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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...

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...

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...

Really enjoyed the first season of ROCCO SCHIVAONE a very popular detective series from Italy. Rocco is an off beat detective who smokes marijuana, is foulmouthed and is not afraid to break the law to catch a criminal. He has been transferred, for disciplinary reasons, to Acosta a small snowy...

Fabulous series ran for 5 seasons rated most popular crime series in Italy. Somewhat like the Sapronos a crime family dealing drugs that ends up being a major struggle between once friends, close like brothers, now bitter enemies. Genarro, Salvatore Esposito, and Ciro, Marco D'Amore fight to the...

As a train weaves it way up the artic circle two strangers meet that will change their lives forever. A simple love story with no murders or sex just two people a Finnish woman and a Russian man who share a compartment, Compartment No 6, on a train headed for the artic circle. I really enjoyed...

After to two excellent seasons ROME was cancelled not for lack of popularity, not sure why? I was really looking forward to what should have been a 5 season series with the 3rd season based on Jesus, Herod the Great, Pontious Pilot, John the Baptist, The Virgin Mary and the Roman occupation of...

Mr. Klein an excellent movie starring the great French actor Alain Delon is now available on Blu-ray from Amazon. UK. The story takes place in Nazi occupied Paris where Mr. Klein leads a life of luxury until a Jewish newspaper brings him to the attention of the Police. The Police have him...

I like Ice Road Truckers and Liam Nielson movies so I knew I would enjoy The Ice Road. I was right The Ice Road is a good movie, not a great movie, but entertaining as most Liam Nielson movies are. With a story line that begins like Sorcerer, a fabulous movie with Roy Scheidner, we find Liam...

Profile is based on a true story about a British journalist who infiltrates an on line recruiter for the Islamic State. Almost all of the movie takes place on a computer screen between Facebook (Messenger) and Skype. I really liked the movie found it very suspenseful and in a way like a...

IS PARIS BURNING is a very good WW II movie with an international cast that includes Jean-Paul Blemondo, Alain Delon, Charles Boyer and many more along with the great Kirk Douglas is now available on Blu-ray from Amazon Japan. The audio is in Japanese and English with a Region Code of "A". The...

I totally forgot I had purchased the Young Indiana Jones series on DVD many years ago. Started watching it again and wondered why this excellent series was never upgraded to BluRay? Maybe there is hope with the Indiana Jones series now released in 4K whoever holds the rights to Young Indiana...

In searching EBAY for DVD & Movies I found many Netflix movies selling in the Blu-ray format. Titles like Stowaway, Without Remorse, Trial of the Chicago 7, Extraction and thought this made sense. Netflix is spending billions for original movie and TV content to maintain their market share of...

Amazon.de (Germany) is taking DOMESTIC pre-orders only for a May 12th release of The Alamo. The release will include 2 discs with the theatrical version (162 minutes) on BluRay and the extended cut of 3 hours 22 minutes on DVD. Koch Film Shop is the distributor and their advertisement shows...

Very intense, very good WW II movie about Allied conveys sailing across the North Atlantic in 1942 carrying critical supplies for Great Britain. 91 minutes of solid action with a Wolf Pack, as they were called, of German U-Boats attacking the convey relentlessly. Tom Hanks, as usual, is...

While performing an autopsy a coroner finds a note in the skull of the corpse with his estranged daughter's phone number written on it. This is the beginning of an excellent murder mystery based on the best selling novel by Sebastian Fitzek and Michael Toskos. The Blu-ray contains two audio...

The director is sparse on detail we understand the story takes places somewhere in Eastern Europe with WW II raging between the Germans and Russians. A family sends their young son to live with his aunt in a safer part of Eastern Europe. Unexpectedly the boy's aunt dies leaving him with no...

I don't know what other members think, I really have no real interest for a retread of Event Horizon or Escape From NY or upgrades to 4K. I want the good stuff on Blu-ray that is missing in action, The Alamo, The Abyss, True Lies, Raintree County, At Play in the Fields of the Lord, Mountains of...

Will we ever see a Blu-ray release for "At Play in the Fields of the Lord" an excellent movie shot on location in the Amazon. Starring Kathy Bates, Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hanna and John Lithgow as missionaries trying to bring religion to the indigenous people living in the Amazon. Tom Berenger is...

Two very good movies from Russian director Kantemir Balagov with Russian audio and English subtitles. In Beanpole it is 1945 the war is over 2 Russian women who bonded together fighting in an artillery unit try to adjust to life in Leningrad. In Testona a couple has been kidnapped a ransom note...

Many Bluray players include a feature called "Subtitle Shift" that allows you to move the subtitles up or down. This is a handy feature enabling you to place the subtitles where you prefer them or in some cases move them off the screen. Some international Bluray disc are coded so when you...

Very interesting move set in the backcountry of Brazil, the story follows a tight nit village community's fight for survival. The movie is in Portuguese with English subtitles. The running time is 131 minutes and most important to members the Region-Code is Region B LOCKED. Very enjoyable...

The Turin Horse and Satantango are two every different movies directed by Bella Tarr. The movies are shot in Black and White with very long scenes and little dialog, if any. The Turin Horse like Satantango is a simple story about very poor people living in difficult times. The homes they live in...

Along with the BluRay is a very nice booklet with a "Directors Note" section describing the history of the Donbass. Donbass is an industrialized region in the Ukraine which was developed during the first half of the 20th century. The region was industrialized by mostly employing free labor of...

It is 1966 a civil war is raging between North and South Vietnam Australia and New Zealand have sent forces to help the South and American troops fight the North. In a rubber plantation called Long Tan 108 mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives...

Another excellent BluRay release from Cohen Film Collection which tells part of the history behind Joan of Arc. The story has two parts, "The Battles" and "The Prisons". The BluRay was made from a new 4k restoration of the movie. The story is presented in a historical dramatical way not as a...

Soldier of Fortune was an early widescreen movie released in 1955. The movie stars Clark Gable and Susan Hayward in a story of a wife, Hayward, looking for her missing husband who enlists the help of Gable. The movie is now available on Blu Ray from Amazon, Germany. The Blu Ray contains English...

Narcos Mexico explores the origins of the modern drug wars with the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel in the 1980's. The Blu Ray is available from Amazon Germany. The audio tracks are in German and English with German and English subtitles. The subtitles appear when the language changes from...