DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Details: Created: 27 March 2022; Published: 27 March 2022; Written by Emily Strong

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I think that everyone knows that those early teen years were…confusing…to say the least. Everyone has had their own traumatizing experiences from that time (whether you choose to remember them or not). However, there is a sense of comfort knowing that we all went through it and ...

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Details: Created: 13 February 2021; Published: 13 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Suspicions! Accusations! It’s all on the screen in this minor film noir classic. The Suspect arrives on blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber and I, as a fan of Laughton’s performances, couldn’t be happier ...

Details: Created: 07 December 2021; Published: 07 December 2021; Written by Christopher Symonds

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This low budget ($300,000 USD) slasher film, made by a USC graduate in the late 70s, would spawn countless sequels and give its backers some serious profits, the world horror auteur John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis. Those things make the love for this simple tale worth it alone. It’s cementing ...

Details: Created: 18 February 2022; Published: 18 February 2022; Written by Loron Hays

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“You made two mistakes. One was getting up and the other was making fun of Shirley Temple.” Directed by David Berlatsky and starring Gary Conway as a decorated World War II veteran who returns home to try to save his farm from being taken over by the bank, The Farmer, a ...

Details: Created: 30 January 2021; Published: 30 January 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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One wouldn’t normally equate Cary Grant with a family movie about adoption and the drama which lies therein, but perhaps that’s why Room for One More (also known as The Easy Way) lingers with viewers. Grant, playing one half of The Roses, never gets time alone as his house is filled ...

Details: Created: 07 December 2021; Published: 07 December 2021; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Only three years after Halloween swept the world up in the antics of Michael Myers, John Carpenter reluctantly returned to write the follow up, after pressure from Akkad and especially producer Irwin Yablans. Halloween 2 would be financed, written, filmed and released in 1981. They didn’t mess ...

Details: Created: 03 February 2022; Published: 03 February 2022; Written by Loron Hays

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"The motion picture that follows is a fable. In it there are many nudists but only one monster. In life, it is generally the other way around." Brain dead dialogue? Plenty of female flesh? Monster madness? Where do I sign up?! AGFA and Something Weird, those cool-headed ...

Details: Created: 10 January 2021; Published: 10 January 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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“She’s afraid of the big bad wolf. Tra la la la laaaaaa.” It Happened One Night remains a phenomenal romantic comedy. After all these years, this pre-code American film - which was made when being a reporter was idolized and the screwball comedy was only just hitting its stride - still hits all the perfect notes as ...

Details: Created: 27 August 2021; Published: 27 August 2021; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Candyman. Do you dare say it? We’re coming up on 30 years since the hook-handed killer – known affectionately as the Candyman – haunted the honeycombed halls of the Cabrini-Green housing project in 1992’s Candyman. And now he’s back to paint those same corridors red in a ...