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Young, Violent, Dangerous Blu-ray Review: The Title Says It All

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Touché Turtle and Dum Dum is one of three cartoons, along with Wally Gator and Lippy the Lion and Hardy ...
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Airplane II: The Sequel Blu-ray Review: More Like Airplane II: The Remake

Nineteen eighty-two was quite the year for Ken Finkleman, a Canadian comedy writer and performer on radio and television. He ...
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Dan Curtis’ Classic Monsters Blu-ray Review: Made-for-TV Mayhem

Dan Curtis was a television producer and director of the '60s and '70s. While his actual output was varied, he ...
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Cop or Hood Blu-ray Review: Belmondo Star Vehicle Mostly Crashes

When a small-town police chief is murdered, a witty Parisian commissioner is dispatched to investigate. He’s not above using irregular ...
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Joan Crawford Collection Blu-ray Review: Four of Joan’s Best

There is this store in Nashville, TN, called McKay's. It is a huge place, and it sells used DVDs, CDs, ...
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Deep Crimson Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Beauty of Crude Realism

Deep Crimson (1998) aka Profundo Carmesi stars Daniel Gimenez Cocho and Regina Orozco in Mexican director Arturo Ripstein’s reworking of ...
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Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (Terror Time Collector’s Edition) Blu-ray Review: Spooky Dooby Doo

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) is the franchise's first direct-to-video feature and it kickstarted the Scoocy-Doo crew's major resurgence, boosting ...
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Eddington Blu-ray Review: A Wonderfully Pointed Vision of 2020

Eddington is a neo-western/thriller/dark comedy from writer/director Ari Aster (Midsommar) and stars Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Emma Stone, and Austin ...
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Souleymane’s Story Blu-ray Review: Abou Sangare Delivers a Marvelous Breakout Performance

During today's very troubling times where immigrants are kidnapped and disappeared, I think it's important that their stories remain told, ...
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Boomerang (1976) Blu-ray Review: Alain Delon Loses His Cool

By the mid-’70s, French megastar Alain Delon was easing into the early stages of a career shift to middle-aged roles. ...
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Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore Blu-ray Review: Entertaining, Educational, and Essential

The great Marlee Matlin, Academy Award-winning actress, activist, and author, made history as the first Deaf individual to win an ...
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7 Women Blu-ray Review: Seven Who Defied What No Man Dared

The 50-year directing career of John Ford didn't end in Monument Valley as would have been appropriate. He finished his ...
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