Luigi Bastardo

The Man in the Moon (1991) Blu-ray Review: Wither Mulligan and Witherspoon

Twilight Time brings us Robert Mulligan’s famous final film, featuring a dynamic debut from young Reese Witherspoon.

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The Stone Killer (1973) Blu-ray Review: Another Winner Starring Charles Bronson

Michael Winner’s overlooked third collaboration with the iconic stone-faced action hero gets the HD treatment from Twilight Time.

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Who’ll Stop the Rain (1978) Blu-ray Review: Drugs, Not Hugs

Director Karel Reisz lends a lot of Creedence to this grim and gloomy tale of Dog Soldiers running amok, recently released to Blu-ray from Twilight Time.

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Inferno (1953) 3D/2D Blu-ray Review: Survival of the Richest

The line between film noir and technicolor melodrama is finely drawn in the sand, as this must-see Twilight Time offering proves.

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Year of the Comet (1992) Blu-ray Review: It’s Twilight Wine Time

Peter Yates’ unintentionally hilarious adventure tale will make you want to join a wine club and beat him over the head with it.

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Ronin (1998) Blu-ray Review: Welcome Back to Cinematic Reality, Kids

Arrow Video revives John Frankenheimer’s criminally neglected late ’90s gritty crime thriller via a beautiful, all-new 4K scan.

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The Zodiac Killer (1971) Blu-ray Review: Trap Them and Thrill Them

The American Film Genre Archive teams up with Something Weird Video to bring us a quintessential slice of sleazy ’70s exploitation filmmaking, paired with a second, rarely-seen serial killer flick.

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Blackenstein (1973) Blu-ray Review: Withstanding the Tests of Taste and Time Alike

Severin Films and Vinegar Syndrome team up to bring us a certifiable guilty pleasure, which is probably most famous due to the unsolved murder of its creator.

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Stormy Monday (1988) Blu-ray Review: Young Sean Bean Learns How to Make It Sting

Mike Figgis’ impressive feature film debut ‒ also starring Melanie Griffith and Tommy Lee Jones ‒ returns to razzle, dazzle, and jazzle thanks to Arrow Video.

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The Intruder (1975) Blu-ray Review: A Lost Regional Horror Film Comes Home to Slay

After 42 years of obscurity, the lost ’70s proto-slasher ‒ complete with marquee value guest stars Mickey Rooney, Yvonne De Carlo, and Ted Cassidy ‒ finally gets a chance to see the night.

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Who’s Crazy? (1966) Blu-ray Review: Come for the Jazz, Stay for It!

Kino Lorber presents this lost avant-garde sensory orgy, featuring actors from the Living Theatre and music by The Ornette Coleman Trio.

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Beyond the Darkness (Buio Omega) Blu-ray Review: She’s a Real Doll

Get stuffed as Severin Films proves a dynamic HD master can make even Joe D’Amato’s most notorious schlocker look sharp and polished.

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36 Hours (1964) Blu-ray Review: Captivating Wartime Espionage

James Garner finds himself right in the middle of a dirty Nazi trick in this taut WWII thriller from the Warner Archive Collection.

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Terror in a Texas Town (1958) Blu-ray Review: The Dark Side of the West

Arrow Academy releases Joseph H. Lewis’ wonderful western/film noir hybrid, which features Sterling Hayden as a Swedish sailor who brings a whaling harpoon to a gunfight.

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The Rounders (1965) Blu-ray Review: Glenn Ford. Henry Fonda. ‘Nuff Said.

The Warner Archive Collection wrangles up a classic western comedy starring two of filmdom’s greatest cowboys.

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Twilight Time Presents: Riches, Fortunes, Millions, and Women

Four classics ranging from comedic capers to World War II musicals to soul-stirring Woody Allen dramas make their HD home video debut.

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S.O.B. (1981) Blu-ray Review: Julie Andrews’ Most Revealing Role

The Warner Archive Collection releases Blake Edwards’ bitingly funny stab at Hollywood, featuring his famous wife’s only nude scene.

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Doberman Cop (1977) Blu-ray Review: Sonny Chiba Does It Doggy Style

Arrow Video unleashes a truly mind-blowing 1970s exploitation action-comedy equivalent to fusion cuisine starring the larger-than-life Shin’ichi Chiba.

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Wolf Guy (1975) Blu-ray Review: Lycanthropy, Grindhouse Style

Arrow Video throws us a bone in the form of a shapeshifting werewolf feller like no other.

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Madhouse (1981) Blu-ray Review: A Film Where No One is Fully Committed

Arrow Video’s recently discharged slasher flick is so lazy, its composer ripped-off his own work.

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Brain Damage (1988) Blu-ray Review: The Greatest Drug Parable Never Aired

Frank Henenlotter’s rude, crude, cult horror-comedy classic receives a fresh fix from Arrow Video in this must-have release.

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Spotlight on a Murderer (1961) Blu-ray Review: Illuminating French Proto-Slasher

A most unique mystery/black comedy from Georges Franju receives a long-overdue opportunity to shine in the US thanks to Arrow Academy.

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Twilight Time Presents: Go Big, but Don’t Go Home!

Four classic titles ranging from suffocating small town drama to the wonderful world of corporate corruption highlight this must-see wave of new Blu-ray releases.

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The Jacques Rivette Collection Blu-ray Review: New Wave, Old Hat

Arrow Academy releases a trio of lengthy, esoteric, and surreal offerings which quickly turn into a case of ‘mise-en-seen it.’

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World Without End (1956) Blu-ray Review: Make Dystopia Great Again

The Warner Archive Collection travels through time and space to bring us one of cinema’s first ‒ and strangely optimistic ‒ views of a post-apocalyptic future.

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From Hell It Came (1957) Blu-ray Review: This Is More Like “Heaven-Sent”

One of the most amusingly bad drive-in monster movies ever conceived receives a beautiful new HD transfer from the Warner Archive Collection.

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Inquisition (1976) Blu-ray Review: “Let’s Face It, You Can’t Torquemada Anything!”

Spanish horror legend Paul Naschy’s directorial debut gets the full treatment in this shocking, sleazy, and sinful release now available from Mondo Macabro.

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The Blood of Fu Manchu / The Castle of Fu Manchu Blu-ray Review: Toppling Towers

The world hears from Christopher Lee’s most infamous character again in Blue Underground’s HD double feature of two cult collaborations from Jesus Franco and Harry Alan Towers.

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Fight for Your Lady (1937) DVD Review: The Ultimate Showdown of Goofy Faces

The Warner Archive Collection dusts off an odd comic rarity with Ida Lupino and an epic battle of dirty looks between Jack Oakie and Billy Gilbert.

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Cops vs. Thugs (1975) Blu-ray Review: Kon’nichiwa, Dirty Harry-san!

Arrow Video busts Kinji Fukasaku’s gritty, offbeat crime drama out of the Toei vaults.

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The Boy Friend (1971) Blu-ray Review: Was This the Precursor to “The Apple”?

Ken Russell’s hallucinogenic homage to Busby Berkeley is just that ‒ and the Warner Archive has made it even trippier via a beautiful (and uncut) restoration.

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Finian’s Rainbow (1968) Blu-ray Review: Dance with the Times

The Warner Archive raises the curtains on a movie that would be both Francis Ford Coppola’s first studio film and Fred Astaire’s last complete musical.

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Demon Seed (1977) Blu-ray Review: Artificial Intelligence Meets Artificial Insemination

The kooky, slightly kinky ’70s sci-fi horror hybrid featuring the talents of the late Fritz Weaver and Robert Vaughn receives a beautiful makeover from the Warner Archive.

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Voodoo Black Exorcist (1974) Blu-ray Review: The Epitome of So Bad, It’s Good

The Film Detective brings us the first widescreen 2K scan of this truly abominable, incoherent ‒ and yet, undeniable entertaining ‒ Euro horror messterpiece. And it’s glorious!

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A Woman’s Face (1941) / Flamingo Road (1949) DVDs Review: The Dark Side of Joan

Two classic features from the one and only Joan Crawford return to DVD thanks to the Warner Archive Collection.

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The Sheik (1921) / The Son of the Sheik (1926) Blu-ray Review: Happy Valentino’s Day

Kino Lorber unleashes two of the greatest works from legendary Silent Film heartthrob Rudolph Valentino.

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The Yakuza (1974) Blu-ray Review: That Time Robert Mitchum Went to Japan

Like a trusty katana, the Warner Archive Collection whips out this neglected, gritty, emotional ’70s cult classic with much grace and dignity.

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Bells Are Ringing (1960) Blu-ray Review: You Found Me Just in Time

The irreplaceable Judy Holliday teams with the one and only Dean Martin for a musical extravaganza which has received a dynamic makeover from the Warner Archive.

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The Climber (1975) Blu-ray Review: The Stuff Scarfaces Are Made Of

An all-growed-up Joe Dallesandro stars in this nifty (and violent) little Italian crime drama, recently rescued from obscurity by Arrow Video.

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Kiss of Death (1947) / Edge of Eternity (1959) Blu-rays Review: Homicidal Tendencies

Twilight Time brings us two remarkable, unforgettable, trend-setting thrillers from yesteryear in two equally beautifully transfers.

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Ludwig (1973) Blu-ray Review: The Historical Epic Wherein Nothing Really Happens

Love it or hate it, Arrow Academy has unveiled an undeniably beautiful box set for one of Luchino Visconti’s final films.

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L’assassino (The Assassin) Blu-ray Review: The Lady-Killer of Rome Returns

Elio Petri’s forgotten, strange, and very dark satire makes a long-overdue debut in the U.S. from the newly launched Arrow Academy.

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The Dismembered (1962) Blu-ray Review: I’d Rather Be in Philadelphia

Garagehouse Pictures digs up one of the goofiest ‒ and yet, strangely intriguing ‒ lost regional horror comedies ever.

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The Girl and the General (1967) DVD Review: All Give Some, None Give All

A shockingly subdued Rod Steiger stars in this Italian-made WWI dramedy from Pasquale Festa Campanile.

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Interiors (1978) / Chilly Scenes of Winter (1979) Blu-rays Review: Suicidal Tendencies

Twilight Time unveils the HD debuts of two distinctly different dramas featuring Mary Beth Hurt.

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The Valley of Gwangi / When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth Blu-rays Review: More Animated than Ever

The Warner Archive Collection shows off two showcases of animators Ray Harryhausen and Jim Danforth in these splendid catalog releases.

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Vitaphone Varieties, Volume Three: 1928-1929 DVD Review: Utterly Amazing

The Warner Archive Collection unleashes 16 more lost novelty acts from the days of vaudeville and burlesque shows.

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Wait Until Dark (1967) / Love in the Afternoon (1957) Blu-rays Review: An Audrey Two-fer

The Warner Archive Collection brings us two remarkably different ‒ but nevertheless essential ‒ offerings from the inimitable Audrey Hepburn.

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Twilight Time Presents: Odd Men Out (and the Women Who Drive Them)

Vindictive villains, stereoscopic Stooges, speculative spouses, heroic horsemen, and illiterate inventors highlight this quartet of New-to-Blu releases.

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The Other Hell (1981) / Dark Waters (1994) Blu-rays Review: Breaking Bad Habits

Cursed convents? Possessed prioresses? Severin Films is having nun of that now!

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