DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Details: Created: 12 December 2021; Published: 12 December 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 21 September 2020; Published: 21 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 13 August 2021; Published: 13 August 2021; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What if all the non-playable characters (NPCs) in video games – the background characters controlled by the game's artificial intelligence (AI) rather than by a gamer – suddenly broke out and began taking control of their own destinies? Would anyone play a video game that awards points for ...

Details: Created: 08 December 2021; Published: 08 December 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Your savior has arrived! There’s something wrong with Maud (Morfydd Clark, Crawl). This is important to identify correctly as we are with the poor girl for the entire movie. In fact, we never leave her side no matter what happens or what dark forces take over her body as they communicate ...

Details: Created: 19 September 2020; Published: 19 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 20 August 2021; Published: 20 August 2021; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What makes for great horror? Some prefer in-your-face blood and graphic violence, while others are spooked by the unsettling things that can’t be seen – the things that happen just off screen or in the corners of the frame. Fans of the latter, do we have a film for you! ...

Details: Created: 23 November 2021; Published: 23 November 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Leave this house now! Peggy (Sian Barbara Allen, Billy Two Hats) never should have taken the housekeeping job at the Elliot Estate. She knows this now that its deadly mysteries have been unearthed. Of course, it might be too late for her, but it is not too late for us. You’ve been ...

Details: Created: 18 September 2020; Published: 18 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 03 August 2021; Published: 03 August 2021; Written by Emily Strong

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“Is it wrong to want greatness for you?” David Lowrey’s new visual marvel, The Green Knight, challenges the very notion of greatness and honor in this 21st-century retelling of the 14th-century poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. What exactly does achieving greatness and honor ...

Details: Created: 05 November 2021; Published: 05 November 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Greetings from Valkenvania! Written and directed by Ghostbusters’ Dan Akroyd, Nothing But Trouble has achieved almost legendary status as Akroyd’s OTHER horror/comedy. You know, the one that was the box office BOMB, blasting itself into oblivion with its troll-like Valkenheiser ...

Details: Created: 17 September 2020; Published: 17 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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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! ...

Details: Created: 25 June 2021; Published: 25 June 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Climb in and enjoy the ride, suckas! There’s no need for roads where this franchise is headed! Space awaits! Yes, this is where F9 heads and you will love the sheer ridiculousness of it all as the 9th film in the series gets both the FAST and the FURIOUS back on track, avoiding the Moonraker-sized ...