New York City | High-Def Watch

Nov 155 min read

Cold war spies, and guns and killers: “North by Northwest: 65th Anniversary”

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Cary Grant stars as New York a dvertising executive Roger Thornhill, who finds himself being chased...

Oct 235 min read

Scorsese gem gets the 4K treatment – “Bringing Out the Dead” – Paramount Presents

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS (1&2) Nicolas Cage stars as burned-out New York City EMS Paramedic Frank Pierce , haunted by the...

Jul 96 min read

‘Taxi Driver’ gets a striking 4K/HDR restoration courtesy of Sony

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR SCREENSHOTS Robert De Niro plays a disturbed NYC taxi driver, in his Oscar-nominated performance. (Click an...

Sep 8, 20237 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...

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...

Feb 27, 20235 min read

Is it safe? Gripping and propulsive, ‘Marathon Man’ is all that and then some

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS (1) Laurence Olivier plays Dr. Christian Szell, a Nazi war criminal who uses the tools of his trade...

Jan 18, 20235 min read

Getting to the truth: “She Said” and #MeToo

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS (1) New York Times reporters Jodi Kantor (Zoe Kazan) and Megan Twohey (Carey Mulligan) listen as...

Dec 26, 20225 min read

Remastered in 4K, “The Taking of Pelham One Two Three” needs to be on your shelf

4K ULTRA HD REVIEW / HDR FRAME SHOTS (1-3) Mr. Blue (Robert Shaw) and three other armed hijackers commandeer a New York City subway train...

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...