Soul on a String DVD Review: Astonishing Vistas, Ambiguous Story
By Kent Conrad |
Soul on a String offers the visuals (and the length) of an epic Western, and even some of the story ...
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Stormy Monday Blu-ray Review: Not As Bad As Tuesday
By Mat Brewster |
Stop me if this sounds familiar. A regular, working-class schlub takes a job working for a guy with connections to ...
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Blood Alley / The Sea Chase (1955) Blu-rays Review: The Duke Turns to the Drink
By Luigi Bastardo |
Following in the wake of the Warner Archive Collection's 2016 debuts of John Wayne's They Were Expendable and She Wore ...
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The Mummy (2017) Blu-ray Review: The League of Rather Average Gentlemen
By Luigi Bastardo |
First off, make no mistake, Universal's latest attempt at rebranding one of their many legendary classic horror movie franchises is ...
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Fathom Events Presents Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
By Mat Brewster |
Star Trek: The Original Series ran on television from 1966 to 1969. It was canceled after its third season due ...
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Running on Empty (1988) Blu-ray Review: Fam on the Run
By Luigi Bastardo |
While I may not be able to recall every single feature I have ever seen in a moviehouse (and, believe ...
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Beatriz at Dinner DVD Review: A Great Feel-bad Film of the Trump Era
By Davy |
When it comes to making audiences squirm, dark comedies pretty much have that at a lock. However, with some of ...
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Seven Days in May (1964) Blu-ray Review: The Terror from Within
By Luigi Bastardo |
The looming threat of nuclear war. A less-than-favorable US President sporting the lowest approval on record in a heap of ...
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The Loved One (1965) Blu-ray Review: I’m Lovin’ It
By Luigi Bastardo |
Whereas motion pictures deliberately constructed to shock and offend people with even the most lenient sense of humor are hardly ...
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Phantasm: 5 Movie DVD Collection Review: More Silver Balls Than a Tall Man Can Handle
By Mat Brewster |
Take a moment and conjure up some images of horror-movie icons. Likely you're picturing Jason's hockey mask, or Freddy Kreuger's ...
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Effects (1980) Blu-ray Review: The First Snuff Movie to Get Snuffed Out
By Luigi Bastardo |
Following in the wake of their previous release, The Zodiac Killer, the American Genre Film Archive is back with another ...
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Down Down the Deep River DVD Review: A Tribute to an ’80s Childhood
By Kent Conrad |
It seems rare in American arts that people are allowed to do more than one thing. It seems almost greedy ...
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Where the Boys Are (1960) Blu-ray Review: Life Was a Beach Even Then
By Luigi Bastardo |
Three years before the marketing genii at American International Pictures first discovered there was gold in the banks beside the ...
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Beggars of Life (1928) Blu-ray Review: All Aboard
By Luigi Bastardo |
Although it was technically the first moving picture for Paramount to include a newly (however crude) developed invention known as ...
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Dean DVD Review: Funny, Uncomfortable, Emotional, and Beautiful
By Darcy Staniforth |
Dean is a film about grief and how people deal with the aftermath of death differently. In the the film, ...
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The Bridge at Remagen (1969) Blu-ray Review: A Much Shorter Longest Day
By Luigi Bastardo |
From John Guillerman, the late visionary of The Blue Max, The Towering Inferno, The Day They Robbed the Bank of ...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Trilogy Blu-ray Review: More Frenzied Yakuza Madness
By Kent Conrad |
Battles Without Honor and Humanity has been called the Japanese Godfather, and while it has some similarities (depicting daily life ...
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Hell and High Water (1954) Blu-ray Review: CinemaScope Claustrophobia
By Luigi Bastardo |
Ever the cinematic pioneer, director Samuel Fuller broke new ground ‒ by removing it completely ‒ with his 1954 Cold ...
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The Lion King (The Circle of Life Edition) Blu-ray Review: Don’t Wait to Own It
By Gordon S. Miller |
The Lion King, the greatest box-office hit of the Disney Renaissance, earning nearly a billion dollars worldwide, is the latest ...
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Killing Hasselhoff (2016) DVD Review: The Stoner Comedy of the Year
By Luigi Bastardo |
"I was gonna cap on The Hoff, but then I got high." Were they to have made it at least ...
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The Quiet American (1958) Blu-ray Review: Silent, but Deadly?
By Luigi Bastardo |
Based on bestselling author Graham Greene's 1955 novel of the same name, Joseph L. Mankiewicz's motion picture adaptation of The ...
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The Valachi Papers (1972) Blu-ray Review: Pulp Non-Fiction
By Luigi Bastardo |
While it may have debuted in its native Europe more than two months before Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather forever ...
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Re-Animator Limited Edition Blu-ray Review: Blood, Boobs, and Fun
By Mat Brewster |
Anxious people pound on a door at the Institute of Medicine in Switzerland shouting for Dr. Gruber. When they hear ...
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Batman and Harley Quinn Blu-ray Review: Poison, But Not the Ivy Kind
By Steve Geise |
After 10 years and 30 animated films, the brain trust behind the DC Universe Animated Original Movies is long overdue ...
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Blu-ray Review: Family Matters
By Gordon S. Miller |
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 sees Marvel's space-faring heroes called upon to save not just a galaxy but the ...
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Erik the Conqueror (1961) Blu-ray Review: Bava Gets Epical
By Luigi Bastardo |
A few years before Mario Bava singlehandedly invented the giallo with his genre-breaking Blood and Black Lace, he created that ...
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Snake in the Eagle’s Shadow / Drunken Master (1978) Blu-ray Review: A Whole Loaf of Kung Fu
By Luigi Bastardo |
Despite their very pledge to release films from a variety of different genres to home video, every once in awhile, ...
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The Creep Behind the Camera / The Creeping Terror Blu-ray Review: Creepshots, Redefined
By Luigi Bastardo |
Sometimes, the most interesting aspect of a movie is its production history. Especially when the movie in question is something ...
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Varieté (1925) Blu-ray Review: The Spice of Life
By Luigi Bastardo |
If you were one of the many Americans to see Ewald André Dupont's Varieté (aka Variety, Jealousy) when it was ...
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Fathom Events and GKIDS Present Castle in the Sky
By Mat Brewster |
Made in 1986, Castle in the Sky was the first Hayao Miyazaki film released under the Studio Ghibli label. It ...
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Sid & Nancy Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: They Did It Their Way
By Gordon S. Miller |
Director/co-writer Alex Cox's Sid & Nancy tells the story of the short, tragic love affair between Sex Pistols' bassist Sid ...
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The Accidental Tourist (1988) Blu-ray Review: Good Grief
By Luigi Bastardo |
Though he is probably only known to the current generation of stalwart moviegoers as one of the writers of several ...
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The Zodiac Killer DVD Review: To Catch a Killer…Or Not
By Cinema Sentries |
Written by Glen Boyd The Zodiac serial murder case, which terrorized Northern California during the late 1960s going into the ...
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The Wheeler Dealers (1963) Blu-ray Review: It’d Be Funnier If It Weren’t So Damn True
By Luigi Bastardo |
Given a proper duration of passing time, just about anything that was once considered cool or comical may malform into ...
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Spencer’s Mountain (1963) Blu-ray Review: Good Morning, Johnboy
By Luigi Bastardo |
Nine years before The Waltons was broadcast across the nation's airwaves for the first time, Henry Fonda was hard at ...
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The Love of a Woman Blu-ray Review: Old Movie, Modern Themes
By Mat Brewster |
Marie Prieur (Micheline Presle) is young, pretty, and ambitious. After many years of hard work in school, she secures a ...
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry (1965) Blu-ray Review: Who Says Chivalry Is Dead?
By Luigi Bastardo |
Much like Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather would someday pave the way for jaw-droppingly violent cult classics like Massacre Mafia ...
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Effects (1980) Blu-ray Review: Gonzo-Style Meta Horror
By David Wangberg |
Dusty Nelson's Effects has had quite the unexpected ride ever since its completed stages back in the late 1970s. What ...
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The Man in the Moon (1991) Blu-ray Review: Wither Mulligan and Witherspoon
By Luigi Bastardo |
At the beginning of the 1960s, a fairly new motion picture director by the name of Robert Mulligan accepted a ...
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How to Be a Latin Lover Blu-ray Review: Doesn’t Know What It Wants to Be
By Gordon S. Miller |
Ken Marino's How to Be a Latin Lover is an odd movie. Its title suggests a Swinging Sixties European sex ...
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The Slayer Blu-ray Review: Definitely Not Buffy
By Mat Brewster |
Two overworked and over-stressed couples take off for a weekend retreat on a secluded island for a little rest, relaxation, ...
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The Manchurian Candidate (1962) Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: Assassination, She Wrote
By Gordon S. Miller |
Based on Richard Condon's novel of the same name, John Frankenheimer's The Manchurian Candidate is a captivating Cold War political ...
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The Stone Killer (1973) Blu-ray Review: Another Winner Starring Charles Bronson
By Luigi Bastardo |
Imagine a movie produced in the wake of both recently-beget Dirty Harry and The Godfather franchises, only constructed like a ...
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Society Limited Edition Steelbook Blu-ray Review: Body Horror at Its Best
By Mat Brewster |
A quick look at our recent history will show plenty of animosity towards the wealthy, the upper classes, and high ...
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Who’ll Stop the Rain (1978) Blu-ray Review: Drugs, Not Hugs
By Luigi Bastardo |
In case you've ever found yourself quoting the fairly famous words of The Dude whenever a song by The Eagles ...
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Inferno (1953) 3D/2D Blu-ray Review: Survival of the Richest
By Luigi Bastardo |
While the title may have been used several hundred times over since then, 1953's Inferno is a rare, one-of-a-kind contribution ...
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Year of the Comet (1992) Blu-ray Review: It’s Twilight Wine Time
By Luigi Bastardo |
What can you say about a movie where the hero is named Oliver Plexico? Well, frankly, you can say an ...
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Hopscotch Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: The Matthau Supremacy
By Steve Geise |
Hopscotch is a conundrum. It's a comedic but still realistic spy movie filmed in the waning days of the terrifying ...
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By Luigi Bastardo |
At one point or another amidst whatever we may have selected (or been selected) for our respective careers, we will ...
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After the Storm (2016) Blu-ray Review: Human Drama is Equally Sad, Sweet
By Kent Conrad |
The premise sounds like a high-concept, wacky comedy: down on his luck novelist and sometimes private detective follows around his ...
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