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- By Frank Wilkins
Owing its DNA to E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Cocoon, the latest alien flick to invade theaters is a sweet and charming little gem called Jules. While it will never carry the same impact as either of those films, and will most assuredly go largely overlooked, you would be doing yourself ...
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- By Emily Strong
“This is where I ended up. This is where I’m supposed to be.” After premiering at the Sundance film festival to much universal acclaim, Celine Song’s astounding directorial debut, Past Lives, has finally made its way to a nationwide audience. And it being one of my most anticipated ...
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- By Emily Strong
In 1970, to finally get a film starring the handsome and poised Alain Delon and the charming and rugged Jean-Paul Belmondo (the definition of cool), the expectations were understandably high for any audience member that was a fan, big or small, of French cinema. Even today, seeing the two ...
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- By Loron Hays
Roman Polanski’s American debut arrived with Rosemary’s Baby in 1968 and, to this day, the film remains a blistering masterpiece of mood, art, and mayhem. There’s a reason this tale is considered by many to be the benchmark of filmic horror entertainment. Celebrated by fans of horror and ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Remember those childhood fears of things that go bump in the night? Well, they may not be just be our imagination after all. What if there actually were creatures hiding in the closet? ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
What if dogs could actually talk? Would they speak with wholesome back porch country witticisms, or would sailors blush at the saltier side of man’s best friend? If we believe what the new live-action dog movie called Strays is selling ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
When you hear the name Stephen King, like most, you can be forgiven for instantly thinking of evil clowns and all manner of horrific imagery. He is, after all, the master of horror. But both in his wheelhouse, novels, and in the world of film adaptations King proves again and again that horror is but ...
Read more: The Green Mile (1999) - Ultimate Collector's Edition 4K UHD Review (UK Region-Free)
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- By Christopher Symonds
The name John Hughes is synonymous for Gen-Xers with classic comedy and the 1980s. The man wrote and/or directed hit after hit during that time that, although usually focused on the youth of the time, transcended age to universal appeal. We’re getting into the fourth decade of his work being ...
Read more: Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986) - 4K UHD + Digital 4K Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
In the new satirical comedy The Menu, director Mark Mylod (TV's Succession) and screenwriters Seth Reiss and Will Tracy (former writers at The Onion) use the world of food, foodies, critics, and chefs to skewer the soul-sucking relationship between those who take and those who ...
Read more: Insidious: The Red Door (2023) - Blu-ray + Digital Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
Korean-born American animator, director, and voice actor Peter Sohn, known for his work on numerous Pixar films including The Good Dinosaur, Ratatouille, Monsters University, and more, steps behind the Pixar “camera” again for the company’s all-new, original feature ...
Read more: Elemental (2023) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code Review
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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 Christopher Symonds
With Disney’s current dominance at the box office, it is difficult to believe it, but they weren’t doing so well (theatrically) in the latter half of the 1980s. They had experienced, especially in the animation realm, a series of costly underperforming features and the sure thing that used ...
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- By Loron Hays
Embark on the ultimate action adventure that spans continents and explores ancient history with The Mummy Trilogy including The Mummy, The Mummy Returns and The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor. Follow the exhilarating journeys and exploits of daring explorer Rick O'Connell ...
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- By Emily Strong
“Can I touch your wiener?” After a string of classic and utterly quotable sex comedies that seemed to totally dominate the late-90s through the 2000s (the American Pie series, The 40-Year-Old-Virgin, Sex Drive, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and countless more!), movies that possess that ...
Read more: No Hard Feelings (2023) - Blu-ray + Digital Review
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- By Emily Strong
Stepping out of a car and into a cool Los Angeles night, Fantastia (Cynda Williams) enters into the home of what seems to be a good friend. In the background, a couple dances with smiles from ear to ear and another friend tests out his new video camera, taping them having unabashed ...
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- By Emily Strong
I think that we can all agree by now that, despite what classic Disney movies and other fairy tales of our childhood have led us to believe, being a queen (or any other piece of a royal family, to be honest) really isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Between the gossip and revelations exposed about a ...
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- By Emily Strong
A jealous husband. A murder. An unlucky shmuck. A forbidden love affair. And of course, a femme fatale. Perhaps not one of the most prominent or acclaimed films of its genre, but Fritz Lang’s Human Desire is no doubt the epitome of a film noir. In this, love turns into hate as simmering jealousy ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
The 1980s is now decades behind us and I consider myself fortunate to have been a Gen X-er, having my formative years during that decade. It produced, in my view, the most creativity and risk taking of any decade of filmmaking. There are classics galore from that time because of those ...
Read more: The Last Starfighter (1984) - Limited Edition / 4K Ultra HD Review
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- By Emily Strong
“How do you like the vacation so far?” By the time this question gets asked in the film, lifelong friends and now literal partners-in-crime, Thelma (Geena Davis) and Louise (Susan Sarandon) cannot help but bust out into ear-to-ear smiles and laughter that have them both absolutely beaming ...
Read more: Thelma & Louise (1991) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
“I’ll probably get blamed for that.” You ever have one of those super stressful dreams where no matter how hard you try, you have absolutely no control over the surreal and vivid events you’re experiencing? A dream where in the midst of your overwhelming anxiousness and confusion all you ...
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Let’s get this out of the way upfront: If you aren’t a Wes Anderson fan, then it is recommended you stay far, far away from his latest film, Asteroid City. Similarly, if you don’t “get” his brand of filmmaking, there’s really no need to waste your time reading any further, as nothing here is going ...
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- By Emily Strong
When we meet the overly-privileged young Londoner Tony (James Fox), he’s passed out in a makeshift chair in his empty new townhouse with a drink in his hand, only to be awoken by the polite, prospective manservant Hugo Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) reminding him of their 3 p.m ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Judy Blume’s YA novel called Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret is of one of the most challenged and banned books in America. Ever since its publication in 1970, incensed parents, clueless politicians, and bureaucratic administrators have been trying to get it removed from reading lists due to...
Read more: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret (2023) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
Back when dinosaurs walked the earth, sci-fi auteur James Cameron was riding high on the wave of a box office incinerating little movie called Titanic. The man had already proven his metal in varying genres but had faced bad press and studio doubt getting that extraordinary ...
Read more: Avatar (2009) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital HD Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
The 80s produced a massive amount of now legendary comedies. There were franchises galore covering teens, colleges, nerds, cops, farces and surreal comedy galore. Name a classic franchise or just a classic that is still run on TV these days, and you’ll quickly see at least one entry of them ...
Read more: National Lampoon's Vacation (1983) - 4K UHD + Digital Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
There are few actors out there that I would watch performing paint dry. Denzel Washington is one of those actors. No stranger to being lauded, he would pick up his second Oscar playing a memorable bad guy in 2001’s Training Day ...
Read more: Training Day (2001) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital HD Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
To celebrate the release of the Indiana Jones series on blu ray, we offer a four part retrospective article series honouring one of the most beloved franchises in film history ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Grab your popcorn and settle in, folks! In fact, go ahead and spring for that hot dog too. You’re in for a helluva ride. That puppy-loving hitman, John Wick is back in John Wick: Chapter 4, and he has two things on his mind: revenge and a way out ...
Read more: John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) - 4K UHD + Blu-ray + Digital Amazon Exlusive - Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
Remakes! They are now a studio staple, with every studio head and producer uttering that terrible commercially driven mantra: existing IP! It rarely produces anything but a watered-down retelling of a once revelatory hit, cheaply relying on nostalgia to make a buck and keeps a lot of original ...
Read more: Dawn of the Dead (2004) - Collector's Edition 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray - Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
Every now and then competing studios find themselves making and releasing the same sort of product around the same time. In 1998, Touchstone Pictures (Disney) and Paramount went head-to-head with asteroid disaster ensembles. While Michael Bay’s Armageddon clearly trounced Mimi ...
Read more: Deep Impact (1998) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital HD
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- 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
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman