Blazing Saddles, 1974. Directed by Mel Brooks. Starring Cleavon Little, Gene Wilder, Slim Pickens, Alex Karras, Mel Brooks, Harvey Korman, and Madeline Kahn. SYNOPSIS: Did Blazing Saddles need a 4K Ultra HD release? Why the heck not? It may not rank up there with about a billion genre movies on people’s wish lists, but this […]
4K Ultra HD Review – Slumber Party Massacre I & II
Slumber Party Massacre I & II Directed by Amy Holden Jones/Deborah Brock Starring Michele Michaels, Robin Stille, Andree Honore, Michael Villella, Debra De Liso, David Millbern, Cystal Bernard, Jennifer Rhodes, Atanas Ilitch, Kimberly McArthur. SYNOPSIS: Limited edition box set featuring the cult ‘80s slasher and it sequel, both on 4k UHD and Blu-ray. For those […]
4K Ultra HD Review – North by Northwest (1959)
North by Northwest, 1959. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Starring Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, and Jessie Royce Landis. SYNOPSIS: Warner Bros. has bowed North by Northwest on 4K Ultra HD, and it doesn’t disappoint. The image quality is superb, and nearly all the legacy extras are found here, along with a pair of […]
Movie Review – Joy (2024)
Joy, 2024. Directed by Ben Taylor. Starring Thomasin McKenzie, Bill Nighy, James Norton, Charlie Murphy, Rish Shah, Cecily Cleeve, Eoin Duffy, Mariam Haque, Abbiegail Mills, Olivia Sellers, Joanna Scanlan, Tanya Moodie, Ella Bruccoleri, Douggie McMeekin, Miles Jupp, Louisa Harland, and Toby Williams. SYNOPSIS: 3 trailblazers: a young nurse, a visionary scientist, and an innovative surgeon […]
Movie Review – Red One (2024)
Red One, 2024. Directed by Jake Kasdan. Starring Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, J.K. Simmons, Lucy Liu, Kiernan Shipka, Bonnie Hunt, Kristofer Hivju, Nick Kroll, Wesley Kimmel, Mary Elizabeth Ellis, Wyatt Hunt, Lanz Duffy, Marc Evan Jackson, Ashleigh Domangue, Cody Easterbrook, Jon Rudnitsky, and Morla Gorrondona. SYNOPSIS: After Santa Claus (codename: Red One) is kidnapped, the […]
Movie Review – Gladiator II (2024)
Gladiator II, 2024. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Djimon Hounsou, Matt Lucas, and Derek Jacobi. SYNOPSIS: After his home is conquered by the tyrannical emperors who now lead Rome, Lucius is forced to enter the Colosseum and must look to his past to […]
Movie Review – Voice of Shadows (2023)
Voice of Shadows, 2023. Written and Directed by Nicholas Bain. Starring Guillermo Blanco, Corrinne Mica, Bee Vang, Michael Paul Levin, and Martin Harris. SYNOPSIS: A young priest tries to prevent his dark past from repeating itself when his girlfriend inherits an estate where she needs to abide by eccentric stipulations for the deal to go […]
Movie Review – Gladiator II (2024)
Gladiator II, 2024. Directed by Ridley Scott. Starring Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Connie Nielsen, Pedro Pascal, Joseph Quinn, Fred Hechinger, Derek Jacobi, May Calamawy, Lior Raz, Peter Mensah, Matt Lucas, Alexander Karim, Tim McInnerny, Lee Charles, Alfie Tempest, Riana Duce, Chi Lewis-Parry, Hadrian Howard, Rory McCann, Alec Utgoff, Yuval Gonen, Amira Ghazalla, Chris Hallaways, Tom […]
Movie Review – Emilia Pérez (2024)
Emilia Pérez, 2024. Written and Directed by Jacques Audiard. Starring Karla Sofía Gascón, Zoe Saldana, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, Edgar Ramírez, Mark Ivanir, Eduardo Aladro, Emiliano Hasan, Lucas Varoclier, Daniel Velasco-Acosta, James Gerard, and Sébastien Fruit. SYNOPSIS: In Mexico, a lawyer receives an unexpected offer to help a feared cartel boss retire from his business […]
Movie Review – Dream Team (2024)
Dream Team, 2024. Written and Directed by Whitney Horn and Lev Kelman. Starring Alex Zhang Hungtai, Avalon Greenberg Call, Esther Garrel, and Minh T Mia. SYNOPSIS: An absurdist homage to 90’s basic cable TV thrillers, Dream Team sees two hot INTERPOL agents uncover an international, interspecies mystery. There was a time, long, long, long ago […]
