Hyperspace (3-D Director’s Cut) Blu-ray Review: Funnier Than Spaceballs
By Gordon S. Miller |
Suffering a six-year delay and a very brief U.S. theatrical release, Kino Lorber and 3-D Film Archive have teamed up ...
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Letty Lynton Blu-ray Review: A Pre-Code Melodrama That Blends Romance and Crime
By Gordon S. Miller |
While Letty Lynton is credited with being based on Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes' 1931 novel of the same name about ...
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The Boxer (1977) Blu-ray Review: The Fighter Still Remains
By Mat Brewster |
According to the excellent visual essay by Tom Mes, which is included in this new Blu-ray release of The Boxer, ...
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Scooby-Doo!: The Mystery Begins Blu-ray Review: One of the Best Versions of the Franchise Since Its Heyday
By Shawn Bourdo |
The made-for-television film, Scooby-Doo!: The Mystery Begins aired originally on the Cartoon Network on September 13, 2009. The film debuted ...
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Ping Pong Blu-ray Review: Balls of Furi
By Steve Geise |
At the start of this century, three notable live-action sports comedies emerged from Asia: Waterboys, Ping Pong, and Stephen Chow’s ...
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The Island (1980) 4K UHD Review: At Least It’s Never Boring
By Mat Brewster |
Steven Spielberg's Jaws was a massive success. It turned Spielberg into a household name. It almost single-handedly created the summer-blockbuster ...
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Brit Noir Collection III Blu-ray Review: Panic on the Streets of London
By Steve Geise |
Kino’s third collection of late-period British noir compiles three tense dramas likely to be unknown to most viewers. While there’s ...
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Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal: The Complete Third Season Blu-ray Review: Death Isn’t the End
By Gordon S. Miller |
Although main character Spear was killed off at the end of the second season and there was talk about the ...
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The Double (1971) Blu-ray Review: A Dead Man’s Dream
By Mat Brewster |
A man is shot inside a parking garage. As he lies dying, he flashes back on his life, recalling all ...
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Start the Revolution Without Me Blu-ray Review: An Amusing Parody
By Gordon S. Miller |
Starring Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, and Gene Wilder and Donald Sutherland, Bud Yorkin's Start the Revolution Without Me is ...
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The Maverick Queen Blu-ray Review: Barbara Stanwyck Tangles with Butch and Sundance
By Joe Garcia III |
Directed by Joseph Kane, The Maverick Queen (1956) finds silver-screen queen Barbara Stanwyck squaring off against Butch Cassidy, the Sundance ...
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Sugar Cookies (1973) Blu-ray Review: Exploitation Not Psychological Non-Thriller
By Kent Conrad |
Sugar Cookies is an exploitation movie that desperately wants to be some kind of psychological erotic thriller. It just forgot ...
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Looney Tunes: Collector’s Vault Volume 2 Blu-ray Review: 51 Cartoons, From Their Library to Yours
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Looney Tunes: Collector's Vault Volume 2 is a two-disc set of shorts from 1935 to 1963 with the first ...
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Slap the Monster on Page One Blu-ray Review: Politics and Yellow Journalism in 1970s Italy
By Mat Brewster |
Near the end of this Italian political drama, Bizanti (Gian Maria Volonté), the chief editor of a right-wing, pro-fascist newspaper, ...
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I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol Blu-ray Review: Never Mind the Bullocks, Here’s (the True Story Behind) the Sex Pistols
By Joe Garcia III |
I Was a Teenage Sex Pistol (2025), directed by Nick Mead and Andre Relis, tells the story of Glen Matlock, ...
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The Nine Demons: Visual Vengeance Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: A Devilish Good Time
By Steve Geise |
Are you tired of all of these meticulously restored and remastered films? Ready for a blast of unadulterated, classic kung ...
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The Paper: Season One Blu-ray Review: Return-to-Office Mandate
By Steve Geise |
Dunder Mifflin is no more, but their Toledo-based parent paper company is still very much in business. Operating out of ...
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The Song of Songs Blu-ray Review: Dietrich Moves from Muse to Master
By Steve Geise |
Marlene Dietrich is generally remembered for her fierce independence and abandonment of societal norms, marked by glamorous crossdressing, affairs with ...
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Colt .45 Blu-ray Review: You’d Watch It for Randolph Scott
By Joe Garcia III |
Colt .45 (1950) is a fun western with a simple plot. Directed by Edwin L. Mann and filmed in Technicolor, ...
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A Magnificent Life Blu-ray Review: A Mediocre Life Story
By Steve Geise |
Writer/director Sylvain Chomet rose to international fame with his 2003 breakout animated feature film, The Triplets of Belleville. Even within ...
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The Christophers Blu-ray Review: Soderbergh Paints a Masterpiece
By Steve Geise |
Sometimes the best way to experience a great film is to know nothing about it. I went into this Blu-ray ...
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Dastardly & Muttley in Their Flying Machines: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: For the Birds
By Steve Geise |
Warner Archive continues their Blu-ray upsells of classic Hanna-Barbara animated series with this 1969 oddity, previously only available on DVD. ...
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Night and Day Blu-ray Review: Cole Porter Vanishes Behind Cary Grant’s Star Power
By Steve Geise |
This biopic about Cole Porter boasts more than 20 of his songs. If that sounds like a lot, it is, ...
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A Man Named Rocca / La Scoumoune Blu-rays Review: Same Story, Same Actor, Very Different Films
By Mat Brewster |
In 1962, French author José Giovanni wrote a novel entitled L'Excommunié about an ex-gangster who comes to Marseilles to help ...
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Difficult People: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Series Close to My Heart
By Davy |
Every now and then, there is a show that comes along and really wins me over (despite the fact that ...
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The Black Shield of Falworth Blu-ray Review: Men in Tights
By Steve Geise |
This 1954 swashbuckler is most notable for the romantic pairing of real-life married couple Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh. Curtis ...
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo Blu-ray Review: Just Over Two Hours on Your Television Screen
By Mat Brewster |
Just over four months after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, 15 American B-25 bombers took off from aircraft carriers in ...
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Pretty Maids All in a Row Blu-ray Review: Exploitation with a Social Conscience
By Mat Brewster |
From a certain angle, it seems absolutely bonkers that a film starring Rock Hudson, Telly Savalas, Angie Dickinson, and Roddy ...
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Come Live with Me Blu-ray Review: A Very Relaxed Film
By Mat Brewster |
World War II-era films are fascinating to me. Especially those made in America before the USA entered the war. There ...
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Hang ‘Em High 4K UHD Review: An Important Film for the Western Genre in America
By Shawn Bourdo |
In 1968, Clint Eastwood was in the midst of his evolution from a television star in Rawhide to an International ...
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Strange Cargo Blu-ray Review: Weird Movie
By Mat Brewster |
Joan Crawford and Clark Gable starred in eight films together, all for MGM. Strange Cargo was the final one. It ...
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High Art Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Must Have for Queer-film Aficionados and Indie-film Buffs
By Davy |
Pride month is over, but it's really not. Resilience and resistance are key to our survival as LGBTQIA+ people, especially ...
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Hi, Mom! 4K UHD Review: Young, Feral De Palma
By Joe Keaton |
Brian De Palma’s fourth feature, Hi, Mom!, is the suspense master’s first—and arguably best—full-blown comedy. Loose, politically charged, and eager ...
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The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Blu-ray Review: Whole Lotta Stuff Going On
By Greg Hammond |
Three years after The Super Mario Bros. Movie turned Nintendo's mascot into a box-office powerhouse, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie ...
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Gilmore Girls: The Series Blu-ray Review: Days of Their Lives
By Gordon S. Miller |
Gilmore Girls: The Series collects the previously released seven seasons (1-6, The WB / 7, The CW) and revival miniseries, ...
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The Mastermind Blu-ray Review: That Title Might Be Sarcastic
By Mat Brewster |
On the outside, JB Mooney (Josh O'Connor) has a pretty good life. He's got a nice wife (Alana Haim) and ...
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Born a Ninja / Commando the Ninja Blu-ray Review: Recycled Ninja Trash but Fun
By Kent Conrad |
It's an interesting challenge to write a review on a movie, or pair of movies, when the liner notes in ...
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Eagles of the Republic Blu-ray Review: The Folly of State-Controlled Media
By Steve Geise |
When Egypt’s biggest movie star gets an offer to star in a state-funded biopic about the current president, he has ...
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La Tête Contre les Murs Blu-ray Review: The First Film from a French Master
By Mat Brewster |
George Franju cut his teeth making political documentaries. One was a blood soaked look inside a slaughterhouse. Two others were ...
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Unearthly Stranger Blu-ray Review: Strange, But Entirely Earthbound
By Steve Geise |
This 1963 British sci-fi film ratchets up tension by keeping alien threats completely hidden, with the increasingly stressed characters racing ...
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Inspector Maigret Collection Blu-ray Review: Jean Gabin Closes Three Cases
By Steve Geise |
French film titan Jean Gabin starred as Inspector Maigret in three films, which have all been collected in this new ...
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The Gay Divorcee Blu-ray Review: Astaire and Rogers. Together Again for the First Time
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on the Broadway musical Gay Divorce, The Gay Divorcee is the second of the ten movies Fred Astaire and ...
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Brit Noir Collection II Blu-ray Review: A Jack Hawkins Triple Feature
By Mat Brewster |
Nearly five years ago, I reviewed a DVD collection of British noir films. I was not particularly enthused by it. ...
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Solo (1970) Blu-ray Review: A Character-driven Thriller
By Mat Brewster |
A group of rich, elderly men are having a sex party with a bunch of underage girls. Suddenly, there is ...
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White Zombie (1932) Blu-ray Review: A Fun, Spooky Relic
By Gordon S. Miller |
Victor Halperin's White Zombie is a pre-Code horror film, credited as the first full-length zombie movie. While some characters make ...
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Waves of Lust Blu-ray Review: A Tsunami of Female Nudity
By Mat Brewster |
When I was a younger man, I loved low-budget horror films and exploitation flicks. There was something so exciting about ...
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao Blu-ray Review: Cabinet of Curiosities
By Steve Geise |
Tony Randall got the opportunity to show vast range in this 1965 fantasy fable, playing seven distinct characters in such ...
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Scream 7 4K UHD Review: Neve Campbell Steals the Show
By Davy |
Scream 7, directed by the original film's screenwriter Kevin Williamson, has Sidney Prescott (Neve Campbell) living a new life far ...
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Sirat Blu-ray Review: The Journey Is the Destination
By Steve Geise |
A desperate elderly father shows up at a remote rave in the Moroccan wilderness in the hopes of locating his ...
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Aesthetics of a Bullet Blu-ray Review: Character Study of a Loser
By Mat Brewster |
Kiyoshi Koike (Tsunehiko Wasabe) is a schmuck. A big time loser. He used to be a chef, but now he ...
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