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Nofretete: Queen of the Nile was released in 1961, starring Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price, Edmund Purdom and Amedeo Nazzari. The movie chronicles the life of the woman who eventually became know as Queen Nefertiti. Nofretete is now available on BluRay from Amazon.de (Germany). The audio is in...

You make a good point but these old titles don't sell a lot of copies so it is nice to have them on Bluray even with the flaw you note.

Excellent movie with a story line of a Mexican gangster and a young girl from Honduras traveling by train, riding on boxcars, to the US Border. Violent, very realistic and plays into what we are seeing now on our Southern borders. I purchased the Blu-ray several years ago maybe this is just a...

I purchased the Japanese version and it is the full length 173 minutes with very good video. It is the audio that presents the biggest problem which has always been the case. The Blu-ray is dubbed in English which is awful. I would much prefer the audio in the language spoken, English, French...

I should have mentioned this is an IMPRINT release a little costly but like Criterion, Coen, Powerhouse and excellent transfer.

Excellent crime drama with Andy Garcia, Christopher Walken, Christopher LLoyd and Treat Williams. When a job Andy Garcia, Jimmy the Saint, accepts goes wrong he and his fellow crime members are marked for death by the mob boss. He has 48 hours to try to make matters right. Excellent transfer in...

During the Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan a Soviet tank crew on patrol becomes lost in the mountain valleys. They know there is a group of Afgans chasing them so the frantically look for an escape route. . Starring Jason Patrick, George Dzundza and Steven Bauer. This is an excellent war...

During 1979 - 1989 a nine year guerilla war took place in Afghanistan between the Soviet Union and the Mujahideen, Afgan resistance fighters. The Beast of War takes place during that time period when a Soviet tank becomes lost in the mountain valleys with the Mujahideen tracking them. This movie...

One good feature the 4K players include is subtitle shift allowing you to move the subtitles to the bottom of the screen. (For the French Blu-rays with forced subtitles you can move the subtitles right off the screen) Panasonic allow you to change the subtitle luminance but not the color.

Rocco and His Brothers starring the great Alain Delon along with Claudia Carinale is avaliable from both Criterion and Eureka. Alain and Claudia both starred in The Leopard which was also directed by Luchino Visconti. Rocco is a story based on an Italian family moving from rural Italy to the...