The Curse of Frankenstein 4K UHD Movie Review: The Dawn of Hammer Films
By Greg Hammond |
Terence Fisher’s The Curse of Frankenstein, stars Peter Cushing as Victor Frankenstein. It was the first Hammer horror film in ...
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The Cat and the Canary (1927) 4K UHD Review: Silently Delightful
By Mat Brewster |
I've seen something like 40 silent films in my life. That isn't a lot considering the hundreds of silents that ...
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Weapons 4K UHD Review: Don’t Fall for the Hype
By Greg Hammond |
Weapons, the second thriller/horror film from Zack Cregger (Barbarian), tells the story of a mid-size, Northeastern town where 17 third-graders, ...
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Knight Rider (1982): The Complete Series 4K UHD Review: Boy Meets Car
By Gordon S. Miller |
Glen A. Larson had a prolific career in television as a writer and producer in a variety of genres, and ...
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Rampage (1987) 4K UHD Review: Murder Thriller Almost Gets It
By Kent Conrad |
William Friedkin did not have an easy '80s. From the giddy heights of The Exorcist, his prestige had fallen with ...
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A Nightmare on Elm Street 7-Film Collection 4K UHD Review: A Dream Come True
By Mat Brewster |
When I was in seventh or eighth grade, I had an 8-foot tall poster of Freddy Krueger that I displayed ...
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The Bad Guys 2 Collector’s Edition 4K UHD Review: A Sequel That Strikes Gold
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Bad Guys are a quintet of five traditionally bad animals: Wolf (Sam Rockwell), Tarantula (Awkwafina), Snake (Marc Maron), Shark ...
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F1 The Movie 4K UHD Review: Brad Pitt Feels the Need for Speed
By Steve Geise |
What is it about veteran actors and racing movies? With F1, Brad Pitt joins a club including James Garner in ...
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride 4K UHD Review: Such a Beautiful Nothing
By Kent Conrad |
I do not know Tim Burton (in high school one of my classmates claimed his aunt dated him). I do ...
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Dogtooth 4K UHD Review: Deeply Weird but Satisfying
By Mat Brewster |
As the parent of a teenager in these times, I have to admit I feel a great deal of anxiety ...
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The Concorde…Airport ’79 4K UHD Review: The Disaster Movie That Ended Them All
By Mat Brewster |
Disaster movies were hugely popular throughout the 1970s. They featured large casts full of classic actors and young, up and ...
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The Last of Us: The Complete Second Season 4K UHD Steelbook Review: Terrific Television
By Mat Brewster |
Sequels are hard. Television series past season number one are hard. The moment right before you start to tell a ...
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Airport ’77 4K UHD Review: Another Day, Another Disaster
By Mat Brewster |
Disaster movies remained quite popular throughout the 1970s, and despite the general critical consensus that these movies aren't very good, ...
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City on Fire (1987) UHD Review: Who Do You Trust?
By Gordon S. Miller |
Ringo Lam's City on Fire is a gritty crime drama that takes place on the streets of Hong Kong where ...
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Airport (1970) 4K UHD Review: The Disaster Movie That Started Them All
By Mat Brewster |
In the same way John Carpenter's Halloween (1978) didn't invent the slasher movie but rather popularized it and created the ...
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Xanadu 4K UHD/Blu-ray Review: You Have to Believe Movie Musical Magic
By Lorna Miller |
Xanadu is a film I watch every couple of years. I was a fan from the start while the film ...
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The Conjuring 4K UHD Review: Great Actors in Search of a Scary Story
By Greg Hammond |
James Wan’s The Conjuring, starring Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as supernatural investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren, has spawned cinema’s ...
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Palindromes 4K UHD Review: Interesting Idea Falls Flat
By Greg Hammond |
Nine years after Todd Solondz’s highly acclaimed Welcome to the Dollhouse, he wrote and directed 2004’s Palindromes; a film that ...
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Lethal Weapon 4K UHD Review: Killer Chemistry
By Rocky London |
The first Lethal Weapon is a satisfying cop caper, directed with a sure, slick hand by that old studio pro ...
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Re-Animator 4K UHD Review: Dead Funny
By Rocky London |
Behold, Re-Animator (1985; dir. Stuart Gordon)—baby, you’re back. And in stunning 4K, no less. You still kick like a mule ...
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Black Bag 4K UHD Review: Soderbergh’s Bag of Tricks Expands to Espionage
By Steve Geise |
George and Kathryn Woodhouse are married British spies who work in the same office, throwing George’s life into disarray when ...
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Dirty Harry 4K UHD Review: Justice and Anarchy
By Kent Conrad |
I felt a little sad after watching Dirty Harry. It wasn't my first time, of course. I've seen the movie ...
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The Outlaw Josey Wales 4K UHD Review: The Weary Gunslinger
By Rocky London |
A Missouri farmer goes guerrilla after Union raiders kill his family—that’s the basic setup of The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976; ...
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Dune: Prophecy: The Complete First Season 4K UHD Review: Spice World
By David Wangberg |
The resurgence of Dune in the cultural lexicon has been awesome to see in recent years, thanks to Denis Villeneuve’s ...
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Better Man 4K UHD Review: Robbie Williams Is a Monkey
By Kent Conrad |
Reviewing this film, it is hard to separate the art from the commercial. Because if I was to contemplate the ...
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Pale Rider 4K UHD Review: Horseman is Drawing Nearer
By David Wangberg |
For the true Western genre fans out there, it’s not hard to see that Pale Rider is, essentially, an updated ...
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Career Opportunities 4K UHD Review: More Than Just Jennifer Connelly in a White Tank Top
By Mat Brewster |
Jennifer Connelly wearing a white tank top while riding a mechanical horse. It is an iconic scene. It is probably ...
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Blue Sunshine 4K UHD Review: A Bald Head-trip
By Rocky London |
Some horror flicks don’t want to scare the bejesus out of you. They just want to leave a thumbprint on ...
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The Long Kiss Goodnight 4K UHD Review: Aggressively Entertaining, Aggressively Stupid
By Kent Conrad |
The Long Kiss Goodnight is constantly at war with itself, and I blame the director. Renny Harlin is better known ...
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The Last of Us: The Complete First Season 4K UHD Steelbook Review: The Best of TV
By Mat Brewster |
Who would have thought that Craig Mazin, writer of lowbrow comedies such as Scary Movie 3 & 4 and The ...
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Companion 4K UHD Review: Babe Runner
By David Wangberg |
The discussion of A.I. has been ongoing for years, and it’s certainly been a subject for many forms of art ...
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Flight Risk 4K UHD Review: Cleared for Landing
By David Wangberg |
It amazes me that, 20 years after the fact, marketing teams are still afraid to advertise a film as “From ...
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Delicatessen 4K UHD Review: The Most Romantic Cannibal Horror Film Ever Made
By Mat Brewster |
Set in a post-apocalyptic France where jobs are scarce, food is scarcer, and currency is made of grain, Delicatessen, the ...
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Paddington 2 4K UHD Review: Great, Goofy Fun
By Greg Hammond |
Paddington 2 is a live-action/animated comedy directed by Paul King and written by King and Simon Farnaby. It is based ...
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The Nice Guys 4K UHD Review: The Best Buddy Cop Movie in Years
By David Wangberg |
Shane Black’s The Nice Guys was one of those films that took a giant swing, and audiences – for some ...
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Venom (1981) 4K UHD Review: No Spider-Man Here, Just Deadly Snakes
By Mat Brewster |
Tobe Hooper was originally set to direct Venom. It is unclear exactly when he backed out. It was far enough ...
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Trick or Treat (1986) 4K UHD Review: Definitely a Treat
By Mat Brewster |
Eddie Weinbauer (Marc Price), or Ragman to his friends (I should write "friend" in the singular because he only has ...
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My Girl 4K UHD Review: She’s Got Sunshine on a Cloudy Day
By Mat Brewster |
Getting old is weird. Beyond the failing eyesight and heightened blood pressure, the utter confusion of who anyone is at ...
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Amadeus 4K UHD Review: A Fight at the Opera
By Greg Hammond |
Milos Forman’s Amadeus is a fictional account of the relationship between two exceptional composers, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce) and ...
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Constantine 4K UHD Review: God’s a Kid with an Ant Farm
By Greg Hammond |
Constantine, the directorial debut of Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend, most of The Hunger Games series), stars Keanu Reeves as ...
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Steven Wilson: Home Invasion: In Concert at the Royal Albert Hall 4K UHD Review
By Kent Conrad |
It's probably too much to say Steven Wilson single-handedly saved prog rock for the 21st century. Any musical movement is ...
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Conclave 4K UHD Review: Electing A Pope Has Never Been This Thrilling
By Mat Brewster |
I grew up in the Church of Christ. That's about as polar opposite of the Catholic Church as you can ...
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Seven 4K UHD Review: An Upgrade Worth (Serial) Killing For
By Mat Brewster |
I've been fascinated with serial killers since I first watched The Silence of the Lambs in 1991. Actually, I think ...
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The Talk of the Town 4K UHD Review: Bromance Before Romance
By Steve Geise |
Cary Grant is the biggest star in this 1942 comedy classic, but he’s just one part of a lead trio ...
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Paris, Texas Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Sundown
By Rocky London |
There is a quiet, lingering beauty to Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas (winner of the 1984 Palme D’Or). And once it ...
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The Searchers 4K UHD Review: “I Figure on Gettin’ Myself Un-surrounded”
By Greg Hammond |
John Ford’s The Searchers, written by Frank S. Nugent, is based on the novel of the same name by Alan ...
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Rock ‘n’ Roll High School 4K UHD Review: Do Your Parents Know You’re Ramones?
By Greg Hammond |
Allan Arkush’s Rock ‘n’ Roll High School stars P. J. Soles as Riff Randell, a high school student who is ...
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The Terminator 4K UHD Review: Tech Noir
By Rocky London |
The Terminator (1984; dir. James Cameron) is a suspenseful, A-tier B-movie—a “tech noir” crafted with cunning and care by a ...
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The Block Island Sound 4K UHD Review: Something in the Water
By Kent Conrad |
You do not want your parents to succumb to the indignity of senescence. To lose their personalities to dementia, and ...
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The Addiction 4K UHD Review: Vampires, Philosophy, and More Vampires
By Kent Conrad |
The Addiction is about vampires. The Addiction is about evil and how it is connected to the human condition. The ...
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