Stuart Galbraith IV

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Review Date: May 05, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc Daniel Petrie 1978 (February 26, 2025) Harold Robbins International Company/Allied Artists/United Artists (Imprint Films/Via Vision Entertainment) Film/Program Grade: B- Video Grade: A- Audio Grade: A- Extras Grade: B- [Editor’s Note: This is a Region-Free Australian Blu-ray import.] Calling The Betsy (1978) the best adaptation of a Harold Robbins novel isn’t saying much, yet beyond Robbins’s emblematic trashiness and steamy sex scenes, the film...

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Review Date: Apr 30, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc George Armitage 1972 (March 25, 2025) Penelope Productions/MGM (Warner Archive Collection) Film/Program Grade: C+ Video Grade: A- Audio Grade: A- Extras Grade: D- The Mike Hodges-directed, Michael Caine-starring Get Carter (1971) is today regarded as one of the all-time great British crime films, but when it was new, MGM, which produced it through its British arm, had so little faith in it they farmed out its U.S. distribution to United Artists,...

2 weeks ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

Review Date: Apr 29, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc James Goldstone 1976 (February 26, 2025) Universal Pictures (Imprint Films/Via Vision Entertainment) Film/Program Grade: C+ Video Grade: A Audio Grade: A Extras Grade: D- [Editor’s Note: This is a Region-Free Australian import.] Many today remember 1970s Hollywood cinema as a golden period of great films from emerging directors like Scorsese, Friedkin, and Bogdanovich, and of blockbusters like The Godfather, Jaws, and Star Wars. The reality was a...

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Review Date: Apr 28, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc John Boulting 1959 (April 8, 2025) Charter Film Productions/British Lion Films (Kino Lorber Studio Classics) Film/Program Grade: A- Video Grade: A- Audio Grade: A Extras Grade: B I must admit the Boulting Brothers’ I’m All Right Jack leaves this reviewer somewhat bemused.

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Review Date: Apr 24, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc William Wyler 1970 (February 26, 2025) Columbia Pictures (Imprint Films/Via Vision Entertainment) Film/Program Grade: B- Video Grade: B Audio Grade: A- Extras Grade: F [Editor's Note: This is a Region-Free Australian Blu-ray import.] Longtime director William Wyler’s final film, The Liberation of L.B. Jones (1970) faintly echoes Norman Jewison’s earlier In the Heat of the Night (1967) done not as well. The cast is good, and the film offers a...