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...
Hush is a lean 81 minute thriller that makes the most of a cat and mouse game with al the advantages and disadvantages a non hearing or speaking main character has to survive. Not only did Shout! Studios wrest the...
I finally discovered Funny Girl about 15 years ago when a local theater showed it on film. I finally got Barbar. She is awesome in this, not just singing but doing the physical comedy. Her expressions make any scene. The...
I first saw Blazing Saddles when I recorded it off HBO and watched it the next day. It was so funny I started telling my parents about this movie that was so funny called Blazing Saddles. They of course knew...
Labyrinth is my favorite movie. Every scene is just filled with supreme creativity, making something out of nothing but imagination. And I have come to appreciate that The Dark Crystal was the testing ground for a lot of those techniques....
As a kid, I related more to Terminator 2 because I was John Connor (Edward Furlong)’s age. As I got older, I related more to Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton) and Terminator 1 because that’s the story of an adult burdened...
Tim Burton’s return to the afterlife is a visual cornucopia in 4K. Though he has a reputation for being dark and goth, the world of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is multicolored, striped and practically polka dotted. The angled hallways of the afterlife...
Sam Raimi is my favorite director so A Simple Plan is one of his films I’ve been waiting for on 4K. It’s not one of his flashy films, in fact it was his first to employ a steadier style. Actually,...
Elvira’s big break was hosting a movie show where she made fun of the movies she showed. In the ‘80s, she got to be the star of her own movie, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. She’s a fun character with...