John Woo’s classic 1997 action thriller, Face/Off, is now available on 4K Ultra HD by way of Kino Lorber Studio Classics. The film has been available on 4K UHD since December 12, 2023. What follows is my original review from last summer’s 25th anniversary: Face/Off, the John Woo action film starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, marks its 25th anniversary since its June 1997 release. I was too young to appreciate Nicolas Cage for his…
"Face/Off Gets A 4K Ultra HD Upgrade"Tag: Joan Allen
Face/Off, the John Woo action film starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, marks its 25th anniversary since its June 1997 release. I was too young to appreciate Nicolas Cage for his mannerisms when I first saw this film in 1997. In hindsight, I was probably a few years too young to see the movie, what with the R rating and all. But then again, I had already watched dinosaurs tear apart two different islands by…
"Face/Off: Action Film Marks 25th Anniversary"
Who Will Write Our History tells the courageous but mostly unknown story of a covert group known as Oyneg Shabes and how they vowed to defeat the Nazis with pen and paper. When we first meet Rachel Auerbach (Jowita Budnik, voiced by Joan Allen), she’s headed to on a train to Warsaw in 1946. This is three years after the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising that took place in April 1943. While the war had been over…
"Who Will Write Our History: The Oyneg Shabes Story"