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...
Mike Reynolds
Apr 12, 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...
Peggy Earle
Feb 22, 20234 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
Jan 30, 20236 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 8, 20234 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
Dec 23, 20224 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...
Kay Reynolds
Oct 11, 20204 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
Jul 8, 20186 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
Mar 22, 20185 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...
Bill Kelley III
May 10, 20173 min read
Frankenheimer’s “Seven Days in May” resonates now more than ever
BLU-RAY REVIEW / FRAME SHOTS Burt Lancaster stars as General James M. Scott and Kirk Douglas as Colonel Martin Casey, who intercepts a...
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