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I think Pacino's performance hit the water off the coast of Haiti.

Regarding Sofia Coppola's performance in The Godfather Part III, it's pretty bad. But it's a bad performance in an overall disappointing movie, not a great movie. It's kind of like Hayden Christensen in Star Wars Part III: Revenge of the Sith. That one is like fingernails on a chalkboard to me...

It would be interesting to see how this new optical disc platform can perform. How many bits per second can the drive sustain? If its data bandwidth is quite a bit better than current UHD Blu-ray players then it could possibly deliver more professional quality results, like on the order of DCPs...

There is a lot of push and pull of balancing cost versus performance capability in any computer purchase. In my own use case there are people who might claim I've been buying cheap-and-trashy by using a mainstream Dell XPS box rather than spend a whole lot more money on a Xeon-powered Precision...

With housing and rent prices rising to ever new ridiculous extremes it's only understandable many young adults would have zero interest in allowing anyone, even parents, to unload a bunch of stuff onto them. Living space is at a premium. I'm sure this has to be a downward drag on home theater...

Even though I do graphic design work for a living, I'm primarily a PC guy. The sign industry is very rooted in the Windows-side of things. Very little of the industry specific software runs on the Mac platform. That goes for large format printing RIP software, routing table software and general...

Just about any new desktop computer (tower, mini-tower, all-in-one device, etc) will have multiple USB ports on both the front and back of the machine. That is unless you're getting an Apple device, but even an iMac or Mac Mini has a decent number of USB ports on the back. It is very important...

Around 15 or so years ago I had a pretty hard-lined stand against using notebook computers. Desktop towers provided far more bang for the buck. However my opinion changed in the mid 2000's. I use a desktop setup all day doing graphics work at my day job. I started getting tired of sitting at...

Mystery Men (1999) was a flop, but I think it's pretty hilarious for a satire of super heroes and cosplay gone too far. The movie had a great cast, including Oscar winner Geoffrey Rush as the movie's villain, "Casanova Frankenstein." The movie just didn't gel well with audiences. The movie might...

Gasoline prices in my part of Oklahoma are around $4.20 per gallon currently. Thankfully I don't live very far from my workplace. I've been doing more to consolidate trips. I'll go work out at the Lawton Family YMCA a couple hours but I'll hit the grocery store on the way home. I'm eating out...

A Newton ring was visible during the Paramount logo and opening title sequence? I'm used to Newton rings being a hazard when scanning slick printed materials in a flatbed scanner. I figured there were advanced methods to prevent that kind of thing affecting film scans. I have an old DVD of The...

It's likely True Romance had a 6-track print master created during its original post production phase. Mag print masters would be created in post production and the 6 channel variety would keep the options open for 70mm mag audio release prints or digital audio on 35mm. If a 6-track mag print...

Incorrect. True Romance was released theatrically on Sept 10, 1993. 35mm release prints only had Dolby Stereo optical. No digital audio formats at all. Warner Bros distributed the movie. At that time Warner Bros was only supporting the Dolby Digital format on some of their releases, such as The...

The version of True Lies that has been played on cable TV over the years comes from an old and not so great video master. I don't know if the same source is being used for streaming.

True Lies and The Abyss are the ones I want the most. I still have the old non-anamorphic DVDs; but the discs are painful to attempt watching on a large HDTV. There's two choices: watch them window-boxed so they look like a bad YouTube video. Or zoom the image, which yields horrible results too...

Another thing to consider with Fincher's movies is all the digital-based visual effects. Seven wasn't so heavy with those kinds of effects, although the movie was digitally re-graded way back in the late 1990's for the 2-disc Platinum Edition DVD. It's very likely a new 4K version would have to...

I have mixed feelings about the buy-out. The MGM and United Artists properties have been kicked around for decades. MGM was once the biggest movie studio in Hollywood. Today the brand doesn't carry the same weight. Ted Turner sold off the famed studio lot and kept its original library. Kirk...

I have an old DVD of The Untouchables, but never bought the Blu-ray version. Complaints about the transfer steered me away from buying that disc. Considering as many times I had watched the movie on VHS and DVD thru the years I had grown a little tired of it. Maybe if they do a proper 4K update...

Adding to the never-ending nonsense, decent quality releases of The Abyss and True Lies continue to be M.I.A. Watching my old non-anamorphic DVDs on a modern TV set is like watching a window-boxed YouTube video. I guess we'll have 10 Avatar sequels before either of those movies gets a proper...

I was fortunate enough to see Who Framed Roger Rabbit in its original 1988 release, in a good quality cinema: the City Cinemas Gramercy Theater on 23rd Street in Manhattan. The venue was one of a number of theaters in Greater New York that played the movie in 70mm. And it was conveniently...

I don't agree at all with any notion that actors should be free of any burdens of following gun safety protocol when handling a tool that can potentially kill someone, including the actor himself. If he doesn't want any responsibility he shouldn't be handling a gun in the first place. Outside of...

Guns don't fire without someone pulling a trigger. There is the old cliché of a gun being tossed thru the air and firing when it hits the ground. But that's really a bunch of hokey nonsense. It's not something that happens at all with modern pistols, particularly semi-auto pistols with various...

I don't have a printer at all in my home anymore. And I design signs for a living. I've long had it with paper piling up and wasting space. That includes printed newspaper and magazine subscriptions. My shredder stays busy eating junk mail and other unwanted material that has my name printed on...

A long time ago when I lived in Albany, GA one of the local libraries there had a very good NY Times microfilms collection that dated clear back to the 1800's. The image quality was pretty decent. It was possible to make prints of pages; the print output was similar to that of a photocopier...

How do you access those images? Is that with a New York Times online subscription? If so, how good (or high in resolution) is the image quality? BTW, I vaguely remember that 2 page spread. For some reason it reminds me of Edward Hopper's classic diner illustration, "Nighthawks." There was a...

Yep. "Alien Nation" definitely had a 70mm print at the Criterion. I can't remember if it was the only 70mm show in Manhattan. It's kind of tough to dig up NY area newspaper ad images from 30+ years ago.

IIRC the original, and very abbreviated, public release of "Heaven's Gate" played in 70mm at Cinema One. I don't think it even lasted a full week after that blistering NY Times review. I think only four or five days later the print of "Heaven's Gate" was pulled and replaced with a print of...

In terms of 70mm movie-going I was in hog heaven when I lived in New York City 30 years ago (mid 80's into early 90's). Manhattan alone had dozens of screens equipped to show 70mm. At least a dozen of those venues played movies in 70mm on a frequent basis. Some really big releases placed 70mm...

I would never recommend someone buy (or get a subscription of) Adobe Audition just for the purpose of ripping Red Book retail music CDs. That's like using a 155mm Paladin Howitzer cannon to kill a mosquito. We've only been talking about Audition since Mike happened to already have a copy of it...

IIRC Adobe still has its Adobe Camera RAW utility that can read a really wide variety of both old and new digital camera models and convert those RAW files in lossless fashion to a DNG (Digital Negative) format for Camera RAW or Lightroom like processing. I remember using the utility when I...