classic movies

Warner Archive is still the only operation consistently doing this for black and white catalogue, and hardly anyone outside these threads talks about it. The latest is a remastered Blu-ray of The Bad Seed, Mervyn LeRoy's 1956 psychological thriller, and it lands the same week as a stack of...

If you have ever paid over the odds for an out of print Warner Archive disc, there is a thread worth bookmarking. Someone over at Home Theater Forum keeps a running list of catalogue titles where the HD digital appears to come from the same scan Warner Archive used for the Blu-ray, and nothing...

A Soylent Green 4K UHD review went up this week and I have not got the disc, so treat this as a note rather than a verdict. What struck me is the framing the reviewer used: you probably remember the ending, but do you remember how good the rest of it is. That is exactly the problem with this...

Roman Holiday is getting the UHD treatment, and the write-up I read spends nearly all of its space on Peck, Hepburn and how well the thing still charms 70-odd years later. Which is fair, it does. It also says close to nothing about the disc, and for a catalogue release from 1953 the disc is the...