It’s a Wonderful Life Arrives Gets 4K Ultra HD Steelbook

One year shy of its 75th anniversary, Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life arrives on 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray with a beautiful steelbook cover. To be fair, this is not the first 4K UHD release for the classic film.  It was previously released last year on 4K UHD.  The difference between the two versions is that this one includes a mini-poster and a steelbook cover.  The remastered and restored Black & White version is on…

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The Lost Weekend Holds Up, Could Be Improved

Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend is one of three films to take home both the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival and Best Picture at the Oscars. The Lost Weekend deals with Don Birnam’s (Ray Milland) alcoholism.  What it does not deal with–and I’ll get to this shortly–is the fact that he’s in the closet.  Because the film doesn’t press this point, Brackett and Wilder’s script gives Helen St. James (Jane Wyman) a bigger…

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