Category: Home Viewing with Peter

Sony has finally released Nancy Meyers’ 2003 film, Something’s Gotta Give, on Blu-ray. The prolific writer of 1980s comedies like Private Benjamin and Baby Boom, made her directorial debut with the 1998 remake of The Parent Trap for which she also wrote the screenplay. The next film which she both wrote and directed was Something’s…

Conincidentally, from old movies on Blu-ray to current miniseries on Netflix, most of what I watched this past week has involved children. Newly released from Kino Lorber, 1969’s House of Cards, directed by John Guillermin (The Towering Inferno), is a fast-paced thriller about the kidnapping of an 8-year-old boy from a novel by Stanley Ellin…

Criterion has released a 4K UHD Blu-ray of Ernst Lubitsch’s 1932 film, Trouble in Paradise. The vintage film has never looked better than in this New 4K digital restoration with uncompressed monaural soundtrack restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive and The Film Foundation with funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation. The disc…

Kino Lorber has just released a 4K UHD upgrade of Richard Attenborough’s 1977 film, A A Bridge Too Far. A Bridge Too Far received 8 BAFTA nominations including Best Film and won 4. It did not have anywhere that kind of success with U.S. awards bodies, and in fact received no Oscar nominations at all.…

Listed among the top ten independent films of 2025 by the National Board of Review, Max Walker-Silverman’s Rebuilding has been released on Blu-ray by Bleeker Street. The film is set in a FEMA camp set up in the wake of the San Luis Valley wildfires of 2018. The valley runs through Colorado and New Mexico.…

Nominated for 2 Oscars for Best International Feature and Best Original Screenplay, Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident is now streaming on HBO Max. The 2025 Cannes Film Festival winner starts out intriguingly with a well-dressed man and his pregnant wife driving home in the Iranian countryside at night with their young daughter when…

It’s always interesting to compare this year’s Oscar winners with those of previous years. In that spirit, let’s look at the 1965 Oscars and see how the 98th Academy Awards compares to the 38th. This Oscar winner for Best Film of 2025 was an anti-fascist comedy-drama. The winner for Best Picture of 1965 was an…

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The Oscars are coming this Sunday. All ten films nominated for Best Picture are available for viewing at home as are the four films nominated for acting awards that are not nominated for Best Picture and all but one of the films nominated for Best International Feature. Here’s where you can find them: Frankenstein and…

Not only have home video releases slowed down, but the processing plants that print DVDs and Blu-rays have also slowed down or gone out of business. That’s one of the reasons for the slowdown of Warner Archive releases. Half of their January releases were delayed until early February and only a measly three Blu-ray upgrades…

Song Sung Blue is a refreshing musical biography that brings back memories of such 1950s films as 1952’s With a Song in My Heart with Susan Hayward as Jane Froman, 1953’s So This Is Love with Kathryn Grayson as Grace Moore, 1955’s triumvirate of Love Me or Leave Me with Doris Day as Ruth Etting,…

The advertising catchphrase for Marty Supreme is that it is about a young man with a dream no one respects, who goes to hell and back in pursuit of greatness Now on VOD (Video on Demand), the year’s most heavily hyped film was in production during last year’s Oscar race when its star, Timothée Chalamet…

Two of this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Picture have been newly released on Video on Demand (VOD), the successor to Pay-Per-View for theatrical releases prior to streaming and/or home video. Chloé Zhao’s Hamnet from Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel about the courtship and early marriage of Agnes and William Shakespeare and their grief over the…

Warner Archive has released a Blu-ray upgrade of Rex Ingram’s 1921 silent masterpiece, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse from the 1916 novel by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez The four horsemen (War, Conquest, Famine and Death) wreak havoc on the family of Julio Madariaga, a Spanish born adventurer who amassed a fortune in the New World…

The weather outside is frightful but the availability of new film releases for your 4K and Blu-ray collection is delightful. Newly released are 2025’s Wicked: For Good, One Battle After Another, Bugonia, Roofman, and Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, on 4K and Blu-ray; mystery classics Death on the Nile,Evil Under the SunThe Mirror Crack’d, and…