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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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- By Loron Hays
Suburban Sasquatch is what happens when a nubile Native American on her vision quest, a budding reporter, and some dimwitted cops join forces in order to stop the rampage of a bloodthirsty bigfoot in a local park. Suburban Sasquatch is completely ridiculous, over the top, and so unbelievably ...
Read more: Suburban Sasquatch: Collector’s Edition (2004) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
In a family-owned butcher shop situated in a sun-scorched small town, we meet Sara (Laura Galán) – an overweight teenager who is constantly bombarded with the merciless bullying and gossip of other kids her age. To them, she’s “Piggy.” ...
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- By Loron Hays
Elwood P. Dood has a really BIG secret. No, it’s not his constant drinking, which might be a cause for alarm in and of itself. It’s his friend; his drinking buddy; and the only person who shares his innermost secrets with. His best friend in the whole wide world is invisible. He’s also 6-foot tall ...
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- By Loron Hays
There are few moments in the 1980’s output of horror titles as effective as the opening minutes of Tom Holland’s Child’s Play. Serial-killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif), wearing a righteous brown trench coat, is being chased through the dingy streets of south Chicago by homicide detective Mike ...
Read more: Child’s Play - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-Ray Collector’s Edition Review (1988)
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- By Christopher Symonds
Tis hard to believe in this century that the name Peter Jackson wasn’t known to that many in the mid- 90s. Film nuts like myself were aware of him, devouring the likes of Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles eagerly. I remember distinctly saying to a friend, after viewing Jackson’s R-rated puppet movie, that I ...
Read more: The Frighteners (1996) - The 6-Disc Ultimate Edition 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
We’re in the money! We’re in the money! Well, not everyone, but that doesn’t mean the star-studded comic song-and-dance spectacle of following the exploits of chorus girls Polly, Carol, and Trixie around New York City while they scratch about trying to land parts in the next BIG Broadway ...
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- By Loron Hays
“Dirkie, Dirkie, Wild Turkey.” This might be the movie you have been waiting for Midnight Marauders! Especially if you love to see cacti stab at people wandering the desert as they attempt to free themselves from the guilt they feel for murdering their teacher. The cacti have ...
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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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- By Emily Strong
“Why do people have to love people, anyway?” By the time the 1960’s rolled around in America, the infamous Production Code that was implemented in the 1930’s was clearly losing its grip in Hollywood. The years of filmmakers sliding in double-meaning lines of dialogue and skirting ...
Read more: The Apartment 4K Restoration (1960) - 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
The water! It’s the goddamn water! From the very beginning, there is something very forward-thinking about 1964’s The Flesh Eaters. It is as if the black-and-white creature feature absolutely predicted what teens and young adults would be wanting to see on the matinee silver screens as one ...
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- By Emily Strong
We’ll call them the classic, the prequel, and the sequel. Breaking the mold of the cop/detective story that audiences of the time were all too familiar with, the writers (Felix Chong and Alan Mak) and directors (Alan Mak and Andrew Lau) of the iconic Infernal Affairs trilogy sought to inject new life into the ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
In the new satirical comedy The Menu, director Mark Mylod (TV's Succession) and screenwriters Seth Reiss and Will Tracy (former writers at The Onion) use the world of food, foodies, critics, and chefs to skewer the soul-sucking relationship between those who take and those who ...
Read more: Insidious: The Red Door (2023) - Blu-ray + Digital Review
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- By Emily Strong
“Talk to me later. I’m killing myself.” With a noose hanging around his neck, dramatically (and quite insincerely) calling out the name of the gorgeous chambermaid he is in love with, this is probably one of the most brilliantly understated ways of introducing Bob Hope’s title character in Monsieur ...
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The beach is alive with the sound of screaming!? You’ve heard about Beach Blanket Bingo, well, now - thanks to Scream Factory’s love of all things schlocky and science fiction - get a load of what washes ashore to party with the rest of the beach bums in The She-Creature, a low budget ...
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