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The Human Monster (1939) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 30 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s the eyes, man! It’s all about the eyes. Béla Lugosi (and those expressive eyebrows of his) definitely created a lot of memorable characters for cinema. He was always chewing the scenery and making each scene his ow; however, in The Human Monster (also known as The Dark Eyes of London) he ...

First Blood (1982) - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 30 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Sylvester Stallone was infamously underrated and dismissed until he stormed the box office and got an Oscar nomination for Rocky. By 1982 he’d attained enough box office clout to name his next project and what he decided to do was First Blood, an adaptation of a novel by David Morell that had been in ...

Eminence Hill - Movie Review

Details: Published: 29 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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What do you get when the stars of Aliens, Lonesome Dove, and Face/Off come together in a rollicking western actioner? How about a town with no good guys! Eminence Hill, directed by Robert Conway, is a blood-soaked trip back through the past when the Old West met violence with even more violence ...

Young Guns II (1990) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 29 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Young Guns successfully entertained the 1988 box office to the tune of 45 million dollars. The film chose to focus on the revenge of Billy the Kid and the regulators on his employer’s killer and once Jack Palance caught one between the eyes ...

Parasite (1982) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 27 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Imagine if the original Alien had been shot for 3-D? That chest-busting scene would have really leaped right off of the screen. One has to think that producer and director Charles Band, in his pre-Full Moon days, had been thinking about that ...

Young Guns (1988) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 28 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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William H. Boney, for a 20 something misanthrope, made quite the imprint on the world. Whether it’s a sad indictment on our global culture that these types of people cement themselves into history or a tip of the cap to a now alien time and ...

V: The Original Mini-Series - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 28 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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In the late 70s and early 80s, the short form ‘mini-series’ was a chance for networks to stretch their muscles with event storytelling. Long before HBO and Netflix and Amazon showed that feature film budgets and top shelf talent could not only match the quality of storytelling in cinema, but best ...

The Wizard of Oz 4K Ultra HD (1939, 2019) - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 26 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s time to go back. Clocking in at a breezy 109 minutes, The Wizard of Oz is one of the finest examples of fantasy escapism that we have in film history. Let that soak in for a minute. Perhaps things would have been different had WWII not been right around the corner, but fact is fact ...

3 from Hell - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 25 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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The Firefly Clan is back! That’s right, they survived the shootout that marked the end of The Devil’s Rejects and, for the past decade, they have been rotting behind bars. Except, as the movie begins, there seems to be a change of direction in the condemning wind circulating ...

Portal - Movie Review

Details: Published: 24 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Being a Ghostbuster is hit and miss when it comes to the evidence department. Not every ghost loves to leave trails of slime. Just ask this paranormal investigating team at the center of Portal because this season on their television show, they ...