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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 ...

Read more: Shaft: The Criterion Collection (1971) - 4K UHD Review

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  ...

Read more: The Alfred Hitchcock Classics Collection II Ultra 4K HD: Saboteur, Shadow of a Doubt, The Trouble...

“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

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

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

“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 ...

Read more: Savage Sisters (1974) - Blu-ray Review

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)

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 ...

Read more: Masked Mutilator (1994, 2019) - Blu-ray Review

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 ...

Read more: Paris When It Sizzles (1964) - Blu-ray Review

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 ...

Read more: Hell Of The Screaming Undead (2021) - Movie Review

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

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  ...

Read more: Sewer Gators - Movie Review

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  ...

Read more: The Body of My Enemy (1976) - Blu-ray Review

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

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  ...

Read more: Dr. Phibes Double Feature: The Abominable Dr. Phibes/Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1971/1972) - Blu-ray...