“True Lies” (1994) finally comes to 4K/Blu-Ray, but “it’s nothing that you’d call rock hard”…

******SPY SPOILERS!****** I’ve already taken a look at “True Lies” (and its short-lived 2023 Paramount+ reboot series) in a prior column, so I’m going to begin by reposting my earlier synopsis of the story, along with notes I made about the film then (and which I stand by now).  However, this column is not going…

CBS/Paramount+’s “True Lies” reboot fails to reach critical mass…

*****TRUE SPOILERS!***** “La Totale!” (1991) Written by Simon Michaël, Didier Kaminka and director Claude Zidi, “La Totale!” was a French action-comedy involving a seemingly dull telecommunications employee, named François Voisin (Thierry Lhermitte) who misses a surprise 40th birthday party from his bored wife Hélène (Miou-Miou), while planting a surveillance device during a dangerous mission. François,…