Andy Dursin

Amity Island

Writer and Critic at Freelance

Film Score Monthly's resident video guru. DVDs, Blu-Rays, movies, scores & more from the southern New England coast. email [email protected]

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Dazzling DARK CITY Restored In 4K

1 week ago | filmscoremonthly.com | Andy Dursin

www.andyfilm.com Message Board (open 24 hours!) X Twitter - @andredursin (for everything else!) Director Alex Proyas showed with “The Crow” that flashy directorial technique and a sense of style can overcome a deficient plot. In his 1998 follow-up DARK CITY (111/100 mins., R; Arrow), Proyas concocted a fascinating science-fiction thriller with a story that lives up to the evocative settings and dense noir atmosphere surrounding it.
Catalog Mania on 4K and Blu-Ray

2 weeks ago | filmscoremonthly.com | Andy Dursin

www.andyfilm.com Message Board (open 24 hours!) X Twitter - @andredursin (for everything else!) Via Vision’s Imprint label continues to release a superb array of limited-edition titles, with their on-going (and now genre-spanning) “Tales of Adventure” box-sets going the sci-fi route for the first time with TALES OF ADVENTURE: COLLECTION 5.
Bond, Finally, In 4K

3 weeks ago | filmscoremonthly.com | Andy Dursin

www.andyfilm.com Message Board (open 24 hours!) X Twitter - @andredursin (for everything else!) 4K UHD owners have long tabbed this week’s release of the SEAN CONNERY 007 6-FILM COLLECTION (Warner) as one of the format’s biggest releases of the year.
OCN Spring Wrap, New Releases

3 weeks ago | filmscoremonthly.com | Andy Dursin

www.andyfilm.com Message Board (open 24 hours!) X Twitter - @andredursin (for everything else!) Director John Badham had a big run from the ‘70s through the late ‘80s, with “Saturday Night Fever,” “WarGames,” “Blue Thunder,” “Short Circuit” and “Stakeout” becoming bona-fide box-office hits. Even Badham’s movies that didn’t quite come off commercially were solid – the John Williams-scored “Dracula” (1979) among those – yet Badham hit a wall when the 1990s began.
Kino Lorber, Severin, FCE New Spins

1 month ago | filmscoremonthly.com | Andy Dursin

www.andyfilm.com Message Board (open 24 hours!) X Twitter - @andredursin (for everything else!) I sort-of recall watching PROPHECY (102 mins., 1979, PG; Kino Lorber) on network TV in the early ’80s, and getting quite upset that Talia Shire’s unborn baby could be a mutated, one-eyed monster — the kind of thing you might expect from a tired grade-schooler who probably shouldn’t have been staying up to watch this movie to begin with.
May Mayhem at The Aisle Seat

1 month ago | filmscoremonthly.com | Andy Dursin

www.andyfilm.com Message Board (open 24 hours!) X Twitter - @andredursin (for everything else!) One of my favorite sci-fi thrillers from the ‘70s, Robert Wise’s adaptation of Michael Crichton’s THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN (131 mins., 1971, G; Arrow) is a cool and effective – and now on 4K UHD – tale of a virus that wipes out nearly the entire population of a small New Mexico town…threatening the entire world unless a group of scientists can stop the contagion before it’s too late.
Kino Lorber, Warner 4K Remasters

2 months ago | filmscoremonthly.com | Andy Dursin

www.andyfilm.com Message Board (open 24 hours!) X Twitter - @andredursin (for everything else!) John Wayne and director John Ford produced over a dozen movies together, concluding their collaboration with a picture that, while being deemed a lark by most involved, nevertheless became a beloved outing for its fans: DONOVAN’S REEF (116 mins., 1963; Kino Lorber).
Criterion’s Masterful Pagnol-Berri Double Feature

2 months ago | filmscoremonthly.com | Andy Dursin

Not just one of the great French imports of the 1980s but a glistening cinematic accomplishment that possesses a timeless quality, director Claude Berri’s adaptations of author Marcel Pagnol’s JEAN DE FLORETTE and MANON OF THE SPRING (123 mins./113 mins., 1986, PG) have arrived on UHD and remastered Blu-Ray from Criterion, both utilizing Pathe’s 2015 4K restorations, premiering here in a U.S. release for the first time.
Arrow, Warner Archive Rundown

2 months ago | filmscoremonthly.com | Andy Dursin

www.andyfilm.com Message Board (open 24 hours!) X Twitter - @andredursin (for everything else!) Director Renny Harlin’s ill-fated pirate sojourn with then-wife Geena Davis, “Cutthroat Island,” became an immediate box-office bomb upon its release in 1995 – making it a good thing their next collaboration, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (120 mins., 1996, R; Arrow), was already in production.
April (No Foolin') Arrival Edition!

2 months ago | filmscoremonthly.com | Andy Dursin

FLIGHT RISK 4K UHD/Blu-Ray (91 mins., 2025, R; Lionsgate): Mel Gibson returned to the director’s chair for the first time since “Hacksaw Ridge” nearly a decade ago, and the rust is evident by this cheapjack – if watchably goofy – thriller involving an air marshal (a miscast Michelle Dockery from “Downton Abbey”) transporting a fugitive (Topher Grace) to trial in a small plane whose pilot (Mark Wahlberg) who clearly knows more than he’s letting on.