My interest in Hong Kong Cinema is primarily for the action, the wild stunts, gunplay and martial arts. Through that I also grew to love the filmmakers’ willingness to combine genres, going from broad comedy to intense melodrama in the...
The Coen Brothers’ Oscar winning thriller has joined the Criterion Collection, on 4K UHD no less. Those epic desert vistas look very brown in 4K, and bright in the scorching daylight. Night scenes show the bleak darkness of the same...
Rock ’n’ Roll High School is a fun romp with the Ramones in a teen comedy. You don’t need to be a Ramones fan but the music and dancing is pretty irresistible. Shout! Studios, who put out a Blu-ray of...
Stir of Echoes had the misfortune of coming out a month after The Sixth Sense. No one could have expected The Sixth Sense to change the game for ghost stories, so an old school one was doomed. Fortunately, it’s still...
It’s no surprise this animation looks great in 4K. The painted animals on painted backgrounds give way to bursts of color, from butterfly swarms to Roz’s laser show. The sound environment is also full. You’ll hear waves crash behind you,...
Alien: Romulus joins Bumblebee among post-2000 movies I own on VHS. Bumblebee was just a press promo item but Romulus was actually for sale for collectors. It sold out but perhaps demand will warrant a second run. The original press...
Galaxy Quest is 25 years old this year. Commemorate the occasion with the new 4K UHD. It looks like a Star Trek movie in 4K, and the goofy 1999 CGI effects are appropriate to the cheesy TV show aesthetic, with...
One of my favorite genres in all of cinema is post-apocalyptic movies where the survivors have to gather supplies. That entails a lot of Mad Max rip-offs for better or worse. The new 4K UHD of 2020: Texas Gladiators was...
Three sets of Alfred Hitchcock’s Universal movies are now on 4K UHD. From Warner Home Video’s MGM license, North by Northwest now joins the Hitch club and it looks even better. Warner Bros. gave it the Casablanca treatment, but it’s...
Arrow Video’s third collection of Shaw Brothers martial arts movies hit just before Thanksgiving, and while I got an early copy, it still took me much of the long weekend to finish all of them. But as a Hong Kong...