The Magnificent Seven, featuring an Oscar-nominated score and launched three film careers, is now available on 4K Ultra HD. Shout! Factory presents the film with a new restoration and color grade from a 4K scan of the original camera negative. However, only the 4K UHD disc presents the film in Dolby Vision. Charles Lang’s anamorphic cinematography is as glorious as it can be with the new restoration. Both audio commentaries are on each disc but…
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The Great Escape is an epic classic and it’s even more beautiful now that the film is available on 4K Ultra HD by way of Kino Lorber. The film is based on Paul Brickhill’s 1950 book about the British POWs making their mass escape from a German POW camp, Stalag Luft III. Some characters are a composite of multiple people and the filmmakers compress the time down. In any event, the details of the escape…
"The Great Escape Is An Epic Classic, Now On 4K UHD"
Last Train from Gun Hill, a classic Western from John Sturges, makes its arrival on Blu-ray by way of the Paramount Presents line. Sturges is one of the greatest filmmakers in the genre. While this isn’t his best film, it’s certainly not bad for the era in which it was released. A few aggravations about the plot notwithstanding, of course. The Western, presented in VistaVision and shot in Technicolor, becomes the 18th title to join…
"Last Train from Gun Hill Arrives On Blu-ray"