A couple weeks ago, a local community event space put up a makeshift screen and hosted a viewing of Luc Besson’s 1997 sci-fi epic The Fifth Element in my neighborhood. Although admittedly not, on a technical level, the best cinematic experience I’ve had in my life, and certainly not up to my usual home theater… Read More A Visual History of The Fifth Element (1997) on Home Video
Confession time: As someone who has reviewed movies on home video for more than two decades, I simply cannot stand to watch most DVD or Blu-ray bonus features. The days when I might get excited for a director’s audio commentary or a lengthy making-of documentary about the film I just watched feel like a distant… Read More Remember When DVD and Blu-ray “Special Features” Actually Used to Be Special?
I’ve been a movie collector for close to thirty years, and have seen the evolution of the home theater hobby across multiple video formats. During that time, I have bought into every new state-of-the-art format as it came along, and regularly upgraded my favorite movies hoping to gain some measurable improvement in quality. As a… Read More From DVD to Blu-ray, 4K, and More – Is “Good Enough” Ever Good Enough?
To say that the 1984 film version of Dune was not popular in its day would be a tremendous understatement. It’s still not very popular, to be honest. Nevertheless, Dune is my favorite movie, and I have obsessively collected copies of it on every home video format from VHS to 4K. I will continue to… Read More A Visual History of Dune (1984) on Home Video
Every new venture needs to start somewhere. Although I may not be the only voice you hear around here, this web site is my personal project. I figure that the best place to begin is by telling you who I am and why I hopefully have some credibility writing about the topics this blog covers.… Read More An Introduction… Which Kind of Turned into a Memoir
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