Clash by Night (1952) Blu-ray Review: A Fritz Lang Dud
By Joe Keaton |
In Clash by Night, a former good-time girl, Mae (Barbara Stanwyck), returns home to Monterey, California. Done with her drifting ...
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Return to Seoul Blu-ray Review: A Young Life in Turmoil
By Davy |
We all often wonder who we really are, where we come from, and where we are going. Sometimes we let ...
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Max Fleischer’s Superman 1941-1943 Blu-ray Review: It’s a Bird! It’s a Plane! It’s DNR!
By Gordon S. Miller |
After Superman became a sensation in comic books, newspaper comic strips, and on the radio, Fleischer Studios, home of cartoons ...
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The Loveless Blu-ray Review: A Stylish Mash-Up of Two Very Different Outlaw Biker Classics
By Joe Garcia III |
They’re loud, fast, and out of control! And that's just the motorcycles! Engines roar and trouble soars when this relentless ...
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Storm Warming Blu-ray Review: A Flawed but Hard-hitting Expose of Small Town Corruption
By Davy |
The 1950s may have seemed somewhat wholesome and Cleaveresque, but make no mistake, there were a lot of worms hidden ...
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One Way Passage Blu-ray Review: Book This Voyage
By Steve Geise |
When a convicted murderer gets extradited from Hong Kong to San Francisco, the last thing on his mind is falling ...
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The Strawberry Blonde Blu-ray Review: A Sweet and Charming Piece of Old Hollywood
By Greg Hammond |
The Strawberry Blonde (1941) is directed by Raoul Walsh; stars James Cagney, Olivia De Havilland, and Rita Hayworth; and is ...
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Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen, Part One Blue-ray Review: When There Is Action, the Film Shines
By Greg Hammond |
Justice League x RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsman, Part One has been released direct-to-video and follows a separate storyline from ...
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The Sunday Woman Blu-ray Review: A Strange Little Movie That Defies Expectations and Genre Delineations
By Mat Brewster |
An Italian Poliziotteschi by way of Agatha Christie. A murder mystery that's more interested in high society and class distinction ...
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Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Review: The End of a Prehistoric Era
By Gordon S. Miller |
In my review of Genndy Tartakovsky's Primal: The Complete First Season, I called the series an “animation masterpiece.” As the ...
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Terminal Invasion Blu-ray Review: An Alien Walks into an Airport…
By Gordon S. Miller |
Back in 2002, the Sci-Fi Channel debuted Terminal Invasion, one of their first original productions, under their Saturday Night Movie ...
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Backtrack (1990) Blu-ray Review: Dennis Hopper’s Lost… Piece
By Kent Conrad |
Backtrack feels like one of the weird indie comedy-crime-dramas that came out in the wake of Pulp Fiction's success. It's ...
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Two Witches Blu-ray Review: Two Witches Casts a Classic Horror Spell
By Joe Garcia III |
“You're in the dark now” as hinges creak, shadows creep, candles flicker and danger lurks in shadowy places throughout this ...
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Heat (1986) Blu-ray Review: Burt Reynolds Comes Back Fighting
By Kent Conrad |
They call him "Mex." His name is Nick Escaflante (Burt Reynolds), and we meet him drunk in a bar hitting ...
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Hell Is for Heroes Blu-ray Review: Slowly Draws One in Just Enough to Guarantee Disappointment
By Rons Reviews |
Have you ever come upon a movie that you are sure you must have seen before, but just can’t remember? ...
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His Dark Materials: The Complete Season Three Blu-ray Review: A Fitting Finale for this Series
By David Wangberg |
All too often, successful television shows go on longer than they should. Most of the time, it results in the ...
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Living Blu-ray Review: Anchored by the Exquisite Metamorphosis of Bill Nighy’s Lead Performance
By Gordon S. Miller |
Directed by Oliver Hermanus, Living is adapted from 1952 Akira Kurosawa's Ikiru (1952) by screenwriter Kazuo Ishiguro, who set the ...
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Magic Mike’s Last Dance Blu-ray Review: The Cohesiveness and Comradery of the First Two Installments Is Missing
By Lorna Miller |
Magic Mike’s Last Dance is a departure from the previous films. While it still offers sexy, astoundingly choreographed dance numbers ...
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Cocaine Bear (Maximum Rampage Edition) Blu-ray Review: Bump This Up to the Top of Your To-Watch List
By Gordon S. Miller |
In the grand cinematic tradition of bear-rampage movies like Grizzly and Grizzly 2 comes Elizabeth Banks's Cocaine Bear, an amusing ...
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The Big Easy (1986) Blu-ray Review: Corrupt Cop Chews Scenery
By Kent Conrad |
For Remy McSwain (Dennis Quaid), life in the Big Easy is smooth. He's got his big smile (he's Dennis Quaid, ...
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Wild in the Country (1961) Blu-ray Review: Dramatic Elvis in the Country
By Joe Garcia III |
See Elvis Presley run Wild in the Country. Watch him croon as lovely ladies swoon. There's Millie Perkins, Tuesday Weld, ...
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Black Sunday (1977) Special Edition Blu-ray Review: The Creep in the Blimp
By Joe Keaton |
It gets off to a fast start. Yet Black Sunday (1977; dir. John Frankenheimer), one of the better disaster flicks ...
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Secret Defense Blu-ray Review: Twisty Secrets Hampered by Indefensible Direction
By Steve Geise |
This French drama gets off to a promising start when a scientist named Sylvie (Sandrine Bonnaire) learns that her father ...
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Arsène Lupin Collection Blu-ray Review: Two Hits and a Miss
By Steve Geise |
The famous fictional thief arrives on Blu-ray in this new collection of three of his French theatrical adventures. The Lupin ...
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Silent Avant-Garde Blu-ray Review: Interesting and Assorted Curiosities
By Davy |
I have come around on silent cinema, and I've always loved experimental/avant-garde films. Putting the two rather misunderstood categories of ...
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Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham Blu-ray Review: Superhero Goes Supernatural
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on the Elseworlds miniseries of the same name written by Mike Mignola and Richard Pace, Batman: The Doom That ...
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The Dark (1979) Blu-ray Review: I’d Be Okay If It Had Stayed in the Dark
By Joe Garcia III |
The Dark is probably better left there, in the dark. Starring William Devane, Cathy Lee Crosby, Richard Jaeckel with appearances ...
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Flaming Ears Blu-ray Review: A Striking Experience
By Davy |
Despite the fact that you always hear the demeaning phrase "Cinema is dead", when it comes to many areas of ...
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Knockabout Blu-ray Review: Sticks, Shticks, and Slapstick
By Steve Geise |
Arrow Video continues their new series of Sammo Hung releases with this action comedy from early in his directorial career. ...
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Chilly Scenes of Winter Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Star of the Movie Is Director Joan Micklin Silver
By Greg Hammond |
Joan Micklin Silver’s Chilly Scenes of Winter is based on the best-selling book of the same name by Ann Beattie. ...
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Heartland of Darkness Blu-ray Review: Linnea Quigley’s Lost Movie
By Joe Garcia III |
Heartland of Darkness is truly straight from the 1980s. Filmed in1989 but never released in its entirety until 2022. Known ...
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The Retaliators (2022) Blu-ray Review: Crisis of Faith Meets Zombies
By Mat Brewster |
Stories about men encountering a crisis of faith are as old as stories, or as old as crises, or at ...
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Millionaires’ Express Blu-ray Review: Chinese Bullet Train
By Steve Geise |
After shining a light on the rise of the Hong Kong film industry with their phenomenal Shaw Brothers box sets, ...
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The Vagrant (1992) Blu-ray Review: Baffling, but Never Boring Horror Film
By Kent Conrad |
The Vagrant has about four movies worth of themes and plots, but less than a single film's coherence. It's weird, ...
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Panther (1995) Blu-ray Review: No, Not That Black Panther
By Joe Garcia III |
From director Mario Van Peebles comes Panther (1995), the highly fictionalized story of the rise and fall of the Black ...
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The House That Screamed Blu-ray Review: A Hallmark of European Horror
By Davy |
I have discovered so many hidden gems in the horror genre. These films contain expert filmmaking, strong performances, sheer atmosphere, ...
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Fill ‘er Up with Super Blu-ray Review: A Down-to-Earth Meditation of Male Bonding and Bruised Masculinity
By Davy |
I always enjoy simple films about the flaws of human beings and how their insecurities and toxicities are made bare ...
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The Adventures of Batman: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: Filmation’s First Animated Iteration of the Caped Crusader
By Gordon S. Miller |
Filmation followed up The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure (1967) with The Batman/Superman Hour (1968), securing the rights to the first ...
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Puss in Boots: The Last Wish Blu-ray Review: Puss Meets Death for the Ninth Time
By Kent Conrad |
The Shrek series has been dormant in the cinema for over a decade, since the release of the first Puss ...
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Training Day 4K UHD Review: King Kong Ain’t Got Sh*t on Him!
By Joe Keaton |
Let’s talk about Training Day (2001; dir. Antoine Fuqua). Modern-day L.A.: Jake, a rookie cop (Ethan Hawke, in an Oscar-nominated ...
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Hollywood Shuffle Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Be the Change You Want to See
By Gordon S. Miller |
When struggling actor Robert Townsend was frustrated by the stereotypical and racist roles he was being offered as a black ...
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The Magnificent Seven (1960) 4K UHD Review: McQueen Rising
By Joe Keaton |
It’s an Old West spin on a brilliant film, director Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai. And hey, did it need to ...
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom Blu-ray Review: Guess Who’s Coming to Breakfast
By Steve Geise |
London, 1968. It’s the height and epicenter of the Swinging Sixties, and hip housewife Mrs. Blossom (Shirley MacLaine) is content ...
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Dazed and Confused Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: School’s Out
By Joe Keaton |
Dazed and Confused (1993; dir. Richard Linklater) circuits darkness: On the last day of school before the summer of 1976, ...
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The Fabelmans Blu-ray Review: Steven Spielberg’s Cinema Paradiso
By David Wangberg |
It’s hard to imagine what cinema would be like without Steven Spielberg’s presence. He’s the man who created the first ...
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Deadly Games Blu-ray Review: More Like Slays of Our Lives
By Joe Garcia III |
Deadly Games (1982) is the passion project of writer/director Scott Mansfield and passions do play a large role in this odd ...
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Francois Truffaut Collection Blu-ray Review: L’Enfant Tendre
By Joe Keaton |
Director Francois Truffaut was a darling of French New Wave cinema. He left us some good movies. Unlike some of ...
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Love on the Ground Blu-ray Review: Much Ado About Nothing
By Steve Geise |
This 1984 French drama follows actors rehearsing a play, a time-worn concept of a show within a show dating back ...
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Ghostriders Blu-ray Review: They Aren’t Just in the Sky!
By Joe Garcia III |
MVD Visual brings to Blu-ray a refreshingly clear, remastered print of director/producer Alan Stewart’s Ghostriders (1987). A low budget action/horror ...
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Let’s Hope It’s a Girl Blu-ray Review: Italian Film, Continental Cast
By Steve Geise |
While this Italian film was a critical success in its native land in 1986, winning seven of its national awards ...
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