What's on your Daily Viewing List? (3 Viewers)

[dana martin]

Tonight's Feature Presentation and every special feature!

this disc is fully loaded, and to be honest those extras are some of the most informative things I have seen in a long time, special emphasis on A Brief History of Cinecolor by Jack Theakston, an extremely informative featurette.

 

[Dave Moritz]

7/16 - 7/17

Rome S2 \ E1 The Stolen Eagle

Alien (4K Bluray)
Aliens (1080p Bluray upconverted to 4K)

Batman And Robin (4K Bluray)

 

[Keith Cobby]

High Society (BBC HD broadcast) - an enduring mystery why this hasn't been released on blu ray. The BBC image quality is really very good. I hope our patience will be rewarded with a 4k disc in the very near future.

 

[Thomas T]

 

[dana martin]

Last Night's Feature Presentation- Beginnings of a Retrospective Day 1

 

[Walter Kittel]

A friend recently told me about last week's episode of Nova: S49E10 - Ultimate Space Telescope. Pulled it up on demand earlier today and was really entertained by the presentation. I honestly can't say if there was material unique to this presentation but it covered the scope of the JWST from initial design to deployment and featured a number of interviews with personnel associated with the project. Very enjoyable and worth viewing if you have interest in the topic.

- Walter.

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

Safe
Originally Released: 04/27/2012
Watched: 07/20/2022
1080P digital streaming on HBO Max, upscaled to 4K via Roku Ultra

Recommended?

Why? Boaz Yakin is a tricky filmmaker to pin down, with the genre and tone varying wildly from picture to picture. Here, he offers his spin on the Jason Statham action thriller. It's not the best entry in Statham's personal subgenre, but it's not the worst either. Statham plays a man beaten down by the world and the weight of his own past choices and regrets. He is shaken out of his self-destructive spiral when he encounters a vulnerable young girl with a talent for numbers who is caught between the Chinese mob, the Russian mob, and corrupt elements within the NYPD. An explosive night for the city of New York follows, and plays out more or less as you'd expect but with plenty of pinache and brutality.

 

[Thomas T]

 

[Keith Cobby]

The Tall T (twice, second time with commentary) - understated, magnificent western.

 

[dana martin]

Last Night's Feature Presentation- Beginnings of a Retrospective Day 2

 

[Adam Lenhardt]

The Gray Man
Originally Released: 07/15/2022
Watched: 07/23/2022
1080P HD digital streaming on Netflix, upscaled to 4K via Roku Ultra

Recommended?

Why? Everything in this movie has been done before better elsewhere, but it's still a briskly entertaining and well-cast throwback to the fun, over the top action b-movies of the eighties and nineties. And Chris Evans plays one of the all-time spectacular assholes as the main villain.

 

[Thomas T]

 

[Matt Hough]

Yeah, I watched The Gray Man last night. Awe-inspiring action sequences to be sure: all over-the-top destruction and mayhem, and both male stars seemed to be having the time of their lives as they played variations on Bourne and Bond. But I wearied of the constant battling into the second hour and longed for some fleshing out of character. Even with the backstories we were given, I wanted more. Fine popcorn movie, but I'm not sure I'll ever watch it again.

 

[dana martin]

Last Night's Palate Cleanser after 2 days of Forbidden Fruit - 2 from Raoul Walsh

 

[Keith Cobby]

Decision at Sundown - the weakest of the Ranown westerns. On the disc is an excellent interview with director Budd Boetticher who says he didn't like the film.

The Gray Man - agree with Matt's comments above, have expanded my thoughts in the movie thread.

 

[Toronto Argonauts]

Tonight: Part One

 

[Keith Cobby]

The Girl Hunters - Mickey Spillane is Mike Hammer.

Buchanan Rides Alone - another in the Ranown series of fine westerns.

 

[Dave Moritz]

July 23rd, 2022 Saturday

Thor
4K Blu-ray / HDR
Dolby Atmos 7.2.4

 

[Keith Cobby]

Ride Lonesome/Comanche Station - the final two films from the Indicator blu ray set. It is often said that westerns can be categorised as town or trail and these last two together with The Tall T are all 'trail' and by far the best of the set (and all written by Burt Kennedy).

I think that all great films have memorable dialogue and Scott's famous line 'some things a man can't ride around' from The Tall T is used again in Ride Lonesome.

 

[Toronto Argonauts]

Tonight: Part 2