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- Created: 28 June 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
Shaft in 4K?! With a new digital restoration, too? Can you dig it? Funked up by Isaac Hayes’ incredible score and theme, Richard Roundtree is back in action as Harlem P.I. John Shaft in this signature blaxploitation offering from director Gordon Parks (Shaft, Shaft’s Big Score). The character's ...
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- Created: 28 June 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
Psychological. Shocking. Suspenseful. And downright BEAUTIFUL to look at. The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection II release in Ultra 4K is a DEFINITIVE release for some of the most thrilling classics from the master of the macabre. Seriously, there is no flaw to be seen in both the ...
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- Created: 28 June 2022
- Written by Emily Strong
“Try to look more bereaved.” This isn’t how funerals are supposed to go. Or is it? Offering something arguably more realistic and touching than any other mopey, water-works-filled funeral sequence/movie we have seen before, Juzo Itami’s The Funeral does anything BUT try to make ...
Read more: The Funeral: Criterion Collection (1984) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 19 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Kitty’s back on the cell block! Woot! Woot! Let the sweat-dripping orgies begin! Violence in a Women’s Prison, originally released in 1982, is a damn ugly exploitation flick. Even when you lower the bar when it comes to Women in Prison flicks, this ...
Read more: Violence in a Women's Prison (1982) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 30 May 2022
- Written by Emily Strong
In the case of mistaken identity, how far would you go to clear your name and set the record straight? In Joseph Losey’s gritty and disturbing nightmare, Mr. Klein, the title character (played by French icon Alain Delon) becomes obsessed with tracking down a man who shares his name. Now, if this were an honest, one-time ...
Read more: Mr. Klein: Criterion Collection (1976) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 20 June 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
“Hands off, or your hand is ham and I’m the slicer!” Filipino filmmaker Eddie Romero might be dead, but his movies - being cheapo depot horror offerings, exploitative skin flicks, and action vehicles, live on. Such is the case with Savage Sisters, an exploitation flick in title alone, which he directed in 1974, but ...
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- Created: 22 June 2022
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Tampering with evidence? Bullying witnesses? Doctoring voice recordings? Just what won’t the mob do?! Looks like it is all in play in 1957’s Chicago Confidential, written by Robert T. Marcus, which is now on blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber’s ongoing Film Noir: The Dark Side of ...
Read more: Film Noir - The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume VII: Chicago Confidential (1957)
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- Created: 28 May 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
You say want sex and violence? Well, the Masked Mutilator has EXACTLY what you are looking for. Just be respectful because this house parent will definitely kick your ass ...
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- Created: 23 May 2022
- Written by Emily Strong
Classic Hollywood making fun of itself? Count me in! Paris When it Sizzles goes full ridiculous in this charming, downright delightful romantic comedy so silly that you cannot help but smile the whole way through ...
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- Created: 26 May 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
The zombie apocalypse is among us. You can either die easy or die fighting! Opening with the famous OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION, scratchy sound and all, and the panther ...
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- Created: 08 June 2022
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From sea to shining sea! That’s the attempted reach of 1951’s The Raging Tide, yet another film noir offering highlighting the streets and alleys of San Francisco. With steely-eyed direction from prolific director George Sherman (Larceny, The Sleeping City) and ace cinematography from Russell Metty (The Stranger, Touch of ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume VI: The Raging Tide (1951) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 17 May 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
Attention all shoppers! It’s going to be a crappy day when Sewer Gators is released! You mark your calendars now! June 3rd can’t get here fast enough. Don’t believe me? Go here and wait for the Sewer Gators to appear themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xahw04ZDgTM or ...
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- Created: 18 May 2022
- Written by Emily Strong
It is not your average revenge flick. Nor is it what you would expect from director Henri Verneuil and star Jean-Paul Belmondo for what was their seventh picture together. There are no jaw-dropping stunts from the screen legend, and in fact there is hardly any exciting action in this ...
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- Created: 03 June 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
Hard-boiled and crackling with stark intensity, Los Angeles after dark is always an exciting place. Especially with all the femme fatales walking the streets. Whether it be out on the street or gazing out the window of your home, the air of unpredictability is always lurking ...
Read more: Double Indemnity: Criterion Collection (1944) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 04 May 2022
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Flesh Crawls! Blood Curdles! Phibes Lives again! Cat Women of the Moon? Check. Plan 9 From Outer Space? Double check. Both are films you have to bear witness to in order to believe. Barbarella? Oh, it’s a cosmic trip for sure. But, thanks to the mighty chops of Vincent Price and ...
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- Created: 12 May 2022
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t’s time to go back . . . back to the park. With the arrival of Jurassic World: Dominion imminent in early June, re-visiting the world that Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park has created is a no-brainer and what better way to do it than in Ultra HD?! Thankfully, Universal has provided fans with all ...
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- Created: 01 June 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
Based around a single make-or-break heist, The Asphalt Jungle is known in the halls of film noir thrillers as the first ever caper flick and, honestly, this brilliantly scripted offering is more than deserving of its praise and its legacy, which is why the Criterion Collection has added it to their list of ...
Read more: The Asphalt Jungle: Criterion Collection (1950) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 30 April 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
Top secret genetic engineering gone wrong! This is what you get in this b-grade sequel (or is it a remake?) to the Corey Haim-led Watchers, a film no one remembers for good reason. With a bit more gore and a change in scenery, this creature feature pumps up the volume on its lifeless . ...
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- Created: 04 May 2022
- Written by Emily Strong
“Unless a man believes that there is something great for him to do, he can do nothing great.” How on earth do you make a biopic set in the mid-19th century that poses as some kind of weird Western but yet somehow manages to successfully make strong political comparisons between ...
Read more: Walker: The Criterion Collection(1987) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 31 May 2022
- Written by Emily Strong
Are there two sides to everyone? One good and simple. The other…bordering on evil perhaps. And does this “evil” side live in all of us just waiting to be unleashed? While attending church one morning, Dr. Jekyll (Spencer Tracy) witnesses a man - once a good, upstanding citizen – turn ...
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- Created: 26 April 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
This life can be a long, rambling walk down a twisting highway. Just ask Mr. Frank Mansfield (Warren Oates), the “junior birdman” who dreams of a cockfighting championship while he puts others to the side in his quest for the title. ...
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- Created: 27 April 2022
- Written by Emily Strong
“Whatever you plan on happening, never happens. Stuff you would never think of happens.” No matter how much many of us like to pretend that we have our lives under control, the simple fact of the matter is: we don’t…and we probably never will. It is not that we are necessarily doing anything ...
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- Created: 30 May 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
"Ya wanna dance, Mike Doyle?!" The hills! The fog! The slick city streets! The atmosphere is on point as Johnny Stool Pigeon opens and that’s thanks to cinematographer Maury Gertsman, who shot Singapore, the first offering in this set from Kino Lorber ...
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- Created: 30 March 2022
- Written by Emily Strong
There’s no aliens invading or giant tsunami waves or even an earth-killing meteor on its way. No, this classic keeps it simple. With Robert Aldrich in the director’s chair and Hollywood legend, James Stewart, leading the charge, The Flight of the Phoenix is a well-written, old-school disaster movie ...
Read more: The Flight of the Phoenix: Criterion Collection (1965)
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- Created: 19 April 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
“Screw the heat. We don’t stop for nobody!” Wine. Women. Whiskey. And weed. Sounds like a good time, right? It isn't. Angels Hard As They Come, a biker exploitation classic with original music by Carp, should know. Things don't go as planned. ...
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- Created: 27 May 2022
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Pear smuggler Matt Gordon (played wonderfully by Fred MacMurray) has returned to the scene of his heartbreak: Singapore. Cue the lush heartstrings! The drama! The crimes! And, oh, the Casablanca influences as Singapore, with boat and schooner whistles blaring in the distance instead ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume VI: Singapore (1947)
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- Created: 18 April 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
Spellbinding science fiction doesn’t get any more outrageous than it does here in The Brain Eaters, a 61-minute schlocky shocker from the Drive-In era of B-flicks. This is what happens when Small Town, America finds itself at the center of a UFO invasion! Hide the jars of pickles, Ma and ...
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- Created: 25 April 2022
- Written by Emily Strong
Oh, the power of the media! Many have used it for good, but others, like Louis Carrier (Jean Yanne) realize its potential to generate fear and garner much attention. He is not a psychopath carrying out a lifelong scheme, but rather, Carrier is what you would call a victim of society. Living in poverty ...
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- Created: 30 April 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
Want to watch some classic films for the first time again? Scoop up this release. Psychological. Shocking. Suspenseful. And downright BEAUTIFUL to look at. The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection release in Ultra 4K is a DEFINITIVE release for some of the most thrilling classics from the ...
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- Created: 21 March 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
"When men, even unknowingly, are to meet one day, whatever may befall each, whatever the diverging paths, on the said day, they will inevitably come together in the red circle." ...
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