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1939: Hollywood’s Greatest Year
It’s the end of the year and we’re beginning to see the usual “best-of” lists. Seeing as this is 2009, some of these may even be “best of the decade.” Now, let’s be honest, some of these will be spot...
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5 Black & White Classics For Blu-Ray
It is with a great sigh of relief that studios have realized the entertainment and preservation value of transferring many of the old black and white classics to Blu-ray. The accomplishment is...
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‘The Kremlin Letter’ is released in the UK on DVD on July 25th, 2011
In this star-studded, black-hearted spy thriller directed and co-written by the legendary John Huston (The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen), a potentially catastrophic diplomatic letter from the CIA...
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TOUCH OF EVIL & DOUBLE INDEMNITY Finally Get Blu-ray Treatment This April!
Universal Studios is finally releasing two classics from their extensive vault in April. Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity and Orson Welles’ Touch Of Evil will both make their long overdue debuts on...
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Jodorowsky’s Dune (Blu-ray Review)
What if you had the chance to see the greatest science fiction film never produced? Unfortunately you can’t, because, as stated, it was never produced, but you can come very close! Jodorowsky’s Dune...
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Brandon’s Best Blu-rays Of 2015 Across The Globe!
The Why So Blu top Blu-rays of 2015 wheel has spun and landed on me. Once again, I’m honored to close this out and go last. 2015 was a game-changer year for me with Blu-ray personally. For years, my...
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Criterion Collection August Releases
Get your wallets ready, because the Criterion Collection is about to have one hell of a month. Orson Welles will preside over Criterion’s incredible August lineup. First, Chimes at Midnight, Welles’s...
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The Transformers: The Movie – 30th Anniversary Edition (Blu-ray Review)
Experience the enormously popular animated feature THE TRANSFORMERS – THE MOVIE like never before! In celebration of the film’s 30th anniversary, THE TRANSFORMERS – THE MOVIE has been meticulously...
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The Immortal Story – Criterion Collection (Blu-ray Review)
Newly released on Blu-Ray by The Criterion Collection comes The Immortal Story, the first color production directed by Orson Welles (Citizen Kane, Touch of Evil). As can be expected by the curators at...
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Macbeth – Olive Signature Edition (Blu-ray Review)
Orson Welles is forever known for changing cinema as we know it and crafting a good handful of films that are timeless classics. Time is a kind passage to some classic cinema as well, in that most of...
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GHOST WORLD, OTHELLO and More Coming to The Criterion Collection in May 2017
This May, Criterion will present a special edition of Orson Welles’s Othello, featuring two different versions of this visually astonishing Shakespeare adaptation as well as a host of special features...
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Barry Lyndon, Twin Peaks, Personal Shopper & More Coming to The Criterion...
This October, Stanley Kubrick’s breathtaking period epic Barry Lyndon will join the Criterion Collection in a new 4K restoration. Our edition will feature a host of supplements that explore how Kubrick...
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Welles, Wilder, Bergman, Byrne & More Coming to The Criterion Collection in...
This November, the Criterion Collection will present Orson Welles’s elegiac second feature, The Magnificent Ambersons, in its first-ever Blu-ray release, an edition packed with supplemental features....
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The Transformers: The Movie – 35th Anniversary Edition Limited Edition...
To think its been 35 years since, like other little boys my age, I felt the despair and sadness of losing a hand drawn hero in his own big movie. One of the more fascinating bits of children’s...
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CITIZEN KANE & More To Lead The Criterion Collection’s First 4K Slate
After years of waiting for a push to the 4K UHD Blu-ray format, the Criterion Collection is thrilled to announce their first 4K Ultra HD releases, a six-film slate that includes Citizen Kane, Menace II...
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Citizen Kane 4K, Once Upon A Time In China & More Coming to The Criterion...
The 4Ks are coming! This November, Orson Welles’s dazzling debut Citizen Kane will appear in a deluxe edition, eighty years after it changed the course of cinema history and thirty-seven after it...
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La Bamba, Bowie, Princess Bride 4K & More Coming to The Criterion Collection...
Coming in September to The Criterion Collection: Brett Morgen’s ecstatic tribute to a shape-shifting rock iconoclast, Moonage Daydream; Luis Valdez’s rapturous biopic of a Mexican American musical...
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‘Touch of Evil’ on 4K UHD Blu-ray September 25!
Charlton Heston portrays Mike Vargas, the Mexican chief of narcotics who sets out to uncover the facts surrounding a car bomb that has killed a wealthy American businessman on the US side of the...
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Orson Welles’ Classic Noir “The Lady From Shanghai” Debuts on 4K UHD Blu-ray...
Baffling murders, fascinating plot twists, and remarkable camerawork all contribute to this spellbinding, time-honored film noir written, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. Hired to work on a...
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