{"id":20073,"date":"2018-12-07T08:08:02","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=20073"},"modified":"2018-12-07T08:08:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T16:08:50","slug":"review-nightwing-shadow-of-the-hawk-bd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2018\/12\/review-nightwing-shadow-of-the-hawk-bd\/","title":{"rendered":"Nightwing\/Shadow of the Hawk Blu-ray Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Nightwing<\/em><\/strong> and Shadow of the Hawk<\/em><\/strong> might not be great movies, but each has their own bit of charm, I suppose. The performances from the cast made the most out of the material, especially on Nightwing<\/em><\/strong> and I\u2019d say they\u2019re worth a look<\/p>\n

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Nightwing\/Shadow of the Hawk
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Genre(s): <\/strong>Horror, Adventure
\nMill Creek Entertainment | NR \u2013 105 min. \/ 92 min. \u2013 $14.98 | October 23, 2018<\/p>\n

Date Published:<\/strong> 12\/07\/2018 | Author:<\/strong> The Movieman<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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MOVIE INFO (NIGHTWING<\/em>):
\n<\/u><\/strong>Directed by: <\/strong>Arthur Hiller
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Martin Cruz Smith (novel); Steve Shagan, Bud Shrake, Martin Cruz Smith (screenplay)
\nCast: <\/strong>Nick Mancuso, David Warner, Kathryn Harold<\/p>\n
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MOVIE INFO (SHADOW OF THE HAWK<\/em>):
\n<\/u><\/strong>Directed by: <\/strong>George McCowan
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Peter Jensen & Lynette Cahill and Norman Thaddeus Vane (story), Norman Thaddeus Vane and Herbert J. Wright (screenplay)
\nCast: <\/strong>Jan-Michael Vincent, Maryilyn Hassett, Chief Don George<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

DISC INFO:
\n<\/u><\/strong>Features: <\/strong>None
\nDigital Copy: <\/strong>No
\nFormats Included: <\/strong>Blu-ray
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Audio: <\/strong>English (LPCM 2.0)
\nVideo: <\/strong>1080p\/Widescreen 1.85
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>None
\nDisc Size: <\/strong>NA
\nCodecs: <\/strong>MPEG-4 AVC
\nRegion(s): <\/strong>A<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Mill Creek Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this Blog Post.
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THE MOVIES<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Nighthawk<\/em><\/strong> (1979)
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\n<\/strong>Youngman Duran (NICK MANCUSO), a Maskai Indian tribal deputy, is torn between the modern world and the ancient mysticism of his people. During his patrol he is summoned to investigate the bizarre death of a horse. The animal exhibits razor-sharp wounds that no coyote or mountain lion could inflict. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, on a camping trip in the desert is attacked by thousands of swarming bats. Duran learns of the attack and sets out to save her, not knowing the terror that looms ahead.<\/p>\n
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Shadow of the Hawk<\/em><\/strong> (1976)
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\n<\/strong>Mike (JEAN-MICHAEL VINCENT) is the grandson of Native American shaman Old Man Hawk (CHIEF DAN GEORGE) who is called back to his village to help defeat evil threatening the tribe. After years of living in the city and working in a business world altogether apart from his roots, Mike is contracted by a freelance reporter, Maureen (MARILYN HASSETT), who was enlisted by Old Man Hawk to track his grandson. When Mike returns with Maureen, they find out the village is beset by an evil spirit.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 0\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Both movies are contained on a single disc. No features were included.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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VIDEO \u2013 4.5\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Both Nightwing<\/em><\/strong> and Shadow of the Hawk<\/em><\/strong> are presented in 1.85 widescreen aspect ratio and given 1080p high-definition transfers. Presumably Mill Creek got the source from Sony directly and no restoration work was done, but even so, I was very impressed with how both films looked. The detail is fairly sharp throughout and colors, for the most part, are vibrant. There are a few minor specs here and there, however nothing that I found all that distracting.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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AUDIO \u2013 4.0\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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The movies each receive a basic but serviceable LPCM Stereo tracks. Neither of these movies are exactly action heavy with only a few scenes showing off a bit of depth. Otherwise, dialogue does sound clear with only some minor background noise.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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OVERALL \u2013 3.0\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Overall, Nightwing<\/em><\/strong> and Shadow of the Hawk<\/em><\/strong> might not be great movies, but each has their own bit of charm, I suppose. The performances from the cast made the most out of the material, especially on Nightwing<\/em><\/strong> and I\u2019d say they\u2019re worth a look, especially with Mill Creek\u2019s bargain price and respectable video and audio transfers.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Check out some more 1080p screen caps by going to page 2. Please note, these do contain spoilers<\/strong>.
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Nightwing and Shadow of the Hawk might not be great movies, but each has their own bit of charm, I suppose. The performances from the cast made the most out of the material, especially on Nightwing and I\u2019d say they\u2019re worth a look  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,970],"tags":[4935,4325],"class_list":["post-20073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blurayreviews","category-quick-hit-reviews","tag-david-warner","tag-mill-creek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20073"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20075,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20073\/revisions\/20075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}