The Case of the Bloody Iris 4K UHD Review: A Typically Stylish Giallo
By Kent Conrad |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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”
By Jack Cormack |
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?
By Kent Conrad |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Kent Conrad |
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
By Jack Cormack |
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
By Kent Conrad |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Jack Cormack |
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
By Jack Cormack |
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
By Kent Conrad |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Kent Conrad |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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!”
By Jack Cormack |
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!”
By Jack Cormack |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Jack Cormack |
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?
By Jack Cormack |
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
By Jack Cormack |
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
By Jack Cormack |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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?
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Kent Conrad |
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
By Kent Conrad |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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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Paramount Scares Volume 1 4K UHD Review: An Embarrassment of Riches
By Greg Hammond |
The Paramount Scares Volume 1 4K UHD box set comes packed full of scares. First there are the five movies, ...
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Kiss the Girls 4K UHD Review: A Quality Thriller Showing Its Age
By Greg Hammond |
Early in Gary Fleder’s Kiss the Girls, Washington, D.C. forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) goes to North ...
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Carlito’s Way 4K UHD Review: Sad Streets
By Jack Cormack |
It’s more than just a Scarface (1983) reunion. In Carlito’s Way (1993), director Brian De Palma and Al Pacino give ...
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The Black Phone 4K UHD Review: Unnerving Kidnapping Tale
By Kent Conrad |
Proper new screen horror villains are rare. While it seems like they pop up all the time, the ones that ...
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Night of the Demons 4K UHD Review: Shameless & Shameful Evil Dead Rip-off
By Kent Conrad |
When I saw the opening credits of Night of the Demons, I had the feeling that the animated floating demons ...
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The Exorcist 4K UHD Review: William Friedkin’s Masterpiece
By Greg Hammond |
William Friedkin's The Exorcist is based on the novel and screenplay by William Peter Blatty. The film opens in Iraq, ...
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Cocaine Bear 4K UHD Review: Fans of the Genre Might be Pleased
By Greg Hammond |
In 1985, a drug dealer dumped cocaine out of his Cessna and then fell from the plane to his death. ...
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Batman: Mask of the Phantasm 4K UHD Review: Batman in Love
By Kent Conrad |
In the last couple of decades, DC has been aggressive about adapting its comic book stories into films. Some of ...
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Enter the Dragon 4K UHD Review: Are You Not… Entered?
By Jack Cormack |
Enter the Dragon (1973; dir. Robert Clouse) is one of the most famous kung fu movies ever made. In the ...
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City of the Living Dead 4K UHD Review: Where Zombies Are Ghosts
By Kent Conrad |
What makes Italian horror films of the '70s and '80s exciting is that anything can happen. What makes them infuriating ...
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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Danke Schoen for a Perfect Movie
By Kent Conrad |
For a certain segment of the population, this is the movie. The movie. One of my older brothers. My high ...
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