The Emperor’s New Groove was one of the last old school Disney 2D animated movies. And after the turmoil of a major revision and cutting out many of Sting’s original songs, it still ended up one of the funniest. Even...
Wild Style is a new to me movie so I got to rediscover it thanks to the new Arrow 4K UHD. It is ostensibly about a graffiti artist (Leo Quiñones) getting an opportunity, but it’s more about the vibe. Montages...
Dogma almost became lost media. Due to rights issues, the Blu-ray and DVD went out of print and it wasn’t streaming anywhere. Writer/director Kevin Smith worked it out for a theatrical re-release this year, and the natural evolution of that...
The Killer may have been the very first Hong Kong movie many of us found on a cruddy VHS several generations down and not well transferred in the first place. This or Hard Boiled. It didn’t matter, though, because the...
Triple Threat: Three Films with Sammo Hung really captures three different eras of the martial artist. All three were new to me, and restored in gorgeous HD by Eureka. The Manchu Boxer is a traditional post-Bruce Lee martial arts movie....
Disney seems to be making it through the 20th Century Fox catalog by anniversaries. Hence Kingdom of Heaven’s 20th, Rocky Horror’s 50th and of course, a new Tron sequel brought us the first two on 4K. Edward Scissorhands is 35,...
The Breakfast Club made The Criterion Collection in the Blu-ray era. Now it’s upgraded to 4K UHD. The seminal John Hughes movie is still relevant. We may have more devices and technology now, but teenagers, and all people, are often...
Shout! Factory’s John Woo 4K UHD #2 is the A Better Tomorrow Trilogy. These are significant because Woo considers the first film the beginning of his auteur phase. However, Heroes Shed No Tears began experimenting with double guns and jumping...
The studios rushed two Mars movies into production for the year 2000. Neither were The Martian and I would like to see Mission to Mars again. I remember liking it but Warner Bros’ was Red Planet, which posited a Mars...
It seems a bit soon for a new Five Nights at Freddy’s edition, but there is a sequel coming out next month so why not? The big asset of this collector’s edition is that it comes in a Freddy Fazbear’s...