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- By Emily Strong
Tori and Lokita, two African migrant children, are living in a harsh and busy Belgian city. Tori (Pablo Schils), only a 12-year-old boy, and Lokita (Joely Mbundu) a 17-year-old girl, say they are brother and sister. They work together, protect each other, and are fully dependent on one another for pretty much ...
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- By Emily Strong
“I can take care of myself, thanks.” Georgie is capable. Georgie is resourceful. Georgie is smart. But Georgie is also twelve…and perhaps a bit over her head. The facts of the matter are, well…tragic to say the least. Georgie (played by the extraordinary newcomer Lola Campbell) has recently lost ...
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- By Loron Hays
Rape! Torture! Dismemberment! Welcome to the farm, cuz! Based on the traumatizing true story of a pig farmer turned fiend to all females for almost two decades in Canada, Pig Killer arrives just in the nick of time to celebrate Thanksgiving! That’s right, Robert “Willy” Pickton and his ...
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“Just one more thing . . . “ The rumpled trench coat. The cheap cigars. The coy aloofness. And those mental games. That’s right, Los Angeles homicide detective Lieutenant Columbo (Peter Falk) is back and this time he’s appearing clearer than ever thanks to Kino Lorber’s handling of the ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
I’ve been waxing lyrical recently on some critically revered flicks and their rare confluences of casting, writing and execution to form classics for the ages. But it’s not just drama masterpieces that spawn a classic. If those elements are present, even the most critically ignored genres, such as ...
Read more: Point Break (1991) - 4K UHD Collector's Edition Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
Those holding onto faith that filmmaker David Gordon Green can successfully revive the franchise that birthed one of the most iconic demonic possession films of all time can finally take a breath and put down the prayer beads. The wait is over. The Exorcist: Believer is here. Now. In theaters...
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Stephen Spielberg’s Jaws is considered the first summer blockbuster. A film that everybody and their dog went to see and raked in an obscene amount of money. With a shower of green in their eyes, Hollywood immediately cordoned onto this and thus the never-ending pleasure/ailment ...
Read more: Jaws 2 (1978) 45th Anniversary Edition - 4K UHD Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
In 1986, director Oliver Stone delivered a war film to counter all the John Wayne-esque, American:good/Foreign opponents:bad narratives of the past with Platoon. As a Vietnam War vet himself, he had a unique place within the industry to show the shades of grey within any fighting force, forcing ...
Read more: Platoon (1986) Collector's Edition - 4K UHD Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
The late and great Wes Craven will forever be known as the father of Freddy Krueger. But that wasn’t all he accomplished. A horror mainstay, no question, but also a commercial pioneer (not once, but twice) who triggered a renaissance for cold genres. Not only did he put New Line Cinema on the ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
In 2009, filmmaker James Cameron warned us about the dangers of poor stewardship of our planet’s natural resources with his ground-breaking film, Avatar. And in the process, he not only created a world of extraordinary imagination and beauty, he also created the world’s ...
Read more: Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) - 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Review
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- By Loron Hays
When it was first announced that Piranha, the 1978 original spoof of Jaws, which was directed by Joe Dante, written by John Sayles, and produced by Roger Corman was going to be remade, an audible groan was heard from the masses. This would never work so...
Read more: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows - Blu-ray Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
Director: Daniel Alfredson
Writer: Jonas Frykberg
Cast:Noomi Rapace; Michael Nyqvist; Lena Endre
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, The final movie based on Stieg Larsson’s wildly popular Millennium Trilogy, sadly rides off, not into a glorious sunset to bask in the proud achievement of having wrapped up the series on a high note, but rather into a hospital Intensive Care Unit to lick its bedsores. Director Daniel Alfredson and screenwriter Jonas Frykberg (who also collaborated on the second installment) should have been reminded to change the bed sheets and occasionally roll this yawner over.
Read more: The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest - Blu-ray Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
The opening scene of The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the new film by director Fede Alvarez, hints at something really special. The darkened scene features actress Claire Foy’s character in full-on black leathers, with lighted cigarette dangling from her rigid lips, and shorn locks ...
Read more: The Girl in the Spider's Web (2018) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
Living in Rome in the 1970s, being accepted for their abnormalities is nothing but a fantasy to Clara (Penélope Cruz) and her female-born, 12-year-old son, Andrew (Luana Giuliani). In sequences of black-and-white, writer/director Emanuele Crialese presents to us visions from Andrew – based ...
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It’s been five years since Robert Mccall (Denzel Washington) slayed the Mandalorian (Pedro Pascal) and went back to his marital home. For this originally never guaranteed third entry, you better believe I was first in line to see it opening day. Are these movies the pinnacle of Washington’s ...
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- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
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