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Hardware Reviews
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Axiom Audio Epic 80 5.1 Channel Home Theater System Review
May 15 2013 07:16 AM
Axiom Epic 80 System Review In the small but innovative world of Internet direct audio manufacturers, Canadian manufacturer Axiom Audio has been steady and consistent presence in a rather tumultuous industry. In 1980 Axiom A... Read More -
Ceton InfiniTV6-ETH Network Cable Card Adapter Equipment Review
May 14 2013 10:46 AM
Ceton InfiniTV 6-ETH Cable Card Adapter From the beginning, I've followed Ceton. I received one of the very first InfiniTV4, in the first batch, as soon as they had them. I participated in the Echo and App Be... Read More -
Panasonic TC-P55ST60 3D Plasma HTF Equipment Review
May 13 2013 07:19 AM
Panasonic TC-P55ST60 3D Plasma HTF Equipment Review I’ve spent a lot of time this year focusing on our new theater room. In putting together that room, I wanted the best that I could get.. within reason, and I wanted to be able to have a theater t... Read More
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GAME: Guess an upcoming Twilight Time Release
GUESS AN UPCOMING TWILIGHT TIME RELEASE We are going to try this on an experimental basis. If everyone can play this according to the rules and it turns out to be a popular game, then Twilight Time is promising to give us other forthcoming titles to tease in this manner. I learned of a particular planned Twilight Time release a few months back. It has b... Read MorePosted May 19 2013 07:17 AM by Ken Koc
Weekly RoundUp 5-21-2013
WRU Template 3-26-13 The Features – Jimmy Cagney & Jean Harlow (The Public Enemy – 1931) – Beautiful Creatures – 2013 – Virginia Mayo & Jimmy Cagney (White Heat – 1949) –The Last Stand – 2013 – Christie Brinkley (National Lampoon's Vacation – 1983) – Stand Up Guys – 2012 The P... Read MorePosted May 18 2013 09:15 PM by Charles Smith
Exclusive HTF Interview with John Magaro (Not Fade Away)
Home Theater Forum recently had the great pleasure of speaking with up-and-coming actor John Magaro, star of Not Fade Away, about landing the key role in Soprano's creator David Chase's personal directorial debut, gaining an appreciation for music, and how veteran actors have helped shape his craft. HTF:Thanks for speaking with us today. So Not Fade Away is not... Read MorePosted May 16 2013 07:26 AM by Neil Middlemiss
What's on your Weekend Viewing List?
I'm sure many here will be sitting down to view The Great Escape this weekend. Fortunately, this past Monday, I was able to find the time to view that great, but long film on BD. Anyhow, now I have to find other titles to watch this weekend which is when I usually do most of my disc viewing as I have little time during the weekdays due to work and other distractions. I'm goin... Read MorePosted May 11 2013 02:40 AM by Stephen_J_H
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A Few Words About
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A few words about...™ Amazon.com, film piracy and national security
Today, 04:26 PM
Any casual visitor to Amazon.com, that huge, well-organized, consumer-friendly web-store, will most likely be unaware that they are a depository and vendor of pirated, boot-legged and by whatever name one calls it, illegal video product. Ha... Read More -
A few words about...™ The Great Escape -- in Blu-ray
Today, 04:13 PM
"I don't think it matters what his motives were. It was a brilliant bit of soldiering." The Great Escape has always been a sort of "event" film. Overflowing with the faces of some of the greatest British cinematic talent. Faces for which one may... Read More -
A few words about...™ Vertigo -- in Blu-ray
Today, 11:39 AM
Make no mistake. Alfred Hitchcock's 1957 (released in 1958) Vertigo, is not an easy film to bring to Blu-ray. Scanning the original VistaVision negative gives you proper grain and resolution. And that's about it. Fully exposed shots, are... Read More -
A few words about...™ Once Upon a Time in the West -- in Blu-ray
Today, 11:21 AM
As a TechniScope production, Once Upon a Time in the West is not one of the easier productions to release on Blu-ray. There always seems to be an odd need to sharpen, to tone down grain, and to digitally make the films look like something t... Read More -
A few words about...™ Leave Her to Heaven -- in Blu-ray
Today, 09:41 AM
I've always been an easy target for a great ghost story, or especially in the cinema, noir. While there have been dozens of great noir projects over the years -- at least since the mid-1940s. There have been very few played out in ope... Read More
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DVD & Blu-ray Reviews
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Sons and Lovers DVD Review
Yesterday, 10:52 PM
A reasonably satisfying screen adaptation of D. H. Lawrence’s semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel, Jack Cardiff’s Sons and Lovers captures the feel of... Read More -
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season Three
May 19 2013 05:29 PM
Paramount Pictures and CBS Home Entertainment are now well in to their release of remastered seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation, maintaining a brisk b... Read More -
Sitting Pretty (1948) DVD Review
May 18 2013 04:26 PM
Clifton Webb became a bona fide box-office movie star with the release of his fourth sound film Sitting Pretty. No longer merely the acerbic wit in a feature... Read More -
The Great Escape Blu-ray Review
Yesterday, 12:15 AM
The 50-year old, WWII prison break procedural debuts on Blu-ray with an ultimately satisfactory – but somewhat controversial – high definition presentation.... Read More -
Jersey Girl Blu-Ray Review
May 17 2013 03:16 PM
There are directors who are known for their blockbusters, major successes that make them sought after for their box office prowess - Michael Bay, etc. There... Read More -
My Neighbor Totoro Blu-ray Review
May 16 2013 01:39 PM
The first of Hayao Miyazaki’s films to be acclaimed by an international audience was My Neighbor Totoro in 1988. While many of his subsequent films have grow... Read More -
Howl's Moving Castle Blu-ray Review
May 15 2013 02:17 PM
Hayao Miyazaki’s Howl’s Moving Castle is one of the masterful filmmaker’s most surreal animated adventures. This fantasmagorical tale of witches and curses,... Read More -
Captain America Special Edition (1990) Blu-Ray Review
May 15 2013 09:42 AM
In 2013, our box office is full of fantastic films with amazing budgets that take place in the world of Marvel Comics. Super hero films draw major stars, maj... Read More -
Philadelphia Blu-ray Review
Yesterday, 09:01 AM
Has it really been nearly 20 years since Philadelphia was released? The film was released in December of 1993 at a time when ignorance and uncertainty about... Read More -
Stand Up Guys Blu-ray Review
May 14 2013 01:56 PM
Three Oscar winners and a two-time Emmy winner contribute mightily to the entertainment quotient of Fisher Stevens’ Stand Up Guys. A bittersweet look at care... Read More -
Tom & Jerry Kids Show: The Complete Season One
May 13 2013 07:52 PM
You loved the originals, now enjoy the antics of your favorite characters as kids! Read More -
Leave Her to Heaven Blu-ray Review
May 16 2013 02:55 AM
A purple melodrama spawned during an era when such films were wildly popular with female audiences left at home while World War II raged on, John M. Stahl’s... Read More -
Irish Eyes Are Smiling DVD Review
May 12 2013 01:42 PM
Films about the lives of famous composers were rampant during the 1940s, and many of them were wildly popular allowing each studio’s roster of musical stars... Read More -
3:10 to Yuma (1957) Blu-ray Review
May 11 2013 05:47 PM
One of the great psychological westerns of the 1950s, Delmer Daves’ 3:10 to Yuma features a slowly ascending, tension-filled story performed by two stars doi... Read More -
One Hour Photo Blu-ray Review
May 10 2013 06:24 PM
Though known as a comedian, Robin Williams quite often doffs the funny stuff and takes on a more serious mantle. In Mark Romanek’s One Hour Photo, he’s just... Read More -
The Verdict (1982) Blu-ray Review
May 11 2013 01:01 AM
In a multifaceted career that included scores of sensational performances running the gamut of every social stratum and playing everything from saints to sin... Read More -
Brubaker Blu-ray Review
May 09 2013 06:11 PM
At the apex of his power as a top ten box-office superstar, Robert Redford began making sure that many of his films contained not only plentiful entertainmen... Read More -
Viva Zapata! Blu-ray Review
May 09 2013 01:35 PM
After his breakthrough performance in A Streetcar Named Desire, any lingering doubts about the power and sensitivity of Marlon Brando as a great screen actor... Read More
