Films (Almost Entirely Surround)

[madscot]

Arriving December 19th from SCREAM FACTORY Director David Cronenberg's adaptation of Stephen King's THE DEAD ZONE [Native UHD4K/HDR10/Dolby Vision/DTS~HD MA 5.1/2.0]

https://ultrahd.highdefdigest.com/123124/thedeadzone4kultrahdbluray.html

Love that movie, I remember watching it when it first came out, the twist blew my mind

 

[4-earredwonder]

Last night as the snow was falling gently in our first storm of 2024, I watched Marc Turtletaub's 'gentle' alien film, JULES with a wonderful Sir Ben Kingsley, Harriet Samson Harris and Jane Curtin.

While our protagonist Sir Ben is slowly going through early stages of Alzheimers and his well meaning daughter is trying to coax him into an assisted care facility, an alien spaceship lands in his backyard, crushing his beloved azalea garden in rural Pennsylvania. After awhile, he beholds a tiny alien who has emerged from the spacecraft and is lying motionless by his back door. Slowly, the alien is revitalized by Sir Ben's act of kindness by giving him glasses of water and freshly cut apple slices and the two become fast friends. While no one in the small town remotely believes that an alien spacecraft has landed in their midst, the alien communicating through roughly sketched pictures of 'cats' is trying to repair his ship and return home.

I really loved this little film as it outlines both the loneliness and alienation which affect both the main characters and the terrestial. And it's also a treatise on acceptance, understanding and trust and director Turtletaub has avoided preachiness by infusing his film with some laugh out loud bits of humor.

 

[4-earredwonder]

The 81st Annual GOLDEN GLOBE AWARDS will be live streamed on CBS/PARAMOUNT + tonight @ 8 PM EST and 5 PM PST!

 

[4-earredwonder]

From SHOUT Factory via Paramount TALES FROM THE DARKSIDE: THE MOVIE [Native UHD4K from OCN/HDR10/Dolby Vision/DTS~HD MA 5.1] Various directors

http://thedigitalbits.com/item/tales-darkside-ce-scream-2024-uhd

 

[jamesc]

Okay, I admit I wasn't expecting much when a buddy bought tickets for a bunch of friends to see Gran Turismo in the theater. I went in totally blind to the story and ended up really enjoying it. Nice, uplifting story and great sound. The 4K UHD has a Dolby Atmos soundtrack. The price is down to $17.99 at Best Buy and Amazon so I ordered a copy.

Here's the glowing blu-ray.com review:

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Gran-Turismo-4K-Blu-ray/341543/#Review

 

[Marplot]

Amazon 4k UHD
Guns of Navarone $15.40
Blackhawk Down $14.99

 

[4-earredwonder]

From Kino Lorber [via Paramount Pictures] director Elia Kazan's THE LAST TYCOON based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel [4K Scan of the original camera negative/DTS~HD MA 5.1] stars Robert DeNiro, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson and Tony Curtis. Screenplay by Harold Pinter! Music by Maurice Jarre.

http://thedigitalbits.com/item/last-tycoon-kino-2024-bd

 

[timothyemerson]

From Kino Lorber [via Paramount Pictures] director Elia Kazan's THE LAST TYCOON based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel [4K Scan of the original camera negative/DTS~HD MA 5.1] stars Robert DeNiro, Robert Mitchum, Jack Nicholson and Tony Curtis. Screenplay by Harold Pinter! Music by Maurice Jarre.

http://thedigitalbits.com/item/last-tycoon-kino-2024-bd

According to my movie spreadsheet, I saw this back in 2008 but have no memory of it. Lucky I wrote a summary of what happened. Be interesting to see it again.

 

[4-earredwonder]

According to my movie spreadsheet, I saw this back in 2008 but have no memory of it. Lucky I wrote a summary of what happened. Be interesting to see it again.

Pete, considering the 'star power' involved it was a disappontment and like F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel [which I read eons ago] ended abruptly.....but when KL has their bi~annual sale and blows it out for under $10 ....I will add it to my collection. An odd but rather haunting flick, IMO!

 

[timothyemerson]

Pete, considering the 'star power' involved it was a disappontment and like F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished novel [which I read eons ago] ended abruptly.....but when KL has their bi~annual sale and blows it out for under $10 ....I will add it to my collection. An odd but rather haunting flick, IMO!

5 Oscars between the 2 of them in that pic!

 

[4-earredwonder]

5 Oscars between the 2 of them in that pic!

According to legend, Monroe Starr, Robert De Niro's character in The Last Tycoon, based on real life studio mogul Irving Thalberg, may have been a Hollywood wunderkind but he was also an SOB and De Niro failed to adequately catpure his 'essence' as directed by Elia Kazan who himself was a legend of Stage and Screen! And of course Harold Pinter who was known for his opaque screen and stage plays was, IMO, an odd choice as scriptwriter! Still worth a watch.

Irving Thalberg: called THE BOY WONDER 1899~1936

 

[4-earredwonder]

From Kino Lorber [via Orion/MGM] and director Milos Forman VALMONT [1080p from a 2K scan of the Interpositive/DTS~HD MA 2.0]

http://thedigitalbits.com/item/valmont-kino-2024-bd
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Valmont-Blu-ray/125608/#Review

 

[4-earredwonder]

With Season 12 on HBO, premiering February 4th, curmudgeonly Larry David is bidding farewell in the final season of CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM

 

[4-earredwonder]

From Universal Pictures and director Alexander Payne THE HOLDOVERS [1080p/DTS~HD MA 3.0]

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Holdovers-Blu-ray/348503/#Review

 

[4-earredwonder]

Arriving April 2nd for its 35th Anniversary, from Paramount Pictures and drector David S. Ward MAJOR LEAGUE. Pictured below is the limited steelbook UHD4K edition

 

[4-earredwonder]

From SHOUT Factory via MGM director Randall Wallace's THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK [Native UHD4K from OCN/HDR10/Dolby Vision/DTS~HD MA 5.1]

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Man-in-the-Iron-Mask-4K-Blu-ray/346876/#Review

 

[4-earredwonder]

From Criterion and director Danny Boyle TRAINSPOTTING [Native UHD4K/HHDR10/Dolby Vision/DTS~HD MA 5.1]

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Trainspotting-4K-Blu-ray/347733/

 

[~dave~~wave~]

From Criterion and director Danny Boyle TRAINSPOTTING [Native UHD4K/HHDR10/Dolby Vision/DTS~HD MA 5.1]

https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Trainspotting-4K-Blu-ray/347733/

Enjoy the "worst toilet in Scotland" scene in UHD 4K.

“We were determined to show why people took drugs … you had to show that it was fun and that it was awful.”
Trainspotting director Danny Boyle, in an interview with BBC One

https://thepopculturestudio.com/202...t-of-a-generation-and-changed-cinema-forever/

 

[Clement]

Enjoy the "worst toilet in Scotland" scene in UHD 4K.

“We were determined to show why people took drugs … you had to show that it was fun and that it was awful.”
Trainspotting director Danny Boyle, in an interview with BBC One

https://thepopculturestudio.com/202...t-of-a-generation-and-changed-cinema-forever/

Must admit i've never seen the film . . . and i was dry heaving reading the article!

 

[cdheer]

Must admit i've never seen the film . . . and i was dry heaving reading the article!

The scene is rough, but it's an absolutely brilliant film.