Michael Jackson was supposed to do the theme song for Addams Family Values. At the last minute, his first scandal broke and they canceled the song. The film features a hastily rendered Tag Team remix “Whoomp! The Addams Family There...
The first four Hellraisers make a good set because they were all theatrical. The straight to video ones, even those starring Doug Bradley as Pinhead, probably don’t warrant 4K upgrades. Even as direct to video larks, they don’t really have...
Alien: Romulus opened up new worlds of the Alien universe and now you can explore them in 4K UHD. It begins on the mining planet which is so full of activity, it’s not purely dark and desolate. Once the characters...
To my surprise, Sideways got 4K UHD upgrade for its 20th anniversary. It just showed up last week, and it is a delight to revisit. Of course the highlight is wine country in 4K. It is beautiful, vivid and yet...
We were supposed to get Horizon: Chapter 2 in August. While we wait for a release date, Chapter 1 is available at home in 4K UHD. I liked Kevin Coster’s latest western. It balances many characters and different issues of...
The extent of my knowledge of is limited to the Universal monsters and Tod Browning’s Freaks, the latter of which Criterion expanded my knowledge beyond too. So now it’s time to explore Val Lewton. I Walked with a Zombie must...
Freddy Krueger became a big industry. New Line even called itself “The House that Freddy Built.” Yet the original A Nightmare on Elm Street was an independent film. It didn’t take the flights of fancy that Dream Warriors or Dream...
Scream Factory upgraded George Romero’s big studio Land of the Dead to 4K UHD even before his landmark ‘70s and ‘80s sequels. Night of the Living Dead is of course on Criterion Collection 4K UHD, and there’s still Land and...
Where has the summer gone? Deadpool & Wolverine is already on DVD, Blu-ray and 4K UHD. The digital 4K obviously holds up with the rest of the Marvel movies, but the bonus features provide some further appreciation. All the bonus...
Kill wouldn’t have to claim to be the goriest Indian movie ever made to gain my interest. It’s an action movie on a train in a classic Die Hard scenario of one against dozens. Perhaps it stands out against PG-13...