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- By Emily Strong
What do you get when you combine the elevated emotions of a melodrama and the seedy, back-stabbing beats and visuals of a noir? This concoction is the exact recipe for Michael Curtiz’s delectably dark Mildred Pierce starring the incomparable Joan Crawford as the iconic title character ...
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- By Loron Hays
In cine-massacre history, there are few films that compare to the in-the-gut feeling Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre leaves you with. Every imperfection in this low-budget Slasher works in the movie’s favor and adds to the overall grisly experience. The movie is not as violent or as ...
Read more: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) - 4K UHD + Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
It’s 1908 in London, and Miss Sonia Winter (the great Diana Rigg), a strong-willed and staunch feminist who holds aspirations to become a journalist lays before the heads of a notable newspaper a story that will be sure to make a name for herself. She’s seemed to uncover an organization that offers ...
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- By Loron Hays
This Roger Corman-produced slasher/comedy was long overdue on blu-ray, but it makes a fairly early 4K release and for all of the right reasons, too. It was originally made in 1982 on a shoestring budget and featured as many boobs as grizzly power-tool murders. Directed by Amy Holden Jones ...
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- By Emily Strong
Can a movie that is a mess also be considered genius? Well, that is the perpetual debate about Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai. Based on the novel If I Die Before I Wake by Sherwood King, this film takes all of the noir essentials and twists them in such an entertainingly strange ...
Read more: The Lady From Shanghai (1947) - Special Edition Blu-ray Review
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Well here we are! The final selection of Star Trek movies to enter the UHD format that began with upscaled (but impressive) scans of ‘the Kelvin Timeline’. Paramount have (thankfully) not done the piecemeal thing in The Next Generation movie boxset, like they pulled with the original’s six ...
Read more: Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-movie Collection - 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Review
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- By Loron Hays
Kitty’s back on the cell block! Woot! Woot! Let the sweat-dripping orgies begin! Violence in a Women’s Prison, originally released in 1982, is a damn ugly exploitation flick. Even when you lower the bar when it comes to Women in Prison flicks, this ...
Read more: Violence in a Women's Prison (1982) - Blu-ray Review
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It’s been written that, “the woods are lovely, dark and deep” but are they really? After watching the opening 10 minutes of Guts On The Chainsaw (with narration from Robert Stone), you’ll be questioning that statement yourself. After all, according to the movie, there are over 407 open cases ...
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- By Emily Strong
On again, off again. In love, out of love. Going back to school, starting a new job. Everything is fluid and everything is changing in the whimsical and lustful drama from French director Jacques Audiard. Capturing the residential district of Les Olympiades in beautiful black and white photography ...
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“Why do you like me so much?” Charles loves Laura. I mean, he really loves her. So much so that it’s painful. But…when we meet Charles (John Heard), he’s no longer with Laura (Mary Beth Hurt). Their short love affair that blossomed while Laura was separated from her husband ends when ...
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You say want sex and violence? Well, the Masked Mutilator has EXACTLY what you are looking for. Just be respectful because this house parent will definitely kick your ass ...
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The introduction to this low budget feast tells us all we need to know . . . “The great virus started in 2019. In the first 2 years almost 5 million people died worldwide. In 2022 a new strain hit and 5 million people a month were dying. No vaccine was effective. This created high gas prices, food ...
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I must admit, this one has me conflicted. Based on Sidney Kingsley’s Broadway play of the same name, William’s Wyler’s adaptation of Detective Story deals with a handful of rather outdated themes that are explored in the most melodramatic fashion that makes modern-day eyes roll. But on the ...
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Watching the documentary, LYNCH (one), that’s included on Criterion’s gorgeous release of David Lynch’s Inland Empire, we hear Lynch himself say that this film is “an experiment.” BUT he also makes it very clear a couple of times that it is NOT an experimental film, though many viewers would ...
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“But I am in love with her, Your Highness! I feel terrible.” Ah, yes! A classic case of the lonely heart butler being mistaken for a prince by a beautiful, young countess. What could go wrong? ...
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