Stuart Galbraith IV

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Review Date: Jun 26, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc Mitchell Leisen 1949 (April 30, 2025) Paramount Pictures (Imprint Films/Via Vision Entertainment) Film/Program Grade: B- Video Grade: B Audio Grade: A- Extras Grade: B [Editor’s Note: This is a Region-Free Australian Blu-ray import.] This is an odd one.

3 days ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

Review Date: Jun 24, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc Andre de Toth 1952 (April 29, 2025) Warner Bros. (Warner Archive Collection) Film/Program Grade: C+ Video Grade: B+ Audio Grade: A- Extras Grade: B+ In 1952 actor Gary Cooper starred in two films, both Westerns.

4 days ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

Review Date: Jun 23, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc Kurt Neumann/Budd Boetticher/Nathan Juran 1950/1952/1954 (May 27, 2025) Universal-International Pictures (Kino Lorber Studio Classics) Film/Program Grade: See Below Video Grade: See Below Audio Grade: See Below Extras Grade: B- Overall Grade: B I hope those reading this review aren’t limited to Audie Murphy Western fans because this release speaks to a larger, potentially ominous trend with the label releasing it: Kino Lorber. Early this year I...

3 weeks ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

Review Date: Jun 02, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc Ken Loach 1971 (November 19, 2024) Kestrel Films/Anglo-EMI/MGM-EMI (Indicator/Powerhouse Films) Film/Program Grade: A- Video Grade: A Audio Grade: A Extras Grade: A- A despairing, disturbing but extremely well-crafted drama, Ken Loach’s Family Life (1971) is about a 19-year-old woman’s struggle with mental illness, and how both her judgmental and controlling parents and the Britain National Health Service so spectacularly fail her as to ensure...

1 month ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

Review Date: May 19, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc John and Roy Boulting 1963 (April 15, 2025) Charter Film Productions/Romulus Films (Kino Lorber Studio Classics) Film/Program Grade: B+ Video Grade: A- Audio Grade: A Extras Grade: B A follow-up, of sorts, to I’m All Right Jack (1959), the Boulting Brothers’ Heavens Above! (1963) is atypically Capra-esque in its first-half, and overall has the tone of Capra’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and Meet John Doe, if filtered through the Boulting’s cynical,...