Luigi Bastardo

The Initiation (1984) Blu-ray Review: Old School’s Out Forever

Arrow Video brings us a new HD transfer of the sorority slasher many of us kids ditched out on the first time around.

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Twilight Time Presents: Sense and Sensitivities

From insensitive employers to less-than-sensible debates about mayonnaise, this assortment of odds and ends is sure to inspire those of you who feel like humanity has lost all common sense.

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Twilight Time Presents: All for the Glory of Love

From Peckinpah to Price and from Scott to Sinatra, this assortment of classics from Twilight Time doesn’t mess around.

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The Satanist (1968) / Sisters in Leather (1969) Blu-ray Review: Lost and Bound

The spirit of Something Weird Video is alive and as incurably sick as ever with this exciting new sexploitation double-bill from Garagehouse Pictures.

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I Drink Your Blood (1970) Blu-ray Review: Lap It Up, You Mad Dogs!

Grindhouse Releasing brings us the ultimate version of this nightmarish acid trip down memory lane, complete with new extras and even two bonus movies!

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The Herschell Gordon Lewis Feast Box Set Review: Class-Ick

Arrow Video releases the definitive box set (well two, actually) paying all respect due to one of filmdom’s most unique innovators.

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Men & Chicken Blu-ray Review: Hard-Boiled Danish

Breaching all boundaries of good taste, I can’t decide if Denmark’s award-winning black comedy is for mankind or just plain fowl.

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Crime or Climb: Tails of Scaling and Failing from the Warner Archive

Sean Connery ascends, George Hamilton pretends, and Don Siegel defends in this trio from the WAC.

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Edward G. Robinson Breaks Out of the Warner Archive Collection!

Yeah, a quartet of individual titles starring classic Hollywood’s perennial tough guy make their DVD debuts, see?

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From Horrifying to Horrible: Back in Print from the Warner Archive

From a magnificent assembling of classic horror of the ’30s, to the various sorts of silliness the whole of the ’90s had to offer, these four releases will have you screaming.

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Marine Raiders / In Our Time (1944) DVDs Review: WWII WAC

The Warner Archive Collection encourages you to buy war bonds ‒ and these old World War II propaganda flicks, too!

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Twilight Time Presents: Moral Outcasts, Musicals, and Hey, Is That Charles Bronson?

Spies, human chameleons, horse thieves, sanitized sex, and less-than-subtle dance routines featuring a multitude of bananas highlight this round of goodies.

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The Thing (1982) / Tenebrae / Basket Case 2 & 3 on Blu-ray: Horror, Redefined

The groundbreaking madness of John Carpenter. The murderous manifestations of Dario Argento. The deranged imagination of Frank Henenlotter. On boy, here we go!

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Burial Ground (1981) Blu-ray Review: Still Smelling of Death After All These Years

Severin Films unburies one of the most notorious titles from the Italian zombie apocalypse of the ’80s, fully restored and just as empty-headed as ever.

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Stablemates / Lord Jeff DVDs Review: A Double Dose of Rooney

The Warner Archive Collection slips us a couple of Mickeys (with plenty of Wood) in these two rarely-seen gems.

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George O’Brien Western Collection DVD Review: Nine Oats and a Lot of Grain

The Warner Archive Collection presents some of the final starring roles from one of B western cinema’s most charismatic naturals.

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Stakeout on Dope Street (1958) DVD Review: Kershner. Corman. Coleman. Oh, My!

This forgotten gem from the Warner Archive Collection offers just the facts, and more than a little strange movie history.

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Daughter of Dracula (1972) Blu-ray Review: Oh, the Horror

Another one of the late Jess Franco’s many bad movies has made its way to Blu-ray. And I have caught up on a lot of sleep. Coincidence?

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Slugs: The Movie Blu-ray Review: A Marvelously Muddled Mess

One of horror filmdom’s most enjoyable atrocities rises up from the sewers once more in a stellar new HD transfer from Arrow Video.

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Twilight Time Presents: Party Poopers, Poor Sports, Sore Losers, and Bad Romances

From pubescent tweens and nightmarish games to pornographers and people who love to shoot things up, there’s an awful lot of foul play afoot here.

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Haunted Honeymoon (1986) Blu-ray Review: Tamer Wilder

Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, and a dragged-out Dom DeLuise star in one frighteningly unfunny feature.

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Twilight Time Presents: Something I Can Never Have

From the unconditional (or unwanted) affection of one’s parental unit, to the ever-classic pursuit of maximum financial units, these five flicks have more to offer than just a nude Ornella Muti (although that’s just fine on its own!).

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Warcraft Blu-ray Review: In My Entire Life, I Have Never Felt as Much Pain as I Do Now

Devoid of any originality, credibility, or explanation whatsoever, the big-screen adaptation of Blizzard Entertainment’s massively successful strategy game is a giant, predictable bore.

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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962) Blu-ray Review: Truth in Advertising?

Twenty-three years after my first attempt at watching it, this Riccardo Freda/Barbara Steele gothic horror movie about a necrophiliac surgeon still can’t raise the dead to save its life.

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The Monster of Piedras Blancas (1959) Blu-ray Review: Beheading Your Way

The outright evil, bloodthirsty cousin of ‘The Creature from the Black Lagoon’ makes its long-awaited splash to home video courtesy a beautiful HD release by Olive Films.

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Valley of the Kings (1954) DVD Review: The Other Precursor to Indiana Jones

The Warner Archive Collection digs up a significant artifact from cinematic history, albeit from a print which has sadly been desecrated.

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Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 10 DVD Review: The End of an Era? Not Quite!

The Warner Archive Collection unveils its final ‘Forbidden Hollywood’ set with a fine gathering of controversial and naughty gems from the pre-Code days.

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Seven Miles from Alcatraz DVD Review: Prison Breaks for Patriotism

A minor WWII flick about Nazi spies featuring John Banner as the bad guy makes its way to DVD courtesy the Warner Archive Collection.

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Haunted Honeymoon (1940) / A Fine Pair / Brotherly Love (1970) DVDs Review: Reverse Power Flux Couplings

Three uniquely different looks at the fine art of bad romances arrive on DVD courtesy the Warner Archive Collection.

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The Woman in White (1948) / Lizzie (1957) DVD Reviews: To Be or Not to Be (Crazy)

Eleanor Parker explores two different sides of sanity in these two separate releases from the Warner Archive Collection.

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RKO Varieties Triple Feature DVD Review: The Very Definition of Below Paar

Don’t let these innocent looking obscurities from the Warner Archive Collection fool you: the jokes are so bad, they could cause blindness, hemorrhaging, or ‒ if you’re lucky ‒ death.

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Hell Hunters (1986) DVD Review: No Need to Hunt for It, It’s Right Here

An incompetently made West German jungle adventure with Stewart Granger, Candice Daly, George Lazenby, and Maud Adams receives an equally subpar digital debut from Film Chest.

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The Swinging Cheerleaders (1974) Blu-ray Review: Hey, Where’s the Swingin’?

The appropriately misleading exploitation flick from Jack Hill gets a deluxe treatment from Arrow Video.

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The Bloodstained Butterfly Blu-ray Review: The Unconventional Courtroom Giallo

Duccio Tessari’s bizarre giallo/poliziotteschi/krimi hybrid hatches once again thanks to the diligent efforts of Arrow Video.

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Lucifer: The Complete First Season DVD Review: You’re in for a Devil of a Time

Tom Ellis brings the infamously infernal Vertigo/DC Comics character to life, giving boring cop shows a fresh, much-needed twist.

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Darker Shades of Blu: Film Noir from the Warner Archive

From Humphrey Bogart to Alfred Hitchcock, the WAC offers up some of the best mysteries ever available now on Blu-ray.

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Gotham (2014): The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Review: So Far, So Good

Warner and DC Comics’ small-screen reboot of the Batman franchise grows, leaps, and slays in great strides.

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American Ninja / American Ninja 2: The Confrontation Blu-rays Review: The Dawn of Dudikoff

Olive Films unleash one of the Cannon Group’s greatest franchises in High-Definition via releases fans are sure to get a high-flying kick out of.

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Twilight Time Presents: Breaking the Rules of a Lovelorn, War-torn World

From bitter one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed veteran vigilantes in Santa Barbara to faithful female Jewish writers smuggling money into Nazi Germany, this lot of features proves all is indeed fair in love and war.

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Gun the Man Down (1956) Blu-ray Review: Fleeting Oater Fodder, But Still Fun

Producer John Wayne gives newbies James Arness, Angie Dickinson, and Andrew V. McLaglen a chance to strut their stuff.

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Chato’s Land (1972) Blu-ray Review: A Million Ways to Die Hard in the West

Charles Bronson is turned loose for the first time in a marvelously bleak western now available from Twilight Time.

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Doctor Butcher M.D. Blu-ray Review: Ready to Make House Calls Once Again

Severin Films presents a spectacular two-disc, two-movie version of one of 42nd Street’s most legendarily notorious offerings.

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Cinema Sentries

Twilight Time Presents: Sprawling Epics, Sidney Poitier, and a Serial Killer?

Five films from both film and real life history alike make their High-Definition debuts.

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The Angry Hills (1959) DVD Review: The Precursor to the 007 Franchise?

Ever wonder what might have happened had James Bond been born an American and started out in World War II? The Warner Archive Collection may have the answer.

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The Whip Hand (1951) DVD Review: RKO Sets Its Sights to Start Seeing Red

The Warner Archive Collection uncovers a fun little flick about reeling in one big Commie plot.

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Edge of Doom (1950) DVD Review: Can Dana Andrews Save Farley Granger’s Soul?

Samuel Goldwyn’s one and only film noir is also the bleakest irreligious religious movies in history.

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These Three (1936) DVD Review: Kids Say the Darndest Things

The Warner Archive Collection outs Lillian Hellman’s first filmic adaptation of a once-controversial play.

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Too Late for Tears / Woman on the Run Blu-rays Review: At Long Last, Lost Noir

Two forgotten mysteries, each with their own dark histories, get definitive makeovers in these must-have releases from Flicker Alley.

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The Return of a Man Called Horse Blu-ray Review: Harris Whispers. He Screams. He ACTS!

The oft-ignored sequel from one of cinema’s lesser-explored trilogies gets a High-Definition makeover.

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Twilight Time Presents: From the Dark to the Way Too Light

What do two film noirs, three westerns, one failed Charlton Heston adventure epic, and one of the worst giallo movies have in common? They’ve all seen the light of Blu-ray.

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