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- By Christopher Symonds
Tis hard to believe in this century that the name Peter Jackson wasn’t known to that many in the mid- 90s. Film nuts like myself were aware of him, devouring the likes of Bad Taste and Meet the Feebles eagerly. I remember distinctly saying to a friend, after viewing Jackson’s R-rated puppet movie, that I ...
Read more: The Frighteners (1996) - The 6-Disc Ultimate Edition 4K UHD Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
In a family-owned butcher shop situated in a sun-scorched small town, we meet Sara (Laura Galán) – an overweight teenager who is constantly bombarded with the merciless bullying and gossip of other kids her age. To them, she’s “Piggy.” ...
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- By Emily Strong
On again, off again. In love, out of love. Going back to school, starting a new job. Everything is fluid and everything is changing in the whimsical and lustful drama from French director Jacques Audiard. Capturing the residential district of Les Olympiades in beautiful black and white photography ...
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- By Emily Strong
We’ll call them the classic, the prequel, and the sequel. Breaking the mold of the cop/detective story that audiences of the time were all too familiar with, the writers (Felix Chong and Alan Mak) and directors (Alan Mak and Andrew Lau) of the iconic Infernal Affairs trilogy sought to inject new life into the ...
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- By Loron Hays
“Give me your money or I’ll bust you up.” It is this line that forever alters the decision-making of an architect driven to murder. Morbidity goes mad in director Michael Winner’s Death Wish, a revenge flick from 1974 that made Charles Bronson a household name of full-throttled action and made ...
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- By Loron Hays
It’s Groundhog Day! Ready to relive this magical day over and over again?! Well, Phil Conners (Bill Murray) might not be ready to do it, but you certainly will. Revisiting the highlights of director Harold Ramis’ Groundhog Day include watching Murray assault the many characters in the town ...
Read more: Groundhog Day (1993) 4K + Blu-ray Steelbook Review
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- By Emily Strong
A bit similar to his acclaimed 2017 film, Call Me by Your Name, with his latest film, Bones and All, director Luca Guadagnino tackles another forbidden love story. But this one requires, let’s just say…more of an acquired taste. Much like its French cousin, Raw, directed by Julia Ducournau ...
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- By Loron Hays
“Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie? Or are you gonna bite?” If one needed to sum up who Quentin Tarantino was in one word, I think the best one would be “pioneer.” He ushered in a new wave of film that is replicated over and over again, ad nauseum, until the entire pool is over saturated with ...
Read more: Reservoir Dogs (1992) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Review
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- By Emily Strong
Everything seems nice enough. The neighbors are friendly. The apartment is modern and clean. Her husband has a good job. But to Julia (Maika Monroe), something is wrong – everything is wrong. From the very instant we meet Julia in a taxi with her husband, Francis (Karl Glusman), her discomfort jumps right ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
After the release of his first two films, 2017’s Get Out and 2019’s Us, one thing became perfectly clear about Jordan Peele as a filmmaker: the guy undoubtedly understands the importance of baking rich themes and abstract motifs into the DNA of his stories. His films are rarely what they initially ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
With such heavyweight Hollywood hits as the Witches of Eastwick, the Happy Feet movies, Lorenzo’s Oil, and of course, the Mad Max films – namely Mad Max: Fury Road which reignited the Miller fascination, there's simply no denying George Miller's place in the pantheon ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Ladies and gentlemen, the world of horror has a new scream queen. Her name is Mia Goth. With a dozen or so high-profile roles over the last decade, the youthful ingenue is certainly no newcomer to the biz, but her two latest films – Ti West’s X which released earlier this year and now its ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
As if we needed something else to confirm Viola Davis’ place in the shrine of truly remarkable actresses, along comes The Woman King, an elaborately choreographed historical epic in which she towers over nearly every aspect of the film’s production ...
Read more: The Woman King - 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
2022 has been an incredibly good year for horror hounds. With such jewels as X, Prey, The Black Phone, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Nope, and most recently Pearl having already scared up plenty of attention this year, it’s quite an unexpected surprise that we get yet another gem to add to ...
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- By Loron Hays
“Bones, there’s a thing out there.” Perfection in sound and vision looks like this. If you don’t get goosebumps over hearing Jerry Goldsmith’s epic preamble in the fully restored Director’s Cut of Star Trek: The Motion Picture then you ...
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- Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan - Director’s Cut (1982) 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray + Digital Review
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- The Munsters: Collector’s Edition (2022) - Blu-ray Review
- American Movie (1999) - Blu-ray review
- The Halloween 4K Collection 1995-2002 4K UHD + Blu-ray - Review
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- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
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- The Death of Brandon Lee
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