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- Created: 29 August 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Endlessly quotable and highly entertaining, a comedy classic has returned to us! A rags to riches story disguised as a romantic comedy? Who doesn’t love that idea?! No one. It was all the rage in the 1980s, which is why Overboard - a romantic comedy which breezes through some pretty ...
Read more: Overboard: 2K Restoration (1987) - 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: 18 September 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Sometimes it takes meeting the wrong person to finally get to the right person. That’s one of the territories in Holiday, an often overlooked romantic comedy from 1938 which deals with clashing values and what it means to truly live as pie-in-the-sky dreamers mix drinks with the aristocrats ...
Read more: Holiday: Criterion Collection (1938) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 23 August 2021
- Written by Emily Strong
“Things are not always what they seem in this place.” Upon its original theatrical release in 1986, Jim Henson’s final directorial feature, Labyrinth, was not able to find its audience as it flopped in the U.S Box office and received mixed reviews among critics of the time. But fortunately thanks to home ...
Read more: Labyrinth 35th Anniversary Edition - 4K ULTRA HD + BLU-RAY + DIGITAL (1986) - 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: 17 September 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
It’s the simplest twist of fates as Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard return to do battle with the supernatural in The Ghost Breakers! Voodoo, ghosts, and island-bound zombies! Add in a criminally underrated performance from Willie Best and you have the makings of another REEL CLASSIC! ...
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- Created: 21 August 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The new Michael Bryce is now part of a royally messed up family. But do we care? We probably didn’t need a sequel to 2017’s misfire buddy cop movie, The Hitman’s Bodyguard, but we got one anyway. Thing is, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is more of the same so - and this is the good news (I guess) - if you liked ...
Read more: The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 15 September 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Swamp gators (with their mouths taped shut as evidenced by this crisp 4K handling!), dead lawyers, and mighty sums of money! Such frightful delights await those that can stay sane in the Norman clan. ...
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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: 05 August 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“And the lamplight streaming shows his shadow on the floor.” Some say this is David Cronenberg’s best film. While I may not necessarily agree with that suggestion, I have to agree - and this is wholeheartedly - that, The Dead Zone, just might be one of the best Stephen King adaptations ...
Read more: The Dead Zone: Collector's Edition (1983) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 28 October 2020
- Written by Michelle Duy
I’ll say this about The Assistant: it’ll probably make you appreciate your own boss. That person is almost guaranteed to be better than the nameless tyrant dominating The Assistant. The movie depicts one long and ordinary day in the life of Jane (Julia Garner), a twenty something wannabe film ...
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- Created: 29 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
There are few genre fans in the world that don’t know the name Guillermo del Toro, but in 1997 he was still a relatively unknown entity to the western world. The Spanish director was hired by the Weinsteins to helm what was originally conceived as a three part short film project, quickly morphed ...
Read more: Mimic: The Director’s Cut (1997) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 13 March 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
What if they made a movie and nobody came? That was the fear when the horror satire The Hunt was scheduled for release last fall before being delayed by a series of unfortunate events. First, it was the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings. Then a tweet about the film from our ...
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- Created: 25 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Spiders the size of SUVs in a mining town full of crazy characters? Count me in! Eight Legged Freaks, starring David Arquette, Kari Wuhrer, Scott Terra, Scarlett Johansson, and Doug E. Doug, finally arrives on blu-ray courtesy of Scream Factory. For me, this B-grade horror ...
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- Created: 12 June 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
While browsing through your favorite streaming service last week, you probably flipped past the title card for the little-known Canadian thriller called Becky. Big mistake. Need convincing? It stars Kevin James as a swastika-tattooed neo-Nazi murderer. Yes, that Kevin James ...
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- Created: 21 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
He’s really being the monster today! Why can’t he be more like his brother? With those two sentences, audiences are immediately thrust into the chaos that is 2005’s House of Wax. That opening, in which two bent out of shape parents struggle with their wild twin sons ...
Read more: House of Wax: Collector's Edition (2005) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 25 June 2020
- Written by Michelle Duy
Knives Out (2019) is a clever murder mystery from writer and director Rian Johnson, the best quality of which is its awesome ensemble cast: Christopher Plummer, Jamie Lee Curtis, Don Johnson, Toni Collette, Chris Evans, Michael Shannon and more. Everyone seems to enjoy their juicy ...
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- Created: 22 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
I’m tweakin’ dude! One of my favorite B-grade flicks from Cinemax’s yesteryear is now on blu-ray! The Wraith has arrived! Complete with a crazy ass performance from Clint Howard (AND HIS HAIR) and Ozzy Osbourne’s “Secret Loser” (from The Ultimate Sin) blasting at the start of the first ...
Read more: The Wraith: Vestron Video Collector's Series (1986) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 01 June 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Films of the ilk of last year’s Ad Astra are always a quandary for me to write about. With the output of most of Hollywood’s efforts being what some might sarcastically call formulaic and digestible, it is both a blessing and a curse when something is offered to buck the trend. James Gray’s science ...
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- Created: 14 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Can I have my light back, Reggie? With guns blazing and fierce energy kicking about in its insides Walter Hill’s 48 Hrs. is a violent and truly funny action comedy. When it was originally release, it was the movie which rocketed Eddie Murphy to stardom thanks to his performance on ...
Read more: Paramount Presents: 48 Hrs. - 4K Restoration (1982) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 22 June 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
With streaming now taking the lion’s share of the average household’s attention, it is getting harder and harder for the studios to entice us for yet another dip at their titles; especially when a great many of them are but a single click away on our smart TVs. It is wildly believed that physical home media ...
Read more: Jaws (1975) - 45th Anniversary Edition - 4K UHD Review
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- Created: 15 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The Iceman cometh! Yeah, so Another 48 Hrs. might not be the film fans wanted at the time of its release, but it still EXPLODES with action scenes that sees bodies flying all sorts of places as they are shot by a crazy biker gang. And that’s ...
Read more: Paramount Presents: Another 48 Hrs. - 4K Restoration (1990)
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- Created: 28 February 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Though more than eighty years have passed since Claude Rains donned the dark sunglasses, smoking jacket, and yards of ACE bandages in 1933’s The Invisible Man, the character still holds a firm place in the pantheon of Universal’s classic movie monsters. That’s not only a testament to the legacy of the studio’s monster ...
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- Created: 13 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Talk about a CLOWN DAY AFTERNOON! Coming straight at you from the weird and wacky center of 1990s Forgotten Gems aisle comes Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, and Jason Robards in Quick Change, a comedic heist film in which Murray appears ...
Read more: Quick Change : The Warner Archive Collection (1990) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 06 March 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
What's the first question everyone asks whenever you’ve just watched a new Pixar film? “Where does it rank?” Of course, they’re asking where it fits within the hierarchy of Pixar films. And let’s face it, even a bad Pixar film tops most cinema fare these days, so when we say that Onward ranks ...
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- Created: 01 April 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Now THIS is how you do it! The title says it all. Godzilla in one corner of the ring. King Kong in the other. And one HELL of a battle in the space between these two titans. And, within seconds of it opening, we get the added bonus of this series FULLY embracing its science fiction leanings with two ...
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- Created: 22 May 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
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: 22 June 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Anyone have some change? Frank and Josie are back! I am not sure if it is the whole Generation X side of me, but Career Opportunities - which is essentially The Breakfast Club set inside Home Alone - was my jam back in high school. There’s a part of me that still ...
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- Created: 15 May 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
When Harley Quinn has a bad day, it’s a good day for the rest of us. And Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is the proof. The very bad, rotten day had by Harley (Margot Robbie, I, Tonya), is told in side-splitting detail in the 24-hour comical frenzy ...
Read more: Birds of Prey: And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn - 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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