Illustrious Corpses Blu-ray Review: A Slow-burning Mystery
By Mat Brewster |
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
By Steve Geise |
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
By Steve Geise |
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
By Steve Geise |
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
By Gordon S. Miller |
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
By Steve Geise |
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
By Davy |
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
By Davy |
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
By Gordon S. Miller |
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
By Steve Geise |
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
By Steve Geise |
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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Young, Violent, Dangerous Blu-ray Review: The Title Says It All
By Mat Brewster |
Titles are funny things. Sometimes titles are straightforward; they'll be the name of a character or the place where all ...
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Doris Day 4-Film Collection Blu-ray Review: Day Outshines All of Her Co-Stars
By Steve Geise |
This new set compiles four of Doris Day’s most beloved films in one convenient Blu-ray package. She’s clearly the main ...
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Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Comedy of (a Lack of) Manners
By Gordon S. Miller |
Larry David became a household name by co-creating Seinfeld, considered one of the most successful sitcoms of all time. The ...
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House on Haunted Hill (1959) Blu-ray Review: Agatha Christie in a Carnival Fun House
By Joe Garcia III |
Producer/director William Castle brings the carnival spook house to life on the big screen in House on Haunted Hill. His ...
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Splitsville Blu-ray Review: A Romantic Comedy for People Who Hate Romantic Comedies
By Davy |
Messy people have messy relationships, and they don't always know what to do with them. That's the overall message of ...
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The Americas: Complete Limited Series Blu-ray Review: Epic Photography, Tired Subjects
By Steve Geise |
Coming to this NBC nature series after a couple of decades of binging exclusively on BBC and Disney wildlife fare, ...
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Peanuts: Ultimate TV Specials Collection DVD Review: Hours of Animated Entertainment from the Mind of Charles Schulz
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Peanuts 75th Anniversary Ultimate TV Specials Collection gathers 40 TV specials from A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) to Happiness ...
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I’m “George Lucas”: A Connor Ratliff Story Blu-ray Review: What It Takes to Be an Artist
By Davy |
Film and nerdism are two great things that go great together. When the love of film and the love of ...
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I Know Where I’m Going! Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: I Sure Know Where I’ve Been
By Mat Brewster |
Though not quite as epic or spectacular as some of their better-known films, I Know Where I'm Going! from Michael ...
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Grass and Chang Blu-ray Review: Laying the Foundation for King Kong
By Steve Geise |
Years before they co-directed the original King Kong, filmmakers Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack teamed for these two ...
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Wicked Games: Three Films by Robert Hossein Blu-ray Review: The Actor Directs
By Steve Geise |
Robert Hossein was primarily renowned as an actor, but he also carved out a substantial career as a talented director. ...
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Monk in Pieces Blu-ray Review: A Beguiling Biodoc
By Davy |
Art has no boundaries, and it doesn't always have to explain what it is all about. It can cross over ...
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The Newsroom: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: Same As It Ever Was
By Steve Geise |
Even though this HBO dramatic series began broadcasting in 2012, it remains shockingly timely in 2025. Watching it for the ...
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Together Blu-ray Review: The Best Film David Cronenberg Never Made
By Davy |
As I may have mentioned in previous reviews, the horror genre is perhaps the most consistent one, meaning that there ...
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A Song for You: The Austin City Limits Story Blu-ray Review: A Celebration of Its Ruby Anniversary
By Gordon S. Miller |
Released in 2016, Keith Maitland's A Song for You: The Austin City Limits Story tells the tale of the what ...
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No Wave: The Underground Films of Beth B & Scott B Blu-ray Review: Confrontational, Fearless, and Highly Original
By Davy |
During the unfortunately short-lived No Wave movement, New York filmmakers like Beth B and her husband Scott B were making ...
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Little House on the Prairie: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Tenderhearted Family Drama
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Little House on the Prairie is a multimedia franchise that began with author Laura Ingalls Wilder's first children's novel, ...
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The Mad Miss Manton Blu-ray Review: You’d Be Crazy Not to Love This
By Mat Brewster |
The Mad Miss Manton takes place during the Great Depression. It is about a rich socialite and her gaggle of ...
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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues Blu-ray Review: Belongs in Everyone’s Christmas Stocking
By Rons Reviews |
When I heard that legendary documentarian Marty Di Bergi (Rob Reiner) was bringing us more, I couldn’t wait to see ...
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Kansas City Confidential Blu-ray Review: A Tidy Midwestern Noir
By Mat Brewster |
Planning and executing the perfect crime is a wonderful movie trope. All the planning, scheming, and preparation so often go ...
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The Conjuring 4: Last Rites Blu-ray Review: The Long and Winding Road
By Steve Geise |
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren return for a case so traumatizing it caused them to end their careers. That’s ...
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Out of the Fog Blu-ray Review: Into Beauty
By Mat Brewster |
Life is always hard on the gentle people. The poor people. The people who just want to have a moment's ...
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Manhattan Melodrama Blu-ray Review: John Dillinger’s Favorite Movie
By Mat Brewster |
On the night of July 22, 1934, John Dillinger, one of the world's most famous gangsters, went to see a ...
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Blu-ray Review: It Tolls for Thee
By Joe Garcia III |
For Whom the Bell Tolls was penned by Ernest Hemingway and brought to the silver screen by producer/director Sam Wood ...
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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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Def Leppard: Diamond Star Heroes – Live from Sheffield Blu-ray Review: Veteran Rockers Prove You Can Go Home Again
By generaljabbo |
On May 22, 2023, more than 40,000 adoring fans packed Bramall Lane in Sheffield, England, for a triumphant homecoming concert ...
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The Ogre of Athens Blu-ray Review: A Noir-Tinged Greek Tragedy
By Mat Brewster |
Thomas (Dinos Iliopoulos) is an unassuming, shy, and completely unremarkable bank clerk. He is a man who has spent his ...
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Malpertuis Blu-ray Review: Orson Welles Runs Wild
By Steve Geise |
Just when I think Radiance Films can’t possibly find any more amazing, largely unknown gems, they drop this genre masterpiece ...
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The Day of the Jackal: Season One Blu-ray Review: Redmayne Conquers TV
By Steve Geise |
When a rogue billionaire vows to release a disruptive technology that will forever level the playing field of capitalism, another ...
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The Grifters Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Pitch-Black Film Noir
By Greg Hammond |
In Stephen Frears' The Grifters, Roy (John Cusack) is a 25-year-old conman, a grifter who makes his living running petty ...
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Flash Point (2007) Blu-ray Review: Plenty of Flash, Not Much Point
By Steve Geise |
Donnie Yen’s slickly produced, lightly plotted 2007 actioner hearkens back to the 1980s-'90s glory days of Hong Kong cinema. In ...
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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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Scoop (2006) Blu-ray Review: London Murder Mystery
By Gordon S. Miller |
After directing Scarlett Johansson in the well-received Match Point, Woody Allen appeared with her on screen for his next film, ...
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Tarzan of the Apes (1918) Blu-ray Review: A Stealth Elmo Lincoln Double Feature
By Gordon S. Miller |
Film Masters presents Tarzan of the Apes. Based on the first part of Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1912 novel of the ...
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Relay Blu-ray Review: Long Live Conspiracy Thrillers
By Steve Geise |
Relay hearkens back to the paranoia thrillers of the 1970s, despite its present-day setting. Riz Ahmed stars as a shadowy ...
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Frightmare (1974) Blu-ray Review: Cannibal Mother on the Loose
By Joe Garcia III |
Frightmare is a British, pre-slasher horror movie directed by Pete Walker and stars Sheila Keith as a cannibal mother recently ...
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X Trilogy: Collector’s Edition Blu-ray Box Set Review: Half Bad Over, and Over, and Over Again
By Greg Hammond |
Ti West decided to make a horror trilogy which pays homage to the likes of Texas Chain Saw Massacre: X, ...
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Dan Curtis’ Dead of Night (1977) Blu-ray Review: Trilogy of Terror Redux
By Kent Conrad |
Throughout the '70s, Dan Curtis was the go-to man for network TV horror. From Dark Shadows to The Night Stalker ...
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Touché Turtle and Dum Dum: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review: A Fun Cartoon Filled with Heroic Slapstick
By Gordon S. Miller |
Touché Turtle and Dum Dum is one of three cartoons, along with Wally Gator and Lippy the Lion and Hardy ...
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