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- By Frank Wilkins
Grab your popcorn and settle in, folks! In fact, go ahead and spring for that hot dog too. You’re in for a helluva ride. That puppy-loving hitman, John Wick is back in John Wick: Chapter 4, and he has two things on his mind: revenge and a way out ...
Read more: John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) - 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Amazon Exlusive - Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
Remakes! They are now a studio staple, with every studio head and producer uttering that terrible commercially driven mantra: existing IP! It rarely produces anything but a watered-down retelling of a once revelatory hit, cheaply relying on nostalgia to make a buck and keeps a lot of original ...
Read more: Dawn of the Dead (2004) - Collector's Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray - Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
Every now and then competing studios find themselves making and releasing the same sort of product around the same time. In 1998, Touchstone Pictures (Disney) and Paramount went head-to-head with asteroid disaster ensembles. While Michael Bay’s Armageddon clearly trounced Mimi ...
Read more: Deep Impact (1998) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital HD
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- By Frank Wilkins
Few fictional characters have been through the entertainment wringer as many times as Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Tarzan the Ape Man. The subject of dozens of novels, countless comic books, a TV and a radio series, Broadway plays, and more than 200 movies (the oldest ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Talk about a toxic relationship! The one shared between Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage) and his handler Robert Montague Renfield (Nicholas Hoult, About a Boy) has gotten so bad that Renfield, a former real estate agent who sold his soul to the Count some 100 years ago, attends a ...
Read more: Renfield (2023) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Review - Dracula Sucks Edition
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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 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 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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- By Loron Hays
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence throughout, language, some sexual content and nudity.
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Writer: Robert Rodriguez and Álvaro Rodríguez
Cast: Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba; Cheech Marin
Genre: Action | Adventure
Memorable Movie Quote: "I absolve you of all your sins. Now, get the f@#$ out!"
Release Date: September 3, 2010
DVD Release Date: January 4, 2011
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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 Frank Wilkins
War is hell. Nowhere is that notion so vividly illustrated than in Erich Maria Remarque’s 1920 novel All Quiet on the Western Front. While Remarque’s story was brought to life in previous adaptations (1930 followed by 1979), we are reminded yet again of the novel’s significance in Edward ...
Read more: All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) - 4K UHD Blu-ray DigiBook 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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During a particularly stubborn bout of doing what writers do best: procrastinate - screenwriter Jimmy Warden ran across a 1985 news piece that became the seed of his next project. The true story involved the news of a 175-pound black bear that was found dead in the Chattahoochee ...
Read more: Cocaine Bear (2023) - Blu-ray + DVD+Digital Review
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- By Emily Strong
“Jaaaaaaaaaammmmmeeeessss!” We’re only about one month into 2023 and there is already a film to come out that has left me completely and utterly stunned. It shocks you; it makes you squirm, and it hypnotizes you with its unnerving atmosphere and startling images. Brandon ...
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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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- Missing (2023) - Blu-ray + Digital Review
- Babylon (2022) - 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Steelbook - Review
- John Wick - Blu-ray Review
- John Wick: Chapter 2 - Blu-ray Review
- John Wick: Chapter Three - Parabellum - Blu-ray Review
- M3GAN (2023) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code Review - Unrated Edition
- White Material - Movie Review
- Primal (2019) - 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
- The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - 4K UHD Review
- Kill Her Goats (2023) - SteelBook / Limited Edition - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
- A Man Called Otto (2022) - Blu-ray + Digital 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