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William Wellman's 1948 Yellow Sky, (It's nice to have two Wellman films released by Kino this month) is a superb western about a group of bank robbers (compare the opening sequence to the The Wild Bunch), who escape across the desert, to find themselves in an interesting ghost town. Gregory...

I've always considered Richard Brooks to be one of the most literary of the American film directors, and Deadline - U.S.A. falls nicely into his pantheon or work. A superb cast, inclusive of Humphrey Bogart, Ethel Barrymore, Kim Hunter and Ed Begley, highlight this tale of a crusading newspaper...

William Wellman's 1943 Ox-Bow Incident is an important film, from any number of perspectives. The packaging denotes a new 4k restoration, but I'm not seeing that on the final Blu-ray. The reason? Not a clue. The release has just acceptable black levels, with a clean overall palette, and...

matt-hough has published a new article. The X Files: The Event Series Blu-ray Review The X Files: The Event Series was something of a mixed blessing event at the start of 2016 with the return of one of the most iconic series of... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. The League: The Final Fantasy DVD Review After six previous seasons on the air, FXX’s The League enters its final quarter with another thirteen wildly erratic but only occasionally... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. The Martian: Extended Edition Blu-ray Review Having released the home video version of Ridley Scott’s The Martian a mere five months ago, Twentieth Century Fox now double dips the title... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. The Other Side of the Door Blu-ray Review A horror tale with regulatory hooks that get transgressed, Johannes Roberts’ The Other Side of the Door covers very familiar and much-trod... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. Change of Heart DVD Review The last feature to star Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell together, Change of Heart may be a product of its era with its concentration on the... Continue reading the original article.

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Just wondering if there are any rumbling on the title....other than most of us would welcome a blu ray!

matt-hough has published a new article. Garden of Evil Blu-ray Review Nicholas Ray’s Johnny Guitar wasn’t the only noteworthy psychological western of 1954; Henry Hathaway’s Garden of Evil easily matches it... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. On the Threshold of Space DVD Review The baby steps necessary to prepare the United States to enter the space race via its NASA Mercury program are recounted in eye-opening detail in... Continue reading the original article.

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matt-hough has published a new article. Fury at Furnace Creek DVD Review As a Fox contract player, Victor Mature appeared in every possible genre of film produced at the studio though westerns didn’t usually feature his most... Continue reading the original article.

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The early widescreen revolution was an interesting time. The inauguration of Fox's CinemaScope in 1953, saw the release of five productions. The next year, the phenomenon had caught on, and while it was joined by Paramount's VistaVision process, there were a total of 35 titles filmed. The...

Tim Miller's Deadpool, with the wonderfully self-effacing Ryan Reynolds in the lead, is a delightful piece of entertainment, that never takes itself too seriously. With a myriad of inside jokes, jabs at the Marvel Universe, and a healthy dose of ribald humor, the film is a wonderful way to...

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matt-hough has published a new article. Deadpool Blu-ray Review Tim Miller’s Deadpool is precisely the movie the comics and movie trailers suggested it would be: irreverent, unbridled, unpredictable. Also,... Continue reading the original article.

I viewed David O. Russell's Joy for the first time late last year, and found it to be an interesting bio-pic of an unlikely subject, once you really get into it. While it may not be a great film, it's a very good one. My interest in re-viewing it, was to get a true sense of comparison between...

matt-hough has published a new article. Independence Day: 20th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review Weeks ahead of its two decades-in-the-making sequel, 20th Century Fox is issuing a 20th anniversary Blu-ray edition of Roland Emmerich’s[I]... Continue reading the original article.

matt-hough has published a new article. Joy Blu-ray Review Joy is an erratic, quirky, but easily viewable comedy-drama with an Oscar-nominated star turn by Jennifer Lawrence fronting a fact-based... Continue reading the original article.

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matt-hough has published a new article. Julia Blu-ray Review Whether the recollections imparted in Fred Zinnemann’s eloquent and exquisite Julia are fact-based or fictional, there’s no denying that this... Continue reading the original article.

Fred Zinnemann was one of the great filmmakers of his time -- c. 1930 - 1980. Over half a century. It's been said, and it's almost true, that some people would watch a favored actor read the phone book. I feel that way about probably half a dozen filmmakers working the same era as Mr...

matt-hough has published a new article. My Gal Sal DVD Review My Gal Sal delivers the kind of old-fashioned entertainment that marked all of Fox’s best musicals of the 1940s. Rita Hayworth is at her... Continue reading the original article.