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- By Loron Hays
"Ya wanna dance, Mike Doyle?!" The hills! The fog! The slick city streets! The atmosphere is on point as Johnny Stool Pigeon opens and that’s thanks to cinematographer Maury Gertsman, who shot Singapore, the first offering in this set from Kino Lorber ...
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- By Loron Hays
Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder in Hell is one wild ride through independent trash cinema. It is ugly and brutal, plunging sharpened knives deep into the necks of its audience from the very beginning and begging us to look away. We don’t, though. Gorehounds never do, which is why watching the main ...
Read more: Bloody Muscle Bodybuilder in Hell - Collector’s Edition (1995) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
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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Pear smuggler Matt Gordon (played wonderfully by Fred MacMurray) has returned to the scene of his heartbreak: Singapore. Cue the lush heartstrings! The drama! The crimes! And, oh, the Casablanca influences as Singapore, with boat and schooner whistles blaring in the distance instead ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume VI: Singapore (1947)
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Rude and crude, The Necro Files have been opened! Ready to do the Devil’s work? Wild Eye Releasing and Visual Vengeance are as The Necro Files, a satanic shot on video nudie-fest from 1997, gets its blu-ray debut. I mean, sure, these films are horrible looking and full of horrible content, but what blu-ray do you know rewards viewers with their very own condom? That’s right. This is probably the only one with that surprise inside ...
Read more: The Necro Files - Collector’s Edition (1997) - Blu-ray Review
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“Everytime we come here, someone has to get topless.” Truly, this one had me at the idea of Kane Hodder butchering more beauties in bikinis, but this slasher is a bit more than just his performance as Goatface. Let’s see, there’s the beautiful location (on Cape Cod in Massachusetts)., an interesting storyline (which begins in the ...
Read more: Kill Her Goats (2023) - SteelBook / Limited Edition - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
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Want to watch some classic films for the first time again? Scoop up this release. Psychological. Shocking. Suspenseful. And downright BEAUTIFUL to look at. The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection release in Ultra 4K is a DEFINITIVE release for some of the most thrilling classics from the ...
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Writer/director Neil Marshall doesn’t always get the respect he so admirably deserves. It seems that Hollywood has put all their eggs in Neill Blomkamp’s basket. Marshall, who has yet to fail my expectations, continues to deliver behind the scenes in Game of Thrones but to truly appreciate ...
Read more: Dog Soldiers - Collector's Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray (2002) - Review
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- By Loron Hays
Confession time, Boils and Ghouls! I grew up - even as fat as I was – wanting to be Michael Paré’s cool as a cucumber Tom Cody from Streets of Fire. Most my age wanted to be cracking shit with a bullwhip and making off, just like Indiana Jones, with golden idols and, while I was keen to ...
Read more: Streets of Fire (1984) - Collector's Edition 4K UHD/Blu-ray Review
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“Orson Welles had a perception of everything in the film, including the music. He knew. He truly understood film scoring. …Touch of Evil was one of the best things I’ve ever done.” - Henry Mancini And it shows, too. From Mancini’s score to ...
Read more: Touch of Evil - Kino Lorber 4K UHD Blu-Ray Review (1958)
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Famed writer/director/producer Roger Corman is not one to let a trend pass without notice and monetary capitalization. Still looking to mine the Star Wars vein of golden riches and fortune and glory in 2980, he mounted his most expensive production and put together a creative team (which included ...
Read more: Battle Beyond the Stars - Limited Edition SteelBook (1980) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
A swinging sixties marital comedy with the charming Shirley MacLaine and the prim and proper Richard Attenborough? Sure! Why not? It’s an innocent request from the workaholic brasserie manufacturer Robert Blossom ...
Read more: The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
“The things we like best are either illegal, immoral or fattening.” It starts on a boat – an ocean liner headed to New York. Two strangers who enjoy a life of indulgences have a chance meeting when a telegram caught in the wind brings them together. Despite being engaged to their own respective ...
Read more: Love Affair: The Criterion Collection (1939) - Blu-ray Review
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The light through the darkness remains thanks to the art and fantasy of Heavy Metal. If you think Elon Musk’s idea to put a car in space was original, you better sit yourself down and watch the crazy opening of this animated gem. It’s 1981 all over again, thanks to remastering and restoration here ...
Read more: Heavy Metal 4K Ultra HD + Blu-Ray + Digital - Review (1981)
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What does family really mean? Is it the people who are related by blood through no choice of your own? Or is it more? Is it the people who choose to protect you and stick with you – the people who genuinely care about you? Well, this conversation is the driving theme of acclaimed director ...
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