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SVS PB-1000 Pro Review
SVS. You know who they are, everyone does. They started out as an ID company (Internet Direct) but have branched out into much more than that. However, some folks aren’t comfortable buying on-line and would rather do business with a large retailer like Best Buy/Magnolia, Crutchfield, OneCall or Electronics Expo. …
Weekly RoundUp 12–6-2022
Where to find the Best Deals on Movies & TV Shows on 4k/UHD, Blu-ray and DVD… The Features – Pulp Fiction – 1994 – Attack of the 50 Foot Woman – 1958 – 48 Hrs. – 1982 – The Night of the Iguana – 1964 – Medieval – 2022 …
Twice-Told Tales (re-release) – Blu-ray Review
One of the giants of American literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s works have been plum material for cinematic adaptation. His novel The Scarlet Letter has been adapted 11 times so far (most notably the Lillian Gish starring vehicle by Victor Sjöström for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1926 and infamously by Roland Joffé in 1995) …
Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema IX – Blu-ray Review
For the ninth entry in Kino’s Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema series, three more Universal noirs are brought up from the vaults. First, Deanna Durbin finds herself in a New York City whodunit with comic overtones in Lady on a Train. Second, Maria Montez gets caught up in …
Weekly RoundUp 11-29-2022
Where to find the Best Deals on Movies & TV Shows on 4k/UHD, Blu-ray and DVD… The Features – Don’t Worry Darling – 2022 – Peking Express – 1951 – Detective Story – 1951 – The Silent Twins – 2022 – Entre Nous – 1983 – Mona Lisa and …
Planes, Trains and Automobiles UHD Review
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a classic comedy with an enormous heart. Pitch perfect casting, witty scripting, a full-title array of superb comedic performances from everyone involved, and a parade of deliciously funny sequences, this film is a treasure. The pains of travel, during the busy season, or really any …
Weekly RoundUp 11-22-2022
Where to find the Best Deals on Movies & TV Shows on 4k/UHD, Blu-ray and DVD… The Features – High Plains Drifter – 1973 – My Friend Irma – 1949 – The Final Countdown – 1980 – Malcolm X – 1992 – The Good House – 2021 – Bros …
elf UHD Review
Actor Will Ferrell is an acquired taste. His characters can be brash and annoying. However, in Jon Favreau’s modern holiday classic elf, Ferrell is perfectly cast as the naïve man-child Buddy, who as an infant stowed away on Santa’s (Ed Asner) sleigh during a stop at the orphanage. Not knowing what to do with [...]
The Oblong Box (re-release) – Blu-ray Review
The road to becoming a director took a few twists and turns for Berlin-born British director Gordon Hessler. Arriving in America as a teenage in the waning days of WWII, he worked on short films and documentaries before finding work in television as a story reader, story editor and eventually …
Pearl – Bluray Review
Pearl (Mia Goth) reprises her role as the murderous housewife from X, tho this time as a prequel about her early adulthood. About the same age Maxine (Mia Goth) is during X, and centered around the same compound that X was filmed on. All Pearl wants to do is get …
The Polar Express UHD Review
My, how technology has improved in eighteen years. In 2004, filmmakers Tom Hanks and Robert Zemeckis brought the popular children’s storybook The Polar Express to the big screen. Their decision to use a technology called performance capture to animate the entire film, something that had only been used sporadically in feature films up to that point to [...]
The Unguarded Moment Blu-ray Review
Though aiming to be something more sophisticated than the usual woman-in-danger potboiler, Harry Keller’s The Unguarded Moment squanders some potentially tantalizing elements for a pedestrian effort with far more flaws than merits.
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation UHD Review
The holiday favorite National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation arrives on 4K UHD Blu-ray with a nice 4K transfer and not much else.
McIntosh premieres MDA200 DAC
In more news from high-end purveyors McIntosh, the company has announced the arrival of the MDA200 D/A Converter. The new deck will allow customers to add premium digital music capabilities to an analog audio system. The unit is priced at $4,000 and available this month. The MDA200 uses the McIntosh …
Everything Everywhere All At Once – UHD Review
Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) is beset on all sides by the banality, impossibility, and absurdity her life has become. She’s a karaoke loving laundry store owner, despite always wanting more out of her time on Earth. She’s about to face a ruthless IRS auditor, Deirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis). Her daughter …
