Luigi Bastardo

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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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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

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In Hollywood, it doesn't take long to become typecast. Take, for example, the early career of one Stuart Whitman. Following ...
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As they had done in the latter part of 2014 with several titles that truly deserved it, the folks at ...
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During a time when five crazy Britons and one expatriate American were producing bizarre sketch comedy for the BBC, two ...
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Imitation may be the sincerest form of flattery - it's certainly the least-creative - but there are relatively few individuals ...
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This may sound pretty odd coming from an individual such as myself, but z-grade exploitation filmmaker Anthony Cardoza is quite ...
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As I had iterated in my earlier review of The Scorpio Letters, the latter half of the '60s were big ...
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Sequels have always been a tough market. Even as far back as the classic Universal Monster movies, filmmakers were struggling ...
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The list of female mystery writers in history isn't a terribly long one. Even today, the only mysteries set in ...
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Try and try as we may, that which we wish to do in the world is often limited by what ...
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In Great Britain, they were banned from being made available to the public outright. In the United States of America, ...
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Since the mid 1990s, American television airwaves (where applicable) have been periodically tuning audiences into two tremendously popular forms of ...
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Quite often, all it takes in order to get the writing ball rolling is an idea. Just one single silly ...
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Every now and then, something or someone comes along that simply surpasses all of your expectations and prompts you to ...
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In addition to re-releasing two previously sold out titles to Blu-ray in brand new 4K transfers, Twilight Time has also ...
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It's little more than a footnote to today's generation, who has an entire world of information at their fingertips, but ...
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Primarily, there are two types of murder mysteries. The first and foremost variety is that of the whodunit, wherein audiences ...
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With the exception of those sick individuals who mimic the patterns of serial killers, most copycats can be incredibly amusing. ...
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Throughout both the cinematic and literary realms of the western, a common thread/title tends to appear: "the Last of the ...
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Anyone not familiar with the family name of Band within the halls of the B movie archives probably shouldn't be ...
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Previously at Cinema Sentries, I had touched upon the subject of people bad trips, courtesy of two recent Blu-ray releases ...
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With every war that breaks out on Earth, whether it be global or regional, a high amount of controversy emerges ...
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Though it has never been "officially" classified in the annals of genre-specific filmdom, British cinema inducted a New Wave of ...
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Everyone has that proverbial journey in their lifetime that can only later be described as a bad trip. My second ...
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Television shows notwithstanding, the bulk of British filmmaking - that is to say, actual feature length films made especially for ...
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Sometimes, the whole "forgive and forget" thing just doesn't cut it. One of the more novel aspects of the seven-kajillion ...
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During the the last half of the '90s, I devoted the bulk of my meager existence to the video store ...
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The year 1959. It was a time of luscious, extravagant widescreen productions - fueled by luscious, extravagant budgets beget by ...
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In this day and age, it seems highly laughable that the very sort of individuals we pay to openly laugh ...
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Just when you thought you had seen just about everything Humphrey Bogart ever made, along comes the Warner Archive Collection ...
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Along with the various adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the most celebrated - as well as imitated - fictional sleuth of ...
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To Sir, With Love (1967) Blu-ray Review: Twilight Time Goes to School

By today's standards, the classic movie motif of a determined teacher reaching a group of tough, underprivileged kids in an ...
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Having essentially gone through the growing up part of my wasted youth engaging in the fine art of bad film, ...
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If Massacre Mafia Style was Duke Mitchell's antithesis to Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, the late Southern California Italian/American crooning ...
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Despite having seen the trailer for the film at the cinema prior to its release, it wasn't until I saw ...
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According to His faithful flock and their respective independently-produced movies, God is not dead. The concept of the Hollywood biblical ...
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One of the few filmmakers who made movies about teenagers while actually having an understanding about the awkward, spotty-faced years ...
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Nothing delights me more than seeing a new cult video label emerge in the USA. After the collapse of the ...
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Were one to order nachos at a restaurant in the plainest, most simplistic form possible, they would most likely receive ...
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It is sometimes interesting - well, to me, that is - how many of the articles I request or wind ...
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Though some people out there would just assume never hear his name ever again, there is ultimately no denying the ...
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While movies like Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch and Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde generally get the most credit for ...
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Born Reckless (1958) DVD Review: My Long Hard Ride with Mamie Van Doren

Though the notion of an actor or actress being a "sex symbol" had been in existence well before the someone ...
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Bandit Queen Blu-ray Review: A Brutal, Boring, Bolly-less Biopic

As sad as this may sound to you, my earliest memories of childhood revolve around watching movies. My parents, for ...
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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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