Max Fleischer’s Superman debuts on Blu-ray through the Warner Bros. and features include three featurettes.
Max Fleischer’s Superman debuts on Blu-ray through the Warner Bros. and features include three featurettes.
The Transformers franchise is hardly great with maybe only the first two being passably entertaining, the rest just action-porn with non-sensical plot and CGI vs. CGI fights that were more tiresome rather than exciting.
Terminal Invasion debuts on Blu-ray through Kino Lorber program featuring a 1080p high-definition transfer. This 2002 made-for-TV movie stars Bruce Campbell.
The Great Caruso debuts on Blu-ray through the Warner Archive Collection program featuring a new 1080p transfer, a documentary and trailer.
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham comes to 4K Ultra HD and Blu-ray and comes with a commentary track and featurette.
All-Star Superman arrives on 4K Ultra HD from Warner Bros. and features the voice cast of James Denton, Christina Hendricks and Anthony LaPaglia.
In the Cut arrives on Blu-ray from Mill Creek Entertainment on May 16th. This suspense-thriller stars Meg Ryan, Mark Ruffalo and Jennifer Jason Leigh.
The Superman: 5-Film Collection has four movies making their debuts on 4K, though really only two of them are worth a damn. I suppose if you’re a Superman fan, maybe it’s worth it, but probably only when it’s on sale.
The less said about Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, the better. It was a misfire from the go and even the charms of Christopher Reeve could make this watchable.
Superman III was pretty much the beginning of the end of the Superman franchise. It’s not terrible but not very good either, moving to full-on goofy humor (versus a more wholesome variety of the first film), and an awful villain.
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut does a valiant job giving viewers Donner’s original concept for the sequel and utilizing not only some new visual effects but some rehearsal footage to give as complete of a vision as possible.
Superman II is hardly perfect and with Richard Lester replacing Richard Donner probably made for a whiplash of a movie in terms of tone, but this still managed to be an entertaining sequel though the goof levels were taken up a notch.
Wild Orchid 2: Blue Movie Blue debuts on Blu-ray from Scorpion Releasing and stars Wendy Hughes, Tom Skerritt, Robert Davi and Nina Siemaszko as ‘Blue’.
I can give some credit to writer-director Damien Chazelle’s vision and what he was trying to accomplish, and it does seem this was a passion project but with a 3-hour running time, there was a good chunk that could’ve been removed.
Heat is a movie that’s passably entertaining if only for Burt Reynolds’s charisma but otherwise the plot plods along and like the 2015 re-adaptation Wild Card, it’s nothing special and an altogether forgettable crime-thriller.