What Blu-Ray did you watch last night?

[Graham Ritchie]

Got our grandson staying with us for a couple of days during the school holidays at the moment, tonight he asked what is the movie we are going to watch tonight? Well it was this one brilliant script. Blu-ray picture and sound are excellent, projected using the Epson.

[Ed Gordon]

Jumping back to Buster Keaton the three blu-ray disc is certainly very good, however my old DVD from Madman of "The General" for some reason seems a bit better when projected through the Epson.

Watched "The Dish" the other night followed by an old DVD of "Loch Ness"

Coincidentally, a Super 8 silent version of The General (Niles film, 4 reels) showed up on Ebay today for $60. https://www.ebay.com/itm/256489593090

[Graham Ritchie]

Jumping back to Buster Keaton the three blu-ray disc is certainly very good, however my old DVD from Madman of "The General" for some reason seems a bit better when projected through the Epson.

Watched "The Dish" the other night followed by an old DVD of "Loch Ness"

[Alan Paterson]

I watched the Network Blu-ray of 'Kidnapped' last night. This was the 1971 version starring Michael Caine and a great supporting cast including Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins, Donald Pleasence, Gordon Jackson, Lawrence Douglas and Vivien Heilbron. I recall seeing some of the filming being done back in the day, up near Stirling Castle. The area still had cobbled streets back then. They used other local places as locations in the film. Stirling Castle doubled for Edinburgh castle and some houses in the area had to have their TV aerials removed for some wide shots. Culross was used as the area for David Balfour's lodgings. The film itself is entertaining, based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel of the same name. The transfer is a decent one, with enough film grain to remind you of the source material and there is the great end title song 'For All My Days' sung by Mary Hopkin.

[Lee Mannering]

Projecting 16mm tonight to the British Legion for the 80th Anniversay of Dunkirk.
BUT.
Managed to squeeze in ALIENS 4K UHD today.
= Stunning a new delivery. Pin sharp.
Look forward to watching it properly later on.

[Brian Fretwell]

Indeed, there are some documentaries about him including one about his career that includes the story of that move. I feel it was a very good purchase.

[Ed Gordon]

Buster Keaton "Sherlock Jnr" Eirika, Masters of Cinema restored version from the three film set (Sherlock, Steamboat Bill Jnr and The General) that I bought S/H for £15 on Friday.

Great find Brian. I looked up the set and it has been discontinued (not just "out of stock"). Steamboat Bill is not very good overall, but the last 15 minutes has the classic stunts by Keaton as the town is blown apart by the storm. These stunts will never be filmed again in this age of CGI. As I recall, this was his last film before he went to MGM, where he was unable to re-create the magic of those older films.

[Brian Fretwell]

Buster Keaton "Sherlock Jnr" Eirika, Masters of Cinema restored version from the three film set (Sherlock, Steamboat Bill Jnr and The General) that I bought S/H for £15 on Friday.

[Osi Osgood]

I always liked the first one best, as it was basically an unexpected psycho mommy going, well, psycho, and it did have that wonderful moment when Jason jumps out of the water to attack the nice innocent lass that has escaped the wrath if Jason. The rest? Let's see how many ways Jason can slice and dice his victims ?!

[Lincoln Thorn]

It sure did! He spent most of it in a Speedo! haha.

[Osi Osgood]

Lincoln, didn't the first Friday the 13th, star a young Kevin Bacon as one of the horny teens, soon to be slashed?

[Ken Finch]

Just started watching the first episode of “The River Kings” This was an Australian serial which was also broadcast on U K tv some years ago. Recently managed to find a dvd of it on Amazon. One of my cousins emigrated to Australia and lived at Waikerie on the Murray River, and her son had a small part in it as An “extra” playing football on the bank by the river boat with some other boys.

[Lincoln Thorn]

I’ve been rewatching through the old Friday the 13th movie series as of late for some fun popcorn fun since it’s warming up around here again! Last night was F13 - Part 2, which I think is Jason at his scariest with the sack on his head.

[Brian Fretwell]

The Doctor Who season 15 story "The Invasion of Time" an SD upscale also has updated special effects as an option. It looks much more like the picture quality I saw once on a broadcast monitor of a live camera feed than the DVD did. Good for a 44 year-old programme! Pity one camera had a slight fault which is more obvious on this.

[Ed Gordon]

We just bought the blu-ray release of the complete "Babylon 5", a TV series from the mid 1990's....

Another Bluray set you might enjoy is The Expanse (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/). It takes about 2 episodes to grab your interest, and then you are addicted.