The Wire: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] [2008] [Region Free]

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First, though, a bit of history. While all five seasons of the show were originally broadcast in 1.33:1, The Wire was shot in 35mm and, for a time, protected for 16:9 letterbox by executive producer Robert Colesberry, who initially pushed to film the series in widescreen. All good, right? Not quite. As Simon succinctly explained in a candid and revealing December 2014 blog post, "If you compose a shot for a wider 16:9 screen, then you are, by definition, failing to optimize the composition of the 4:3 image. Choose to serve one construct and at times you must impair the other." Moreover, by the end of the second season, Simon, Colesberry, cinematographer Briesewitz and the directors of photography who proceeded him were no longer actively protecting the image for a possible 1.78:1 presentation. As Simon recounts it: You know Godzilla, but do you know Gorgo? This homage to Toho’s iconic kaiju has one of the more shameless poster taglines: “Like nothing you’ve seen before.” Of course, you have seen this before, just not in the streets of Great Britain. Screenwriters John Loring and Daniel Hyatt splice Godzilla and King Kong with a vial of Irish/British tension, producing one of the stranger entries in the mega monster movie genre. A bounty hunter played by Robert De Niro has to schlep a mob-tied accountant across the country in five days, without getting stopped by hitmen and the FBI along the way. The premise is deceptively simple. When Midnight Run premiered in 1988, a number of critics panned the action-comedy as derivative genre fare. It was the misstep in director Martin Brest’s hot streak, sandwiched between ultra-hit Beverly Hills Cop and Oscar-winner Scent of a Woman.

The Wire: The Complete Series [Blu-ray] [2008] [Region Free

The Way of Water will make you feel something. You will love it. Or hate it. Find it touching or cringe-inducing. That’s the magic of Cameron and his collaborators. They make bold choices and though you might not remember the name of a Na’vi, you won’t forget how it felt to watch them. The most recent releases to have received the Blu-Ray treatment are 1972’s THE FLESH AND BLOOD SHOW and 1974’s FRIGHTMARE, and while the pair are only two years apart, the difference between the two in terms of genre familiarity seems much larger. Both, however, are worth a look, especially in a form that makes up for years of sub-par presentations and allows them to be seen with all of the garish colors and carefully-lit shadows that Walker and cinematographer Peter Jessop intended. McQueen’s films span a wide range of subjects, but what connects them is a historian-like approach to filmmaking, emphasizing veracity and the elevation of underheard voices. Small Axe is, perhaps, the culmination of this focus. All five films capture the lives of West Indian immigrants in London from the ’60s to the ’80s. They range from small domestic dramas and romances to interrogations of policing and imprisonment.In the six years that have passed since the conclusion of the HBO series The Wire, the critically acclaimed drama has turned into a worldwide phenomenon that has been hailed as "the best show in the history of television" by MSNBC. This summer, the series will ... Simon and executive producer Nina K. Noble, "All Due Respect" (Episode 2) with writer Richard Price, "Dead Soldiers" (Episode Prologue" (Episode 6) with stars Dominic West and Michael K. Williams, and "Port in a Storm" (Episode 12) with co-producer Prequels (HD, 6 minutes): Little context is given before diving into these series prequel shorts, but there's a few Attias and story editor William F. Zorzi, "A New Day" (Episode 11) with actors Robert Chew, Jermaine Crawford, Maestro Harrell,

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McQueen’s work only improved, but his films became paradoxically more commercial and less visible. Widows is one of the best thrillers of the past decade, is co-written by Gone Girl scribe Gillian Flynn, and has an absolutely bonkers ensemble cast of mega-celebrities: Viola Davis, Michelle Rodriguez, Colin Farrell, Brian Tyree Henry, Daniel Kaluuya… The list goes on. But the trailers were abysmal, and after a middling box office, it seemed to be all but abandoned by its distributor.While Blu-ray might lag behind for now, an Ultra HD version of the format is due out at Christmas. This will support HEVC decoding and higher-capacity discs, with movies encoded at a higher bit-rate than for streaming. In other words, 4K Blu-ray will have better image quality once again. HEVC and Full HD The box set includes two gorgeous double-sided posters; a booklet with set photos, interviews, and plenty of behind-the-scenes details; and special features with commentary, missing scenes, and more. Based on the DC character created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, the Superman films star Christopher Reeve as the legendary “Man of Steel.” Audio Commentaries: The final season of The Wire offers some of the best commentaries, with both cast Julito McCullum and Tristan Wilds, "That's Got His Own" (Episode 12) with director Joe Chappelle and writer George P.

The Wire - Complete Season 1-5 [Blu-ray] [Region Free]

Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. The excellent U.K. label Eureka is bringing to Blu-ray a 2K restoration of the difficult-to-find 1975 action film. Though you probably haven’t heard of this Bullet Train, you’ve almost certainly watched the film it inspired: Speed. A bad dude plants a bomb on a train that will detonate if the train drops below 80 kilometers per hour. It’s up to a train conductor, played by the legendary Sonny Chiba, to save the day. The next Superman movie won’t hit theaters until mid-2025 at the soonest. If you’re craving some blue-spandex-and-red-cape heroics, this collection is your best bet. The collection includes the entirety of the Christopher Reeve era: Superman 1-4, along with the alternate Richard Donner cut of Superman 2.Bob Colesberry died during surgery while we were prepping season three of the drama. A short time later, HBO came to us with news that the world was going to HD and 16:9, as Bob had anticipated. We could, if we wanted, film the remaining seasons of The Wire in HD and widescreen. But at that point a collective decision then was made to complete the project using the template that we had honed, the construct that we felt we had used to good effect to make the story feel more stolen than shaped, and to imply a more journalistic rendering of Baltimore than a filmic one. All of this might not seem like much, but the combined effect when the film’s in full motion is much more. In short, the Blu-ray version looks sharper, cleaner and punchier. It’s a cumulative effect, where if you watched the Blu-ray version of a film and then switched to the streamed version, you’d notice that the latter wasn’t quite as good. The same is true for all streaming services, with Netflix, Blinkbox and the other services that we tested producing similar results. Sound quality The Criterion Collection is the best way to watch these films, not just because the image is as good as any other Criterion transfer, but because the set comes with some additions that feel as if they always belonged with the anthology: a filmed conversation between McQueen and professor Paul Gilroy, and the entire three-part documentary Uprising, released by McQueen and James Rogan the year after Small Axe, documenting the 1981 New Cross house fire. If your TV doesn't have HDMI ARC or a port marked HDMI output, then you'll need to use the digital audio output. This will either be an optical or co-axial port, so make sure your sound bar has the matching input.

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Both films are certainly worth a look for horror fans, but FRIGHTMARE’s presentation and the fact that the film feels more polished gives it the edge over FLESH AND BLOOD. In any case, it’s great to see these films on Blu-Ray, and we’ll be eagerly waiting for the next batch of releases Redemption brings to the new format. @Paul Freitag-Fey only recently produced, newly available extra in the 20-disc Complete Series set is this excellent reunion special,Pelecanos, and "Final Grades" (Episode 13) with creator David Simon and executive producer Nina K. Noble. It can be hard to find good physical editions of classic Hong Kong action movies. 88 Films’ In the Line of Duty box set is here to help with that, featuring three of the best movies from one of the best eras of filmmaking any nation has ever had. In 1985, following Taxi Driver and Raging Bull but before The Last Temptation of Christ, Scorsese made this compact and abstract story about a dull uptown office worker who gets devoured by the tawdry Soho art scene. Scorsese partnered with screenwriting agent of chaos Joseph Minion, who would later pen Nicolas Cage’s most bonkers role (a feat!) in Vampire’s Kiss. Scorsese provides just enough structure to keep the story from spinning out of control while maintaining the anxious feeling that the film could collapse at any time. understanding of the series, its characters, themes and nuances, and the less obvious intentions of the showrunners, writers None of this gets in the way of the treachery, and GANG WAR IN MILAN is never less than entertaining, even if it never quite has the heft of other films of the genre like CALIBER 9 or Lenzi’s own ALMOST HUMAN. Granted, you’ve got to get through some of misogyny and homophobia, but not significantly more than what goes with the territory.