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21st Century Fox is in talks to sell the bulk of its media assets to Disney, according to CNBC. The sale would reportedly include Fox Entertainment Group, the portion of the company which owns 20th Century Fox (and with it the rights to many films including the X-Men and Fantastic Four...

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For those unfamiliar with the unusual career of Laird Cregar, time to Bone up. No pun intended. A Fox contract player the early to mid-1940s-- a large gentleman, and a quality actor, who desired to be a leading man, which ultimately seemed to lead to his demise, at age 30. He appeared in...

Matt Hough Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - 25th Anniversary Blu-ray Review If the original Home Alone left you wanting more of the same, you should find Home Alone 2: Lost in New York exactly what the doctor ordered: a rehash of the original film with bigger, dirtier ambushes on display...

Matt Hough Captain from Castile Blu-ray Review Historical fiction on an epic scale, Henry King’s Captain from Castile offers a lush production and a host of stars enacting the personal story of a fugitive from the 16th century Spanish Inquisition told against the backdrop of Hernando...

Possibly apes do have more native intelligence than humans. It wasn't until more than halfway through Fox's magnificent new 4k Blu-ray of War for the Planet of the Apes, that I finally realized that the entire new Apes Trilogy, the final of two of which were directed by Matt Reeves... were all...

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The first thing I noticed before even opening the packaging for Twilight Time's new Blu-ray release of Henry King's Captain from Castile, was the gorgeous, classic cover art, appropriate to the film. Those familiar with Fox productions of the 1930s, '40s, and into the early '50s, will be aware...

Matt Hough Miracle on 34th Street: 70th Anniversary Blu-ray Review A genuine holiday classic, Miracle on 34th Street still works its magical story of heart and hope, faith and trust seven decades after its original release. [review]

Matt Hough Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992) Blu-ray Review It’s pretty ironic that one of the most lauded and long-lasting cult phenomenons of recent television history – Buffy the Vampire Slayer – was instigated by a rather lame, erratically written, directed, and acted horror comedy. [review]

Matt Hough Sleepy Hollow: The Complete Fourth Season DVD Review After four seasons of gradually ebbing ratings, Fox finally put an end to its supernatural thriller Sleepy Hollow but not before trying it on several different nights and in its last season moving its locale and adding a mostly...

Any time I picture a Greek sponge-diver, I naturally always think of Robert Wagner, but with curly hair. Back in 1953, a member of the Fox stock company, Mr. Wagner was given the roles that Fox permitted, and this was one of them. While nicely shot in the Florida keys, and making interesting...

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Matt Hough Beneath the 12-Mile Reef Blu-ray Review 20th Century Fox’s third Cinemascope release after the tremendous successes of The Robe and How to Marry a Millionaire was Robert D. Webb’s Beneath the 12-Mile Reef, a mediocre adventure tale that makes the most of its beautiful and...

Matt Hough Modern Family: The Complete Eighth Season DVD Review It’s pretty inevitable that after eight years on the air, the freshness and zip in the writing and performing would have abated somewhat in any television show, and sadly that also applies to ABC’s Modern Family, still the...

Previous threads: Season 1 Season 2 Season 3 The new season moves to Thursdays at 8/7c and premieres Sept. 21. The show has released an extended trailer. The first half recaps where the various storylines left off, and the second half gets into the new stuff: Some news: The initial story...

Matt Hough This Is Us: The Complete First Season DVD Review One of the few shining gems of the 2016-2017 television season was NBC’s This Is Us, the story of four generations of an American family as they walk, run, strut, and stumble through life, love, career, birth, and death. [review]

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Another very important release from Twilight Time, Martin Ritt's take on William Faulkner's The Long, Hot Summer, with a screenplay by Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank, Jr., a married screenwriting team, that seems to be able to create magic in their words. Ms Frank recently turned 100. This...

Matt Hough The Long, Hot Summer Blu-ray Review A southern fried melodrama based on characters and situations from a series of William Faulker stories, Martin Ritt's The Long, Hot Summer offers romance and drama in equal measure filled with a brilliant cast and lush location photography that...

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I didn't see a post about this but since it is cause a lot of talk in the Facebook home theater forums I thought I would share. In case you didn't hear a new format has officially launched. HDR10+, basically the same as Dolby Vision but free (only a association fee) and only 10bit. Samsung...

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Ridley Scott's Prometheus, which arrived in 2012, and is the basis for Covenant, was a beautifully mounted production, and was represented by a very high quality Blu-ray. Now, five years hence, comes Fox's 4k representation of the film, which nicely ties in with Covenant, to make a set. All...

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Jonathan Levine's Snatched is promoted as a comedy. It stars Amy Schumer and Goldie Hawn, and concerns a trip to South America (shot in Hawaii), that goes awry. It was nicely shot by Florian Ballhaus. Fox's new 4k UHD release with HDR, gives Schumer's "tit," when it escapes from her blouse...

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