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The big news is that Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has now officially set John McTiernan’s Last Action Hero for release on 4K Ultra HD on 5/18. The film is presented newly remastered in 4K from the original camera negative with HDR10 high dynamic range and a new Dolby Atmos mix. You’ll also get the original theatrical SDDS mix presented in 5.1 and the original theatrical stereo audio. Extras on the disc will include an all-new audio commentary with McTiernan, deleted and alternate scenes—as well as an alternate ending—all presented in 4K with HDR10, AC/DC’s Big Gun music video,...

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia (Blu-ray Review) Format: Blu-ray Disc Studio(s)United Artists/MGM (Kino Lorber Studio Classics) Film/Program Grade: A- Review [Editor’s Note: Kino Lorber Studio Classics inadvertantly used the wrong master for this release and is replicating new replacement discs that use the proper 2017 4K restoration. You can find a link to their replacement program in the Additional Notes section of this review below.] It’s been almost forty years since Sam Peckinpah died but he remains one of the most divisive and discussed filmmakers of the late 20th century. He�...

My Favorite Blonde (Blu-ray Review) Format: Blu-ray Disc Studio(s)Paramount Pictures (Kino Lorber Studio Classics) Film/Program Grade: C+ The Ghost Breakers and the Hope-Crosby Road to Singapore, Hope was on a roll. He was already a star of radio, and the decade offered audiences more than twenty opportunities to see Hope’s antics and laugh at his quips and wisecracks. One of his most popular films of that period is My Favorite Blonde, a spy drama/comedy that begins with a murder aboard a ship. It’s the work of Nazis chasing British agent Karen Bentley (Madeleine Carroll), who must del...

Tremors: Limited Edition (4K UHD Review) Format: Blu-ray Disc Studio(s)Universal Pictures (Arrow Video) Film/Program Grade: A+ Review Tremors is thought of today as a franchise, but when the first film was released in 1990, one would not have believed that its meager box office take would spawn six sequels and a TV series. But after becoming a bigger hit on cable and home video, this comedy/horror/monster movie hybrid achieved a lucrative cult status. The idea of Short Circuit screenwriters Brent Maddock and S.S. Wilson, Tremors eventually got before the cameras with Ron Underwood ( City S...