Essential Film Noir Collection 4 - BLU RAY REVIEW + Unboxing & Menu | Via Vision | Imprint Films

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Essential Film Noir - Collection 4 (1949-1953), a four-disc box set.

BOX SET CONTENT: 

Rope of Sand (1949)

After a two-year hiatus, Mike Davis (Burt Lancaster) returns to the same African city where he was tortured and left for dead at the hands of a sadistic Police Commandant (Paul Henreid). This suspense-noir classic was directed by William Dieterle (Dark City). Starring Burt Lancaster, Claude Rains, Peter Lorre, Paul Henreid & Sam Jaffe.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM COMPLETED IN 2021

NEW Audio Commentary by critic Samm Deighan

NEW Film professor José Arroyo on Rope of Sand

Trailer

Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1

Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono

Optional English HOH subtitles

Appointment with Danger (1950)

Postal Inspector Al Goddard (Alan Ladd) is assigned to investigate the murder of a fellow officer. The only witness to the crime is Sister Augustine (Phyllis Calvert), who identifies the photograph of one of the assailants. This leads Goddard to a seedy hotel where he learns that the assailant is a member of a gang headed by Earl Boettiger (Paul Stewart), and he soon discovers that the gang is planning a million dollar mail robbery. This classic film noir also features the stars of Dragnet, Jack Webb and Harry Morgan, as Stewart's Henchmen. This was Alan Ladd's final Film Noir and was directed by Lewis Allen (The Uninvited). Starring Paul Stewart, Alan Ladd, Phyllis Calvert, Jan Sterling & Jack Webb.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM COMPLETED IN 2021

NEW Audio Commentary by professor and film scholar Jason Ney

NEW Hollywood Everyman: The Films of Lewis Allen – featurette

NEW Film Noir specialist Frank Krutnik on Appointment With Danger

Trailer

Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1

Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono

Optional English HOH subtitles

The Enforcer (1951)

Humphrey Bogart (The Maltese Falcon) is in fine form as a crusading District Attorney out to convict the head of a vicious murder-for-hire ring. But when his star witness is killed, Bogart must race against time to find the evidence he needs to bring down the mob boss. Told in a series of flashbacks, this tense, tough-as-nails crime thriller on the cutting edge of film noir was based on actual Murder, Inc. Trials. Stylishly directed by Bretagne Windust (June Bride) with un-credited help from Raoul Walsh (Pursued) and beautifully shot by the great Robert Burks (North by Northwest). Starring Humphrey Bogart, Zero Mostel, Ted de Corsia & Everett Sloane.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM COMPLETED IN 2021

NEW Audio Commentary by noir expert / Film Noir Foundation board member Alan K. Rode

NEW Film Noir specialist Frank Krutnik on The Enforcer

Original aspect ratio 1.37:1

Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono

Optional English subtitles

Beware, My Lovely (1952)

Helen Gordon (Ida Lupino) hires Howard Wilton (Robert Ryan) as a handyman to do chores around her house. She doesn't know what she's let herself in for. Insecure and paranoid, Wilton thinks everyone, including Helen, is against him. He suffers from memory lapses and extreme mood swings. She's soon a prisoner in her own house after Wilton locks the doors and tears out the telephone. His mood swings from violence to complacency but after Helen gets a message to the police via a telephone repairman, she finds he is still in the house. …Beware, My Lovely. Starring Robert Ryan, Ida Lupino, Taylor Holmes & Barbara Whiting.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM COMPLETED IN 2021

NEW Audio Commentary by professor and film scholar Jason Ney

NEW Author/film historian Pamela Hutchinson on Ida Lupino

Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1

Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono

Optional English HOH subtitles

Jennifer (1953)

Agnes Langsley (Ida Lupino) gets a job, through Jim Hollis (Howard Duff), as caretaker of an old and vacated estate. The owner's cousin, Jennifer, was the last occupant and mysteriously disappeared. Agnes soon begins to believe that Jennifer was murdered and that Jim, whom she has fallen in love with, is responsible. Starring Ida Lupino, Howard Duff & Robert Nichols.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM COMPLETED IN 2021

Original Aspect Ratio 1.37:1

Audio English LPCM 2.0 Mono

Optional English HOH subtitles

Cool Hand Luke 4K UHD REVIEW + Unboxing / Menu | Paul Newman

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His crime: nonconformity. His sentence: the chain gang. Paul Newman plays one of his best-loved roles as Cool Hand Luke, the loner who won't - or can't - bend to the arbitrary rules of his captivity. A cast of fine character actors, including George Kennedy in his Oscar-winning role of Dragline and the indelible Jo Van Fleet as Luke's mother, give Newman solid support. And Strother Martin is the Captain who taunts Luke with the now-legendary line, "What we've got here is... failure to communicate". No failure here. With rich humor and vibrant storytelling power, Cool Hand Luke succeeds resoundingly.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM

HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM

Audio Commentary by Eric Lax

"A Natural-Born World-Shaker: Making Cool Hand Luke" (featurette)

Trailer

Optional English SDH, Spanish, Parisian French subtitles

Director: Stuart Rosenberg 

Writers: Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson 

Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J.D. Cannon, Lou Antonio, Robert Drivas 

Producer: Gordon Carroll

Rebel Without a Cause 4K UHD REVIEW + Unboxing / Menu

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In one of moviedom's most influential roles, James Dean plays Jim Stark, the new kid in town whose loneliness, frustration and anger mirrored those of postwar teens - and reverberate more than 40 years later. Natalie Wood (as Jim's girlfriend Judy) and Sal Mineo (in his screen debut as Jim's tag-along pal Plato) were Acadamy Award nominees for their achingly true performances. Director Nicholas Ray was also an Oscar nominee for this landmark film chosen as one of the Top-100 American Films by the American Film Institute.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM

HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM

Audio Commentary Douglas L. Rathgeb 

"James Dean Remembered" (1974 TV special)

"Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents" (featurette)

"Dennis Hopper: Memories from the Warner Lot" (featurette)

Screen Tests

Wardrobe Tests

Deleted Scenes

Optional English SDH, Spanish, Parisian French subtitles

The Maltese Falcon 4K UHD REVIEW + Unboxing / Menu

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A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon. Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why - and who'll take the fall for his pertner's murder. An all-star cast (including Sydney Greenstreet, Mary Astor, Peter Lorre and Elisha Cook Jr.) joins Bogart in this crackling mystery masterwork written for the screen (from Dashiell Hammett's novel) and directed by John Huston. This nominee for 3 Academy Awards Best Picture, Supporting Actor (Greenstreet) and Screenplay (Huston) - catapulted Bogart to stardom and launched Huston's directorial career. All with a bird and a bang!

Special Features and Technical Specs:

4K RESTORATION OF THE FILM

HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM

Audio Commentary by Eric Lax

The Maltese Falcon: One Magnificent Brid

Becoming Attractions: The Trailers of Humphrey Bogart

Make-up Tests

Broadcasts

2/8/43 Lux Radio Theater Broadcast

9/20/43 Screen Guild Theater Broadcast

7/3/46 Academy Award Theater Broadcast

Trailers

1936 "Satan Met a Lady"

1941 "The Maltese Falcon"

"Sergeant York" Trailer

"Warner Night at the Movies"

"New Highlights of the Roosevelt Churchill Parley" (newsreel)

"The Gay Parisian" (1941 WB short)

"Meet John Doughboy" (1941 WB cartoon)

Breakdowns of 1941 (WB short)

Optional English SDH, Spanish, Parisian French subtitles

M3GAN BLU RAY REVIEW + Unboxing / Menu | Megan Movie

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Gerard Johnstone's M3GAN (2022), starring Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Amie Donald, Jenna Davis, and Jen Van Epps.

M3GAN is a marvel of artificial intelligence, a life-like doll programmed to be a child's greatest companion and a parent's greatest ally. Designed by brilliant toy-company roboticist Gemma (Allison Williams, Get Out), M3GAN can listen and watch and learn as she becomes friend and teacher, playmate and protector, for the child she is bonded to. As Gemma faces pressure at work from her boss (Ronny Chieng, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings) to deliver a finished version of M3GAN, she suddenly becomes the unprepared caretaker of her newly orphaned 8-year-old niece, Cady (Violet McGraw, The Haunting of Hill House). Gemma decides to pair the M3GAN prototype with Cady in an attempt to resolve both problems—a decision that will have unimaginable consequences.

The "existentially scary" (Collider) film, presented from Universal Pictures and Blumhouse and produced by Atomic Monster in association with Divide/Conquer, has crossed $167 million at the global box office. M3GAN is produced by masters of horror—Atomic Monster's James Wan (Saw, Insidious, The Conjuring, Anabelle) and Blumhouse's Jason Blum (Halloween franchise, The Invisible Man, The Black Phone) and directed by Gerald Johnstone (Housebound). 

The M3GAN UNRAT3D VERSION delivers more distressing violence and profanity and features never-before-seen bonus content including a breakdown of the creation of M3GAN and behind-the-scenes featurettes showcasing the film's complex stunts and gory deaths.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

UNRATED AND THEATRICAL VERSIONS OF THE FILM

A New Vision of Horror – Filmmakers and cast break down how the world of M3GAN was created, including the initial idea, through production under the leadership of director Gerard Johnstone

Bringing Life to M3GAN – See how animatronics, puppets, and actor Amie Donald helped make M3GAN as real as possible

Getting Hacked – A behind-the-scenes look at how cast and crew accomplished some of the film's complex stunts and gory deaths

Optional English, Latin American Spanish and French Canadian subtitles for the main feature

Training Day 4K UHD REVIEW + Unboxing / Menu

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Antoine Fuqua's Training Day (2001), starring Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn, Tom Berenger, and Harris Yulin.

Police drama about a veteran officer who escorts a rookie on his first day with the LAPD's tough inner-city narcotics unit. "Training Day" is a blistering action drama that asks the audience to decide what is necessary, what is heroic and what crosses the line in the harrowing gray zone of fighting urban crime. Does law-abiding law enforcement come at the expense of justice and public safety? If so, do we demand safe streets at any cost?

Special Features and Technical Specs:

HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM

DOLBY ATMOS AUDIO TRACK

Audio commentary by Antoine Fuqua

Additional scenes

Alternate ending

Theatrical trailer

Training Day: Crossing the Line - Featurette

Two music videos: Nelly's "#1" and Pharoahe Monch's "Got You"

Optional English SDH, Spanish, and French subtitles for the main feature

The Fabelmans 4K UHD REVIEW + Unboxing / Menu

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Steven Spielberg's The Fabelmans (2022), starring Michelle Williams, Paul Dano, Seth Rogen, Gabriel LaBelle, and Mateo Zoryan.

Directed by Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans is written by Spielberg and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tony Kushner (Angels in America, Caroline, or Change), who has earned Oscar® nominations for his screenplays for Spielberg's Lincoln and Munich. The film is produced by three-time Oscar® nominee Kristie Macosko Krieger p.g.a. (West Side Story, The Post), Steven Spielberg p.g.a. and Tony Kushner p.g.a. The film is executive produced by Carla Raij (Maestro, co-producer West Side Story) and Josh McLaglen (Free Guy, Logan).

The film stars Gabriel LaBelle (The Predator, American Gigolo series) as 16-year-old aspiring filmmaker Sammy Fabelman; four-time Academy Award® nominee Michelle Williams (Manchester by the Sea, My Week with Marilyn) as his artistic mother, Mitzi; Paul Dano (The Batman, There Will Be Blood) as his successful, scientific father, Burt; Seth Rogen (Steve Jobs, An American Pickle) as Bennie Loewy, Burt's best friend and honorary "uncle" to the Fabelman children, and Academy Award® nominee Judd Hirsch (Uncut Gems, Ordinary People) as Mitzi's Uncle Boris. 

The ensemble cast includes Oscar® nominee Jeannie Berlin (The Heartbreak Kid, Inherent Vice) as Sammy's paternal grandmother, Hadassah Fabelman; Julia Butters (Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, 13 Hours) as Sammy's sister Reggie; Robin Bartlett (Moonstruck, Lean on Me) as Sammy's maternal grandmother Tina Schildkraut and Keeley Karsten (Hunters, Evil Lives Here) as Sammy's sister Natalie. 

The music is by five-time Academy Award® winner John Williams (Schindler's List, Jaws), the costume designer is two-time Oscar® winner Mark Bridges (The Artist, Phantom Thread) and the production designer is two-time Oscar® winner Rick Carter (Lincoln, Avatar). The Fabelmans is edited by three-time Academy Award® winner Michael Kahn ACE (Saving Private Ryan, Schindler's List) and Sarah Broshar (West Side Story, The Post). The film's director of photography is two-time Academy Award® winner Janusz Kaminski (Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan).

Special Features and Technical Specs:

DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM

DOLBY TRUEHD 7.1 TRACK

The Fablemans: A Personal Journey - Featurette

Family Dynamic - Featurette

Crafting the World of the Fablemans - Featurette

Original trailer

Optional English SDH, Spanish, and French subtitles for the main feature

Halloween Ends BLU RAY REVIEW + Unboxing / Menu 🎃

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David Gordon Green's Halloween Ends (2022), starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Andi Matichak, James Jude Courtney, Rohan Campbell, and Will Patton.

Studio description: This is Laurie Strode's last stand. 

After 45 years, the most acclaimed, revered horror franchise in film history reaches its epic, terrifying conclusion as Laurie Strode faces off for the last time against the embodiment of evil, Michael Myers, in a final confrontation unlike any captured on-screen before. Only one of them will survive. 

Icon Jamie Lee Curtis returns for the last time as Laurie Strode, horror's first "final girl" and the role that launched Curtis' career. Curtis has portrayed Laurie for more than four decades now, one of the longest actor-character pairings in cinema history. When the franchise relaunched in 2018, Halloween shattered box office records, becoming the franchise's highest-grossing chapter and set a new record for the biggest opening weekend for a horror film starring a woman. 

Four years after the events of last year's Halloween Kills, Laurie is living with her granddaughter Allyson (Andi Matichak) and is finishing writing her memoir. Michael Myers hasn't been seen since. Laurie, after allowing the specter of Michael to determine and drive her reality for decades, has decided to liberate herself from fear and rage and embrace life. But when a young man, Corey Cunningham (Rohan Campbell; The Hardy Boys, Virgin River), is accused of killing a boy he was babysitting, it ignites a cascade of violence and terror that will force Laurie to finally confront the evil she can't control, once and for all. 

Halloween Ends co-stars returning cast Will Patton as Officer Frank Hawkins, Kyle Richards as Lindsey Wallace and James Jude Courtney as The Shape. 

From the creative team that relaunched the franchise with 2018's Halloween and Halloween Kills, the film is directed by David Gordon Green from a screenplay by Paul Brad Logan (Manglehorn), Chris Bernier (The Driver series), Danny McBride and David Gordon Green, based on characters created by John Carpenter and Debra Hill. Halloween Ends is produced by Malek Akkad, Jason Blum and Bill Block. The executive producers are John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Danny McBride, David Gordon Green, Ryan Freimann, Ryan Turek, Andrew Golov, Thom Zadra and Christopher H. Warner. 

Universal Pictures, Miramax and Blumhouse present a Malek Akkad production, in association with Rough House Pictures.

Special Features and Technical Specs:

DOLBY VISION/HDR PRESENTATION OF THE FILM

DOLBY ATMOS AUDIO TRACK

Deleted and Extended Scenes

Michael Shakes Things Up

Joan's Bunny Slam

Corey Reflects Upon Himself

Ronald's Stuck at Work

Margo Gets the Boot

Joan's Recipe for Disaster

Ending HALLOWEEN - HALLOWEEN could never truly end without a decisive showdown between Laurie and Michael. Explore the creative team's approach to crafting the film's final sequence.

Final Girl - The iconic Jamie Lee Curtis discusses the legacy of Laurie Strode and what playing the character has meant to her.

No Place Like Haddonfield - Filmmakers and cast reveal some of the secret ingredients that make HALLOWEEN productions so special and their personal feelings on being a part of such a classic franchise.

Gag Reel

A Different Threat - As Haddonfield evolves to a new era, we examine how the evil within has also evolved.

The Visions of Terror - See how various production departments came together to achieve the film's unique visual style.

Twisted Deaths - An up-close look at some of the gruesome death scenes.

Feature Commentary with co-writer/director David Gordon Green, actors Andi Matichak and Rohan Campbell, co-producer/first assistant director Atilla Salih Yücer, and production assistant Hugo Garza

Optional English, Latin American Spanish and French Canadian subtitles for the main feature