Luigi Bastardo

The Big Shot / Swing Your Lady DVDs Review: A Binary Blast of Bogey

The Warner Archive Collection delivers two entirely different sides of Humphrey Bogart, including the film he perhaps hated making the most.

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The Alphabet Murders (1965) DVD Review: Oh, My Aching Little Grey Cells!

Tony Randall makes for one of cinema’s least memorable Hercule Poirots in this dire British spoof of the Agatha Christie novel.

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Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) Blu-ray Review: A Magnificent Festering!

If you avoid certain NFL-oriented video games, does that mean you’re Far from the Madden Crowd?

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Cinema Sentries

To Sir, With Love (1967) Blu-ray Review: Twilight Time Goes to School

Sidney Poitier’s students have a bad reputation. What they need is a little adult education.

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Stormy Weather (1943) Blu-ray Review: What an Eye for Beauty This Storm Has!

Twilight Time brings an early precursor to the blaxploitation subgenre (seriously, it is!) to Blu-ray.

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Gone with the Pope Blu-ray Review: Duke Mitchell’s Unsung Swan Song Finds a Voice

The film that takes the expression “Years in the Making” to a whole new level finally gets a chance to be seen by all.

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Unbroken (2014) Blu-ray Review: Look, If It Ain’t Broke, Don’t Fix It!

Angelina Jolie brings us an all too run-of-the-mill biography of WWII POW Louis Zamperini.

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Exodus: Gods and Kings Blu-ray Review: Cecil B. Diminished

Ridley Scott falls far from the grace of God and anyone who has ever worshiped either of the two.

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The Breakfast Club: 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: Kids Can Be So Cool

Universal re-releases John Hughes’ quintessential teen dramedy just in time for a two-night theatrical re-offering.

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Mark of the Devil Blu-ray Review: Say Hello to Arrow Video USA, Kids!

The movie that left its mark on the annals of exploitation advertising history inaugurates Arrow Video’s new North American label.

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CHiPs: The Complete Third Season DVD Review: Lay Down the Roller Boogie

Finally, the classic cop show we all love to love for all the wrong reasons returns.

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Massacre Mafia Style Blu-ray Review: Duke Mitchell’s Godfather Antithesis

The ultra-violent cult classic from a very ambitious cabaret entertainer returns to entertain and shock once more.

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Love and Death (1975) Blu-ray Review: Dying is Easy. Loving is Hard.

The Woody Allen film that even Woody Allen likes gets the High-Def treatment.

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The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) Blu-ray Review: Corman Slays ‘Em

The movie that almost put gangsters films back on the map returns for another round (of ammunition).

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Fright Night (1985) 30th Anniversary Edition Blu-ray Review: Brewster’s Thirties

Yes, it’s “Still a better love story than Twilight” time.

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Speed (1936) DVD Review: James Stewart Returns to Reclaim His Title

The Warner Archive Collection unburies the famous late actor’s first starring role, wherein he is paired with Ted Healy as a sidekick!

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The Murder Man (1935) DVD Review: When Spencer Met Stewart

Spencer Tracy’s first starring role for MGM is supported by the feature film debut by James Stewart in this unconventional murder mystery.

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Born Reckless (1958) DVD Review: My Long Hard Ride with Mamie Van Doren

A delightfully dumb ditty that is bursting with equestrian euphemisms and great B-grade bombshells.

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Bandit Queen Blu-ray Review: A Brutal, Boring, Bolly-less Biopic

Twilight Time gives the controversial Phoolan Devi biography an upgrade. But is that really a good thing?

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Adventure in Baltimore DVD Review: Pastor Robert Young Hasn’t Got a Prayer

Unhappy honeymooners Shirley Temple and John Agar appear on-screen together for the second and final time in this odd 1949 dud.

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White Comanche DVD Review: 40% Cotton, 230% Shatner

The Warner Archive Collection brings us a much-needed improved print of the campy Shatner vs. Shatner Euro western cult classic.

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The RKO Brown and Carney Comedy Collection DVD Review: The Lonely Quartet of a Forgotten Duo

Four highlights from the short-lived comic pairing include the final villainous teaming of Bela Lugosi and Lionel Atwill, as well as a newly discovered Robert Mitchum in drag!

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Dracula Untold Blu-ray Review: Unsurprising and Unnecessary, but Unexpectedly Entertaining

Universal’s unofficially official entry to their forthcoming monster series reboot actually has a bit of bite to it.

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Ratboy (1986) DVD Review: Locke and Load

And to think all it took for us to get rid of Sondra Locke was to let her direct!

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Cracked (2013) DVD Review: “What Lies Beneath” an Incomplete Season Set?

BBC Video drops the ball with an unlabeled half-season set of an already canceled Canadian TV show.

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Panic Button (1964) DVD Review: When Mannix Met Mansfield

The Warner Archive Collection releases the rarely-seen comedy that may have inspired a famous Mel Brooks movie.

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A Kiss Before Dying (1956) DVD Review: Just Skip the Kiss and Kill Me Already

A tepid, presumably rushed adaptation of the Ira Levin novel that is mostly notable for being a great gathering of future B movie and television actors.

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My Old Lady Blu-ray Review: or, Secrets & Lies: The Previous Generations

Aging author/playwright Israel Horovitz finally makes his feature film directorial debut. But is he too late in doing so?

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The Bride Wore Black (1968) Blu-ray Review: The Roots of ’70s Grindhouse Cinema

François Truffaut’s homage to Hitchcock makes a stunning Blu-ray debut from Twilight Time.

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Breaking Away (1979) Blu-ray Review: How Kids Grew Up Before the Internet

Quite possibly the only movie in history to partly focus on cycling and not suck in the process.

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The Serpent’s Egg DVD Review: The Non-Bergman Bergman Film

David Carradine sleepwalks through Ingmar Bergman’s one and only (and kind of weird) Hollywood production.

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The Scorpion King 4: Quest for Power Blu-ray Review: “The Search for More Money”

Thoroughly mindless entertainment. Minus the whole “entertainment” part.

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The Purple Rose of Cairo Blu-ray Review: When Worlds Collide

Twilight Time continues its legacy of giving a damn about Woody Allen’s classic, truly good movies.

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Left Behind (2014) Blu-ray Review: Ungodly in Every Sense of the Word

A movie about people who are lost made by people who couldn’t find their asses with both hands and flashlights.

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‘Rebel, Rebel’: Six Tales of Defiance from Twilight Time

From Streisand to Stone, controversies to conniving, this sextet offers it all.

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Holiday in Spain Blu-ray Review: Scent of a Mystery Woman

With so much work invested into a weird little gimmick flick starring Denholm Elliott and Peter Lorre, what’s there not to love?

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Tusk (2014) DVD Review: A Black Comedy with Humor So Dark You Can’t See It

After seeing this, I can see why Kevin Smith has never been allowed to make a Batman or Superman movie.

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Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 8 DVD Review: Four Films That Broke the Code

The Warner Archive Collection presents a quartet of Pre-Code classics that delve into vice with very little virtue.

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A Newly Widened Screen: Two Steve Martins and a Black Scorpion

The Warner Archive Collection re-releases several classic favorites in 16×9 widescreen.

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The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) Blu-ray Review: Shades of Gray

The Warner Archive Collection breathes new life into the innovative classic.

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When the Wind Blows (1986) Blu-ray Review: Wild Is the Wind

So, anyone for a nuclear holocaust, then?

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The Twilight Samurai (Tasogare Seibei) Blu-ray Review: Ex-Swordsman Blues

Wait, THIS lost to “The Barbarian Invasions”? THIS?!

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Flaming Star Blu-ray Review: Hunka Hunka Burning Death

Elvis Presley’s best performance? Well, if such a thing was ever possible, this is most assuredly it.

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Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis Collection, Vol. 1 & 2 DVDs Review: What, No Sammy Petrillo?

The Warner Archive Collection re-releases the long out of print Paramount sets featuring 13 of the duo’s best-known works.

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Judgment at Nuremberg Blu-ray Review: Picking Up the Pieces

Stanley Kramer’s powerhouse post-World War II courtroom drama gets another chance to shock and delight via Twilight Time.

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Dr. Gillespie Film Collection DVD Review: Van Johnson and Keye Luke Join the Fun

The last six films of the original Dr. Kildare series eerily foreshadows one of contemporary television’s most popular medical dramas.

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Bunny Lake Is Missing Blu-ray Review: Required Viewing Is Found

The only film to ever have employed a couple of Zombies as a Greek chorus hits High-Def courtesy Twilight Time.

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The Hook (1963) DVD Review: “Kid, Any Day a War Ends is a Nice Day.”

Kirk Douglas, Nick Adams, and Robert Walker, Jr. star in a well-made Korean War drama from George Seaton.

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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England DVD Review: Introducing Peter O’Toole

A taut, well-crafted Victorian Era heist thriller that forged the way for many crime dramas to come.

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Birdman of Alcatraz Blu-ray Review: The Cinematic System’s Sympathetic Psychopath

Twilight Time brings us a much-needed High-Def release of the Burt Lancaster/John Frankenheimer classic.

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