Category: Blu-ray & DVD Collection
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, March 31, 2024: Weekend Update, Part the First – a ‘Force-Full’ Saturday
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in 4K UHD Blu-rays, Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Blu-ray & DVD Collection, Blu-ray Box Sets, Blu-ray Collection, Books, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 and Onward), Movies, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Solo: A Star Wars Story, Star Wars, Star Wars films, Star Wars Radio Dramas, The Complete Star Wars Trilogy; The Original Radio Dramas (Collector’s Limited Edition)Late Morning, Sunday, March 31, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, all – and Happy Easter to all of you who celebrate the holiday. It is a gorgeous early spring day here in my corner of northern New England. Currently, the temperature is 44°F (7°C) under partly sunny conditions. With humidity at 37% and the wind…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, February 8, 2024, or: A Quick Life Update, and a Not-So-Quick SITREP on ‘The Novel-in-Progress’
Late Morning, Thursday, February 8, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, all! It’s a nice, sunny New Hampshire morning on this fourth day of the workweek. Currently, we’re in a warming trend; the temperature in Madison is 39°F (4°C) under mostly sunny conditions. With the wind blowing – barely – at 1 MPH (1 Km/H) and…
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Movie Review: ‘Die Hard’ (1988)
This review was originally written for the now-defunct hyper-localized entertainment website Examiner in March 2015. At the time, I was the Miami Examiner for Blu-ray & DVD. Since Examiner was shut down in 2016 by its parent company and the article is no longer visible there, I am re-publishing it here, with only a few…
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On Movies & Movie Collections: ‘Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Season One’ Warps into My Blu-ray Collection
Yesterday I received Star Trek: Strange New Worlds – Season One in a three-disc Limited Edition steelbook case. It’s my penultimate pre-order from Amazon – Paramount’s Black Sunday (1977) on Blu-ray arrives next week – since I’m trying to cut back on non-essential purchases till I move to Brandon. It was originally scheduled to arrive…
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On Movies & Movie Collecting (Countdown to the Big Six-Oh Edition): I’m Getting Older…and So Are the Movies I Watch
In 10 days, give or take several hours, I will be 60 years old. And as if I didn’t need any reminders of the passage of time, some of my favorite movies (made during my lifetime) are also getting their 60th, 50th, 40th, 30th, and 20th Anniversaries. Here are some of the most prominent ones,…
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On Movies & Movie Watching: My To Be Watched (TBW) List for the Rest of February (and Early March)
Well, it’s been 24 hours since the package with my order of the 4K UHD Blu-ray/2K HD Blu-ray/Digital Copy set of Steven Spielberg’s The Fabelmans arrived – and I have not watched it yet. I was busy with some housekeeping chores in my room for a huge chunk of the afternoon, and by the time…
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Tempus Fugit: For The Love of Movies (1973 Edition)
50 years ago, in February of 1973, I was nine going on 10 and lived in a house in Westchester – an unincorporated suburb of Miami, Florida – with my widowed mother and my older half-sister Victoria, aka Vicky. I attended Tropical Elementary, a public school that even though it was in the same zone…
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On Movies & Movie Collecting: ‘The Fabelmans’ – Literally Counting the Days for Its Home Media Release
In less than 11 days, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Universal Pictures – or their distribution partners that send their wares to Amazon, Best Buy, Deep Discount, and what have you – will release The Fabelmans on 4K UHD/2K HD Blu-ray. This, the 36th film directed by Steven Spielberg, is one of the few movies…
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On Movies & Movie Collecting: New Month, New Titles, New Statistics!
Hi, there, Dear Reader, and welcome to another installment of On Movies & Movie Collecting, a semi-regular series of posts in which I discuss movies I like (mostly) and my passion for adding new titles (or upgrading others from one format to another) on Blu-ray. For the February 1, 2023 entry in the series, let’s…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, January 31, 2023, or: A Quick ‘Tempus Fugit’ Piece & Blu-ray Collection Update
Time Flies Onward…1973-2023 If you’re a regular reader of A Certain Point of View, Too, you know that this year is of some significance to this writer. First, in less than 33 days, I will be 60 years old. I wrote about how I feel about that yesterday, so I am not going to repeat…
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