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 […]
McLintock! (Authentic Collector’s Edition) (Blu-ray)
Paramount has released an “Authentic Collector’s Edition” of McLintock! on Blu-ray, almost a year to the day that Olive Films delivered their acclaimed, albeit featureless edition. The film has been in the public domain for decades; Paramount’s release has been sourced from ‘original film elements.” Scanned in 4K, the picture quality is stunning. Viewers are […]
DVD Review: James Stewart is Hawkins – The Complete TV Movie Collection
One of the most recognized and beloved movie stars of all time, James Stewart made a couple of forays into television with mixed results. His first series, The Jimmy Stewart Show, debuted amid lots of fanfare but failed to catch on with viewers. His second television project, Hawkins, followed a movie-of-the-week format—more precisely, every other […]
Blu-ray Review: True Grit
Paramount Pictures | 1969 | 127 mins. | G Sixty-two year-old John Wayne’s Best Actor Oscar in 1969, for True Grit has generally been considered as a belated, long-overdue ‘career’ Oscar award or ‘sentimental favorite’ award. That reasoning is hard to argue with—long a box office superstar, True Grit was Wayne’s 139th film, and only […]