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- By Loron Hays
Tampering with evidence? Bullying witnesses? Doctoring voice recordings? Just what won’t the mob do?! Looks like it is all in play in 1957’s Chicago Confidential, written by Robert T. Marcus, which is now on blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber’s ongoing Film Noir: The Dark Side of ...
Read more: Film Noir - The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume VII: Chicago Confidential (1957)
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- By Loron Hays
Holy chainsaws and creepy crawlies, dudes and dudettes! Pine Hills Summer Camp is open once again! I can think of nothing better to do with your time this Halloween season than spending it with this glorious, B-movie embracing creature feature The feisty fun never stops thanks to ...
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- By Emily Strong
“Is that what I was so afraid of?” What is the scariest kind of monster? Is it a knife-wielding, masked psychopath wreaking havoc in a small town? Is it an alien creature from another planet that can eat or mimic another species completely? Is it an unpredictable, reconstructed monster made by a mad scientist ...
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- By Loron Hays
From sea to shining sea! That’s the attempted reach of 1951’s The Raging Tide, yet another film noir offering highlighting the streets and alleys of San Francisco. With steely-eyed direction from prolific director George Sherman (Larceny, The Sleeping City) and ace cinematography from Russell Metty (The Stranger, Touch of ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume VI: The Raging Tide (1951) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Shot on Video, tape warts, print noise, and all, Slaughter Day is a most ambitious horror from the days of fuzzy definition and red bandanas. It is both fun and thrilling with some off-the-wall POV shots as Blake and Jonah, played by real life twins Blake (Rising Dead, Who Saw the Men in ...
Read more: Slaughter Day - Collector's Edition (1991) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
A few years back, I got to write a long form article about the Superman films, so if you’re looking for a deep dive then please check out: ‘Superman On the Big Screen: Parts 1-4’. For this new UHD release from Warner Bros, I’ll give a quick review of each of the five included Christopher Reeve ...
Read more: Superman 5-Film Collection (1978-1987) - 4KUHD + Blu-ray + Digital Review
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- By Loron Hays
Hard-boiled and crackling with stark intensity, Los Angeles after dark is always an exciting place. Especially with all the femme fatales walking the streets. Whether it be out on the street or gazing out the window of your home, the air of unpredictability is always lurking ...
Read more: Double Indemnity: Criterion Collection (1944) - Blu-ray Review
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Fresh from the success of 1978’s Halloween, director John Carpenter returns to horror and its star Jamie Lee Curtis for his follow-up feature film. The Fog is a supernatural horror flick that is heavy on atmosphere and creativity and, in spite of its age, its creepy vibe and physical make-up effects ...
Read more: The Fog (1980) - Collector's Edition 4K Ultra HD + 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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Based around a single make-or-break heist, The Asphalt Jungle is known in the halls of film noir thrillers as the first ever caper flick and, honestly, this brilliantly scripted offering is more than deserving of its praise and its legacy, which is why the Criterion Collection has added it to their list of ...
Read more: The Asphalt Jungle: Criterion Collection (1950) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Sometimes box office bombs deliver payloads years after their release. Scream Factory, releasing Space Truckers on blu-ray with new featurettes, know this and offer audiences another chance to hitchhike alongside Dennis Hopper, Debi Mazar, and Stephen Dorff as they seek an astronomical ...
Read more: Space Truckers - Limited Edition (1996) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
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 Emily Strong
Are there two sides to everyone? One good and simple. The other…bordering on evil perhaps. And does this “evil” side live in all of us just waiting to be unleashed? While attending church one morning, Dr. Jekyll (Spencer Tracy) witnesses a man - once a good, upstanding citizen – turn ...
Read more: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde: Warner Brothers Archive Collection (1941) - Blu-ray Review
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Visual Vengeance and Wild Eye Releasing have STUCK IT again with the release of L.A. AIDS Jabber, a shot on video horror flick which is a bit more serious than it lets on to be. Oh, and don’t worry, that taste in your mouth for even considering this title washes away quite easily, especially when ...
Read more: L.A. AIDS Jabber - Collector’s Edition (1994) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
“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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- Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume VI: Johnny Stool Pigeon (1949) - Blu-ray Review
- Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder in Hell - Collector’s Edition (1995) - Blu-ray Review
- Inland Empire (2006) - Blu-ray Review
- Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume VI: Singapore (1947)
- The Necro Files - Collector’s Edition (1997) - Blu-ray Review
- Kill Her Goats (2023) - SteelBook / Limited Edition - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
- The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection Ultra 4K HD: Rear Window, Vertigo, Psycho, The Birds - Review
- Dog Soldiers - Collector's Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray (2002) - Review
- Streets of Fire (1984) - Collector's Edition 4K UHD/Blu-ray Review
- Touch of Evil - Kino Lorber 4K UHD Blu-Ray Review (1958)
- Battle Beyond the Stars - Limited Edition SteelBook (1980) - Blu-ray Review
- The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) - Blu-ray Review
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Morbidly Hollywood
- Colorado Street Suicide Bridge
- Death of a Princess - The Story of Grace Kelly's Fatal Car Crash
- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- The Amityville Horror House
- 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