Attack of the Robots (1966) Blu-ray Review: Eddie Constantine Lays His Cards on the Table
Crafted in the wake of Jean-Luc Godard's immortal Alphaville ‒ a deadpan French New Wave satire of contemporary espionage and sci-fi films ...
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Universal Horror Collection, Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: Atwill Employment, Mostly
The phrase "classic Universal horror" is most likely to get a vintage monster movie enthusiast to talk nerd shop about ...
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Suddenly, Last Summer (1959) Blu-ray Review: It Happened One Time
Hailing from that time before the Southern Gothic tale somehow transformed into hicksploitation, Suddenly, Last Summer extends from the creative ...
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All the Sins of Sodom / Vibrations (1968) Blu-ray Review: The Dawn of Erotica
If you've ever found yourself sitting in a darkened room with only the light of a saucy softcore selection flickering ...
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Phenomena (1985) Blu-ray Review: Argento at His Most Bewildering
One of Dario Argento's most eclectic contributions to the European horror movie boom of the 1980s, Phenomena is something like ...
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Kid Galahad (1962) Blu-ray Review: Elvis. Bronson. Sold.
Despite having appeared in several dozen movies, there are relatively few things you can actually see Elvis do on-screen. One ...
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The Suspicious Death of a Minor (1975) Blu-ray Review: Deep Red Something
An ordinary man of an artistic nature witnesses a brutal murder, only to meet a cast of kooky characters as ...
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The Moderns (1988) Blu-ray Review: Land of the Lost
At one point in time, filmmaker Alan Rudolph described his 1988 film The Moderns ‒ a project which took him ...
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8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997) Blu-ray Review: As Braindead as Its Name Implies
Though it may not be something I'm particularly proud of, movies from the late '90s are a source of bittersweet ...
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The Crimson Kimono (1959) Blu-ray Review: A Crash Course in Orientation
As someone whose entire adolescence coincided with the late '80s and early '90s, I was able to witness firsthand a ...
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) Blu-ray Review: Who’s Afraid?
In the late '60s, physician David Reuben started to turn repressed and under-educated Americans near and far with a breakthrough ...
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State Fair (1962) Blu-ray Review: Suppose They Held an Exhibition and Nobody Came?
Were Twilight Time's double-bill of the Reader's Digest-produced early '70s musical adaptations of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn ...
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Tom Sawyer (1973) / Huckleberry Finn (1974) Blu-ray Review: Wild Oates and Foster Kids
Years before they preyed upon lonely elderly folks with unfulfilled promises of winning phony lotteries even Ed McMahon wouldn't stamp ...
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Phantasm: 5 Movie DVD Collection Review: The NeverEnding Horror Story
Although I was routinely exposed to the few horror film franchises that existed within the world of film before movies ...
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Blood Alley / The Sea Chase (1955) Blu-rays Review: The Duke Turns to the Drink
Following in the wake of the Warner Archive Collection's 2016 debuts of John Wayne's They Were Expendable and She Wore ...
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The Mummy (2017) Blu-ray Review: The League of Rather Average Gentlemen
First off, make no mistake, Universal's latest attempt at rebranding one of their many legendary classic horror movie franchises is ...
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Running on Empty (1988) Blu-ray Review: Fam on the Run
While I may not be able to recall every single feature I have ever seen in a moviehouse (and, believe ...
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Seven Days in May (1964) Blu-ray Review: The Terror from Within
The looming threat of nuclear war. A less-than-favorable US President sporting the lowest approval on record in a heap of ...
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The Loved One (1965) Blu-ray Review: I’m Lovin’ It
Whereas motion pictures deliberately constructed to shock and offend people with even the most lenient sense of humor are hardly ...
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Effects (1980) Blu-ray Review: The First Snuff Movie to Get Snuffed Out
Following in the wake of their previous release, The Zodiac Killer, the American Genre Film Archive is back with another ...
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Where the Boys Are (1960) Blu-ray Review: Life Was a Beach Even Then
Three years before the marketing genii at American International Pictures first discovered there was gold in the banks beside the ...
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Beggars of Life (1928) Blu-ray Review: All Aboard
Although it was technically the first moving picture for Paramount to include a newly (however crude) developed invention known as ...
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The Bridge at Remagen (1969) Blu-ray Review: A Much Shorter Longest Day
From John Guillerman, the late visionary of The Blue Max, The Towering Inferno, The Day They Robbed the Bank of ...
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Hell and High Water (1954) Blu-ray Review: CinemaScope Claustrophobia
Ever the cinematic pioneer, director Samuel Fuller broke new ground ‒ by removing it completely ‒ with his 1954 Cold ...
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Killing Hasselhoff (2016) DVD Review: The Stoner Comedy of the Year
"I was gonna cap on The Hoff, but then I got high." Were they to have made it at least ...
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The Quiet American (1958) Blu-ray Review: Silent, but Deadly?
Based on bestselling author Graham Greene's 1955 novel of the same name, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's motion picture adaptation of The ...
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The Valachi Papers (1972) Blu-ray Review: Pulp Non-Fiction
While it may have debuted in its native Europe more than two months before Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather forever ...
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Erik the Conqueror (1961) Blu-ray Review: Bava Gets Epical
A few years before Mario Bava singlehandedly invented the giallo with his genre-breaking Blood and Black Lace, he created that ...
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Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow / Drunken Master (1978) Blu-ray Review: A Whole Loaf of Kung Fu
Despite their very pledge to release films from a variety of different genres to home video, every once in awhile, ...
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The Creep Behind the Camera / The Creeping Terror Blu-ray Review: Creepshots, Redefined
Sometimes, the most interesting aspect of a movie is its production history. Especially when the movie in question is something ...
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Varieté (1925) Blu-ray Review: The Spice of Life
If you were one of the many Americans to see Ewald André Dupont's Varieté (aka Variety, Jealousy) when it was ...
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The Accidental Tourist (1988) Blu-ray Review: Good Grief
Though he is probably only known to the current generation of stalwart moviegoers as one of the writers of several ...
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The Wheeler Dealers (1963) Blu-ray Review: It’d Be Funnier If It Weren’t So Damn True
Given a proper duration of passing time, just about anything that was once considered cool or comical may malform into ...
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Spencer’s Mountain (1963) Blu-ray Review: Good Morning, Johnboy
Nine years before The Waltons was broadcast across the nation's airwaves for the first time, Henry Fonda was hard at ...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry (1965) Blu-ray Review: Who Says Chivalry Is Dead?
Much like Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather would someday pave the way for jaw-droppingly violent cult classics like Massacre Mafia ...
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The Man in the Moon (1991) Blu-ray Review: Wither Mulligan and Witherspoon
At the beginning of the 1960s, a fairly new motion picture director by the name of Robert Mulligan accepted a ...
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The Stone Killer (1973) Blu-ray Review: Another Winner Starring Charles Bronson
Imagine a movie produced in the wake of both recently-beget Dirty Harry and The Godfather franchises, only constructed like a ...
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Who’ll Stop the Rain (1978) Blu-ray Review: Drugs, Not Hugs
In case you've ever found yourself quoting the fairly famous words of The Dude whenever a song by The Eagles ...
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Inferno (1953) 3D/2D Blu-ray Review: Survival of the Richest
While the title may have been used several hundred times over since then, 1953's Inferno is a rare, one-of-a-kind contribution ...
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Year of the Comet (1992) Blu-ray Review: It’s Twilight Wine Time
What can you say about a movie where the hero is named Oliver Plexico? Well, frankly, you can say an ...
Read More Ronin (1998) Blu-ray Review: Welcome Back to Cinematic Reality, Kids
At one point or another amidst whatever we may have selected (or been selected) for our respective careers, we will ...
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The Zodiac Killer (1971) Blu-ray Review: Trap Them and Thrill Them
Pop quiz, hotshot: How many films can you think of that were made to trap a serial killer? If you ...
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Blackenstein (1973) Blu-ray Review: Withstanding the Tests of Taste and Time Alike
When it comes to connecting with a cult movie enthusiast, the mere mention of the blaxploitation genre can effectively inspire ...
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Stormy Monday (1988) Blu-ray Review: Young Sean Bean Learns How to Make It Sting
Years before he found himself Leaving Las Vegas, the one man showmanship of Britain's own Mike Figgis paved the way ...
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The Intruder (1975) Blu-ray Review: A Lost Regional Horror Film Comes Home to Slay
Even after one viewing of Chris Robinson's 1975 regional horror flick The Intruder, you can roughly envision what would have ...
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Who’s Crazy? (1966) Blu-ray Review: Come for the Jazz, Stay for It!
Whereas some films withstand the test of time, others simply get buried by it. And one such example recently emerged ...
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Beyond the Darkness (Buio Omega) Blu-ray Review: She’s a Real Doll
Of all the Italian horror maestros whose various works I discovered and worshipped as a teenager in the analog era, ...
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36 Hours (1964) Blu-ray Review: Captivating Wartime Espionage
Imagine waking up one day, only to discover five years have passed and your memory isn't what it used to ...
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Terror in a Texas Town (1958) Blu-ray Review: The Dark Side of the West
Though he mostly helmed B-grade crime dramas, Saturday matinee western oaters, and early entries in what would eventually become a ...
Read More The Rounders (1965) Blu-ray Review: Glenn Ford. Henry Fonda. ‘Nuff Said.
The Rounders is the sort of film that made a bigger impression on the public than anyone had anticipated. Originally ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Riches, Fortunes, Millions, and Women
Luck. Timing. Fate. Coincidence. Good or bad, they're all on display here in this quartet of catalog classics now available ...
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S.O.B. (1981) Blu-ray Review: Julie Andrews’ Most Revealing Role
For a film director, there surely can be no greater blow to the ego than to have your work re-edited ...
Read More Doberman Cop (1977) Blu-ray Review: Sonny Chiba Does It Doggy Style
An unconventional policeman from the boonies travels to the big city to help out on a case, complete with a ...
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Wolf Guy (1975) Blu-ray Review: Lycanthropy, Grindhouse Style
Much like vampirism, the subject of lycanthropy is generally reserved for horror films. Or perhaps a comedy horror film. There ...
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Madhouse (1981) Blu-ray Review: A Film Where No One is Fully Committed
Perhaps one of the most alluring features to be observed within the boundaries of Italian exploitation movies was the industry's ...
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Brain Damage (1988) Blu-ray Review: The Greatest Drug Parable Never Aired
While it has been something of a long time since he brought us a new feature film, it's still safe ...
Read More Spotlight on a Murderer (1961) Blu-ray Review: Illuminating French Proto-Slasher
To the trained eye of an advanced mystery movie sleuth, spotting the writing team of Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Go Big, but Don’t Go Home!
Even if you're just now joining us here on Planet Earth, there's a fair chance you've already heard someone utter ...
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The Jacques Rivette Collection Blu-ray Review: New Wave, Old Hat
Sooner or later in life, everyone reaches a point where personal obsessions and rather weird views seem to overtake either ...
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World Without End (1956) Blu-ray Review: Make Dystopia Great Again
While the notion of living in a world ravaged by nuclear war may be a regular staple in motion pictures ...
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From Hell It Came (1957) Blu-ray Review: This Is More Like “Heaven-Sent”
What can you say about a monster movie featuring a walking, stalking, murderous tree on a wooden rampage? In the ...
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Inquisition (1976) Blu-ray Review: “Let’s Face It, You Can’t Torquemada Anything!”
As a small child, Jacinto Molina became heavily captivated and inspired by the classic Universal horror movies of the '30s ...
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The Blood of Fu Manchu / The Castle of Fu Manchu Blu-ray Review: Toppling Towers
Even though nearly everyone involved in the creation of Harry Alan Towers' legendary film series have since passed on, the ...
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Fight for Your Lady (1937) DVD Review: The Ultimate Showdown of Goofy Faces
If the Academy ever opted to include a category for the goofiest faces made on film, RKO's 1937 production of ...
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Cops vs. Thugs (1975) Blu-ray Review: Kon’nichiwa, Dirty Harry-san!
A full quarter of a century before he would stun filmgoers around the world with Battle Royale in 2000, the ...
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The Boy Friend (1971) Blu-ray Review: Was This the Precursor to “The Apple”?
While musicals aren't my preferred form of motion picture entertainment, I did, in fact, see many a song-and-dance flick during ...
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Finian’s Rainbow (1968) Blu-ray Review: Dance with the Times
As the end of the 1960s rolled around, bringing with them the many changes some people are still having a ...
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Demon Seed (1977) Blu-ray Review: Artificial Intelligence Meets Artificial Insemination
Released just a few months before Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind would become science fiction movies ...
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Voodoo Black Exorcist (1974) Blu-ray Review: The Epitome of So Bad, It’s Good
Imagine if an amateur Spanish filmmaker, light years away from honing in on the trade he decided to briefly pick ...
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A Woman’s Face (1941) / Flamingo Road (1949) DVDs Review: The Dark Side of Joan
While previously released to DVD by Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, a number of Joan Crawford classics had fallen into that ...
Read More The Sheik (1921) / The Son of the Sheik (1926) Blu-ray Review: Happy Valentino’s Day
One of the civilized world's first heartthrobs and cultural icons returns in two of his most famous works, now available ...
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The Yakuza (1974) Blu-ray Review: That Time Robert Mitchum Went to Japan
What can you say about a Japanese-American co-production from the director of Three Days of the Condor as written by ...
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Bells Are Ringing (1960) Blu-ray Review: You Found Me Just in Time
The history of the American musical is indeed a fascinating one, particularly once the genre was introduced to the ever-changing ...
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The Climber (1975) Blu-ray Review: The Stuff Scarfaces Are Made Of
Fresh from appearing in several collaborations for Paul Morrissey and the legendary Andy Warhol ‒ a union which culminated with ...
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Kiss of Death (1947) / Edge of Eternity (1959) Blu-rays Review: Homicidal Tendencies
Kiss of Death (1947)One of the most quintessential titles to ever emerge from the annals of film noir, Henry Hathaway's ...
Read More Ludwig (1973) Blu-ray Review: The Historical Epic Wherein Nothing Really Happens
I would only be slightly remiss were I to openly admit history was never my strongest subject in school. Truth ...
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L’assassino (The Assassin) Blu-ray Review: The Lady-Killer of Rome Returns
The first feature film from Property Is No Longer a Theft director Elio Petri, The Assassin (L'assassino) is an interesting, ...
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The Dismembered (1962) Blu-ray Review: I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia
Picture, if you can, what might have happened had a very bored Charles Addams sat down for a few hours ...
Read More The Girl and the General (1967) DVD Review: All Give Some, None Give All
From a screenwriting perspective, Pasquale Festa Campanile was a fairly active fellow. Beginning in the 1950s, Campanile would go on ...
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Interiors (1978) / Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979) Blu-rays Review: Suicidal Tendencies
Interiors (1978)As anyone who has ever straddled a bicycle, slipped into something made out of lamé, or walked into a ...
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The Valley of Gwangi / When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth Blu-rays Review: More Animated than Ever
Decades before civilized man would figure out new and inventive ways to suck the life out of that good ol' ...
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Vitaphone Varieties, Volume Three: 1928-1929 DVD Review: Utterly Amazing
After nearly five years since the last installment in the intermittent series, the Warner Archive Collection has assembled another amazing ...
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Wait Until Dark (1967) / Love in the Afternoon (1957) Blu-rays Review: An Audrey Two-fer
In case you missed it, 2017 is already a great year for Audrey Hepburn fans. Twilight Time recently unveiled a ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Odd Men Out (and the Women Who Drive Them)
At one point or another, every one of us falls under the jurisdiction of being that which they once called ...
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The Other Hell (1981) / Dark Waters (1994) Blu-rays Review: Breaking Bad Habits
The various subgenres of exploitation filmmaking are both wild and varied, ranging from bizarre tales featuring Bruce Lee wannabes to ...
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Millionaires in Prison (1940) DVD Review: The Club Fed of the ’40s
Despite the slightly uplifting title, RKO's Millionaires in Prison is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect to happen today ...
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Blu-rays Review: Twilight Time Goes Around the World (and Then Some)
Although statistics and insurance companies tend to inform us most accidents occur within only a few miles of our own ...
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A Girl in Every Port (1952) DVD Review: Because Chico Needed the Money
The wisdom and wit of Groucho Marx may be as timeless as comedy itself, but it can be a little ...
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Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968) Blu-ray Review: Can You Dig It?
While Sergio Leone's legendary pairings with Clint Eastwood may have injected fresh blood into the waning genre of the cinematic ...
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Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973) Blu-ray Review: Undeniably Italian
The final entry of a surrealistic motion picture trio ‒ known to fans as the "Trilogy of Neurosis" ‒ Elio ...
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Battleground (1949) Blu-ray Review: War is Hell, but This Is Far from That
Initially advertised to the public as "The First Great Picture of the Second World War!", William A. Wellman's 1949 epic ...
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Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) Blu-ray Review: A Great Day for Movie Lovers
A stranger arrives in a small town, only to discover he isn't wanted. While such a premise may have been ...
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The Vampire Bat (1933) Blu-ray Review: Restored and Ready to Leave Its Mark
Sometimes, being in the right place at the right time is all it takes. And when it comes to fairly ...
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Cathy’s Curse (1977) Blu-ray Review: Still Cursed and Still Curse-Worthy
Apparently, nary a nation capable of manufacturing a motion picture during the 1970s was immune to the phenomenal success of ...
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Wax Mask (1997) Blu-ray Review: The Steampunk Phantom Terminator of the Wax Museum
Within the annals of Italian horror films, there are perhaps no two better-known names than those of Lucio Fulci and ...
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Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood Blu-ray Review: Save Yourself, Dawg
When is a dog movie strictly for the dogs? When it's Won Ton Ton, the Dog Who Saved Hollywood, that's ...
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Return of Kung Fu Trailers of Fury Blu-ray Review: Conceived in Hell, Made in Hong Kong
'Following on the high-kicking heels of last year's Kung Fu Trailers of Fury release, the folks at Severin Films have ...
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Vote for Pedro
There are few films which can combine failed romances, hysteria, spiked gazpacho, the fine art of voiceover acting, and get ...
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September Storm (1960) Blu-ray 3D Review: The Stars That Didn’t Steal the Night Away
While perhaps best known for writing classic crime novels such as Little Caesar and The Asphalt Jungle ‒ to say ...
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Drive-In Massacre (1976) Blu-ray Review: Well Worth the Price of Admission
Had your average drive-in movie theater screen been constructed with a curtain, then Stu Segall's Drive-In Massacre would have definitely ...
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Moscow on the Hudson (1984) Blu-ray Review: Relocation, Relocation, Relocation!
Immigration. Russians. No, it has nothing to do with current (controversial) topics, kids ‒ rather, said subjects are at the ...
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Mondo Bastardo: Odds and Ends from the International World of Exploitation
While the nations of the world may not agree on many points, at least our respective histories of filmmaking have ...
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Panther Girl of the Kongo Blu-ray Review: The Claw Monsters Strike Back
After wowing Saturday Matinee Serial lovers everywhere in 2015 with a casual release of the 1950 guilty pleasure The Invisible ...
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Solace (2015) Blu-ray Review: Quantum of Bollocks
From its opening frame, Solace leaves one with an immediate impression similar to what you might experience were you to ...
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It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) Blu-ray Review: Gene Kelly’s Blues
Even if you're the type of person who generally loathes (or at least has trouble sitting through) musicals, you might ...
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The Goodbye Girl (1977) Blu-ray Review: Back When Richard Dreyfuss Was Sexy
If nothing else, Neil Simon's award-winning 1977 precursor to the contemporary rom-com, The Goodbye Girl is of a certain cinematically ...
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Dark Passage / On Dangerous Ground Blu-ray Reviews: Bogie. Bacall. Lupino. Ryan. Sold.
While history's greatest philosophers wise men may have brought forth many a pertinent question as to the purpose and situation ...
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Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) Blu-ray Review: Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.
Sixteen years after Elizabeth Taylor transcended from child actress into a full-fledged "adult" in Father of the Bride ‒ wherein, ...
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Father of the Bride (1950) Blu-ray Review: RSVP to the WAC BD ASAP
Let's take a brief gander at marriage, folks. While many of us are keen to issue a timeless, fool proof ...
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The Survivor (1981) Blu-ray Review: I Guess Fate Really Is the Hunter
While he is perhaps best known to cult horror and sci-fi audiences today as the guy who was in Michelangelo ...
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Alfred the Great (1969) DVD Review: Greater Things Have Happened
Sprawling epics were all the rage in the 1950s, with fantastical biblical yarns and timeless tales of undefeatable conquerors popping ...
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When a Feller Needs a Friend (1932) DVD Review: How About a Break Instead?
While I am always eager to point out how wretched contemporary filmmaking seems to have become, I can never dismiss ...
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The Black Dragon’s Revenge (1975) Blu-ray Review: Bruce Lee Van Clief
A brief disclaimer beginning with "The names and characters in this film, based upon the Death of Bruce Lee, are ...
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The Internecine Project (1974) Blu-ray Review: Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell… Die Anyway
Given the right amount of time, the natural progress of corruption can make even the lowliest tale of espionage and ...
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Binge-Worthy Collections from the Warner Archive
In this time where people will often sit and binge-watch an entire television series, half of the population gleefully engages ...
Read More Inferno (2016) Blu-ray Review: Well, It Certainly Is Hellish…
If there's one grouping author Dan Brown never imagined he would be lumped into, it's that of the works by ...
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Trailer Trauma 3: 80s Horror-Thon Blu-ray Review: The Ultimate Party Mix
Before the days of easily comprised playlists, which can be effortlessly constructed via an MP3 player synced up to something ...
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Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966) Blu-ray Review: Please Hang Up and Try Again
If there's one thing film historians and aficionados alike can agree on, it's that you can't make a good movie ...
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Musicals and the Musically Inclined from the Warner Archive
Romantic comedies may have been a dime a dozen back in the '50s, but ‒ as any good numismatist knows ...
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Who? (aka Robo Man, 1974) Blu-ray Review: Wait, What?
Apart from farfetched clones and spoofs of the James Bond films, or television shows ranging from animation to puppets to ...
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Moby Dick (1956) Blu-ray Review: A Newly Restored Whale of a Tale
Obsession seems to abound every aspect of Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, from its initial published parable right down to its most ...
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Twilight Time Presents: A Quartet of Quirky Killers
As it has been stated time and time again, the only two things we can be certain of in life ...
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Moby Dick (1930) DVD Review: The Version You Never Thought Possible
Anyone who has seen a single Hollywood adaptation of a classic (or even contemporary) work of literature knows full well ...
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The Search for Weng Weng DVD Review: The Height of the World’s Shortest Star
For anyone who has only experienced the mainstream world of cinema, venturing into the output of the Filipino film industry ...
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Strange and Unusual Christmas Films DVD Review: I Am in Hell, Help Me
A longstanding idiom states "'Tis better to give than to receive" ‒ and that theory definitely holds true with Alpha ...
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Time After Time (1979) Blu-ray Review: And Now for Something Completely Different
Imagine, if you will, Jack the Ripper ‒ having just committed his final murder in Victorian London ‒ hopping into ...
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Body Snatchers (1993) Blu-ray Review: Uneven, But Not Unnecessary
Imagine a science fiction parable ‒ one for Communism, paranoia, conformity, or whatever ‒ where, should you fall asleep, you ...
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Michael Collins / Man in the Wilderness Blu-rays Review: Super Heroes
Some things simply go well together, hands down. Things like chocolate and peanut butter, Burt and Loni, and ‒ of ...
Read More C.H.U.D. (1984) Blu-ray Review: The A-List B-Grade Latchkey Monster Flick
Like many of the "classic" horror flicks I tend to review, C.H.U.D. first crawled its way out of the manhole ...
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They Were Expendable / She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Blu-rays Review: The WAC Duke
While both names carry around their own amount of (significant) weight, it's almost hard to imagine a John Ford movie ...
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Blindman (1971) DVD Review: Don’t Let This One Out of Your Sight
It was only 1971, but a lot had changed in the entertainment world since the '60s ended. First, and perhaps ...
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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze Blu-ray Review: A Hero? Yes. Super? Hell, No.
Lately, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has been threatening all of mankind by announcing he is slated to star in one ...
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Universal Studios Home Entertainment Holiday Gift Guide 2016
It's that time of the year once again, videophiles. And with all of the crazy mixed-up offerings 2016 has been ...
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Twilight Time Presents: The Southern Pacific Training Montage
Generally, my attempts at finding a common link between Twilight Time's monthly releases leaves me a lot of room to ...
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Vamp (1986) Blu-ray Review: From Dusk Till… Hey, Wait a Minute!
While the cinematic equilibrium of horror and comedy had been teeter-totting off and on for many years prior, it really ...
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The Initiation (1984) Blu-ray Review: Old School’s Out Forever
If there was one lesson to be learned from the entire run of the slasher film subgenre, it is that ...
Read More Twilight Time Presents: Sense and Sensitivities
Like certain recent events in world history have proved, the elements of both sense and sensitivity are not always in ...
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Twilight Time Presents: All for the Glory of Love
It's easy to get carried away sometimes, particularly when the target of your obsession is something (or someone) you love. ...
Read More The Satanist (1968) / Sisters in Leather (1969) Blu-ray Review: Lost and Bound
Like absent remote controls and missing keys, lost films also have a tendency to pop up once in a blue ...
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I Drink Your Blood (1970) Blu-ray Review: Lap It Up, You Mad Dogs!
Like many cult/horror/exploitation movie enthusiasts who grew up in the '90s, I had to rely on mail-order companies to feed ...
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The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast Box Set Review: Class-Ick
There will never be another Herschell Gordon Lewis in this world, ladies and gentlemen. And though some snobbier film aficionados ...
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Men & Chicken Blu-ray Review: Hard-Boiled Danish
It's been a considerable while since I last dived into a Danish picture, and my immediate thought as soon as ...
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Crime or Climb: Tails of Scaling and Failing from the Warner Archive
It is oft said one must reach the top in order to succeed, and this trio of minor motion pictures ...
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Edward G. Robinson Breaks Out of the Warner Archive Collection!
Compared to the infinite number of indistinguishable pretty boys popping up in one forgettable flick after another today, there could ...
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From Horrifying to Horrible: Back in Print from the Warner Archive
While the Warner Archive mostly brings us new and previously unreleased goodies to DVD, they also bring us the odd ...
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Marine Raiders / In Our Time (1944) DVDs Review: WWII WAC
Every time the Warner Archive Collection unearths another wartime propaganda movie, I have to wonder if Hollywood didn't make an ...
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Twilight Time Presents: Moral Outcasts, Musicals, and Hey, Is That Charles Bronson?
The subject of outcasts seem to be the recurring thread with this wave of Twilight Time Blu-ray releases, as evidenced ...
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The Thing (1982) / Tenebrae / Basket Case 2 & 3 on Blu-ray: Horror, Redefined
While none of the titles covered in this article are necessarily new to the world of home video by any ...
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Burial Ground (1981) Blu-ray Review: Still Smelling of Death After All These Years
There really isn't a movie like Burial Ground. My first encounter with this notorious Italian gut-muncher from 1981 probably occurred ...
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Stablemates / Lord Jeff DVDs Review: A Double Dose of Rooney
The late Mickey Rooney made a sizable impact on classic cinema, leaving behind a list of motion picture and television ...
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Adventure in Baltimore DVD Review: Pastor Robert Young Hasn’t Got a Prayer
Exactly one year ago today, America's quintessential child star, Shirley Temple departed from this world - leaving behind an iconic ...
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White Comanche DVD Review: 40% Cotton, 230% Shatner
Though many roads were constructed during the European western era of the '60s, very few paths were created that lead ...
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The RKO Brown and Carney Comedy Collection DVD Review: The Lonely Quartet of a Forgotten Duo
It is often stated that history is written by the victors. This expression (usually attributed to Winston Churchill, although without ...
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Dracula Untold Blu-ray Review: Unsurprising and Unnecessary, but Unexpectedly Entertaining
Since that fateful day back in the late 1890s when Bram Stoker first introduced the world to Count Dracula, the ...
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Ratboy (1986) DVD Review: Locke and Load
After Clint Eastwood's career skyrocketed in the late '60s following the American release of Sergio Leone's Dollars trilogy, the entire ...
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Cracked (2013) DVD Review: “What Lies Beneath” an Incomplete Season Set?
Between having lived in a small redneck/prison/crackhead town year-round, walked on Hollywood Boulevard during the summertime when tourist season is ...
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Panic Button (1964) DVD Review: When Mannix Met Mansfield
Considering how many times the Italian film industry has shamelessly ripped off American productions, I suppose it's only fitting (ironic, ...
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A Kiss Before Dying (1956) DVD Review: Just Skip the Kiss and Kill Me Already
Some things simply look better on paper. Like that time I was a kid when my friend and I worked ...
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My Old Lady Blu-ray Review: or, Secrets & Lies: The Previous Generations
In this great big muddled world of ours, we seem to be divided into large groups of individuals. On the ...
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The Bride Wore Black (1968) Blu-ray Review: The Roots of ’70s Grindhouse Cinema
While it is frequently reiterated that we are unable to take it with us, it should be noted that we ...
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Breaking Away (1979) Blu-ray Review: How Kids Grew Up Before the Internet
Following the near collapse of the American film industry somewhere between the end of the '60s and the beginning of ...
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The Serpent’s Egg DVD Review: The Non-Bergman Bergman Film
I will be the first to admit that my personal experience with the work of Ingmar Bergman is decidedly limited. ...
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The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power Blu-ray Review: “The Search for More Money”
A few years ago, I had the misfortune of seeing the last movie in Universal's Scorpion King legacy (which was ...
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The Purple Rose of Cairo Blu-ray Review: When Worlds Collide
As a reasonably mature adult male who has been involved in an unending war with depression and mood swings since ...
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Left Behind (2014) Blu-ray Review: Ungodly in Every Sense of the Word
Reaching out to a target audience with a speciality motion picture is never an easy task, particularly when said target ...
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‘Rebel, Rebel’: Six Tales of Defiance from Twilight Time
Since the dawn of mankind itself, there have been notable examples of individuals willing to break any rules that have ...
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Holiday in Spain Blu-ray Review: Scent of a Mystery Woman
Three-dimensional television sets with Ultra High-Definition 4K resolution. A kajllion-and-one useless apps for our increasingly useless smartphones. A vast array ...
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Tusk (2014) DVD Review: A Black Comedy with Humor So Dark You Can’t See It
There was once a point in history where many of us, myself included, felt Kevin Smith had potential. After hopping ...
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Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 8 DVD Review: Four Films That Broke the Code
Once more, the guys and gals at the Warner Archive - along with the folks at the Turner Entertainment Corp. ...
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A Newly Widened Screen: Two Steve Martins and a Black Scorpion
As some of you may recall, there was once a time when television sets were great big, bulky, boxy contraptions ...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Blu-ray Review: Shades of Gray
While it certainly wasn't the first motion picture adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic, MGM's 1945 version of The Picture ...
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When the Wind Blows (1986) Blu-ray Review: Wild Is the Wind
Not many people may remember this, but there was a lot of nuclear war going back in the '80s. Big ...
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The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) Blu-ray Review: Ex-Swordsman Blues
It's always interesting to see the similarities between samurai films and the western. Both genres have served to inspire filmmakers ...
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Flaming Star Blu-ray Review: Hunka Hunka Burning Death
It wasn't until earlier this year, when Twilight Time released the happy, family-friendly flick Follow That Dream to Blu-ray, that ...
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Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Collection, Vol. 1 & 2 DVDs Review: What, No Sammy Petrillo?
While they were once as easy to find as a pregnant woman in a maternity ward, the world of comedy ...
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Judgment at Nuremberg Blu-ray Review: Picking Up the Pieces
We've all heard the saying "War is Hell" a million times over. Hell, there are probably over a million films ...
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