Diva 4K UHD Review: The Queen of Color
By Steve Geise |
I’d never seen Diva before this new 4K release, and I’m glad I waited. Powered by exquisite cinematography punctuated by ...
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Keeper 4K UHD Review: Weird Movie, Fantastic Direction
By Kent Conrad |
Liz is pretty excited to go on a weekend trip to Malcolm Westbridge's cabin. Kind of, because though she's pretty ...
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Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde 4K UHD Review: A Good Balance of Horror and Comedy
By Gordon S. Miller |
In Victorian England, a series of murders terrorizes London and it's clear from the film's title, Abbott and Costello Meet ...
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Death on the Nile (1978) 4K UHD Review: Poirot in High Definition
By Mat Brewster |
A little over 20 years ago, my wife and I spent about 10 days in Paris over the winter holidays. ...
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Evil Under the Sun 4K UHD Review: Exactly What I Want from an Agatha Christie Adaptation
By Mat Brewster |
Peter Ustinov portrayed Agatha Christie's great Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, a total of six times from 1978 to 1986. The ...
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Barry Lyndon Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: An Absolute Masterpiece
By Mat Brewster |
Though I am very much a fan of Stanley Kubrick's films, I have put off watching Barry Lyndon for years. ...
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The Killer (1989) Deluxe 4K UHD Review: A Breathtaking Ballet of Blood and Bullets
By Gordon S. Miller |
Written and directed by John Woo, The Killer is a seminal '80s action film that gets the Deluxe 4K UHD ...
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man 4K UHD Review: Does a Great Job Blending Genres
By Gordon S. Miller |
Set in the same universe as The Invisible Man (1933) because the invisible serum used was invented by John Griffin ...
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Catch Me If You Can 4K UHD Review: Catch It As Soon As You Can
By Mat Brewster |
Frank Abagnale, Jr., is a con man. His biggest con may have been convincing a lot of people that he ...
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Isle of Dogs Criterion Collection Review: A Boy and His Dog and Other Dogs
By Gordon S. Miller |
Nine years after the fantastic Fantastic Mr. Fox, writer/director Wes Anderson returned to stop-motion animation with Isle of Dogs (2018), ...
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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein 4K UHD Review: One of the Best Horror Comedies
By Gordon S. Miller |
Although it's not the first time someone came up with the idea of pairing horror and comedy, Abbott and Costello ...
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Scars of Dracula 4K UHD Review: A Blood-sucking Delight
By Mat Brewster |
The success of The Curse of Frankenstein in 1957 led Hammer Studios to make a slew of horror films, many ...
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The Ninja Trilogy 4K UHD Review: A Ninja Good Time
By Mat Brewster |
If you were a boy of a certain age in the early 1980s, you probably had a thing for ninjas. ...
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Alec Guinness Masterpiece Collection 4K UHD Review: So Much More Than Obi-Wan
By Mat Brewster |
I'm of the generation that knows Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi from the Star Wars movies. Older generations will know ...
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The Searchers 4K UHD Review: He Had to Find Her
By Shawn Bourdo |
By 1956, John Ford had already won four Best Director Oscars. He didn't have anything left to prove as a ...
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Burden of Dreams Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: Madness and Art in the Jungle
By Mat Brewster |
Werner Herzog is one of cinema's greatest directors. His films are strange and wonderful. They are imbued with a sense ...
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Howards End 4K UHD Review: A Confounding “Romance”
By Greg Hammond |
Howards End, based on the novel by E. M. Forster, and directed by James Ivory, is a visual treat filled ...
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Dust Devil (1992) 4K UHD Review: Beautiful, Baffling African Horror
By Kent Conrad |
Richard Stanley's career has been haphazard at best. He started making videos for the weird goth-cowboy British band Fields of ...
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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 Joe Keaton |
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 Joe Keaton |
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 Joe Keaton |
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 Joe Keaton |
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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