Stuart Galbraith IV

Film Critic at Freelance

Publisher-Editor, World Cinema Paradise

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Family Life (Blu-ray Review)

5 days 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...
Heavens Above! (Blu-ray Review)

2 weeks 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,...
The New Adventures of Tarzan (Blu-ray Review)

3 weeks ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

Review Date: May 12, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc Edward Kull, Wilbur F. McGaugh 1935 (January 28, 2025) Burroughs-Tarzan Enterprises, Inc.
Sadie McKee (Blu-ray Review)

3 weeks ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

Review Date: May 12, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc Clarence Brown 1934 (March 25, 2025) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Warner Archive Collection) Film/Program Grade: B+ Video Grade: A- Audio Grade: A- Extras Grade: B As someone not particularly enamored of glossy 1930s MGM romantic melodramas, especially Joan Crawford vehicles, I nevertheless found Sadie McKee (1934) rather good. Clarence Brown’s (Anna Christie, National Velvet, The Yearling) direction is stylistically assured and all of the performances...
The Betsy (Blu-ray Review)

1 month ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

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...
Hit Man (1972) (Blu-ray Review)

1 month ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

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,...
Swashbuckler (1976) (Blu-ray Review)

1 month 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...
I’m All Right Jack (Blu-ray Review)

1 month ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

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.
The Liberation of L.B. Jones (Blu-ray Review)

1 month ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

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...
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (Blu-ray Review)

1 month ago | thedigitalbits.com | Stuart Galbraith IV

Review Date: Apr 23, 2025 Format: Blu-ray Disc Waris Hussein 1970 (March 11, 2025) UMC Pictures (VCI Entertainment) Film/Program Grade: B+ Video Grade: A- Audio Grade: B+ Extras Grade: B- Something of a lost Gene Wilder movie, Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970) was a relatively low-budget ($850,000) feature from a minor company, UMC Pictures, which distributed less than 20 films during the early-‘70s before sputtering out. It appears that the rights to these films mostly...