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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 Christopher Symonds
At the turn of last century the superhero genre was on the cusp of a major elevation in output. Despite Batman and Robin crashing and burning that franchise, films like Blade, X-Men and Spider-man were all in various stages of production and would go on to embolden the now saturated superhero ...
Read more: Mystery Men (1999) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray 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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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 Emily Strong
With a deadline looming over the troubled sailors, Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail makes the film’s numbered days last as long as possible with its simple plot and generous humanity. Starring Jack Nicholson as the rough and rugged Billy “Badass” Buddusky, Otis Young as the sensible and strict ...
Read more: The Last Detail (1973) - 4K UHD Collector's Edition Review
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- By Loron Hays
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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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 Frank Wilkins
As if we needed something else to confirm Viola Davis’ place in the shrine of truly remarkable actresses, along comes The Woman King, an elaborately choreographed historical epic in which she towers over nearly every aspect of the film’s production ...
Read more: The Woman King - 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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- 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
When a film, not particularly well-liked at the time by critics, goes on to earn back four times its budget, there had to be something to it. Road House is the go-to for many Gen-Xers (myself included) for a bit of dumb fun. It’s ridiculous, set-your-brain-to-neutral, action fare; the kind made for (and seemingly ...
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"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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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 Christopher Symonds
There is nothing more alluring to me for a night at the movies than a good old-fashioned man versus beast tale. My favourite film has always been Spielberg’s Jaws and forever will be. Even the most ill-advised and derivative of this sub-genre usually end up an easy watch for me. So long ...
Read more: The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) - Blu-ray Review
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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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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 Christopher Symonds
Back in the early nineties, Kevin Costner was at the zenith of his cinematic reach. With the likes of Bull Durham, The Untouchables and his Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves under his belt already, the man could (and did) write his own ticket. In these happy times, a star with that pedigree ...
Read more: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) - 4K UHD Limited Edition Review
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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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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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And now, thanks to the fine folks over at Paramount, we finally get the 4K transfer of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, a masterwork of filmmaking ...
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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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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 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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“Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie? Or are you gonna bite?” If one needed to sum up who Quentin Tarantino was in one word, I think the best one would be “pioneer.” He ushered in a new wave of film that is replicated over and over again, ad nauseum, until the entire pool is over saturated with ...
Read more: Reservoir Dogs (1992) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital 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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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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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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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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Shot on video and completely off its futureshock rocker, Todd Sheets’ Moonchild, in which a werewolf super soldier joins forces with an army of dim-witted kung-fu warriors in the search for his messiah-like son, just won’t stay dead and buried! ...
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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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