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Torso 4K UHD Review: ‘The Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence’

Torso (1973; dir. Sergio Martino) is pure, unfiltered giallo—a movie drenched in blood, nudity, and unapologetic sleaze. It’s rough around ...
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The Strangers (2008) 4K UHD Review: Remarkably Taut Suspense Thriller

The basic outline of The Strangers is absolutely nothing new: bad guys attack people in a house. Doesn't go well. ...
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Friday the 13th (2009) 4K UHD Review: Remake Exceeds Low Expectations

The most famous visual of Friday the 13th is Jason Voorhees in a hockey mask. But Jason wasn't the villain ...
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The Chronicles of Riddick 4K UHD Review: An Unexpected Expanded Treasure

Pitch Black did not seem like a movie that deserved a sequel. It was a serviceable action-horror sci-fi picture that ...
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Game Night 4K UHD Review: Game of Life Offers Monopoly of Laughs

Co-directed by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, Game Night is a comedy-kidnap-caper film starring Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams ...
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High Crime (1973) 4K UHD Review: The Italian Connection

Made during the infamous Italian Years of Lead (a decades-long period of political turmoil and heavy street violence), High Crime ...
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Black Mass (2015) 4K UHD Review: Government-Approved Gangsterism

Gangster movies tend to hang on loyalty. Gangs tend to hang on loyalty. The lower thugs not giving up their ...
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IF 4K UHD Review: The Opposite of a Magical Adventure

John Krasinski directed, co-wrote, and co-starred in 2018’s dark thriller A Quiet Place. In 2020, Krasinski wrote and directed A ...
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The Lady from Shanghai 4K UHD Review: Twisty, Twisted Noir Classic

Except maybe Citizen Kane, everything Orson Welles directed has a kind of asterisk by its name. However good the movie ...
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Demons & Demons 2 4K UHD Review: Completely Bonkers in the Best Possible Way

From his debut film, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, in 1970 to Opera, his last great film, made in ...
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Risky Business Criterion Collection Review: Introducing Tom Cruise and Guido the Killer Pimp

Written and directed by Paul Brickman, 1983’s Risky Business turned Tom Cruise into a superstar. And it isn’t just dancing ...
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The Case of the Bloody Iris 4K UHD Review: A Typically Stylish Giallo

The Case of the Bloody Iris exemplifies the appeal of the giallo completely. Giallo is the Italian precursor to the ...
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Team America: World Police 4K UHD Review: Pulls the Right Strings

From Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the creators of the long-running TV series South Park (328 episodes between 1997 - ...
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South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut 4K UHD Review: Still Funny but Aging Rapidly

South Park: Bigger, Longer, & Uncut, directed by Trey Parker, and written by Parker, Matt Stone, and Pam Brady, is ...
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Chinatown 4K UHD Review: Noir Gold; or “The point is, the girl dies”

As a masterpiece, Chinatown needed its two main creators, screenwriter Robert Towne (who won the movie’s sole Oscar) and director ...
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One from the Heart: Reprise 4K UHD Review: Coppola’s Folly Redeemed?

After the Godfather films, Francis Ford Coppola went from disaster to disaster. Apocalypse Now is the famous problematic film… but ...
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Killer Klowns from Outer Space 4K UHD Review: The Bloody Circus Comes to Town

Killer Klowns from Outer Space, written, directed, produced, and starring the Chiodo Brothers (pronounced kee-oh-do) is a comedy/action/horror movie that ...
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Peter Gabriel: Back to Front 4K UHD Review: Old Dog, New Tricks

Artists touring old albums has been, since about the mid '00s, seemingly how they make their money. It's hard to ...
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Once Upon a Time in the West 4K UHD Review: Weird West

In Once Upon a Time in the West (1969; dir. Sergio Leone), a just-widowed beauty, Jill McBain (Claudia Cardinale); a ...
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The Crow: 30th Anniversary Edition (1994) 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Grim Classic Adaptation Returns

There's no getting around Brandon Lee's death when discussing The Crow. An actor's death during the production or release of ...
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Mean Girls (2004) and Mean Girls (2024) 4K UHDs Review: So Fetch They’re Grool

It is interesting that the book Queen Bees and Wannabes: Helping Your Daughter Survive Cliques, Gossip, Boys, and the New ...
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Rolling Thunder 4K UHD Review: Dead Inside

In director John Flynn’s Rolling Thunder (1977), Major Charles Rane (William Devane) has just come home to San Antonio after ...
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Nostalghia 4K UHD Review: Out, Out, Brief Candle

In director Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia (1983), a glum Russian poet, Andrei (Oleg Yankovsky), treks the Italian countryside with his comely ...
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The Ring Collection 4K UHD Review: Video Terror’s Diminishing Returns

The Ring (2002) might be one of the most influential horror movies of the new century. Based on the Japanese ...
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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom 4K UHD Review: Inventive Action Sequences Keep the Story Alive

James Wan’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom is funny, action-packed, filled with strong performances, and it is one of the ...
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The Heroic Trio/Executioners Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Insane Hong Kong Lady Action

In the pre-Internet era, information about different cultures’ cinema was obscure. It was rumor. It was some still in a ...
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Contagion 4K UHD Review: If I Could Throw Your Computer in Jail, I Would

Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion, written by Scott Z. Burns (The Bourne Ultimatum), is about a pandemic which spreads quickly and kills ...
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Darkman 4K UHD Review: A Must-See for Sam Raimi Fans

In Sam Raimi’s Darkman (1990), Liam Neeson, in his first starring action role, plays Dr. Peyton Westlake, a researcher in ...
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Footloose (1984) 4K UHD Review: Rambunctious, Though Mostly Tired

After the death of his father, Ren McCormack (Keven Bacon), and his mother (Frances Lee McCain) move from Chicago to ...
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Willy’s Wonderland 4K UHD Review: Nicolas Cage Brings a Whole Lot of Fun

Kevin Lewis’s Willy’s Wonderland stars Nicolas Cage, a possibly mute, probably just super quiet, nameless drifter driving the backroads, who ...
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The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) 4K UHD Review: Struggles to Find its Footing

The phenomenal success of Randall Wallace’s screenplay for 1995’s Braveheart gave him carte blanche on his next film for which ...
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Point Break (1991) 4K UHD Review: “27 banks in three years – anything to catch the perfect wave!”

In Point Break (dir. Kathryn Bigelow), Johnny Utah, an FBI hotshot (Keanu Reeves), joins an FBI schlub (Gary Busey) to ...
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The Train 4K UHD Review: “You talk about the war. I talk about what it costs!”

Based on a true story, director John Frankenheimer’s The Train (1964) is about the lengths the French Resistance went to, ...
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Face/Off 4K UHD Review: Great Performances and a Fun Sci-Fi Script

In John Woo’s Face/Off, FBI Special Agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) holds a particularly personal grudge against no-good-nic Castor Troy ...
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot 4K UHD Review: Cimino Rising

Thunderbolt and Lightfoot is of note for two reasons. The first is that it was the directorial debut of Michael ...
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Clue 4K UHD Review: Who Farted?

Clue (1985; dir. Jonathan Lynn), based on the beloved board game, sucks like a lamprey. Regarded by many as a ...
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Days of Heaven Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Blue Harvest

The Criterion Collection has released Days of Heaven (1978; dir. Terrence Malick) in 4K as part of a 4K UHD/Blu-ray ...
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The Color Purple (1985) 4K UHD Review: Ms. Celie’s Blues

Steven Spielberg’s 1985 adaptation of the famed Alice Walker novel—about the journey a poor black woman, Celie (Whoopi Goldberg), takes ...
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Titanic 4K UHD Limited-Edition Collector’s Boxed Set Review: A Must-Have for Titanic Lovers

James Cameron’s Titanic is 25 years old this year. To celebrate, 20th Century Fox and Paramount Pictures have put together ...
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Silver Bullet 4K UHD Review: A Reasonably Creepy Creature Feature

Based on Stephen King’s novellette The Cycle of the Werewolf, and with a screenplay also by King, one would expect ...
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The Fugitive (1993) 4K UHD Review: Non-Stop Action and Thrills

Andrew Davis’ The Fugitive is a non-stop action roller coaster that will leave you breathless. It is based on the ...
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Marathon Man 4K UHD Review: Is It Safe?

John Schlesinger’s movie Marathon Man was written by William Goldman from his novel of the same name. In it, “Babe” ...
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Terms of Endearment 4K UHD Review: Great Performances Make for a Great Film

James L. Brooks produced, wrote, and directed Terms of Endearment based on the popular novel by Larry McMurtry. He also ...
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Scrooged 4K UHD Review: The Ghost of Murray’s Sense of Humor

Richard Donner’s Scrooged is a “comedic” retelling of Charles Dickens’ 19th century novella, A Christmas Carol.  Bill Murray plays Frank ...
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Witness 4K UHD Review: Competent Thriller; Excellent Romance

Peter Weir’s Witness is a contemporary police drama / romance that takes place in 1984 in Philadelphia and the Amish ...
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Rebel Without a Cause 4K UHD Review: A Beautiful Film that Shoots You in the Heart

Nicholas Ray’s Rebel Without a Cause concerns itself with children learning how to be adults and their parents who never ...
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Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part Two 4K UHD Review: Once Again, It Is All About the Fighting

In Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen , Part One, the Justice League (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green ...
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The Legend of Zorro 4K UHD Review: Not So Legendary

The Mask of Zorro (1998), while not a perfect movie, had a near-perfect sense of tone, and fantastic casting. Antonio ...
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Red Dragon (2002) 4K UHD Review: Hopkins’ Last Lecter

While Silence of the Lambs is justly Thomas Harris's most famous story about Hannibal Lecter, it's the previous novel, Red ...
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Le Mépris (Contempt) 4K UHD Review: Contemplative, Frustrating, and Painfully Sad

Le Mépris (Contempt) written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1963 is based on a 1954 Italian novel called Il ...
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