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“You’re insane…but you might also be brilliant.” When does a joke go on for too long? Isn’t the point to make the audience laugh? If you’re a comedian, then the answer to the latter would most likely be “yes.” But if you’re Andy Kaufman, then the answer is “no.” He never claimed to be a ...
Read more: Man on the Moon: 2K Restoration (1999) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Beginning with an explosion which levels a poppy field, Cleopatra Jones is one bad mutha! Drug trafficking is about to get the red light thanks to her blazing guns. With an undefined beauty and a ...
Read more: Cleopatra Jones: Warner Archive Collection (1973) - Blu-ray Review
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Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan was, at one time, a place of filth and absolute poverty. Back then, it was known as one of the roughest neighborhoods in Manhattan; a better place to be from than to be in. Bordered by the Hudson River on the west, Eighth Avenue on the east, 59th Street on the ...
Read more: Angels with Dirty Faces: Warner Archive Collection (1938) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Dirty O’Neil, released during the same year as The Swinging Cheerleaders and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is yet another on wild romp through exploitation flicks. It is essentially about the love life of a small-town cop. Filled to the bring with backseat action, corny one-liners, and lots ...
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There’s no aliens invading or giant tsunami waves or even an earth-killing meteor on its way. No, this classic keeps it simple. With Robert Aldrich in the director’s chair and Hollywood legend, James Stewart, leading the charge, The Flight of the Phoenix is a well-written, old-school disaster movie ...
Read more: The Flight of the Phoenix: Criterion Collection (1965)
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- By Loron Hays
Think it’s just the rainy day blues that has this mind reader down in the dumps? Think again. Based on a Cornell Woolrich novel, Night Has A Thousand Eyes might be classic B-movie material (due to its supernatural sources), but the film is both poetic and engaging as one mind reader ...
Read more: Night Has A Thousand Eyes (1948) - Blu-ray Review
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Wow. A HUGE existential hurdle has just been crossed by a person who was raised on the set of the original film. Makes sense then that the Ghostbusters story here in Ghostbusters: Afterlife is told from the viewpoint of a child discovering the truth about their own ghostbusting grandpa ...
Read more: Ghostbusters Afterlife - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Review
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The “Brother Man from the Motherland” returns to settle yet another score! Can you dig it? Funked up by Isaac Hayes’ incredible score and theme, Richard Roundtree is back in action as Harlem P.I. John Shaft in this trio of signature blaxploitation offerings from directors...
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- By Emily Strong
“Immoral women shouldn't work in banks, you know. They might corrupt the young dollar bills.” Small towns can be so wonderful, can’t they? Everybody knows one another so well. It can be like having one giant family with the sense of comfort and love gushing from the community. Well, why ...
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Wasted talent. That’s the most economical way to sum up The 355, a female-led globetrotting espionage action thriller that finds its multi-racial cast of Hollywood A-listers muddling through a script so lazily written it gives generic a bad name ...
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Stop Motion animation addicts rejoice! Monster from Green Hell has been unleashed and, for those few seconds of stop motion glory, it’s worth it! ...
Read more: Monster From Green Hell: The Film Detective Special Edition (1957) - Blu-ray Review
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Sometimes the good country air can be harmful to your health. Such is the frightening territory of this atmospheric thriller which sees a small-town recluse turn murderer. The woman projects nothing but EVIL while, at the same time, being nothing but pleasant in conversation. She’s a ...
Read more: The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
Achieving the impossible is easy. All one needs is a clear vision, a lofty dream, and a brazen plan to make it come true, right? At least that’s what Richard Williams would have us believe. After all, Williams – father of tennis greats Venus and Serena – had a vision in the late ‘70s that two ...
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An American Werewolf in London begins with Blue Moon howling across the speakers while pastoral settings flicker by. It isn’t until we get to “Written and Directed by John Landis” before we see any signs of life and it is a truck full of sheep, with two young American backpackers, David (David ...
Read more: An American Werewolf in London 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray Limited Edition (1981) Review
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- By Emily Strong
Writer/director Julia Ducournau’s sophomore feature film, Titane, is definitely one of the wildest and most shocking films that you will ever see…but in all of the best ways. You will squirm. You will grip your arm rest. You will even spew out many “No”s at the screen (trust me, I did the same). But the ...
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“The mob doesn’t think. It has a mind of its own.” In 1933, some loud-mouthed man with a tiny mustache and a weird haircut rose to power in the country of Germany. His name, I believe, was Adolf Hitler. You may have heard of him, no? Well, he established a dictatorship to replace ...
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“Is your sword for hire? I would pay anything for it. What is wrong? Is your sword too small. . . “ Go BOLD or GO HOME, right? Surely, that must have been behind this sword and sorcery romp as a bad king dares to raise a demon from the depths of Hell in order to conquer even more land for ...
Read more: The Sword and The Sorcerer - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Collector’s Edition (1982) - Review
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“You stinkin’ rat!” For crime flicks, High Sierra, directed by Raoul Walsh, is indeed a watershed moment as the gangster pictures of the 1930s gave way to the fatalism found in Film Noir, which would dominate the 1940s. Making spectacular use of its locations ...
Read more: High Sierra: Criterion Collection (1941) - Blu-ray Review
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“Are you looking for laughs…or are you soul searching?” The reception of Douglas Sirk films have been…let’s say: mixed. Audiences of the time of its release in 1956 flocked to his pictures, but critics of the time dismissed his melodramas. They figured them as being too concerned with ...
Read more: Written in the Wind: Criterion Collection (1956) - Blu-ray Review
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It lives in the sewers of Chicago. It’s 36 feet long and weighs over 2000 pounds. This gargantuan is also very, very hungry. Its name is Ramon and, after being flushed down the toilet by an angry Dad, is now about to break out from beneath the city! And Chicago will never be the same ...
Read more: Alligator 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray: Collector’s Edition (1980) - 4K UHD Review
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Metallic hands and dark glasses! There can be only one Dr. Gogol! Maybe it is the warning that is issued as the film begins in total blackness or maybe it is the way that Peter Lorre is lit and filmed throughout this horror film, but Mad Love absolutely works its twisted ways in a modern viewing and ...
Read more: Mad Love: Warner Archive Collection (1935) - Blu-ray Review
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Ah, yes, there WILL BE blood. Double Walker, one of my favorite independent offerings from last year, arrives on Blu-ray via Kino Lorber and its recent partnership with Cranked Up Films. While it has no bonus features, this release is certainly very welcomed ...
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This is what happens when an abusive drunk tries to drive the last remaining link to his family’s inheritance absolutely mad in order to cash it in all for himself. Moody, full of fine performances, and with plenty of twists along the way, Paranoiac is a black-and-white gem of atmospheric terror ...
Read more: Paranoiac: Collector’s Edition (1963) - Blu-ray Review
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Lon Chaney as Quasimodo. Need I say anymore? I don’t really think so, but I’ll flex. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a certified REEL CLASSIC of silent, cinematic horror and it begins right there with Chaney’s performance as the deaf, half-blind, hunchbacked bell-ringer of the famous Cathedral of ...
Read more: The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 4K Restoration (1923) - Blu-ray Review
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Well, this one definitely flew under the radar. After its initial premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, Mass quietly made its festival rounds, then only to be played in a very few select theaters, until finally in December, it got a VOD release, and now, to the thanks of Bleeker Street, we finally are ...
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Jack Hill is BACK in a BIG way! For anyone who “hates” on exploitation film auteur Jack Hill’s The Swinging Cheerleaders for its objectification of women – namely cheerleaders – there’s a need for a brief lesson in film and cultural history. Made during the 1970s, Hill’s movie was a very ...
Read more: The Swinging Cheerleaders: Arrow Video 2K Restoration (1974)
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- By Emily Strong
It’s Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn. Are you sold on it yet? No? Alright, let’s talk: When you think about Tracey-Hepburn films, Frank Capra’s 1948 State of the Union is certainly not as revered or remembered in the way that Woman of the Year, Adam’s Rib, or even Guess Who’s ...
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Perhaps one of, if not the most important film movement in cinema’s history is that of the French New Wave, that made its audacious emergence in the late 1950’s and lasted until about the late 1960’s. Throwing out every rule of the dominating studio system, this movement took to the streets ...
Read more: The Celebration: Criterion Collection (1998) - Blu-ray Review
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Now, this right here is the KA-RAZY chop Saki kung-fu that I miss about the action flicks from the 1980s! Written, directed and starring Taiwanese martial arts legend John Liu (The Secret Rivals, Invincible Armor) , New York Ninja is truly a one-of-a-kind martial arts film as a mild-mannered sound ...
Read more: New York Ninja (1984) - Vinegar Syndrome Exclusive - Blu Ray Review
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"I've got my head. I've lost my leopard!" As far as screwball comedies go, the pairing of Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn was probably seen as an odd choice in 1938. She didn’t have a hit film and Grant, hitting his comedic stride, was just coming off of The Awful Truth to ...
Read more: Bringing Up Baby: The Criterion Collection (1938)
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- 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