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- Created: 28 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“I’m the master of the ghost ship!” Come for the zombie in the Nazi uniform killing random people and stay for the nonstop hilarity as director Bernard Launois gives audiences a wild tasting slice of French horror pie in Devil Story, his first and last horror film. This is a Z-grade movie where ...
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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: 22 March 2021
- Written by Michelle Duy
From the producer of Get Out and Us, Antebellum (2020) is hard to watch as it depicts the realities of slavery. Everything from branding a human being to committing rape and murder is vividly portrayed. Thankfully, some scenes take place in the present day which give the viewer a much ...
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- Created: 28 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The umbrellas. The Flowers. And Mother’s collapse. Every year, it is the same thing. Welcome to the cruel and keyed-in paranoia of Dementia 13. If the headaches brought about by this dysfunctional family don’t get you, the axe murderer just might ...
Read more: Dementia 13 - Director’s Cut: Vestron Video Collector’s Series (1963)
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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, ...
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- Created: 24 March 2021
- Written by Michelle Duy
The low-budget Christian drama Dispatched is like a movie version of a street preacher. You may have been just going about your daily business, but it grabs you by the shirt collar. It gets right up in your face and declares God’s love for you. This blunt approach to evangelism is not for everybody ...
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- Created: 26 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“Alright, they’re crazy! Isn’t everybody?” We are all crazy. Every one of us are absolutely insane and little separates us from those poor individuals committed due to their uncontrolled impulses. Working with this idea, Alone in the Dark condemns all of society, showing just how ...
Read more: Alone in the Dark: Collector's Edition (1982) - Blu-ray Review
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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: 28 February 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...
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- Created: 23 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
"I can't help it, Joe! I just gotta have it!" These girls are nothing but trouble! Smokin’ weed, sellin’ stolen cars, and knockin’ men over the head until they are unconscious and, you know, mostly left for dead. And it is all because of the greasy tactics of Joe (Timothy Farell) and his notorious needle ...
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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: 18 December 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
It’s foolish to expect a movie about fossil hunting to be an exciting action banger. But Lord Have Mercy, is Ammonite about as slow as one would expect a movie about fossil hunting to be! To be fair, Ammonite isn’t about fossil hunting, nor does being slow necessarily make it a bad film. It isn’t. But like ...
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- Created: 24 September 2021
- Written by Emily Strong
“Didn’t you ever need someone?” “All the time.” As director Neil Jordan would describe it, Mona Lisa revolves around the idea of (and I’m paraphrasing here) a man not understanding women. And while the film does indeed center on this theme, Jordan and co-writer, David ...
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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...
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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: 24 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
What’s the secret ingredient to your fantastic meat pies, Auntie Lee? Inquiring minds want to know. Opening with a violent roadside altercation which results in the death of a kindly preacher (Night Patrol‘s Pat Paulsen) with a cross on his car for a hood ornament might not be for everyone, but ...
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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: 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 ...
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- Created: 23 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before!“ There was a time when those words - no, that entire opening ...
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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: 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: 20 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Zombies! Werewolves! Atomic Mutation! Intergalactic Giant Avians! This is how you do it, kids. Get yourself $100,000, come up with an attention-grabbing title for a movie, throw a monster in it, write the script on the quick, give yourself 6-days to shoot the movie (with an editor on the set so ...
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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: 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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- Created: 03 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
As if we needed another reason NOT to drive through the desolate region of America’s Southwest! The Brotherhood of Satan reminds us of all that could (and probably will go wrong) with an idea like that. Come across a car full of dead people? Just keep driving faster! No one is going to be helping ...
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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: 21 September 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
THE POST SAVES EARL WILLIAMS! Hear all about it in His Girl Friday, now available on blu-ray thanks to the Criterion Collection. Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell with standout performances from ...
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- Created: 28 August 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“I hate boats. I am not getting on any boats.” One Crazy Summer, for me, is a certified blast from beginning to end. It’s massively underrated and deserves to be applauded on its own merits instead of being compared to its cinematic (and probably more traditional) ...
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- Created: 19 September 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
If you ever get a hankering for some solid improvisational comedic skills on display throughout a major motion picture, look no further then director Leo McCarey’s slapstick comedy, The Awful Truth. It might have been his first film for Columbia Pictures, but that didn’t stop McCarey from ...
Read more: The Awful Truth: Criterion Collection (1937) - Blu-ray Review
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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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