Recent content by Mark Mayes

That instance with Ms. Stewart offered insight. But they were thoughtful videos. My complaint is with the placards tacked on to the front. Commentary can be confusing, as with Cabin in the Sky, but sometimes useful in giving background . Ms. Stewart's video clips were well-done and offered...

When ARE disclaimers useful? The way they are done currently offers no context and usually little clue as to what is offensive. In the case of the Cabin in the Sky disc, the disclaimer was there, BUT also a surly commentary by Todd Boyd, author of Young Black Rich and Famous: The Rise of the...

4K GWTW, all I want. And no useless disclaimer., saying, in essence, "Watch this if you can live with yourself!", meanwhile ignoring the violence, homophobia and shameless influence of hip hop and rap that plagues today.

I usually prefer better acting over a great voice with less connection to the material. But with Crowe I sensed a horrible lack of comfort invading his performance due to the inadequacy of his voice. I am watching PYW right now (not for the first time) and am impressed with Marvin. Seberg looks...

Interesting movie--- inasmuch as I saw it and cannot remember a frame of it. If it prompted the release on 4K of the 85 version, which I got, I am grateful to it for that alone.

Wonderful machine, but it won't read my blu-ray data discs. Anyone know how to get them to read?

At last! I watched this two months ago and was hoping....

Looking forward to this!

I ordered this in February and Amazon will not give me a release date on it, though it is past street date. Anyone else having trouble getting it?

Not a fan of anything PTA except Boogie Nights, but was curious and found PDL satisfying. Oddly, the 4K played great on my 820 Pan, but when I went to the blu to see special features, it stopped ( no others have so far from the Colombia set.) I took the blu, put it in my Samsung 4k and a long...

I swore I would not get this one if it didn't contain "Funny Girl,"--especially since "The Front Page" wasn't included as on the Criterion disc of "His Girl Friday.".... But I'm a completist and grabbed it at $150. I have no regrets since beginning with "Dinner" last night (with a friend who'd...

I have the Panasonic 820 from distributor 220 and am really happy with it.

Maybe Vertigo has some misogyny that has tainted it from being the serious critic's darling it was two decades ago, but I love it. TMWKTM has some of that too, with the expectation that Day's character relinquish her career for Stewart's, but those were the mores and I love this and this...

Always an eye-roll: The stupid time-wasting stuff in this film while sacrifing an opportunity to see Brice sing her legendary rendition of My Man; I thought there had been a TV edit the first time I saw it.

Great film and terrific transfer. The old dvd commentary by Brown accuses each character of being a stereotypical representation ( without acknowledging that even stereotypes are based on SOMETHING derived from writers observations in true life) in a damned if you do and damned if you don't way...