Recent content by Todd Mattraw

Did "Aliens" need to be re-imagined? Could it have been restored or remastered?

So you're right and he's wrong?

Now Edith Massey would have been completely miscast as Honest Abe.

It simply looks awful. Different sure...awful different. But anyone is free to like it as he's presented it --- I sure don't.

I only watched this on Disney+, but there is no excuse for what Peter Jackson did to this 16mm film --- it did NOT have to look like this.

Wonderful in "Paths of Glory" as well.

Well put, that is how it feels.

Hmmm...CC...Criterion Channel???

I took a look at the opening sample uploaded by WAC to YouTube, and the same glitch is there, so it appears to be a problem with the transfer and not a defective disc --- if I saved this correctly, it's at this moment:

Just received, this week, my copy of "A Tale of Two Cities" blu-ray through Amazon, and I've immediately noticed what appears to be a digital anomaly, right past the 3 minute mark of the film (when the coachman hears the approaching hoofbeats) --- Tom, the coachman says "Aye, Joe" and Joe...

I received my copy of the Definitive blu-ray from DD today, having attempted unsuccessfully to cancel my order last Saturday. I'm not opening it, instead I'm returning it next week. When even the positive reviews carry serious negatives (negatives which line up with Robert Harris'...

I watched "The Court Jester" on Criterion Channel, January 1, as my first movie of 2020, just knowing it was going to be a bang up year... where's the pellet with the poison?

Both of those (and a few others) are coming to the Criterion Channel in January --- fingers crossed that they are new masters.

Very annoying, even with the option to reassert control by pressing "enter" on the small window. "Sword in the Stone", like so many earlier Disney animated films, doesn't have end credits, so when I watched it 3 weeks ago, the last 60 seconds or so of the actual film was minimized into that...

I also ordered from Powerhouse direct in early August, and I did not receive a shipping notice, but once I'd heard they were shipping, I sent them an email and they got back to me about 5 days later, last week, and confirmed that mine had shipped Tuesday Oct 16 --- package arrived Monday Oct 22...