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- By Loron Hays
“Bones, there’s a thing out there.” Perfection in sound and vision looks like this. If you don’t get goosebumps over hearing Jerry Goldsmith’s epic preamble in the fully restored Director’s Cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture then you ...
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"I've got my head. I've lost my leopard!" As far as screwball comedies go, the pairing of Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn was probably seen as an odd choice in 1938. She didn’t have a hit film and Grant, hitting his comedic stride, was just coming off of The Awful Truth to ...
Read more: Bringing Up Baby: The Criterion Collection (1938)
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- By Loron Hays
This life can be a long, rambling walk down a twisting highway. Just ask Mr. Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates), the “junior birdman” who dreams of a cockfighting championship while he puts others to the side in his quest for the title. ...
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“They’re here.” Living in suburbia is HELL in and of itself. There, I said it. It doesn’t help matters at all to learn that your house - no matter how American it may seem - is built on top of a cemetery in which only the headstones were removed ...
Read more: Poltergeist (1982) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital HD Review
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- By Loron Hays
The comedic timing. The charisma of all involved. The breaking of the fourth wall. Hollywood’s definitive leading man! What’s not to love about Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House as Cary Grant takes his physical comedy and his mannerisms from the office to home construction woes ...
Read more: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House: Warner Archive Collection (1948) - Blu-ray Review
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It’s TOTAL DESTRUCTION DAY! Break out the party favors! I meant the Geiger counters. Gather the women ‘round and tell them the news: the sooner they have kids, the better for all of mankind! Wait. What? Welcome to the paranoid world of ...
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Beginning with a pixelated Atari-like Universal logo, complete with the familiar sounding bleeps and squawks from that gaming system as it blips out the usually orchestrated Universal Studios theme music, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World announces its thunderously playful attitude as a sugary ...
Read more: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital - Review
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A psychological thriller in which Boris Karloff does NOT play a creature of the night? Say it ain’t so?! But it’s true. Isle of the Dead, produced by the legendary Val Lewton, concerns itself with that which haunts Greek nightmares: the Vrykolakas and this female vampire is certainly NOT ...
Read more: Isle of the Dead: Warner Archive Collection (1945) - Blu-ray Review
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Can we talk about Super Fly’s opening for a minute? Street shot and completely on the - pardon the pun - fly, this engaging opening is one hell of a way to open Super Fly, the late Gordon Parks, Jr. (Three the Hard Way, Aaron Loves Angela) film. Right away, we are caught up in the ...
Read more: Super Fly: Warner Archive Collection (1972) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
The first impression I get from writer/director Christos Nikou’s Apples is that it bears a strong resemblance to that of the films by fellow Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos. Blending deadpan, black comedy with a degree of tragedy, Nikou, like Lanthimos, is keen on showing the awkward ...
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Madness. Mayhem. And, of course, MURDER. This is what follows the anti-archetype characters of M. It is a thriller that is meant to unsettle the viewer with its hunt for a serial killer, making it an unforgettable REEL CLASSIC ...
Read more: M: The Criterion Collection (1931) - Blu-ray Review
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Spellbinding science fiction doesn’t get any more outrageous than it does here in The Brain Eaters, a 61-minute schlocky shocker from the Drive-In era of B-flicks. This is what happens when Small Town, America finds itself at the center of a UFO invasion! Hide the jars of pickles, Ma and ...
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Is it ever too late to start over? So, what would you do if your father came out of the closet at the age of 75 years old? Well, if you’re writer/director Mike Mills, you make a movie about it. And while this is might sound like some cheap shot of exploiting the oppression that his father endured ...
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The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...
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Hey, BU-DDY. Eric is out for blood. And, really, who can blame him?! Disfigured when some greedy commercial real estate developers set fire to his house in order to build a mall over it, Erik now hides himself in the air ducts and the subterranean passageways, cutting anyone who dares cross ...
Read more: Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge (1989) - Blu-ray Review
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- Room For One More (1952) - Blu-ray Review
- Dirty O'Neil (1974) - Blu-ray Review
- Rock n' Roll High School – 40th Anniversary Collector’s Steelbook Edition (1979)
- It Happened One Night: Criterion Collection (1934) - Blu-ray Review
- Shaft/Shaft’s Big Score/Shaft in Africa: The Warner Archive Collection (1971 - 1973) - Blu-ray Review
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - 4K UHD Review
- A Night in Casablanca (1946) - Blu-ray Review
- Monster From Green Hell: The Film Detective Special Edition (1957) - Blu-ray Review
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- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman