During its release dead-center in the middle of the 1990s, Crimson Tide felt more than a little like a watered-down retread of The Hunt for Red October, once again churning up Cold War paranoia for another (then) modern-day nuclear submarine thriller. Three decades on, the film’s plot about a megalomanaical Russian dictator plunging the world… Read More The True Enemy Is War Itself | Crimson Tide (1995) Blu-ray
When the time came to make a sequel to their smash hit Beverly Hills Cop, producers Don Simpson and Jerry Bruckheimer knew they’d have to step up their game. In the three short years between the two films, audiences had already been conditioned (by Simpson and Bruckheimer in particular) to expect a greater sense of… Read More Can Never Have Too Much Firepower | Beverly Hills Cop II (1987) 4K Ultra HD
As a young film student in 1993, I walked out of the theater ecstatic about Tony Scott’s True Romance. I went back to see it a couple more times, but couldn’t convince any of my friends to go with me. From the title, they all assumed it must be a sappy rom-com that would hold… Read More If I’m With You, Then I’m With You | True Romance (1993) 4K Ultra HD
Not only was Top Gun a massive blockbuster hit during the summer of 1986, the film remained so popular over the years that, when Paramount went looking for titles from its catalog to convert into 3D during that format’s revival in the early 2010s, of course Top Gun shot to the top of the list.… Read More The Need for Speed | Top Gun in 3D (Blu-ray)
The biggest blockbuster hit of 1986 and one of the most (if not the most) iconic films from that decade, Top Gun has remained enduringly popular over time – enough so that a sequel released 36 years later once again blew the roof off the theatrical box office. Is it actually a good movie, though?… Read More Take My Breath Away | Top Gun (1986) 4K Ultra HD
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