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- By Emily Strong
“You’re insane…but you might also be brilliant.” When does a joke go on for too long? Isn’t the point to make the audience laugh? If you’re a comedian, then the answer to the latter would most likely be “yes.” But if you’re Andy Kaufman, then the answer is “no.” He never claimed to be a ...
Read more: Man on the Moon: 2K Restoration (1999) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Beginning with an explosion which levels a poppy field, Cleopatra Jones is one bad mutha! Drug trafficking is about to get the red light thanks to her blazing guns. With an undefined beauty and a ...
Read more: Cleopatra Jones: Warner Archive Collection (1973) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan was, at one time, a place of filth and absolute poverty. Back then, it was known as one of the roughest neighborhoods in Manhattan; a better place to be from than to be in. Bordered by the Hudson River on the west, Eighth Avenue on the east, 59th Street on the ...
Read more: Angels with Dirty Faces: Warner Archive Collection (1938) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Dirty O’Neil, released during the same year as The Swinging Cheerleaders and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, is yet another on wild romp through exploitation flicks. It is essentially about the love life of a small-town cop. Filled to the bring with backseat action, corny one-liners, and lots ...
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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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- By Loron Hays
Think it’s just the rainy day blues that has this mind reader down in the dumps? Think again. Based on a Cornell Woolrich novel, Night Has A Thousand Eyes might be classic B-movie material (due to its supernatural sources), but the film is both poetic and engaging as one mind reader ...
Read more: Night Has A Thousand Eyes (1948) - Blu-ray Review
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Wow. A HUGE existential hurdle has just been crossed by a person who was raised on the set of the original film. Makes sense then that the Ghostbusters story here in Ghostbusters: Afterlife is told from the viewpoint of a child discovering the truth about their own ghostbusting grandpa ...
Read more: Ghostbusters Afterlife - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Review
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The “Brother Man from the Motherland” returns to settle yet another score! 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 trio of signature blaxploitation offerings from directors...
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- By Emily Strong
“Immoral women shouldn't work in banks, you know. They might corrupt the young dollar bills.” Small towns can be so wonderful, can’t they? Everybody knows one another so well. It can be like having one giant family with the sense of comfort and love gushing from the community. Well, why ...
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Wasted talent. That’s the most economical way to sum up The 355, a female-led globetrotting espionage action thriller that finds its multi-racial cast of Hollywood A-listers muddling through a script so lazily written it gives generic a bad name ...
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Stop Motion animation addicts rejoice! Monster from Green Hell has been unleashed and, for those few seconds of stop motion glory, it’s worth it! ...
Read more: Monster From Green Hell: The Film Detective Special Edition (1957) - Blu-ray Review
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Sometimes the good country air can be harmful to your health. Such is the frightening territory of this atmospheric thriller which sees a small-town recluse turn murderer. The woman projects nothing but EVIL while, at the same time, being nothing but pleasant in conversation. She’s a ...
Read more: The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
Achieving the impossible is easy. All one needs is a clear vision, a lofty dream, and a brazen plan to make it come true, right? At least that’s what Richard Williams would have us believe. After all, Williams – father of tennis greats Venus and Serena – had a vision in the late ‘70s that two ...
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An American Werewolf in London begins with Blue Moon howling across the speakers while pastoral settings flicker by. It isn’t until we get to “Written and Directed by John Landis” before we see any signs of life and it is a truck full of sheep, with two young American backpackers, David (David ...
Read more: An American Werewolf in London 4K Ultra HD Blu-Ray Limited Edition (1981) Review
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- By Emily Strong
Writer/director Julia Ducournau’s sophomore feature film, Titane, is definitely one of the wildest and most shocking films that you will ever see…but in all of the best ways. You will squirm. You will grip your arm rest. You will even spew out many “No”s at the screen (trust me, I did the same). But the ...
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