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- Created: 29 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
It’s hard to conceive in this era of remakes that some redos in the history of cinema go on to become classics in their own right. For genre fans, John Carpenter’s The Thing is often cited as a prime example. For comedy, however, Billy Wilder’s beloved cross-dressing romp, Some Like It ...
Read more: Some Like It Hot: Criterion Collection (1959) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 16 June 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Oscar Winners Martin Landau and José Ferrar in a monster movie with grand laughs? Sign me up! A very nude girl paints her toes in her bedroom. It is night and she’s clueless as to what foul beast is lurking just outside her house. It is a slug-like monster the size of a bear and ...
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- Created: 17 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
"What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, All About Eve continues to shine bright thanks to the dazzling performance of Bette Davis as Margo Channing as she takes Anne Baxter as ...
Read more: All About Eve: Criterion Collection (1950) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 20 January 2021
- Written by Michelle Duy
In the Christian dramedy Small Group (2018), an agnostic filmmaker named Roman Scott Cooper (Sterling Hurst) goes undercover to explore evangelical religion. His producer Ballard (Robert Riechel Jr.) wants him to blow the lid off the church by creating a muckraking expose. But Scott’s ...
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- Created: 15 June 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Genevieve is completely CRACKERS and I love it! Nicholas Michael Jacobs, independent film director of Night, Urban Fears, and Tales from Six Feet Under, is back with his latest horror/comedy, Genevieve. This time out his take on the whole Annabelle doll haunting series of flicks gets served ...
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- Created: 13 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Los Angeles after dark is always an exciting place. Whether it be out on the street or gazing out the window of your home, the air of unpredictability is always lurking about in the air. And it is that unpredictability which opens director Billy Wilder’s film noir classic, Double Indemnity as a ...
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- Created: 13 January 2021
- Written by Christopher Symonds
In annuls of home media, there are few titles regarded as legendary as The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Not only because of Peter Jackson’s epic adaptation, but in the sheer depth of content and effort made in exploring every facet of the creation of these films. From ...
Read more: The Lord of the Rings: The Motion Picture Trilogy - 4K Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 09 June 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Recycled! Repurposed! These riot girls RULE the battleground known as the GridIron! Opening with a very brief scene involving the collection of freshly sawed off limbs and then a much longer all girl punk rock band beatdown, Spare Parts welcomes us all back to the bloody arena of ...
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- Created: 25 September 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
When asked how the training of his replacement is coming along, Stanley (Richard Jenkins, The Visitor) mumbles to his manager, “I just don’t think he’s a good fit here.” Stanley would know. After all, we’s worked the late night drive-thru shift at Oscar’s Chicken and Fish, a run-down fast food spot in ...
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- Created: 23 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“Did you bring me here by force?” And INTRODUCING Audrey Hepburn. That’s right, the screen legend begins here with Roman Holiday, a quintessential romantic comedy, which was shot on location in Rome . . . even though Paramount wanted it filmed on their studio ...
Read more: Paramount Presents: Roman Holiday (1953) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 08 June 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
In which Joe Dante, the director of Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, The Burbs, Matinee, Innerspace, and other cult classics, turns toys into objects of delightful HORROR! It’s as if The Puppetmaster and Toy Story met in a dark alley and had a quickie, giving birth to this cult classic 9 months ...
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- Created: 18 September 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Iranian-American filmmaker Cyrus Nowrasteh has made quite a name for himself around Hollywood with unflinching films that pull back the curtains on governmental corruption and institutionalized abuse. His target is never limited to the American government, however, and those ...
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- Created: 18 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
When the “Yes” men start telling you “NO”, you are probably approaching the trash-lined gutters along Sunset Boulevard. Hollywood is clearly sending you a message. You are no longer needed . . . or are you?!?! Well, if Billy Wilder (director of The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, ...
Read more: Sunset Boulevard: 4K Restoration (1950) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 01 June 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Freedom! Adventure! Flying like Peter Pan across . . . a circuit board?! Damn straight! Forget about Neverland, folks! Back when Explorers was originally made, it was the digital age that we were venturing into and, with an opening flying montage as Ethan Hawke bursts through heavy ...
Read more: Explorers: Collector's Edition (1985) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 04 September 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Gather ‘round all you puzzle lovers. Have I got a challenge for you! With twisty logic, time-altering physics, and an alternate existence that defies reality, the highly anticipated new thriller called Tenet is the mental challenge puzzle masters trained their entire lives for. For all ...
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- Created: 17 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
From identical dresses to the fire which ravishes Manderley, the second Mrs. de Winter (Joan Fontaine) can never, ever take the place of Rebecca. Cue the romance, the heartbreak, the haunted tension and wind it all up because this film is all about the snap. That’s what makes this ...
Read more: Rebecca: Criterion Collection (1940) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 26 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Guns! Sin! And bathtub gin! In this women-centered d♀uble feature from Shout! Factory, Crazy Mama takes a commanding lead for Producer Roger Corman as Academy Award winner Cloris Leachman pulls off yet another crazy character with that of Melba Stokes as she and her crazy family embark on a road trip like ...
Read more: Crazy Mama/The Lady in Red D♀uble Feature (1975, 1979) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 10 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
A minister-turned-serial killer in one of the most beautiful films ever made by Hollywood? Sure. Why not? When the results of exaggerated set designs and a directing style reminiscent of early silent cinema are as good as they are in The Night of the Hunter, no one is going to complain ...
Read more: The Night of the Hunter: Criterion Collection (1955)
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- Created: 09 December 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Well, this one had a pained and storied journey to the big screen. Filmed in 2017 after three years of developed, and falling prey to 20th Century Fox indecision, this Josh Boone directed X-Men spin-off production went through several re-workings before, during and after (in fact LONG after) ...
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- Created: 27 May 2021
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It might be intense and rather somber, but there’s no mistaking the meaning behind Revenge of the Bushido Blade! Someone is out for BLOOD! Presented for the first time in a brilliant and shockingly glossy 4K remaster, Revenge of the Bushido Blade (aka The Last Reunion or ...
Read more: Revenge of the Bushido Blade (1978) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 10 July 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
There’s something about a Judd Apatow film that identifies itself almost immediately. Whether it’s gut-busting humor simply for the sake of making us laugh, or foul language and raunchiness with the sole intention of allowing us to be happy wallowing in our own consenting adulthood, his ...
Read more: The King of Staten Island (2020) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 27 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Was he trying to kiss or kill her on that hilltop? The verdict is still out as Suspicion makes its debut on blu-ray thanks to the efforts of the Warner Archive Collection. Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Francis Iles's novel Before the Fact - which is as dissimilar as they...
Read more: Suspicion: Warner Archive Collection (1941) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 25 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Boobs! Bullets! Bawdy Babes! What’s not to love about Angie Dickinson in Big Bad Mama?! Nothing! Absolutely nothing! And producer Roger Corman knows it which is why Big Bad Mama is a curvaceous cult classic. The sequel made in 1987? Well, not so much, but - hey- (going ...
Read more: Big Bad Mama/Big Bad Mama II: Big Bad Double Feature (1974, 1987) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 07 August 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
If you’ve not yet become totally comfortable with the whole AirBnB home-sharing thing yet, then stay away from The Rental. It’s the new film from first-time director Dave Franco (yes, that Dave Franco) and it plays off the distrust many have about staying in the home of a complete stranger. Think about ...
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- Created: 21 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
You can’t say that Hitchcock didn’t warn audiences of Hitler. He made several films with Hitler’s world view overhanging the shadows in each frame. But, after a decade in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock took that warning to a new level and gave audiences the ultimate romance between a ...
Read more: Notorious: Criterion Collection (1946) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 20 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Because the “good old boy” way of doing things needs to get steamrolled by a 1942 M4 Sherman tank from time to time! There are a few valuable lessons to be learned from this sometimes witty Smokey and the Bandit wannabe title ...
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- Created: 13 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“I know what happens in those mystery pictures! A guy walks over to a perfectly ordinary door he opens it up and - ZOWIE! - out falls a body right on its kisser!” And, of course, a body falls to the ground! When it comes to getting the tone of horror comedies right, you have to sometimes go ...
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- Created: 09 November 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
The product of two A-list protégés (at the time) floundering in their careers; a script deemed too dirty by Disney, and not dirty enough by other studios (this was era of sex comedies). Back to the Future, despite being one of the tightest screenplays ever written (then and now) just could not ...
Read more: Back to the Future: The Ultimate Trilogy - 4K Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 18 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“I’m on TV! I’m on TV!” Because we all love the scene-stealing LUNACY of a Cage-centered meltdown, especially when his character is named Rick Santoro! Go, Tyler! Go, Tyler! Goooooooooo! ...
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- Created: 12 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Sandra! Junior? SANDRA! Junior? SAAAANNNNNDRA! Having successfully stolen the show in 1941’s One Night in the Tropics, the comedy duo of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello - who were big on radio but untested on film - were quickly signed by Universal Pictures ...
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