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Peggy Earle
Apr 3, 20246 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...
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Peggy Earle
Feb 21, 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...
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High-Def Watch Staff
Jan 11, 202416 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...
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Peggy Earle
Dec 1, 20236 min read
Hitchcock’s murder by “Rope” now on 4K
4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS Center, James Stewart plays prep school housemaster, Rupert Cadell and his former students Phillip...
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Craig Shapiro
Aug 7, 20235 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...
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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...
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Bill Kelley III
Apr 6, 20236 min read
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)...
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Bill Kelley III
Mar 21, 20236 min read
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....
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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...
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High-Def Watch Staff
Jan 3, 202319 min read
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...
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Craig Shapiro
Nov 13, 20225 min read
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...
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Bill Kelley III
Nov 4, 20226 min read
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...
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Craig Shapiro
Jun 23, 20225 min read
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,...
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Bill Kelley III
Oct 2, 20173 min read
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...
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