Kill Me Again Blu-ray Review: A Neo-Noir in the Classic Tradition
By Mat Brewster |
You ever noticed how almost all private detectives in books, movies, and TV are down and out? Rarely are they ...
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Terror Train Blu-ray Review: Halloween on a Train
By Davy |
After the massive success of John Carpenter's game changing 1978 classic slasher Halloween, everyone tried to replicate its magic, but ...
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House of Cards (1968) Blu-ray Review: One Fascist Battle After Another
By Steve Geise |
When I was growing up in the 1970s, I’d frequently stumble across cheap paperbacks in bookstores from a long-running action ...
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The Cotton Club Encore Movie Review: Godfather the Musical
By Greg Hammond |
The Cotton Club Encore (2019) is a re-edited, re-vamped, and much stronger version of Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club ...
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Talk Radio Blu-ray Review: An Incredibly Tense Thriller
By Davy |
Sometimes the most unlikable characters are the most charismatic and you just can't ignore them, no matter how much you ...
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Rider on the Rain 4K UHD Review: A Subverting Thriller
By Mat Brewster |
In a seaside town in the South of France, a strange man gets off a bus in the pouring rain. ...
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Soul to Soul Blu-ray Review: Powerful from Start to Finish
By Joe Garcia III |
Soul to Soul (1971), directed by Denis Sanders (Elvis: That’s the Way It Is), is a concert movie/documentary filmed that ...
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Bend of the River Blu-ray Review: One of the Great Westerns of the 1950s
By Mat Brewster |
The old, wild west was a great place for new beginnings. One could leave the city behind and hunt for ...
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78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene Movie Review: Psycho Babble
By Greg Hammond |
The documentary 78/52: Hitchcock’s Shower Scene is an attempt to be the end-all discussion about the infamous shower scene in ...
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The Second Twin Blu-ray Review: Hossein Drifts Through a Wan Whodunit
By Steve Geise |
The U.S. title of Christian-Jaque’s 1966 crime drama promises a mysterious twist involving a twin, but it’s a total misdirection. ...
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Death of a Gunfighter Blu-ray Review: A Gem of a Western from 1969
By Joe Garcia III |
Death of a Gunfighter directed by Robert Totten, finished by Don Seigel, and credited to “Alan Smithee” is a great ...
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Romancing in Thin Air Blu-ray Review: Rarefied Air of Hong Kong Talent
By Steve Geise |
Veteran Hong Kong director Johnnie To is most known in the West for his taut action dramas, such as Election, ...
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Hold That Ghost 4K UHD Review: Plenty of Laughs and Suspense
By Gordon S. Miller |
Hold That Ghost is the third film starring Bud Abbott and Lou Costello and their third released in 1941. The ...
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Stone Cold (1991) 4K UHD Review: Glorious Last Gasp of ’80s Action
By Kent Conrad |
Stone Cold is so committed to its action-movie stupidity, I think it deserves a place in the So Bad It's ...
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Tih-Minh Blu-ray Review: International Intrigue on the French Riviera
By Steve Geise |
This classic French espionage serial was first released in theaters in 1919, billed as “a cinematic novel in 12 episodes”. ...
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Die My Love 4K UHD Review: Kids Make You Crazy
By Mat Brewster |
My wife was in labor for a good 24 hours before the doctors told us it would be better to ...
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Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: “Mein Führer, I can walk!”
By Greg Hammond |
Stanley Kubrick directed and produced Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, a political ...
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Gambling Ship (1933) Blu-ray Review: Gangster Grant Sinks Ship
By Kent Conrad |
Ace Corbin (Cary Grant), recently acquitted for murder, is sick of being a gangster. He goes out west for a ...
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Dust Bunny 4K UHD Review: A Dark, Quirky Delight
By Mat Brewster |
When the 4K UHD disc of Dust Bunny landed on my desk, I have to admit I'd never heard of ...
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This Is the Night (1932) Blu-ray Review: Cary Grant’s Assured Debut
By Kent Conrad |
A pre-Code movie is what we call films made without the censorious auspice of the Hayes code, which came about ...
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The House of Seven Corpses 4K UHD Review: The House of Nothing Happening
By Kent Conrad |
There are many variations on genre movies, but there is a basic split of creators working in genre that is ...
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So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious… Blu-ray Review: Exploitation with Heart
By Mat Brewster |
If you spend any time in the movie corners of social media, you will inevitably get involved in a conversation ...
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Loopy De Loop: The Complete Collection Blu-ray Review: Smarter Than the Average French-Canadian Wolf
By Gordon S. Miller |
Loopy de Loop (voiced by Daws Butler) is a kindly, French Canadian wolf who suffers trying to do good deeds ...
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The Phantom (1996) 4K UHD Review: Goofball Pulp Antics
By Kent Conrad |
The essence of pulp entertainment is, usually, propulsive momentum. There's not a lot of time to evaluate the sense of ...
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Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die 4K UHD Review: Lots of Fun but Not Enough to Kill You
By Mat Brewster |
There is a thin line between making something genuinely weird and trying too hard at it. Good Luck, Have Fun, ...
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The Rolling Stones: Let’s Spend the Night Together 4K UHD Review: It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (but I Like It)
By Gordon S. Miller |
Hal Ashby's Let's Spend the Night Together captures the Rolling Stones' 1981 North American Tour in support of Tattoo You. ...
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Confessions of a Police Captain Blu-ray Review: Crime and Corruption in an Italian City
By Mat Brewster |
I've now watched quite a few films made during Italy's so-called Years of Lead, which lasted from the late 1960s ...
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Moneyball 4K UHD Review: Steals Home
By Greg Hammond |
Bennett Miller’s Moneyball is a semi-biographical baseball drama written by Steven Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin. It is based on Michael ...
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Lurker Blu-ray Review: Greatness Lurking Beneath the Vapid Surface
By Steve Geise |
At first glance, writer/director Alex Russell’s debut feature film doesn’t appear very compelling, riffing on the relationship between celebrity fame ...
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Trouble in Paradise Criterion Collection 4K UHD Review: No Trouble at All
By Greg Hammond |
Produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Trouble in Paradise (1932) was adapted by Grover Jones from the play The Honest ...
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Ben-Hur (1959) 4K UHD Review: Pomp v. Pulp
By Rock London |
Winner of 11 Oscars, Ben-Hur is (mostly) an epic snooze. It spends a godawful amount of time letting its characters ...
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Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins… 4K UHD Review: An American James Bond
By Mat Brewster |
In the mid-1980s, Orion Pictures went scouring through existing IP looking for something to launch a new franchise upon. They ...
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Malfeasance: Four Films by Yves Boisset Blu-ray Review: Politically Charged Thrillers
By Mat Brewster |
Yves Boisset was a French director who cut his teeth as an assistant on films by Jean-Pierre Melville, René Clément, ...
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Death Ship 4K UHD Review: Nazi Ghosts on a Boat
By Mat Brewster |
Whenever I'm watching a movie, especially when I'm going to review it, there is a part of my brain, somewhere ...
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The Thief of Bagdad (1924) Blu-ray Review: A Magnificent Silent Classic
By Mat Brewster |
When I was presented with the chance to review The Thief of Bagdad I jumped at the chance, but I ...
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We Bury the Dead Blu-ray Review: Not Your Father’s Zombie Movie
By Mat Brewster |
We Bury the Dead doesn't do anything particularly original with the zombie movie. I don't think there is a single ...
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Tarzan and His Mate Blu-ray Review: Lions and Rhinos and Crocodiles! Oh My!
By Gordon S. Miller |
Tarzan and His Mate (1934), the sequel to Tarzan the Ape Man (1932), provides the same jungle action (and resulting ...
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Bullet in the Head 4K UHD Review: John Woo’s Most Personal Film
By Mat Brewster |
Like most great auteurs, John Woo is obsessed with certain themes. His films often deal with ideas of masculinity, brotherhood, ...
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It All Came True Blu-ray Review: Ann Sheridan Shines
By Mat Brewster |
In the original poster for It All Came True, Ann Sheridan receives top billing. It was the same in the ...
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Tea and Sympathy Blu-ray Review: A Study in Masculinity
By Mat Brewster |
Vincent Minnelli's 1956 weeper Tea and Sympathy had the difficult task of adapting the stage play of the same name ...
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The Man Who Came to Dinner Blu-ray Review: A Film That Never Overstays Its Welcome
By Davy |
Everyone at some point has had a guest who won't leave, and there's a reason why the phrase "wear out ...
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Peter Sellers Early Classics Blu-ray Review: Dawning of an Inimitable Talent
By Steve Geise |
Before he was a household name around the world, Peter Sellers honed his acting talent in a string of British ...
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The Dancing Hawk Blu-ray Review: Polish Cinema Gets Weird
By Mat Brewster |
Nearly every review of The Dancing Hawk will tell you that the narrative of the film is fairly straightforward and ...
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Jack Benny Comedy Classics: Artists and Models/Man About Town Blu-ray Review
By Steve Geise |
Jack Benny’s comedy career flourished in his long-running radio and TV show, but he also found time to be a ...
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Maigret Sees Red Blu-ray Review: Jean Gabin Plays Maigret One Last Time
By Mat Brewster |
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
By Steve Geise |
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
By Greg Hammond |
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
By Joe Garcia III |
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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Dead Again 4K UHD Review: Mysteries in the Past and Present
By Mat Brewster |
While watching Dead Again, I kept thinking about a couple of other films with Kenneth Branagh. The first was his ...
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Merrily We Roll Along Blu-ray Review: Auld Lang Syne
By Steve Geise |
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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