Luigi Bastardo

Out with the Old, In with the Even Older: The Warner Archive Presents Dr. Kildare Movie Collection

More docs and Dick than you can shake your medical staff at.

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Fernando Di Leo – The Italian Crime Collection, Vol. 2 DVD Review: Violenza all’Italiana

Raro Films issues another set of gritty crime flicks from the late Italian maestro.

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Red Scorpion / Thou Shalt Not Kill…Except / Street Trash Blu-rays Review: Synapse, Bloody Synapse

Three sleazy, gory gems for your bad movie viewing (dis)pleasure.

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What Price Hollywood? DVD Review: Hell Is a Place Called, Well, You Know

The Warner Archive dusts off another forgotten tale of woe set in vintage Tinseltown.

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Free and Easy / Estrellados DVD Review: Buster Keaton en Español? ¡Sí!

Because we all know how well Buster Keaton could dance, sing, and speak Spanish.

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The Swimmer (1968) Blu-ray Review: The Last Great Studio-Made Cult Film

Burt Lancaster delivers a performance that will positively send chills down your spine. And those blue swimming trunks sure won’t help any.

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Still Mine Blu-ray Review: All He Wanted to Do Was Build a House

For those of you who have always wanted to see an elderly James Cromwell nekkid, your ship has just sailed in.

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Ripper Street: Season Two Blu-ray Review: Hey, Things Are Improving!

It’s not quite dead. It’s getting better.

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Atlantis: Season One (2013) Blu-ray Review: Let’s Get Mythical

Sometimes, placing all your eggs in one basket pays off.

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) Blu-ray Review: A Secret Best Left Untold

Ben Stiller succeeds in launching and then crashing the very same project so many others abandoned or passed-up several times before.

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Off-the-Wall TV Shows from the Warner Archive DVDs Review: Heroes and Fathers Galore

The Search for Jimmy Stewart’s Courtship of Superboy.

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Martial Arts Double Feature: Hapkido / Lady Whirlwind (1972) DVD Review: The Return of Angela Mao

Shout! Factory doubles down with a pair of early ’70s chopsocky flicks.

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Bill Elliott Detective Mysteries DVD Review: From Deadeye to Dick

Put out an APB on a couple of beers and shoot out the light.

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Book Review: The Zombie Film: From White Zombie to World War Z by Alain Silver and James Ursini

Because one more publication on the subject couldn’t possibly hurt the subgenre any.

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SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines (2014) DVD Review: aka The Dyslexic Subtitle Movie

Tom Sizemore sizes up a comeback in a movie with a confusing title that no one is truly bound to see. The end.

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Kirby Grant and Chinook Adventure Triple Feature, Volume 2 (1949-1950) DVD Review: Canadian Mountedness from Monogram Pictures

The Warner Archive breaks out three vintage Northern films co-starring a very bright doggy.

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Monogram Cowboy Collection, Volume 7 (1945-1952) DVD Review: There’s Gold on That There Poverty Row

The Warner Archive dusts off another nine delightful B-Western selections.

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In the Name of the King 3: The Last Mission Blu-ray Review: Why Do I Torture Myself Like This?

Yet another entry from a franchise nobody asked for to begin with.

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Fibber McGee and Molly Double Feature (1942-1944) DVD Review: The Mediocre and the Stinky

Decades after the fact, the Warner Archive cleans out the McGee’s hall closet. Sadly, this was all they found.

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Love Is a Racket (1932) DVD Review: Yeah, Figured That One Out Already, Thanks

Personally, I need an everlasting love, but I’ll wait for it, wait for it, give it some time.

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Ashanti (1979) Blu-ray Review: The Most Disastrous Disaster of a Non-Disaster Flick

A naked supermodel, bored lead, hammy heavy, and a guest star gettin’ blowed up real good: now THIS is what cinema is all about!

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Corruption (1968) / The Big Gundown (1966) Blu-rays Review: Two Points for Grindhouse

Grindhouse Releasing gets their hands on two cult epics from the Columbia Pictures vaults – and the results are nothing short of fabulous.

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Roadblock (1951) / Nocturne (1946) DVDs Review: Misplaced, Unconventional LA Noir

Two forgotten – and highly enjoyable – low-budget thrillers from RKO make their way to DVD courtesy the Warner Archive Collection.

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The Bowery Boys, Volumes Two & Three (1946-1957) DVDs Review: Satisfaction Guaranteed

The Warner Archive brings us 24 more classic comedies in two four-disc sets. Win.

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Sherlock: Season Three (2014) Blu-ray Review: Back from the Dead?

The wait is over. But was it worth it?

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The Fifth Estate (2013) Blu-ray Review: When Tension Becomes Tedious

(aka ‘The Anti-Social Network’.)

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The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973) / Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) / Royal Flash (1975) Blu-rays Review: A Vintage Hero and a Classic Cad

Twilight Time brings us the last of a Harryhausen trio and the only entry from a proposed series.

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Jane Eyre (1943) / Oliver! (1968) / The Way We Were (1973) Blu-rays Review: Growing Up Again

From Orson Welles to Oliver Reed and Karl Marx, too.

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Silent Night, Bloody Night (aka Death House) DVD Review: Attack of the Killer Warhol Factory Inmates

A constantly forgotten slasher film prototype gets another budget label release.

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) Blu-ray Review: Witness the Pidgeon Take Flight Underwater

Irwin Allen develops the prototype to the Roland Emmerich formula.

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The Beast with Five Fingers (1946) DVD Review: Let’s Give the Boy a Hand

An oft-neglected horror classic makes its digital debut courtesy the Warner Archive Collection.

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The Uninvited (1944) Criterion Collection DVD Review: Who ‘Ya Gonna Call?

The first American film to take ghosts seriously gets the elite treatment.

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Sex Kittens Go to College DVD Review: Oh, Dear God, Please Make It Stop!

What happens when you try too hard to be too hip.

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Mindwarp (1992) / The Other (1972) Blu-rays Review: Happy Halloween from Twilight Time

Everyone’s favorite new niche label is back with two very different seasonal selections.

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Nightmare Honeymoon DVD Review: Can I Get an Annulment Over Here?

The Warner Archive brings us a sleazy, slow-paced rape/revenge thriller with two different versions.

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Modern Family: The Complete Fourth Season Blu-ray Review: Yet Another Mouth to Feed

A show that scores even after they add another addition.

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Killing Season (2013) Blu-ray Review: More Like Retiring Time

You know it’s bad when even Nicolas Cage drops out.

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Tarzan (1966): The Complete Second Season DVD Review: Wither Ron Ely

The last of the 15th Lord of the Apes’ adventures.

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The Tin Star (1957) / Nichols: The Complete Series DVD Reviews: Lawmen of a Different Color

The Warner Archive presents two very different western tales.

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William Powell at Warner Bros. DVD Review: The Early Adventures of a Thinner Man

Four pre-Code Vitaphone rarities starring the definitive Nick Charles.

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The East (2013) Blu-ray Review: Anarchy in the USA?

The long lost sequel to ‘The North’ and ‘The South’.

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In the Flesh: Series One DVD Review: Leave It to the Brits to Make Zombies Human Again

“If you wanna find out what’s behind these cold eyes, you’ll just have to claw your way through this disguise.” – “In the Flesh?” – Pink Floyd

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The Odd Angry Shot Blu-ray Review: The Occasionally Aggressive Movie

Further proof Australia may, in fact, actually exist.

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