Tag: Blu-ray
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Movie Review: ‘Evita’ (1996)
Evita (1996): Style, Spectacle, and the Woman Behind the Myth Alan Parker’s Evita is a film that dazzles with spectacle but struggles to reveal the heart of its heroine. Starring Madonna as Eva Duarte de Perón, Antonio Banderas as Che, and Jonathan Pryce as Juan Perón, the movie adapts Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s…
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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 Wednesday, February 7, 2024, or: My Writing Journey Continues on this ‘Hump Day’ in New Hampshire
Late Morning, Wednesday, February 7, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, folks. It’s almost 10:15 AM EST here in Madison as I begin this, the 1,424th entry in this blog. The current temperature is 32°F (0°C) under sunny conditions. With humidity at 57% and the wind blowing from the north at 1 MPH (1 Km/H), the…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, January 2, 2024, or: Night Falls, and One of My Remotes is MIA
Evening/Nightfall, Tuesday, January 2, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire It’s dark outside. Then again, here in the Northeast, it’s supposed to be dark after 5 PM in early January. Sunset today was at 4:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, and since that’s slightly over an hour ago, it’s pitch black outside now. Currently, the temperature is 30°F/-1°C…
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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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On Movies & Movie Collecting: Rewatching ‘Red Dawn’ & Doing Some ‘Housekeeping’ Chores with My ‘Star Wars’ Discs
Last night I rewatched the original 1984 Red Dawn, a Reagan-era action-adventure film about a small band of young Coloradans who become resistance fighters when the Soviet Union, Cuba, and Nicaragua invade the U.S. in an alternate version of the 1980s where NATO dissolves, Mexico is plunged into a revolution, and unrest and famine threaten…
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On Movies & Movie Collecting: The Starship Enterprise’s Original Crew Gets the 4K Treatment in Paramount’s Upcoming ‘Star Trek: The Original 6-Movie Collection’ Box Set
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon in Lithia, Florida, on Thursday, July 7, 2022. It is a hot, humid summer day in the Tampa Bay area. Currently, the temperature is 88°F (31°C) under mostly cloudy conditions. With the wind blowing from the south-southwest at 5 MPH (8 KM/H) and humidity at 73%, the heat…
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On Movies & Movie Collecting: My Blu-ray Collection – May 2022 Edition
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you know that one of my hobbies – albeit an expensive one – is collecting movies on home media. I have been doing this since late 1983 when I bought my first VHS cassettes – even before I owned a VCR – and as one medium makes…
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On the Joys and Pitfalls of Online Shopping: Coppola’s ‘Godfather Trilogy’ 4K Set is ‘Out for Delivery,” and ‘The Berlin Concert’ Has Shipped
One of the biggest peeves that I have about home media releases on disc (especially the new 4K UHD Blu-ray format) is with packaging, especially when it comes to commemorative box sets such as last year’s Indiana Jones: 4-Movie Collection (released to celebrate Raiders of the Lost Ark’s 40th Anniversary) or this week’s The Godfather…
A Certain Point of View, Too 