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- By Frank Wilkins
Talk about a toxic relationship! The one shared between Count Dracula (Nicolas Cage) and his handler Robert Montague Renfield (Nicholas Hoult, About a Boy) has gotten so bad that Renfield, a former real estate agent who sold his soul to the Count some 100 years ago, attends a ...
Read more: Renfield (2023) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Review - Dracula Sucks Edition
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- By Emily Strong
“Is that what I was so afraid of?” What is the scariest kind of monster? Is it a knife-wielding, masked psychopath wreaking havoc in a small town? Is it an alien creature from another planet that can eat or mimic another species completely? Is it an unpredictable, reconstructed monster made by a mad scientist ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
A few years back, I got to write a long form article about the Superman films, so if you’re looking for a deep dive then please check out: ‘Superman On the Big Screen: Parts 1-4’. For this new UHD release from Warner Bros, I’ll give a quick review of each of the five included Christopher Reeve ...
Read more: Superman 5-Film Collection (1978-1987) - 4KUHD + Blu-ray + Digital Review
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- By Emily Strong
It’s 1908 in London, and Miss Sonia Winter (the great Diana Rigg), a strong-willed and staunch feminist who holds aspirations to become a journalist lays before the heads of a notable newspaper a story that will be sure to make a name for herself. She’s seemed to uncover an organization that offers ...
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- By Loron Hays
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence throughout, language, some sexual content and nudity.
Director: Robert Rodriguez
Writer: Robert Rodriguez and Álvaro Rodríguez
Cast: Danny Trejo, Jessica Alba; Cheech Marin
Genre: Action | Adventure
Memorable Movie Quote: "I absolve you of all your sins. Now, get the f@#$ out!"
Release Date: September 3, 2010
DVD Release Date: January 4, 2011
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- By Christopher Symonds
Well here we are! The final selection of Star Trek movies to enter the UHD format that began with upscaled (but impressive) scans of ‘the Kelvin Timeline’. Paramount have (thankfully) not done the piecemeal thing in The Next Generation movie boxset, like they pulled with the original’s six ...
Read more: Star Trek: The Next Generation 4-movie Collection - 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
War is hell. Nowhere is that notion so vividly illustrated than in Erich Maria Remarque’s 1920 novel All Quiet on the Western Front. While Remarque’s story was brought to life in previous adaptations (1930 followed by 1979), we are reminded yet again of the novel’s significance in Edward ...
Read more: All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) - 4K UHD Blu-ray DigiBook Review
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- By Emily Strong
“Why do you like me so much?” Charles loves Laura. I mean, he really loves her. So much so that it’s painful. But…when we meet Charles (John Heard), he’s no longer with Laura (Mary Beth Hurt). Their short love affair that blossomed while Laura was separated from her husband ends when ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
During a particularly stubborn bout of doing what writers do best: procrastinate - screenwriter Jimmy Warden ran across a 1985 news piece that became the seed of his next project. The true story involved the news of a 175-pound black bear that was found dead in the Chattahoochee ...
Read more: Cocaine Bear (2023) - Blu-ray + DVD+Digital Review
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- By Emily Strong
“Jaaaaaaaaaammmmmeeeessss!” We’re only about one month into 2023 and there is already a film to come out that has left me completely and utterly stunned. It shocks you; it makes you squirm, and it hypnotizes you with its unnerving atmosphere and startling images. Brandon ...
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- By Emily Strong
Watching the documentary, LYNCH (one), that’s included on Criterion’s gorgeous release of David Lynch’s Inland Empire, we hear Lynch himself say that this film is “an experiment.” BUT he also makes it very clear a couple of times that it is NOT an experimental film, though many viewers would ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, during a speech to the House of Commons in June of 1940 in the opening months of World War II, famously said, “Our policy is to wage war, by sea, land, and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us.” ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Since Marvel, DC, Godzilla, Conjuring, Spider-Man, and others have their own cinematic universes these days, it should be no surprise that even the Screenlife genre of filmmaking is now gaining its own universe of sorts. It’s where all of a film’s events are shown on the screen of a computer ...
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- By Emily Strong
“You either are a star or you ain’t. And honey, I am.” Every once in a while, there is a movie that comes along that leaves you completely awestruck. A cinematic feat that leaves you in a perpetual state of amazement and wonder of how the film was even pulled off. And let me tell you, Babylon is one of those movies. Most similar to his beloved ...
Read more: Babylon (2022) - 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Steelbook - Review
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- By Loron Hays
Keanu Reeves turns 50 this year. With age comes wisdom, I’m told. Perhaps that is why his portrayal as the super lethal John Wick, a former hitman fresh out of retirement, is such a crowd-pleasing good time. Wait? What did I just type? A familiar story that ...
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- By Loron Hays
Every single time Keanu Reeves is written off or dismissed, he comes bouncing back with a powerfully charged character. Hell, he even got booed for his performance in Knock Knock. I think I was one of the eight critics who gave him credit for knowing the ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
John Wick is one of those franchises that seemingly came out of nowhere. Keanu Reeves (deservedly) has maintained a level of currency through his lengthy and stellar career, but if we’re to be honest, his star was on the wane when he signed on to the ...
Read more: John Wick: Chapter Three - Parabellum - Blu-ray Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
Those troubled by the increasingly predominant role technology has begun to play in the rearing of today’s children should probably stay far, far away from M3GAN. On the other hand, those who want a front row seat to witness how those perceived dangers might actually play themselves ...
Read more: M3GAN (2023) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code Review - Unrated Edition
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- By Frank Wilkins
Director: Claire Denis
Writer: Claire Denis and Marie N'Diaye
Cast: Isabelle Huppert; Christopher Lambert; Isaach De Bankolé
In her 1988 debut film, Chocolat, French filmmaker Claire Denis visited colonized Africa, telling her story of childhood memories with a strong visual affinity for the landscapes and people of the beautiful continent. With White Material, she dips back into that same familiar bag of themes, only this time she tinges the haunting story with elements of danger, defiance, and audacious stubbornness...
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“You kill my cat, I’ll blow your head off.” There’s a white jaguar loose on a big boat. Nic Cage is on board. What else do you need to know? If you are a fan of Cage, then you are going to love this spirited take on ...
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In a role he was… ahem, born to play, Nicolas Cage plays Nick Cage in Tom Gormican and Kevin Etten’s The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, the pair’s earnest love letter to who else but… Nicolas Cage ...
Read more: The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - 4K UHD Review
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- By Loron Hays
“Everytime we come here, someone has to get topless.” Truly, this one had me at the idea of Kane Hodder butchering more beauties in bikinis, but this slasher is a bit more than just his performance as Goatface. Let’s see, there’s the beautiful location (on Cape Cod in Massachusetts)., an interesting storyline (which begins in the ...
Read more: Kill Her Goats (2023) - SteelBook / Limited Edition - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray
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- By Frank Wilkins
Tom Hanks does grumpy in A Man Called Otto, the American remake of the Oscar-nominated Swedish film called A Man Called Ove from a few years back. Though certainly not the first actor who comes to mind for a role featuring the most cantankerous old man this side of Gran ...
Read more: A Man Called Otto (2022) - Blu-ray + Digital Review
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- By Loron Hays
Confession time, Boils and Ghouls! I grew up - even as fat as I was – wanting to be Michael Paré’s cool as a cucumber Tom Cody from Streets of Fire. Most my age wanted to be cracking shit with a bullwhip and making off, just like Indiana Jones, with golden idols and, while I was keen to ...
Read more: Streets of Fire (1984) - Collector's Edition 4K UHD/Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
A swinging sixties marital comedy with the charming Shirley MacLaine and the prim and proper Richard Attenborough? Sure! Why not? It’s an innocent request from the workaholic brasserie manufacturer Robert Blossom ...
Read more: The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
What does family really mean? Is it the people who are related by blood through no choice of your own? Or is it more? Is it the people who choose to protect you and stick with you – the people who genuinely care about you? Well, this conversation is the driving theme of acclaimed director ...
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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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Morbidly Hollywood
- Colorado Street Suicide Bridge
- Death of a Princess - The Story of Grace Kelly's Fatal Car Crash
- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- Remembering Anton Yelchin: The Tragic Loss of a Rising Star
- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne