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4K Ultra HD Review – Watchmen: Chapter 1 (2024)

August 29, 2024 by Brad Cook

Watchmen: Chapter 1, 2024. Directed by Brandon Vietti. Featuring the voice talents of Kelly Hu, Katee Sackhoff, Adrienne Barbeau, Grey Griffin, Titus Welliver, Matthew Rhys, Troy Baker, Jeffrey Combs, Yuri Lowenthal, Kari Wahlgren, Phil LaMarr, Dwight Schultz, Geoff Pierson, Michael Cerveris, Corey Burton, Jason Spisak, John Marshall Jones, Rick D. Wasserman, and Max Koch. SYNOPSIS: […]

Movie Review – Watchmen: Chapter 1 (2024)

August 13, 2024 by Brad Cook

4K Ultra HD Review – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

August 13, 2024 by Brad Cook

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, 2024. Directed by George Miller Starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris Hemsworth, Tom Burke, and Alyla Browne. SYNOPSIS: George Miller’s Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga, which serves as a prequel to Fury Road that’s focused on Mad Max’s sidekick from the last movie, arrives on 4K Ultra HD from Warner Bros. There’s […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Collateral (2004)

August 12, 2024 by Brad Cook

Collateral, 2004. Directed by Michael Mann. Starring Tom Cruise, Jamie Foxx, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mark Ruffalo, Peter Berg, Bruce McGill. SYNOPSIS: Paramount is celebrating the 20th anniversary of Michael Mann’s edge-of-your-seat action film Collateral with a reissue of the 2020 4K Ultra HD disc in a new SteelBook package. The film looks great, and you […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Run Lola Run (1998)

July 28, 2024 by Brad Cook

Run Lola Run, 1998. Directed by Tom Tykwer Starring Franka Potente, Moritz Bleibtreu, Herbert Knaup, Nina Petri, Joachim Król, Armin Rohde, Heino Ferch, Suzanne von Borsody, Sebastian Schipper SYNOPSIS: The 1998 German classic Run Lola Run gets an encore release on 4K Ultra HD, courtesy of Sony. This is the same disc they released in […]

Blu-ray Review – Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)

July 23, 2024 by Brad Cook

Invasion of the Body Snatchers, 1956. Directed by Don Siegel. Starring Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates, King Donovan, Carolyn Jones, Jean Willes, Ralph Dumke. SYNOPSIS: Philip Kaufman’s excellent 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers gets tons of attention, and deservedly so, but the 1956 original should get some love too. Kino Lorber […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Captain Phillips (2013)

July 20, 2024 by Brad Cook

Captain Phillips, 2013. Directed by Paul Greengrass. Starring Tom Hanks, Barkhad Abdi, Catherine Keener, Michael Chernus, David Warshofsky, Corey Johnson, Chris Mulkey, Barkhad Abdirahaman, Faysal Ahmed, and Yul Vazquez. SYNOPSIS: Captain Phillips, a 2013 film directed by Paul Greengrass and starring Tom Hanks, arrives on 4K Ultra HD in a SteelBook edition that also includes […]

Movie Review – Aliens Expanded (2024)

July 16, 2024 by Brad Cook

Aliens Expanded, 2024. Directed by Ian Nathan. Featuring James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd, Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Mark Rolston, Jenette Goldstein, William Hope, Carrie Henn, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr., Robert Skotak, John Lee, Graham Hartstone, Alan Dean Foster, Mark Verheiden, V. Castro, Charles de Lauzirika, Derek Dafoe, Drea Letamendi, and […]

Blu-ray Review – Brokeback Mountain (2005)

July 16, 2024 by Brad Cook

Brokeback Mountain, 2005. Directed by Ang Lee. Starring Heath Ledger, Jake Gyllenhaal, Linda Cardellini, Anna Faris, Anne Hathaway, Michelle Williams, and Randy Quaid. SYNOPSIS: Ang Lee’s 2005 classic Brokeback Mountain arrives on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD from Kino Lorber, which commissioned a sparkling new 4K scan of the original camera negative. The company also […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Civil War (2024)

July 14, 2024 by Brad Cook

Civil War, 2024. Directed by Alex Garland. Starring Kirsten Dunst, Wagner Moura, Cailee Spaeny, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Sonoya Mizuno, and Nick Offerman. SYNOPSIS: Alex Garland’s harrowing film Civil War arrives on 4K Ultra HD in an edition that also includes a Blu-ray as well as a code for a digital copy. There’s only one bonus […]