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- Created: 30 July 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
What are you willing to sacrifice to protect your family? Would you give up your freedom? Are you prepared to unequivocally accept the consequences of your singular actions? Does your answer change if you are in a foreign country? ...
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- Created: 18 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
“Doctor! Doctor! She’s . . . dead.” A horror triple feature from the vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)? Yes, please! Call it the return of the Drive-In schlock. Hell, call it whatever you want. I call these films - Help Me . . . I’m Possessed, Carnival of Blood, and Night of the ...
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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: 17 December 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
In today’s world of divisiveness and animosity fueled by the 24 hour news cycle that mines its content from our dissimilarities and opposing views, we could all be better served by appreciating and accepting the connections that allow us to understand one another. That’s the central ...
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- Created: 13 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
Make no mistake about it. Jack Frost 2: Revenge Of The Mutant Killer Snowman is not a great movie. It might not even be that necessary considering the first one was all bark and little bite, but as we are talking about a psychotic (and in this one, resurrected) snowman who kills for jollies, I guess ...
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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: 31 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Not much has changed since 1955 when the Jungle River Cruise ride was introduced. The romance of the swashbuckling adventure yarn returns courtesy of the chemistry between Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in Jungle Cruise. Is it perfect? Nope. But watching them come together in ...
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- Created: 16 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
This set from Arrow Video is arguably their best release yet. It is indeed a labor of love as the company has carefully curated and gorgeously presented a selection of all-time Shaw Brothers classics in this box set. You read that correctly. From King Boxer to Mighty Peking Man and everything ...
Read more: Shawscope Volume One - Limited Edition - Blu-ray Review
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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: 17 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Testicles. Who needs ‘em? While watching Prisoners of the Ghostland, it's best to - like the logic it usually requires to follow a normal film from beginning to its everlovin’ end - throw them both out the window. Got your attention? Good. Love it or leave it, Prisoners of the Ghostland is ...
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- Created: 13 January 2022
- 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 ...
Read more: Jack Frost: Collector’s Edition - MVD Rewind Collection (1997) - Blu-ray Review
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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: 24 July 2021
- Written by Emily Strong
“You want your supply? I need my pig.” In his feature film debut, Pig, writer/director Michael Sarnoski does not give us a revenge-seeking, blood-soaked, over-acting Nicholas Cage that mows down an array of adversaries who stand in the way between him ...
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- Created: 09 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
“The worm is the spice! The spice is the worm!” David Lynch’s Dune might not be the director’s favorite movie-making experience. It also might not be on any science fiction fan’s top 10 list (although it probably should be). Those sentences alone do not make Lynch’s attempt at bringing ...
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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: 19 November 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
A small little underdog of a movie: it’s hard to believe but that’s exactly what Silence of the Lambs was. It was a film nobody wanted to make. Gene Hackman, who had paid for half the rights, bowed out, claiming it was too violent; Michelle Pfeiffer rejected the soon to be Oscar-winning role for the ...
Read more: The Silence of the Lambs - 4K UHD Review (Kino Lorber)
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- Created: 06 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
The man with the straw hat is back! And so are his ghoulish finds in the windy city of Chicago. Watergate era television doesn’t get much better than with Kolchak: The Night Stalker. And that, my friends, is a certified fact. It begins in a dingy motel room. A cassette player is on. A disheveled ...
Read more: Kolchak: The Night Stalker - The Complete Series (1974 - 1975) - 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: 04 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
“Can you still do the things with your eyes? You’re not crazy if you can still do the thing with your eyes.” I will NEVER forget the first time I saw Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I wouldn’t go outside in the rain for weeks afterwards thanks to the opening few minutes of ...
Read more: Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 21 January 2022
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Ghostface is back! Though it has been ten real-life years since we last saw the sad-faced masked murderer on the big screen, he’s still terrorizing the teens of the fictional town of Woodsboro where all the killing began some 25 years ago in 1996’s Scream ...
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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: 16 November 2021
- Written by Christopher Symonds
1990’s Misery is one of the finest book to screen King adaptations of all time, in my humble opinion. While this new dearth of King adaptions continues unabated with varying degrees of success or abject failure (*cough: The Stand), no one has (as yet) touched it, or even broached remaking it ...
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- Created: 24 December 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Folk Horror. The very combination of the words suggest a clash of ideologies and, true to its nature, this seems to be its roots. It is a concept of evil so entwined with the land that it is damn near impossible to ever tear its threads clean. The voices in the woods; the pagan ceremonies on the ...
Read more: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror - Box Set Blu-ray Review
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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: 21 December 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Opening with a classic song from a bygone era is a bold move for this supernatural coming-of-age story about a bullied teen who takes matters into his own hands. Especially when that familiar chorus - as The Platters’ own Tony Williams soars vocally - kicks in and the audience witnesses ...
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- Created: 18 February 2022
- Written by Frank Wilkins
So, you think you’re carrying some emotional baggage? Wait until you see the giant gorilla-proof hardside suitcase of emotional trauma Lulu, the retired military dog, and former Army Ranger Briggs (Channing Tatum) are toting around in the new road trip buddy film called Dog. Masking many ...
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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: 15 November 2021
- Written by Emily Strong
It’s quite hard to believe that the writer/director of such a modest, coming-of-age tale like Songs My Brothers Taught Me is the same person who just delivered us Marvel’s latest installment, Eternals. Though undoubtedly Chloé Zhao’s style is ingrained in the blockbuster, it is just a difficult task ...
Read more: Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 12 December 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
And just like that . . . a future cult classic has arrived! Based on a Ubisoft game and featuring a wonderful cast and of solidly realized characters, Werewolves Within is the whodunnit horror/comedy of the year. Fresh as the falling snow that has cut off the small town at the center of this ...
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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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