The Valachi Papers, an intriguing but flawed inside look at the workings of the Cosa Nostra in the United States, arrives on Blu-ray from Twilight Time with a very nice transfer from Sony.
The Final Master Blu-ray Review
A Wing Chun martial arts master looking to spread the discipline beyond the borders of Southern China, where it originated, looks to the Northern Chinese city of Tianjin, a location renowned for its martial arts culture, to start an academy. But to do so he must gain the approval of […]
Weekly RoundUp 8-1-2017
Where to find the Best Deals on Movies & TV Shows on Blu-ray and DVD… The Features – Going in Style – 2017 – Hired Gun – 2016 – The Bitter Tea of General Yen – 1932 – Devil’s Brigade – 1968 – Sleight – 2016 The Prices […]
The Boss Baby UHD Review
Sibling rivalry gets a fresh examination in Tom McGrath’s inventive and entertaining animated comedy The Boss Baby.
The Ottoman Lieutenant Blu-ray Review
A tedious love triangle played against the backdrop of World War I being waged in Turkey, Joseph Ruben’s The Ottoman Lieutenant attempts to contrast the grand passions of romance and patriotism but comes up woefully short.
Sleight Blu-ray Review
The magic tricks are by far the most impressive aspect of J.D. Dillard’s Sleight, an otherwise humdrum drug-fueled melodrama that’s neither smartly acted nor directed.
Roku Has 38.9M Users, Leading the Industry of Connected TV’s
Roku has around 38.9 million users, as of July 2017, which is more than Chromecast, Amazon Fire TV and Apple TV, according to the latest report from eMarketer. The graph which eMarketer has created depicting the numbers, shows that the top three are relatively close to each other, with the […]
Tom Sawyer/Huckleberry Finn Blu-ray Review
The Reader’s Digest adaptations of two Mark Twain classics – Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn – may not match one another in quality, but both offer tuneful versions of the familiar stories that fans of the songwriters or the original author won’t want to miss.
AT&T Displays Dramatic Growth of DirecTV Now
After a few months off from promos and hard-charging marketing, AT&T says it has righted the ship when it comes to subscription adds for its live, streaming TV service. The company reported with second quarter earnings that it has 491,000 DirecTV Now subscribers. It added about 200,000 subscribers during the […]
Foxconn Reportedly Settled on Wisconsin For Its TV & Monitor Display Plant
Foxconn’s first planned U.S. manufacturing plant is reportedly set to open in Wisconsin. This was first rumored last month as one of seven candidate states … CNBC reports that it will be officially announced this evening in an event to be attended by President Trump, Governor Scott Walker and Speaker […]
Ghost in the Shell Blu-ray Review
Ghost in the Shell is an ambitious, stylized, visually impressive film with a good cast. While it may not have satisfactorily explored the moral questions of who we are and what makes us human, it makes a genuinely earnest attempt at probing something deeper than just a plot around which […]
Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sex* Blu-ray Review
Woody Allen’s sketch comedy offshoot from the best-selling David Reuben’s sexual query digest Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* But Were Afraid to Ask not only proved to be as popular as the book that inspired it but showed a definite step forward in the funny man’s upwardly […]
NEW DATA BY NPD GROUP HIGHLIGHTS AMERICA’S FASTEST-GROWING TV BRAND IN TOP FIVE MARKET SHARE POSITION
CORONA, CA, July 25, 2017 – TCL®, one of the world’s largest and America’s fastest-growing television brands, today announced its continued explosive growth in the North American market, backed by new data released from NPD Group, one of the largest market research companies in the world. NPD’s recent data shows that TCL is continuing […]
LG Display to Invest 7.8 Trillion Won in OLED Production Line
LG Display recorded an operating profit of 804 billion won ($720 million) in Q2 2017, however, once again the company’s performance in the second quarter was 22 percent weaker than in Q1 2017 when the firm registered an operating profit of 1.027 trillion won ($91.7 million). Considering the huge initial […]
State Fair (1962) Blu-ray Review
Having already won viewers’ hearts in the early 1930s as a Will Rogers comedy vehicle and in the lavish 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical adaptation, the 1962 remake of State Fair offers a very starry cast, most of the tuneful melodies from the first musical version plus a few new […]