Luigi Bastardo

The Invisible Monster (1950) Blu-ray Review: What Are They, Nuts? 

The very first Saturday matinee cliffhanger serial hits Blu-ray, and it’s THIS? I’ll take it!

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Gentleman’s Fate / The Phantom of Paris DVDs Review: John Gilbert, Cinema’s Forgotten Heartthrob

The Warner Archive Collection unburies several talkies from one of the Golden Age of Hollywood’s many fallen stars.

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Twilight Time Presents: Five Features from the Escalator of Life

“The Best Country Places in the Fabulous World,” or “The Month Henry Baker Hearts Everything.”

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The Hunger (1983) Blu-ray Review: The Longest Anti-Smoking PSA Ever

Bowie. Babes. Blood. Bauhaus. Carcinogens. That is all.

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Gotham (2014): The Complete First Season DVD Review: Jim Gordon Steps Up to Bat

Warner Bros. and DC Comics’ prequel series is good bloody fun – even if it does feature Jada Pinkett Smith.

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Showdown in Little Tokyo Blu-ray Review: The Ultimate Guilty Pleasure of the ’90s

“We’re so far outside on this one, it’s not even funny.” Oh, but it is, Dolph. It is.

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Count Your Blessings (1959) DVD Review: More of a Curse, Really

Deborah Kerr, Rossano Brazzi, and Maurice Chevalier sink in a dreary comedy set across the English Channel.

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Callaway Went Thataway DVD Review: Mad Men and a Drunken Hopalong Cassidy

Fred MacMurray, Dorothy McGuire, and multiple Howard Keels shine in this delightful MGM comedy.

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Run of the Arrow DVD Review: Samuel Fuller’s Dances with Wolves

A blaring Rod Steiger and a bronzed Charles Bronson highlight a forgotten feature with an still-relevant social commentary.

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Honeymoon Hotel (1964) / Come Fly with Me DVDs Review: Sexist ’60s Rom-Coms

Two more rarities from the swingin’ jet-set era by director Henry Levin make their digital debuts courtesy the Warner Archive Collection.

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Spenser: For Hire: The Complete Second Season (1986-87) DVD Review: SPEN-SAH!

The criminally neglected cult ABC TV series starring the late great Robert Urich returns courtesy of the Warner Archive.

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Johnny Angel / Riff-Raff (1947) DVDs Review: Double Fistin’ RKO Film Noir

The Warner Archive Collection unleashes several underrated film noir gems from the iconic studio.

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Twilight Time Presents: Absolute Beginnings and Bitter Endings

From Bowie to Brando to Blofelds, this selection of five fairly forgotten flicks has an awful lot going on.

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The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Complete Series DVD Review: Still the Best

Is it a very long DVD review? A semi-comprehensive episode guide? Why, it’s all those things, and still more!

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Five Came Back (1939) DVD Review: The Birth of the Disaster Film Genre

The powerful melodrama, co-written by Dalton Trumbo, makes its long-overdue debut from the Warner Archive Collection.

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The Decent, the Mediocre, and the Dreadful: The Warner Archive Revisits the Swinging Sixties

Three rarities starring David McCallum, George Hamilton, and Robert Morse resurface. But is that really a good thing?

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White God is the Pick of the Week

Every dog has his day (And cult movie collectors will have theirs this week!)

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Cannibal Ferox Blu-ray Review: Umberto Lenzi’s Unforgiving Subgenre Swan Song

The notorious cash-in of a craze beget by the cash-in of a cash-in makes its much-needed (?) High-Definition debut courtesy the finely deranged folks at Grindhouse Releasing.

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Once a Thief (1965) DVD Review: Post-Beat America Meets the French New Wave

The Warner Archive Collection releases an excellent, atmospheric, innovative, and gritty crime drama from yesteryear. A definite must-see.

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Signpost to Murder DVD Review: Stuart Whitman Goes Loco for Joanne Woodward

The Warner Archive Collection brings us a seldom seen psychological thriller that has trouble finding its own direction.

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Slow West Blu-ray Review: Like Death, Westerns Are Universal

German-Irish actor Michael Fassbender stars and co-produces this New Zealand-made tale from the American West, which features many a Scotsman and Aussie. How’s that for diversity?

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42nd Street / Ladyhawke / Wolfen Blu-rays Review: The Musical, Magical, and Mythical

The Warner Archive Collection brings us three classic catalogue titles out of the Standard and into the realms of High-Definition.

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A Newly Widened Screen, Part II: Alibis and Those Who Sympathize

The Warner Archive Collection brings us two more titles from the early days of DVD in widescreen for the first time.

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The Maltese Bippy DVD Review: Rowan and Martin Comedy is No ‘Laugh-In’ Matter

The first and only post-fame feature-length film from the classic sketch comedy hosts is a mostly dreadful horror spoof.

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Twilight Time Presents: Rebellion! Turmoil! Endless Talking!

From the hormonally-charged historical wrongdoings of King Henry VIII to David Mamet’s acclaimed verbal diarrhea, this batch of flicks has all bases covered.

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Contamination (1980) Blu-ray Review: On Earth, Everyone Can Hear You Scream ‘Rip-Off!’

The cycloptic grandpappy of ALIEN clones makes its chest-bursting, worldwide High-Definition Blu-ray debut courtesy Arrow Video.

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Smokey and the Hotwire Gang DVD Review: Anthony Cardoza Strikes Again!

Witness an unforgettably forgettable failure from one of low budget cinema’s most notable underachievers.

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Sol Madrid DVD Review: The Nutty NCIS Kojak Batman Star Trek 007 Affair

David McCallum’s solo venture into the ’60s spy genre is odd, compelling, and worth a look.

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Jurassic World Movie Review: A Sequel 22 Years in the Making

The fourth film in the popular series is everything that the previous sequels should have been, but never could have.

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John J. Malone Mystery Double Feature DVD Review: Pat O’Brien vs. James Whitmore

The Warner Archive Collection rescues two forgotten comedies featuring the less-than-celebrated fictional sleuth.

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Arrow in the Dust DVD Review: This is More Like Dust in the Wind

The Warner Archive does its best to preserve a flick where Sterling Hayden punches Lee Van Cleef, and l’il wooden Indian figures are set aflame and thrown off a ledge. And that’s about it.

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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne / Island of Death Blu-rays Review

Much like The Damned before them, the folks at Arrow Video USA have fallen in love with some genuine video nasties.

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Kid Glove Killer DVD Review: Van Heflin Shines in Unsuccessful Film Pilot

Is it a film noir? A political corruption yarn? A forensics investigatory piece? A rom-com? It’s all these things, and more!

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The Scorpio Letters DVD Review: Amusing Z-Grade Eurospy Fodder

The only thing poisonous about these letters was found in the Nielsen ratings.

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Black Patch (1957) DVD Review: A Genuinely Magnificent, Forgotten B Western

Imagine if David Lynch traveled back in time to the ’50s, made a TV show, then re-edited it into a feature film to create the Spaghetti Western movement.

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Twilight Time Presents European Dramas, American Musicals, and Zardoz

Caution: Musicals, intense British drama, and ’70s cinematic hallucinogens lie ahead.

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Escape from East Berlin DVD Review: Don Murray Flees Communist Oppression!

The Warner Archive Collection digs up the fictionalized account of a famous digging out co-starring Colonel Klink himself.

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The Velvet Touch (1948) DVD Review: Shades of Colombo in the Shadow of Birdman

The Warner Archive Collection dusts off the charming, well-made film noir howcatchem starring Rosalind Russell and Sydney Greenstreet.

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The Stranger Collection DVD Review: The Man with No Shame Trilogy

The Warner Archive Collection dusts off a trio of strange spaghetti westerns starring the even stranger Tony Anthony.

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Bad Men of Tombstone DVD Review: The First of the Last of the Badmen

Barry Sullivan and Broderick Crawford team up for a fabulous, forgotten B western of high grade ore.

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Face of Fire (1959) DVD Review: Slow but Poignant Human Horror

Filmmaker Albert Band manages to pave the way for every other sci-fi and horror series ever with one simple drama now available (at last) from the Warner Archive Collection.

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Journey to the Center of the Earth / First Men in the Moon Blu-rays Review: In & Out

Twilight Time explores the various space in-between the minds of Jules Verne and H.G. Wells.

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Screaming Eagles (1956) DVD Review: The Allied Artists Invasion of Normandy

The Warner Archive Collection preserves a seldom seen (but highly enjoyable) WWII quickie ripe with B movie and TV veterans.

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Our Mother’s House DVD Review: The Illegitimate Dawn of an Unofficial New Wave

Seven kids raised on religion, a dead mother, and a deadbeat dad. You do the math.

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The Bounty (1984) / U Turn (1997) Blu-rays Review: Twilight Time Goes South

The two best bad trips you can possibly book this season.

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All at Sea [aka Barnacle Bill] DVD Review: Alec Guinness in Full (Multiple) Form

The Warner Archive Collection brings us the last genuine Ealing Comedy, which also features a young (and already bald) Donald Pleasance.

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One Foot in Heaven DVD Review: Ass-Kickers, Shit-Kickers, and Methodists

Fredric March stars as Minister William Spence in this forgotten (but enjoyable) biopic.

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Long Weekend (1978) Blu-ray Review: Nature Can Be a Real Mother

The ’70s Australian eco-horror classic finally gets the treatment it deserves from Synapse Films.

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Solomon and Sheba (1959) Blu-ray Review: A Show with Everything (Including Yul Brynner)

A tale as old as recorded time. The script isn’t that fresh, either.

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Lenny (1974) Blu-ray Review: They Call Dustin Hoffman Bruce?

Yep, it’s a happy kind of picture, kids. But at least you’ll be able to see sultry Valerie Perrine in the buff!

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