Road Games (1981) Blu-ray Review: Today’s Roadkill, Tomorrow’s Bacon
By Joe Keaton |
From scene one of Road Games, the film grabs us. There is an extended moment, however, when we realize we are ...
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Millennium Actress Blu-ray Review: Animated Japanese Film Fantasia
By Kent Conrad |
It's a love letter to film, a historical overview of early to mid-century Japan, and a biography of an actress ...
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The Fly Collection Blu-ray Review: Be Excited, Be Very Excited to Own This
By Mat Brewster |
It is a deceptively simply story. A man invents a machine that can instantly teleport matter from one place to ...
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The Goldfinch Blu-ray Review: A Beautiful but Messy Underachievement
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Frank Every few years, a book comes along that everyone reads. Every book club picks it as ...
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The Fan (1981) Blu-ray Review: Bloody ’80s Stalking Thriller
By Kent Conrad |
The Fan was made in 1981. It's about a deranged man who kills people. He uses a special weapon to do ...
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All About Eve Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: All the World’s a Stage
By Steve Geise |
Best Picture Oscar winners don't always age well, but as All About Eve approaches its 70th anniversary, it's every bit as entertaining ...
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Jake Speed Blu-ray Review: When Indiana Jones and Brendan Fraser Aren’t Available, Call Jake Speed
By Mat Brewster |
My mother likes to call the Brendan Fraser Mummy movies “a poor man's Indiana Jones.” What she means is that both series ...
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Now, Voyager Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Superior Tearjerker
By Davy |
With her saucer eyes, unparalled intensity, and unbridled non-vanity, Bette Davis has been and still is regarded as one of ...
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The Fare Blu-ray Review: Groundhog Day in a Cab
By Mat Brewster |
A taxicab driver named Harris (Gino Anthony Pese) gets a call to pick up someone in the middle of nowhere. ...
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Funan Blu-ray Review: A Genocide Through the Eyes of One Family
By Mat Brewster |
In the mid to late 1970s, the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia as one of the most brutal regimes in modern ...
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Prophecy Blu-ray Review: Bear Loaf
By Joe Keaton |
It was not supposed to turn out like this. For years, the Pitney lumber mill in Maine soaked its river-borne ...
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The Circus Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Tramp Plays the Big Top
By Gordon S. Miller |
Made between his classic films The Gold Rush and City Lights, Charlie Chaplin's The Circus presents an entertaining outing for the Tramp who once again ...
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Hitch Hike to Hell Blu-ray Review: Put Your Thumb Down and Run
By Mat Brewster |
If you are a fan of Netflix's excellent series Mindhunter, then you may feel a sense of familiarity with Howard (Robert Gribbin), ...
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Road Games Blu-ray Review: A Rear Windowesque Road Movie
By Davy |
The Ozploitation era during the early '70s throughout the '80s had unleashed films with modest budgets, horror/comedy/action elements, nudity (mostly ...
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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping Blu-ray Review: Musical Parody Mostly Amusing
By Kent Conrad |
Comedy, like horror, is largely critic-proof, because the power of the genre lies in an immediate emotional reaction. You get ...
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Blinded by the Light Blu-ray Review: A Sweet Coming-of-Age Story with a Great Springsteen Soundtrack
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Glen Boyd On first blush, producer/director Gurinder Chadra's Blinded by The Light can come across as a little cheesy - ...
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The Farewell Blu-ray Review: Family Matters
By David Wangberg |
When someone is diagnosed with a terminal illness, the automatic assumption is that the person should know what they have ...
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The Dead Center Blu-ray Review: Mostly Effective Psychological Horror
By Kent Conrad |
A spiral is integral to The Dead Center's imagery and story. A spiral appears on the photographs of a body from ...
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Flowers in the Attic (1987) Blu-ray Review: I Think They Wilted
By Mat Brewster |
I have this memory in which my mother gives me a copy of V.C. Andrews' 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic. ...
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Charley Varrick Blu-ray Review: No Country For Walter Matthau
By Mat Brewster |
When I think of Walter Matthau, which is more often than you'd think, I think of him as a comic ...
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Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles Blu-ray Review: Historical Animation Paired with a Dichotomy-Filled Story
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Michael Frank Though not always the case, animated movies have a presumption of innocence, providing a movie-going experience ...
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Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Blu-ray Review: A High-Quality, High-Definition Experience
By Gordon S. Miller |
The folks behind the Fast & Furious franchise took two of their most bankable actors, Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham to lead ...
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Woman in Hiding Blu-ray Review: Worth Looking For
By Mat Brewster |
It is funny how when you discover something you'd never noticed before you suddenly start seeing it everywhere you look. ...
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Dreamworks Ultimate Holiday Collection Blu-ray Review: Holiday Specials for a New Generation
By Todd Karella |
As my friends and family can attest, Christmas is my favorite time of year. Not only do I decorate the ...
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Ringu Collection Blu-ray Review: Ghostly Revenge, Again and Again
By Kent Conrad |
Horror as a genre tends to go through brief periods of inspiration, followed by long slogs of imitation. If you're ...
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It Always Rains on Sunday Blu-ray Review: A Slice of Post-War London
By Mat Brewster |
A man breaks out of prison and returns to the home of his former fiancee. They were set to be ...
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The Man Between Blu-ray Review: Out of The Third Man’s Shadow
By Mat Brewster |
It is difficult not to compare The Man Between, Carol Reed's 1953 thriller to a film he made four years earlier, The ...
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The Cure: 40 Live – Curætion-25 + Anniversary Blu-ray Review: A Black Ruby Jubilee
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Cure: 40 Live collects two outstanding concerts performed in the summer of 2018 as founder Robert Smith, bassist Simon Gallup ...
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Seven Days to Noon Blu-ray Review: A Very Good Drama
By Mat Brewster |
The atomic bomb not only helped win World War II and fueled the Cold War for years after it, but ...
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Polyester Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: John Waters’ First Big-Budget Film
By Jade Blackmore |
Polyester, John Waters' first big budget, mainstream film, was released by in 1981 by New Line Cinema. Its $300,000 budget ...
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Naked Alibi Blu-ray Review: Gloria Grahame Steals the Show
By Mat Brewster |
The cops pick up a guy on a drunk and disorderly. He doesn't have any identification but says he's a ...
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Apprentice to Murder Blu-ray Review: Graduated to Boring
By Mat Brewster |
The early 1970s saw several British films being released that have been defined as “folk horror” by fans. These are ...
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Scars of Dracula Blu-ray Review: A Bit of a Retread but Still Enjoyable
By Gordon S. Miller |
Scars of Dracula is Hammer's sixth Dracula film and the fifth to feature Christopher Lee. It follows a familiar template: Dracula ...
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Ringu Blu-ray Review: One Ring That Started Them All
By Mat Brewster |
Japanese folklore has long included ghosts who haunt the living because they died with anger, rage, fear, or some other ...
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Scarface: The World Is Yours Limited Edition Review: Say ‘Hello’ to Your New Christmas Present
By Mat Brewster |
In the opening of Howard Hawks's gangster film Scarface (1932), we see a title card that notes that the film is an indictment ...
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Genius Party & Genius Party Beyond Blu-ray Review: Dozen Odd Egg Japanese Animations
By Kent Conrad |
Short movies get kind of short shrift because... they're short. And even though our modern mode of considering a "film" ...
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Toy Story 4 Blu-ray Review: A Toy’s Purpose
By Gordon S. Miller |
Even though Toy Story 3 seemed the perfect ending to the film franchise, Toy Story 4 offers a compelling continuation of the beloved Pixar ...
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La Marseillaise Blu-ray Review: Viva La Revolution!
By Mat Brewster |
The French Revolution is one of the most important events of modern history. That mere commoners - people stricken with ...
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My Boyfriend’s Back Blu-ray Review: A Light Comedy with Zombies
By Mat Brewster |
There has been a lot of bemoaning over the last few years about how Avenger-sized films have destroyed the mid-budget ...
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And Soon the Darkness (Special Edition) Blu-ray Review: And Eventually the Thrills
By Mat Brewster |
Two British nurses, Jane (Pamela Franklin) and Cathy (Michele Dotrice), take a cycling holiday in rural France. They've planned their ...
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Nightmare Beach Blu-ray Review: Somebody Wake Me Up
By Mat Brewster |
If you've ever wondered what it would be like to mix an ‘80s slasher with an ‘80s spring break comedy, ...
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Hercules in the Haunted World Blu-ray Review: Sword & Sandals Meets Horror
By Mat Brewster |
For decades the Italian film industry often emulated the successful films of the United States. Through the late 1950s and ...
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Midsommar Blu-ray Review: Unsettling in Any Season
By Steve Geise |
Midsommar is marketed as a horror film, but it's so different from the typical entries in that genre that it really ...
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Morituri (1965) Blu-ray Review: Hidden Naval WWII Classic
By Kent Conrad |
The cliché is, they don't make them like they used to. But, damn it, movies like Morituri don't get made anymore. It's ...
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X-Men: Dark Phoenix Blu-ray Review: Not Dark and Certainly Not Rising
By Rons Reviews |
The first thing I noticed when I received my Multi Screen Edition of X-Men: Dark Phoenix, which hit store shelves on ...
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The Prey Blu-ray Review: Pray You’ll Never Have to Watch
By Mat Brewster |
The 1980s were a great time for horror movies in general and slasher flicks in particular. With the advent of ...
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The Big Fix (1978) Blu-ray Review: A Hippy Neo-noir Lament
By Kent Conrad |
Despite being such a sunny city, Los Angeles is the home of noir. All those sun bleached streets are hiding ...
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Gosford Park Blu-ray Review: Upstairs Downstairs Sideways
By Gordon S. Miller |
Robert Altman's Gosford Park is his take on an Agatha Christie murder mystery. Set in 1932 during a shooting party held at ...
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Ida Lupino: Filmmaker Collection Blu-ray Review: Trailblazing
By Mat Brewster |
Several weeks ago, I randomly decided to watch On Dangerous Ground, the pretty good film noir by Nicolas Ray from 1951. ...
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The Hills Have Eyes, Part 2 Blu-ray Review: Flashback City
By Mat Brewster |
Wes Craven is often placed near the top of lists concerning the greatest horror filmmakers of all time, and rightly ...
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