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Antoine Fuqua's remake of the great 1960 original by John Sturges, in turn, based upon Kurosawa's 1954 The Seven Samurai, is a fun film. Unlike its predecessors, it's never a great one. Nice performances from a superb group of players, beautiful cinematography by Mauro Fiore, and a score...

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Two quality films, directed by Ben Affleck. The Town shot on film, and finished in 2k. Argo shot on data (2.8k) as well as film, finished as 4k. An interesting comparison. Possibly since the original Blu-ray releases -- both of which were followed by extended cuts -- were of such high...

Gossip has it that Goodfellas, a pseudo-serious, very dark, mob comedy, released in 1990 may be way better than sliced bread. While I don't find it to be, as Roger Ebert phrased it, "The best mob movie ever made," it's right up their at the pinnacle of the mount. I love this film. It seems to...

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The fifth installment in Universal's Bourne Saga is simply entitled Jason Bourne, and it continues to be the tale of a gentleman severely cranky with the head of the CIA. And by all the motivations shared with us, also a pretty good reason to take down an out of control government official. If...

While The Secret Life of Pets might not be construed as an occasional homage to previous films starring our animal friends, it does harken back to numbers progenitors from Rescued by Rover (Lewin Fitzhamon & Cecil Hepworth) to Disney's Lady and the Tramp. While the former used actual animal...

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As of last week we've begun calibration on LG's 2016 OLED TVs for FHD/SDR and UHD/HDR. We're one of a very few who properly calibrate HDR on OLED TVs and I believe we are the only one to calibrate HDR with the panel's full luminance level and with the most accurate 21 point grey scale. We've...

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The Hunger Games, to me, the best YA series in recent memory, is of interest here, as during the few years in which it was in production, technology advanced on both visual as well as aural fronts. The original Blu-rays of the four films (The Hunger Games - 2012, Catching Fire - 2013...

Jupiter Jones seems like a nice enough young woman. Put upon by her entire Russian emigre family to work day and night as a cleaning lady, having her eggs sold by her cousin, who needs a new video game console. She's just not enjoying her life. Enter the Wachowskis, who with a bit of slight...

I've noted in the past, that reviewing Columbia releases gets boring. Quality-wise, there's hardly anything negative to discuss. Ever! Same thing here with the two Dan Brown-based productions from director Ron Howard, and starring Tom Hanks. The only decision I had to make was whether to run...

I don't know how many times the importance of script has been discussed toward the creation of a quality motion picture. In Star Trek Beyond, considered "The Best Action Movie of the Year!" by Scott Mantz of Access Hollywood, there almost doesn't seem to be one. The film is a melange of scenes...

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F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, is one of those novels, much like Moby Dick (1851), that has not so much stood the test of time, but rather, has been "discovered" as a masterpiece, long after original publication. The novel has seen a number of film versions...

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Pacific Rim brings back memories of a myriad of WWII Air Corps films, with a young man, having spent his youth as a barnstormer, and ready to be a pilot, is held by whomever... There are quotes from Star Wars, King Henry V, as well as certain Japanese 1950s monster films, with guys in lizard...

I'm a Hugh Hudson fan, and was very appreciative of his 1984 Greystoke, with Christopher Lambert as the lead. That was a film, that re-introduced the Tarzan legend to audiences of the time, in a serious way. Shot by John Alcott, and cut by Anne Coates, it was pure British cinema. Now, three...

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The new Ghostbusters, with it's all-female lead cast has some wonderful things going for it. Dolby Atmos. A beautiful 4k (up-rezzed from 2) UHD Blu-ray with HDR. And the interesting concept of creating an anamorphic production, with 3D effects moving into the entire 1.78 frame. Lastly, and...

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It's seldom, especially with huge-budgeted productions, that I'm totally unable to get into a film, at least on some level. Warcraft, a reported 160 million dollar affair, directed by Duncan Jones, seems to be the anomaly. Trying to view this nicely rendered Universal production, via 4k UHD /...

Fox's new 4k UHD release of Bryan Singer's X-Men Apocalypse, may be one of those films for which those not firmly entrenched in the Marvel universe may not be able to identify all the characters, but it's the latest 4k poster child for home theater technical perfection. Accessed via a Panasonic...

That can one say about Szymanski's Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates? I guess kudos must go to Fox for stepping to the fore, and being the first major studio to release a 4k UHD disc with a merkin, affixed to the lovely and diminutive, Sugar Lyn Beard, bringing to mind the beloved character in...