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Parasite (1982) - Blu-ray Review

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 ...

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Young Guns (1988) - Blu-ray Review

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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3 from Hell - Blu-ray Review

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 ...

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Portal - Movie Review

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 ...

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Crawl (2019) - Blu-ray Review

What could be worse than being in Florida with a Category 5 hurricane bearing down on the state? No, the answer is not “waking up to discover that you now live in Boca Raton.” The answer we’re looking for is to awaken from the nightmare of your neighborhood now ...

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Door in the Woods - Movie Review

Ca-Ca-Crazy lives here and, if you are anything like me and my warped sensibility, you are gonna love it  ...

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The Omen Collection (1976, 1978, 1981, 1991, 2006) - Blu-ray Review

Five movies and one devil to rule them all!  The Omen Collection is finally available!  Joke all you want to about how Hellish it is to raise a kid, but Producer Harvey Bernhard was clearly on to something rich when he decided to double-down on ...

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Ultraman: The Complete Series (1966) - Blu-ray Review

In the middle of the 1960s, Toho’s special effects maestro, Eiji Tsuburaya, was on quite a roll. As Ultra Q finished, the Tokyo Broadcasting System wanted a new television series with him at the helm. But this time they wanted something in color; something ...

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