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Maigret Sees Red Blu-ray Review: Jean Gabin Plays Maigret One Last Time

Between 1931 and 1972, Belgian author Georges Simenon wrote some 75 novels and 28 short stories featuring his famed Parisian ...
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Scott Joplin Blu-ray Review: Rags to Riches to Rags

The famous American ragtime composer was at the peak of his popularity at the time of this 1977 biopic movie, ...
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A Bucket of Blood / The Little Shop of Horrors Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Review: Twice the Fun

Both A Bucket of Blood and The Little Shop of Horrors were produced and directed by Roger Corman and written ...
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Hercules and the Captive Women Blu-ray Review: Mistitled but Fun

Hercules and the Captive Women is an Italian sword-and-sandals adventure starring Reg Park as the titular strong man. This escapade ...
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Merrily We Roll Along Blu-ray Review: Auld Lang Syne

Stephen Sondheim’s failed 1981 musical was redeemed as a Tony-winning Broadway revival success in 2023, largely due to the massive ...
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The Black Raven Blu-ray Review: Murder Mystery on the Canadian Border

The Black Raven (1943) directed by Sam Newfield is an old, dark house murder mystery that stars George Zucco, Wanda ...
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Trifole Blu-ray Review: Swing and a Miss

Gabriele Fabbro’s earnest family drama transports viewers to Italy’s pastoral Piedmont region as a young English woman attempts to reconnect ...
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Cinderella in Concert Blu-ray Review: A Rockin’ Good Time

Cinderella in Concert captures the band at their rocking best in 1991 during the Heartbreak Station Tour before personal and ...
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The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Golden Age Collection Blu-ray Review: Geared More for the Serious Animation Collector

The Woody Woodpecker and Friends Golden Age Collection features 25 digitally remastered cartoons from the Walter Lantz Archive, from The ...
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Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 (Unleashed Edition) Blu-ray Review: The Toys Are Out of the Box

Written by M. J. Washington Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the pizzeria, Blumhouse and ...
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The New Fred and Barney Show: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Bedrock Faultlines

Almost 20 years after their groundbreaking prime-time series triumph, the Flintstones gang attempted to recapture the magic in this revival ...
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Mogambo Blu-ray Review: Clark Gable Goes Back to Africa

Some 21 years after Red Dust (1932) premiered, MGM remade the film (which itself had been an adaptation of a ...
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Stranger on the Third Floor Blu-ray Review: The First Film Noir

Stranger on the Third Floor is often cited as the first true film noir. With that and the fact that ...
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Song Sung Blue (2025) Blu-ray Review: The Lack of Depth Is Frustrating

Chronicling the lives and careers of the Neil Diamond tribute band Lightning and Thunder, Song Sung Blue, based on the ...
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Iphigenia Blu-ray Review: A Tragic Greek Masterpiece

I am not at all well versed in Greek history or its mythology. I know the basics. I read The ...
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By the Light of the Silvery Moon Blu-ray Review: Return to Moonlight Bay

Two years after their onscreen pairing in On Moonlight Bay, Doris Day and Gordon MacRae returned as the same characters ...
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Spencer Tracy 4-Film Collection Blu-ray Review: Another Great Set from Warner Archive

Spencer Tracy is generally considered one of the greatest classic Hollywood actors. He was nominated for nine Academy Awards and ...
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Dead of Night (1945) Blu-ray Review: Something Spooky This Way Comes

When a group of strangers mysteriously meet at a secluded country estate, they resort to recounting stories of the supernatural ...
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Lucifer: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Hell of a Ride

Bored with ruling Hell, Lucifer Morningstar decamps to Los Angeles, where he teams up with the LAPD to take down ...
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The Dark Half Blu-ray Review: Stephen King’s Tale of the Evil That Lurks Within

The Dark Half finds legendary horror director George A. Romero behind the camera on his third adaptation of a Stephen ...
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Deathstalker (2025) Blu-ray Review: A Cut Above the Rest

Written by M. J. Washington In 1983, Roger Corman gave the world Deathstalker, a slice of sword-and-sorcery schlock that became ...
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Dillinger (1973) Blu-ray Review: Print the Legend

The American Myth was built on outlaws. We love our anti-heroes. Think of the Wild West and folks like Billy ...
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Man in a Cocked Hat Blu-ray Review: The Empire Strikes Out

When the British Empire learns of valuable mineral deposits in one of their long-forgotten territories, the Foreign Office dispatches bumbling ...
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Red Dust Blu-ray Review: Love and Lust on a Rubber Plantation

Any movie fan will tell you that you have to learn to suspend your disbelief from time to time. Movies ...
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Yes: Symphonic Live Blu-ray Review: Performing at a High Level in 2001

Yes – Symphonic Live finds the band (vocalist Jon Anderson, lead guitarist Steve Howe, bassist Chris Squire, and drummer Alan ...
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Shameless: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Hefty Load of Gallaghers

Like the original UK series, Showtime’s U.S. version of Shameless followed the misadventures of a scrappy family of siblings headed ...
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The Sin of Nora Moran Blu-ray Review: A Pre-code Marvel

The Sin of Nora Moran is a little low-budget melodrama about a girl who is born into poverty, fights just ...
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The Dead Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: An Intimately Haunting Portrait of Memory and Humanity

Legendary, maverick filmmaker John Huston was always one of cinema's greatest storytellers. He never stuck to one genre; he had ...
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Orwell: 2+2=5 Blu-ray Review: Brings the Nightmare Front and Center 

Written and directed by Raoul Peck, Orwell: 2+2=5 casts an eye-opening spotlight on the life and work of the author ...
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James Stewart 4-Film Collection Blu-ray Review: Four Great Films at a Great Price

A couple of years ago, me, my wife, and my brother were in one of those old-fashioned diners - the ...
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Fackham Hall Blu-ray Review: One Joke After Another

My wife and I are big fans of British panel shows. These are basically game shows, but with celebrities (mostly ...
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Twilight Zone: The Movie Blu-ray Review: An Uneven Affair

Based on Rod Serling's iconic TV series, Twilight Zone: The Movie is an anthology of four stories, a new one ...
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Blue Moon (2025) Blu-ray Review: Hawke and Kaplow Outshine Rodgers and Hart

I was fully prepared to dislike this film, or even worse, be totally unmoved by it. From Ethan Hawke’s distracting ...
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Manpower (1941) Blu-ray Review: Great Cast, Disappointing Movie

Sometimes a film disappoints you for what happens on the screen. Sometimes a film disappoints for what it could have ...
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The Verdict (1946) Blu-ray Review: Watch Lorre and Greenstreet One Last Time

Between 1941 and 1946, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre starred in nine different films together. Their first pairing was The ...
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Captain Blood Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Errol Flynn’s Swashbuckling Lead Debut

Captain Blood (1935), directed by Michael Curtiz, is a fast-paced pirate film based on the novel by Rafael Sabatini and ...
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Falling Skies: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Wyle Sans Scrubs

Between his acting stints in the ER, Noah Wyle headlined this TNT series about humans battling an alien invasion. While ...
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Tom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940-1958) Blu-ray Review: One of the Best Animation Sets to Date and That There Will Ever Be

As part of the 85th anniversary celebration of Hanna-Barbera’s Tom and Jerry franchise, Warner Bros. Entertainment has released Tom and ...
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One Battle After Another Blu-ray Review: Bizarre Love Triangle

Inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel Vineland, Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another is an action thriller that tells a ...
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Illustrious Corpses Blu-ray Review: A Slow-burning Mystery

The 1970s were a tumultuous time in American history. There were gasoline shortages and high crime in the cities. The ...
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O.C. and Stiggs Blu-ray Review: Robert Altman’s Teen Comedy

If you weren’t aware that esteemed director Robert Altman made an ‘80s teen comedy, blame MGM’s decision to largely shelve ...
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Köln 75 Blu-ray Review: Two Movies in One

Writer/director Ido Fluk spins his imagining of Keith Jarrett’s 1975 improvised concert performance into an energetic but bipolar film. For ...
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Italia: Fire and Ashes Blu-ray Review: Italy’s Film Heritage Reborn Like a Phoenix

Snippets of random silent film reels dance across the screen, transporting us to the earliest days of Italian cinema. Without ...
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Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy This Is Available

Lippy the Lion and Hardy Har Har, along with Wally Gator and Touché Turtle and Dum Dum, was a part ...
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Wally Gator: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Complete but Swampy

Right before I started watching this set, I finished watching The Huckleberry Hound Show Blu-ray collection, a pristine release with ...
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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk Blu-ray Review: A First-hand Account of Life in Gaza

Every day, my heart breaks for the Palestinian citizens of Gaza. It doesn't seem Israeli's ridiculous occupation of it will ...
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Splendid Outing Blu-ray Review: Disturbing and Honest

The role of women in society continues to be undermined by men, especially a certain orange lunatic and his equally ...
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At the Circus Blu-ray Review: Send in the Clowns

The Marx Brothers followed up Room Service by helping out At the Circus where the trio strive to keep Wilson's ...
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The Death Wish Collection Blu-ray Review: Bronson’s Signature Series Finally Collected

The new Kino Lorber collection compiles all five of Charles Bronson’s signature films in one comprehensive package. Shockingly, this is ...
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French Noir Collection II Blu-ray Review: Four Formidable Leading Men

Kino Lorber’s second collection of French noir films highlights four powerful performances by classic leading men. Although the films are ...
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