Into the Blu

I know there are some of you out there that hate Billy Joel, well, his music anyway. In fact, a very good long time friend of mine does and I just don’t get it. I have been a fan of Billy Joel’s music since I first stumbled across him, literally, back in April 1972. I was a freshman in high school at the time and a budding audiophile who had just discovered the sonic splendor of music on FM radio. I was tuning up the dial and found myself on WMMR in Philadelphia who was about to broadcast a new artist named Billy Joel, who was performing songs from his new album, Cold Spring Harbor, about to hit record stores. Continue Reading

 The Criterion Collection is written as “gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions of the highest technical quality…”  Wages of Fear is one of the first movies to join the Criterion Collection and comes to us from acclaimed suspense director Henri Georges Clouzot.  The film arrived in movie theaters in 1953 in France and didn’t hit the U.S. until two years later.  How does this alleged classic fair on Blu-ray?  Let’s find out… Continue Reading