Abandon Ship!: A Survival Thriller That Never Quite Takes Off (4K)
The Film: As we've seen over the last several decades of cinema, single-location films are one of the hardest feats to pull off in regards to having strong enough characters & engaging enough writing to keep the story compelling enough for its entire duration. For some films, it can get even more complicated, especially when you have a plethora of characters in that one location, which brings us to Richard Sale's somewhat obscure survival picture "Abandon Ship!" (aka "Seven D
Ben-Hur: William Wyler's Astonishing Epic Makes Its Long-Awaited 4K Debut (4K)
The Film: Throughout cinematic history, there have been few monumental epics that have achieved the standing of William Wyler's 1959 masterpiece "Ben-Hur." To this day, its sheer size & scope are still marveled at by all who see it, putting to shame films that now have to cheat with CGI to achieve the same scale. At the time of its making, if you wanted to see significant portions of Rome, it had to be built. If you needed to have a scene featuring thousands of people, you ha