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- By Christopher Symonds
A notoriously difficult film to make, the first to show off James Cameron’s obsession with the depths of the ocean. Lead actor Ed Harris still refuses to talk about it to this day. It’s one of three Cameron films that hasn’t seen a home media release in decades. The Abyss, like most of his flicks ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
If you dug the psychosocial dysfunction of HBO’s “White Lotus” or the theocratic dystopia of Hulu’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” then Immaculate, the new film from director Michael Mohan (The Voyeurs) should also find a comfy place within the twisted recesses of your sick soul ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Representing Ethan Coen’s directorial feature debut without his filmmaking brother Joel, Drive-Away Dolls aims to take viewers on a wild, comic road trip, yet ends up stranding us in the cinematic equivalent of a scenic overlook without the scenery ...
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- By Loron Hays
Freddy Fazbear's Pizza has an opening for a security guard. You interested? Well, it turns out that this kid’s entertainment location ALWAYS has an opening for a security guard. Why? The poor suckers keep getting killed in violent and nasty ways. Enter at your own risk because something ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
Can you believe we have been waiting almost twenty-five friggen years for an upgrade on home media for this movie? Released in 1994, True Lies saw its last home media release in 1999 on DVD. Now, generations later, we get a new 4K scan of the flick from the camera negatives ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
What if someone were to take John Hughes’ Weird Science, a film about a couple of teenaged boys who literally make their dream woman, and turn it on its head with a female-centric take on the story? That’s exactly what Academy award-winning ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Following the success of his ominous little movie short called Night Swim, which exploded on Youtube nearly a decade ago, filmmaker Bryce McGuire takes the premise to the big screen with a feature-length adaptation. Unfortunately, rather than the perfectly executed swan dive into ...
Read more: Night Swim (2024) - Blu-ray Collector's Edition Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
FINALLY! After years having only Ridley Scott’s original masterpiece in the Alien series, we get what many (including me) consider one of the best sequels ever made. The wait is over, and there’s good and bad—all tied to the main man responsible for the classic: James Cameron ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
“Now, we all know Kerry's my favorite, then Kev, then David, then Mike. But the rankings can always change.” That’s Fritz Von Erich (Holt McCallany, TV’s Mindhunter) ranking his sons in The Iron Claw, the new film from A24 about the Von Erich family of professional wrestling. It’s worth pointing out ...
Read more: The Iron Claw (2023) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Review
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- By Loron Hays
There are few moments in the 1980’s output of horror titles as effective as the opening minutes of Tom Holland’s Child’s Play. Serial-killer Charles Lee Ray (Brad Dourif), wearing a righteous brown trench coat, is being chased through the dingy streets of south Chicago by homicide detective ...
Read more: Child's Play (1988) Collector's Edition - 4K UHD + Blu-ray review
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- By Loron Hays
Norm son-of-a-Gunderson! Another re-release? Fargo, the 1996 Coen Brothers black comedy of down-to-earth Minnesota crime, gets remastered in its latest blu-ray release. This is the film that granted The Coens (Joel directs; Ethan produces; both handle screenplay duties) Main Street ...
Read more: Fargo (1996) - 4K Blu-ray Collector's Edition Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
Keanu Reeves is hands down one of the most likeable human beings in the public eye. His gentle ways and easy-going nature have cemented him into the zeitgeist of Hollywood legend. But in the 2010s, we must remember his leading man career was in a bit of a slump, having headlined a series ...
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- By Emily Strong
“You don't make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets. You do it at home. The rest is bullshit, and you know it.” It’s the film that put the legendary Martin Scorsese on the map. And rightfully so. With its bare-bones, energetic filmmaking style, Mean Streets is a gangster flick that kicks you in the face with its ...
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Welcome back to the days of high adventure! Ripped from the pages of Robert E. Howard’s beloved pulp stories, 1982’s Conan the Barbarian and its sequel, 1984’s Conan the Destroyer, not only popularized a new subgenre – the sword-and-sorcery film – but also ...
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Razor-sharp. This essentially describes the wit of Clue and this new 2023 4K upgrade of the classic comedy. It’s the movie with three different endings, remember? And, if you remember that, you also remember that you had to go to different theaters to see the different endings. It was an ...
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