Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 4K UHD Review: Cimino Rising
By Jack Cormack |
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is of note for two reasons. The first is that it was the directorial debut of Michael ...
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Clue 4K UHD Review: Who Farted?
By Jack Cormack |
Clue (1985; dir. Jonathan Lynn), based on the beloved board game, sucks like a lamprey. Regarded by many as a ...
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Days of Heaven Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Blue Harvest
By Jack Cormack |
The Criterion Collection has released Days of Heaven (1978; dir. Terrence Malick) in 4K as part of a 4K UHD/Blu-ray ...
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The Color Purple (1985) 4K UHD Review: Ms. Celie’s Blues
By Jack Cormack |
Steven Spielberg’s 1985 adaptation of the famed Alice Walker novel—about the journey a poor black woman, Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), takes ...
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Titanic 4K UHD Limited-Edition Collector’s Boxed Set Review: A Must-Have for Titanic Lovers
By Greg Hammond |
James Cameron’s Titanic is 25 years old this year. To celebrate, 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures have put together ...
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Silver Bullet 4K UHD Review: A Reasonably Creepy Creature Feature
By Greg Hammond |
Based on Stephen King’s novellette The Cycle of the Werewolf, and with a screenplay also by King, one would expect ...
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The Fugitive (1993) 4K UHD Review: Non-Stop Action and Thrills
By Greg Hammond |
Andrew Davis’ The Fugitive is a non-stop action roller coaster that will leave you breathless. It is based on the ...
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Marathon Man 4K UHD Review: Is It Safe?
By Greg Hammond |
John Schlesinger’s movie Marathon Man was written by William Goldman from his novel of the same name. In it, “Babe” ...
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Terms of Endearment 4K UHD Review: Great Performances Make for a Great Film
By Greg Hammond |
James L. Brooks produced, wrote, and directed Terms of Endearment based on the popular novel by Larry McMurtry. He also ...
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Scrooged 4K UHD Review: The Ghost of Murray’s Sense of Humor
By Greg Hammond |
Richard Donner’s Scrooged is a “comedic” retelling of Charles Dickens’ 19th century novella, A Christmas Carol. Bill Murray plays Frank ...
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Witness 4K UHD Review: Competent Thriller; Excellent Romance
By Greg Hammond |
Peter Weir’s Witness is a contemporary police drama / romance that takes place in 1984 in Philadelphia and the Amish ...
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Rebel Without a Cause 4K UHD Review: A Beautiful Film that Shoots You in the Heart
By Greg Hammond |
Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause concerns itself with children learning how to be adults and their parents who never ...
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Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two 4K UHD Review: Once Again, It Is All About the Fighting
By Greg Hammond |
In Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen , Part One, the Justice League (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green ...
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The Legend of Zorro 4K UHD Review: Not So Legendary
By Kent Conrad |
The Mask of Zorro (1998), while not a perfect movie, had a near-perfect sense of tone, and fantastic casting. Antonio ...
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Red Dragon (2002) 4K UHD Review: Hopkins’ Last Lecter
By Kent Conrad |
While Silence of the Lambs is justly Thomas Harris's most famous story about Hannibal Lecter, it's the previous novel, Red ...
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Le Mépris (Contempt) 4K UHD Review: Contemplative, Frustrating, and Painfully Sad
By Greg Hammond |
Le Mépris (Contempt) written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1963 is based on a 1954 Italian novel called Il ...
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Paramount Scares Volume 1 4K UHD Review: An Embarrassment of Riches
By Greg Hammond |
The Paramount Scares Volume 1 4K UHD box set comes packed full of scares. First there are the five movies, ...
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Kiss the Girls 4K UHD Review: A Quality Thriller Showing Its Age
By Greg Hammond |
Early in Gary Fleder’s Kiss the Girls, Washington, D.C. forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) goes to North ...
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Carlito’s Way 4K UHD Review: Sad Streets
By Jack Cormack |
It’s more than just a Scarface (1983) reunion. In Carlito’s Way (1993), director Brian De Palma and Al Pacino give ...
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The Black Phone 4K UHD Review: Unnerving Kidnapping Tale
By Kent Conrad |
Proper new screen horror villains are rare. While it seems like they pop up all the time, the ones that ...
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Night of the Demons 4K UHD Review: Shameless & Shameful Evil Dead Rip-off
By Kent Conrad |
When I saw the opening credits of Night of the Demons, I had the feeling that the animated floating demons ...
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The Exorcist 4K UHD Review: William Friedkin’s Masterpiece
By Greg Hammond |
William Friedkin's The Exorcist is based on the novel and screenplay by William Peter Blatty. The film opens in Iraq, ...
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Cocaine Bear 4K UHD Review: Fans of the Genre Might be Pleased
By Greg Hammond |
In 1985, a drug dealer dumped cocaine out of his Cessna and then fell from the plane to his death. ...
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 4K UHD Review: Batman in Love
By Kent Conrad |
In the last couple of decades, DC has been aggressive about adapting its comic book stories into films. Some of ...
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Enter the Dragon 4K UHD Review: Are You Not… Entered?
By Jack Cormack |
Enter the Dragon (1973; dir. Robert Clouse) is one of the most famous kung fu movies ever made. In the ...
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City of the Living Dead 4K UHD Review: Where Zombies Are Ghosts
By Kent Conrad |
What makes Italian horror films of the '70s and '80s exciting is that anything can happen. What makes them infuriating ...
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Danke Schoen for a Perfect Movie
By Kent Conrad |
For a certain segment of the population, this is the movie. The movie. One of my older brothers. My high ...
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Rio Bravo 4K UHD Review: Degüello
By Jack Cormack |
For Rio Bravo (1959; 141 mins.; dir. Howard Hawks)—my favorite Western or damn near it—I have almost no critical faculty. ...
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Nightbreed 4K UHD Review: Clive Barker’s Monster Mess
By Kent Conrad |
It's unfortunate, but perhaps not surprising that Clive Barker hung up his directing hat. He made his first film, Hellraiser, ...
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Akira Kurosawa’s Dreams Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: A Master Reflects
By Kent Conrad |
With a master artist, their later works are impossible to judge outside of the context of their careers. One could ...
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 4K Digital Review: All the Feels
By Steve Geise |
After focusing on Star Lord’s family back story for the first two movies, writer/director James Gunn turns his attention to ...
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The Truman Show 4K UHD Review: Prescient Dystopic Satire
By Kent Conrad |
What's frightening about The Truman Show, a dystopic nightmare about the co-option of human experience and survival in a corporate ...
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The Rules of the Game Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: The Shooting Party
By Jack Cormack |
On the brink of WWII, Jean Renoir—inspired by baroque music and an opera, Les Caprices de Marianne—took his collaborators to ...
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National Lampoon’s Vacation 4K UHD Review: This is No Longer a Vacation — It’s a Quest!
By Jack Cormack |
The basic idea behind National Lampoon’s Vacation is easy to guess—the movie is a lampoon, a harsh satire, of the ...
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Creepshow Collector’s Edition 4K UHD + Blu-ray Review: The Best E.C. Screamer Ever Put on Film
By Jack Cormack |
If horror comedies and horror anthology movies are not your thing, skip the Creepshow (1982). Otherwise, check it out. This cult ...
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Time Bandits Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: A Child’s Nightmare Fantasy
By Kent Conrad |
Is Time Bandits a children's movie? It stars a child, and there's nothing on the face that a child shouldn't ...
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Branded to Kill Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Yakuza Movie as Experimental Art
By Kent Conrad |
Goro Hanada's life is spinning out of control. His wife spends all his money, so he's always on the financial ...
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Wings of Desire Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Stay
By Jack Cormack |
Not much happens in Wings of Desire (1987; dir. Wim Wenders), but it’s among the most beautiful of films. In ...
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Superman 5-Film Collection 4K UHD Review: Super-Reeve
By Jack Cormack |
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… Warner Bros.’s new 4K UHD Superman 5-Film Collection (1978-1987)! But is it worth ...
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All-Star Superman 4K UHD Review: Great Comics, Okay Movie
By Kent Conrad |
Superman is a difficult character to write good stories about because… he's Superman. Impervious to damage, always the strongest and ...
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The Seventh Seal Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Chess with Death
By Jack Cormack |
The Criterion Collection has just released Ingmar Bergman’s film, The Seventh Seal (1957), in 4K UHD. When I first saw ...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-Movie Collection 4K UHD Review: First 4K Contact
By Steve Geise |
Following up on last year’s six-movie 4K box set of the original Star Trek movies, Paramount has moved on to ...
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Cool Hand Luke 4K UHD Review: Grin Like a Baby, Bite Like a Gator
By Jack Cormack |
It’s not I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) (still the best chain gang movie I’ve seen)—but… Cool ...
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The Maltese Falcon (1941) 4K UHD Review: Bogart’s Big Break
By Kent Conrad |
Is The Maltese Falcon a film noir? To many viewers, it's not a question. It's black and white. There's crime. ...
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Dead Silence (2007) 4K UHD Review: Scary Dolls Don’t Do Anything
By Kent Conrad |
James Wan has had an interesting career. An absolute underdog, coming from Malaysia via Australia, he made the film Saw. ...
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Babylon 4K UHD Steelbook Review: That Old Hollywood Stomp
By Jack Cormack |
Babylon (2022; dir. Damien Chazelle) does for silent movies what Boogie Nights (1997; dir. Paul Thomas Anderson) did for ‘70s ...
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Dragonslayer (1981) 4K UHD Review: Great Dragon, Murky Movie
By Kent Conrad |
The title Dragonslayer brings to mind knights in shining armor. Villainous, fire-breathing wyrms. Damsels chained to posts in sacrifice to ...
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Rocky: The Knockout Collection 4K UHD Review: The Contender
By Jack Cormack |
A Philly ham-and-cheese tough with heart, Rocky Balboa is one of cinema’s best underdogs. Say what you like about its ...
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Training Day 4K UHD Review: King Kong Ain’t Got Sh*t on Him!
By Jack Cormack |
Let’s talk about Training Day (2001; dir. Antoine Fuqua). Modern-day L.A.: Jake, a rookie cop (Ethan Hawke, in an Oscar-nominated ...
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Grinding Relentless Horror Classic
By Kent Conrad |
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre deserves its reputation. For grisliness, for nastiness. And for excellence. It's a rare movie that ...
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