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    Can Someone Who Has a Copy of ALIEN (1979) on 4K Ultra HD Confirm Something for Me...

    I have the 40th ann edition and it always comes up with the resume screen, and goes back to exactly where I last watched. I sample scenes more than I actually watch the film full through anymore, so I've put it in quite often and gotten this correct resumption every time.
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Star Wars: A New Hope — in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    I like the way plastic saint Luke is too good to get his hands dirty with anything too morally dubious, and hews to the horsepuck Jedi philosophy Yoda pontificates. Good thing for him the most evil character in the first two films suddenly does a completely unmerited and unfounded 180 to save...
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Star Wars: A New Hope — in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    But the dark side of the force, which the powerful adversary next to him, who has been tapping into, and mastering it, for as long as luke has been alive, isn't powerful enough to cloud this nascent Jedi's thoughts and feelings? For someone who was "not a Jedi" when he left Dagobah the first...
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    A Few Words About A few words about…™ Star Wars: A New Hope — in 4k UHD Blu-ray

    I have no doubt 9 year olds (and 7, 8, and 6 years olds) Loved the film and found it fully satisfying. I was 16 and walked out of the first showing, first day extremely dispirited. By the end of the summer I loathed the film. Screw the ewoks, my beef was that it dismissed or negated nearly every...
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    Dawn of the Dead (1978) 4K

    The UHD is Region Free. Only the Bd , which I have, is region locked. And it's not that Rubinstein won't license it out in the US. It's that no company wants to pay the fee he is demanding. This isn't 2004 and the SS releases have likely sapped some of the potential sales for it in the US...
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    Pre-Order Little Darlings (1980) (4k UHD) Available for Preorder

    SAG strike affected more than just film/TV production. Actors couldn't even approve their likenesses for toys- or in this case, new cover art. Hence the annoying splotches (I guess rationalized as a reference to the food fight scene). This was held up for decades by pricey music licensing...
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    Top 10 Anticipated Discs of 2024...So Far

    Looking For Mr. Goodbar * Little Darlings* Horrible Dr. Hitchcock Phase IV Paint Your Wagon Conan The Barbarian/Destroyer Inside The Mind Of Coffin Joe *strongly rumored, with pre-order beginning possibly this week
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    Pre-Order Conan The Destroyer (1984) Limited Edition (4k UHD) (Blu-ray) Available for Preorder

    While I wouldn't exactly say I "love" it, I do consistently enjoy it quite a bit. I guess there are aspects of it I do actually love (the score, when preformed well, feels more muscular and vibrant to me for this than for the original, which I otherwise still like a lot). I also had a similar...
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    Blu-ray Review International A Few Words About A few words about…™ Odd Man Out (Network release) – in Blu-ray

    Some of Tooze' own caps show more detail discernible on the Network (the striations visible on the bottom lip of the driver in the second set of caps are completely blurred out on the Criterion), so I find it curious he would say they probably exhibit the same amount of detail in motion if not...
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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Nevada Smith -- in Blu-ray

    Was planning to pick this up, so I'm glad to hear it's one of the "good" ones (master-wise) that Paramount handed off. I've only seen it (in full) once or twice, but my impression was that it was a prime example of something being less than the sum of it's parts. Some of those parts are...
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    Some Brief Notes by Brad About: Carousel (1956) on Blu-ray.

    Just wanted to say I hope Brad is doing all right. I see he hasn't posted in almost two years. We shared a lot of common interest in the B moves of a certain era. A short time span which doesn't get near the affection and attention that the era starting just a few years later does. Seems like...
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    UHD Review Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut UHD Review

    Always thought the Lester ID reveal (amongst many other bits) was contrived as all hell. OMG! You're hand isn't burned from the split second it was in the flame? Of course, neither was your sweater singed, and the hair brush wasn't a lump of melted plastic that you had to peel off your...
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    International Via Vision Entertainment announces new premium Blu-ray label IMPRINT

    Yeah. The very first solicit they had for the set listed a mix of Bds and a DVD, so I assumed GGM wasn't getting a 1080p disc.. Then right up before release, the DVD seemed to be gone and it was all Bds. Not that they still couldn't put GGM in standard def on one- which is why I asked. Thanks...
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    International Via Vision Entertainment announces new premium Blu-ray label IMPRINT

    Hey Thomas- Is Gidget Gets Married actually in 1080p or only standard def? Via Visions initial solicits were conflicting on this.
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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ Romeo and Juliet (1968) – in Blu-ray

    How would this Technicolor pop manifest itself? More saturation to the colors? A shift in their hues? I guess ignorance is truly bliss, because in not knowing what I'm missing, I can simply enjoy what IS there. And from the various screencaps I've seen of this, it sure looks like the wonderful...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ -The Apartment -- in 4k UHD

    Is that because, in those prints we saw in the theater, fine details in the image were being modulated from transmission through the glass lens of the projector, through the lens of the projection booth, across a great distance, before being splashed onto a screen? Like some others here I...
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    Imprint - The Music of Chance Blu ray - Neo Nior with a great cast, But...

    Thanks for the review, Cap. I saw it at the theater when it was released, and was taken enough with it to pick up the laserdisc when that came out. In fact, it was one of the last LD purchases I ever made. I never thought of it as noir-adjacent, let alone neo-noir, but I guess I can understand...
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    Press Release SPHE Press Release: 1776 (1972) (4k UHD)

    I went back and read the press release just now. I didn't realize the '72 cut and Pioneer LD cuts were being put on a BD. Those, moreso than the UHD aspect, was where my interest in this was. Looks like it's a safe purchase after all- with the caveat that the LD version is unfortunately only SD.
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    Press Release SPHE Press Release: 1776 (1972) (4k UHD)

    That's a shame. I have a projector and Sony's UHDs don't play nice with these lumen limited devices. Otherwise this would be a dream release.
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Great Escape -- in 4k UHD

    Kino's slipcases are limited (up to 10,000 depending on the title, but most are printed around 5K, IIRC). Since they just had a long sale where this was available at a good discount, they absolutely blew through all the slips. They actually change the graphic on the product page when that...
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    Unexpected Blu-Ray releases You've Been Delighted to See

    I guess because of Paramounts "issues" over the years, I was startled, and very happy, when Shout unexpectedly announced Prophecy for the last quarter of 2019- along with another huge out-of-nowhere surprise, the '79 Dracula featuring the original theatrical color grading. In keeping with the...
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - Death on the Nile (2022) -- in 4k UHD

    OK, which nerd is going to correct him? In any case, thanks for the head's up on the PQ/AQ for this. Was a bit disappointed in the Doyle score (after the job he did with Murder...) but I'm open to the film as a whole.
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    UHD Review A Few Words About A few words about...™ - The Great Escape -- in 4k UHD

    Glenn Erickson (aka Cine Savant), who is self-admittedly not the go to expert for evaluating PQ of these things, still makes some interesting points in his rave over the PQ of this. If the qualities of lighting are more accurate on the new Kino, and impart a better sense of time, that's kind...
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    Press Release Scream Factory Press Release: The Howling (1981) (4k UHD Combo)

    However it was achieved, and whoever worked on it, the end result was ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I also haven't heard of any strident pixel peepers chiming in on any issues with it ala Silence Of the Lambs, Halloween, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (:rolleyes:)... Watching it again was just pure bliss.
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    Press Release Scream Factory Press Release: The Howling (1981) (4k UHD Combo)

    SF's compression/encoding will be ? until the disc is actually in people's hands. What is known at this point, is what a tremendous job Studio-Canal did with the "restoration" of this. The Region B UHD was released a few weeks back and has gotten nothing but rave reviews. I was OK with the...
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    Collaborations: The Cinema of Zhang Yimou & Gong Li Blu-ray

    I haven't been able to spot check the whole set yet, just the first several films. Red Sorghum has issues. There are scattered shots that display wall to wall artifacts, bookending others that look quite nice- though I suspect the whole disc has been graded at odds with how it looked...
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    Blu-ray Review A Few Words About A few words about…™ kolchak: the night stalker (The Complete Series) – in Blu-ray

    It much more like an hour long Mike Hammer. Only this time in color, with monsters, and a hairpiece for McGavin. A smattering of location footage establishing shots mixed with a lot of Universal backlot and soundstage shooting. McGavin's similar sardonic voice overs. Parallel structure to a...
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    Severin's Upcoming (and expensive) Box Set...

    Pre-ordered it a couple weeks after it was announced. I wasn't paying attention, thinking it was Severin's stab at some schlocky, US regional horror ala the Arrow American Horror sets. When I got curious enough to red a thread about it, and saw what they were going after and the scope of the...
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