4K UHD Review: Airport 1975
The first of three sequels to 1970’s Airport, Airport 1975 disregards the character development and melodrama that made the first film a success. Instead, they lean into the disaster element, while serving up another all-star cast. Decidedly ridiculous at various points, Airport 1975 nevertheless remains entertaining. As the film begins, stewardess Nancy Pryor (Karen Black) […]
4K UHD Review: Airport
For information on the film, click here for an earlier review. Kino Lorber’s all-new HDR/Dolby Vision Master – From a 4K Scan of 35mm Inter-positive is a wonderful representation of the 70mm Todd-AO production shot by Ernest Laszlo. The clarity is outstanding. The colors are vivid and deep, while blacks are deep and inky. The […]
4K UHD Review: The Eiger Sanction
Based on the novel by Rod Whitaker and directed by star Clint Eastwood, The Eiger Sanction centers around Dr. Jonathan Hemlock (Eastwood), a former government assassin whose specialty was to sanction, or do away with anyone the government suspected of killing an American agent. A mountain climber and art professor, his personal collection includes rare […]
4K UHD Review: Cool Hand Luke
“What we’ve got here, is failure to communicate.” One of the great movie lines from one of Paul Newman’s most iconic roles. Set in the backwoods of Florida after the war hero (It’s not clear if it’s World War II or Korea, keeping the film undated), Cool Hand Luke begins with Lucas Jackson (Newman) drunkenly […]
Blu-ray Review: Earthquake (Collector’s Edition)
Throughout much of the 1970’s, disaster movies ruled the box office. The zenith came in 1974, when three genre films–The Towering Inferno, Airport 1975 (the first sequel to the movie that started the trend) and Earthquake were big hits. The Towering Inferno and Earthquake were both nominated for multiple Academy Awards. In the 1970’s, it […]
Blu-ray Review: Strait-Jacket
[amazon_link asins=’B07CT95HP6′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’35d3e940-c4cd-11e8-9a25-57e0fbb6ba5a’]By the 1960’s, Joan Crawford’s (Mildred Pierce) career was in serious decline. Her days as a Hollywood glamour girl were long past, and despite a brief resurgence in 1962’s Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? good leading roles for middle-aged actresses were few and far between. Crawford felt most of the […]
Blu-ray Review: The Otto Preminger Collection (Hurry Sundown/Skidoo/Such Good Friends)
Otto Preminger directed over 35 films in a film career that spanned more than five decades. Throughout his career, Preminger wasn’t afraid to attract controversy dealing with taboo topics of the era such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm, 1955), rape (Anatomy of a Murder, 1959) and homosexuality (Advise & Consent, 1962). […]
Blu-ray Review: Airport
In this tag team review, Rory will give you his thoughts on the film, while Rebecca handles the audio and video aspects of the Blu-ray, as well as the special features. In 1995, I was an 11-year-old aviation enthusiast, stemming from my parents taking me to watch planes take off and land at Orlando International […]
Blu-ray Review: The Naked Gun – From the Files of Police Squad!
In the tradition of Airplane!, the ZAZ (Jerry Zucker/Jim Abrahams/David Zucker) triumvirate unleashed The Naked Gun in theaters in 1988. Based on their short-lived 1982 ABC television series Police Squad!, which was cancelled after six episodes, the frenetic pace and nonstop verbal zingers throughout the film proved to be a recipe for box office success. […]
DVD Review: Dallas – The Complete Twelfth Season
Warner Bros | 1988-89 | 1378 mins.| Not Rated By the twelfth season, Dallas was really showing its age. A series that just a few years earlier seemed fresh and exciting, was getting into the nasty habit of recycling old storylines. Though I was a Dallas watcher until the bitter end (I still believe Larry […]