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Peter Pan (1953) - Blu-Ray Review [Region-Free]

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Peter Pan - Blu-ray Review Region Free When asking someone what their favourite Disney film is, one rarely if ever hears this 1950’s era adaptation of J.M. Barrie’s immortal play mentioned. Yet, it is a favoured entry amongst the entertainment elite, with Stephen Spielberg doing a live-action sequel to ...

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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One - Bu-ray Review

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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1 - blu-ray review For a kid who grew up in the Eighties, Saturday morning cartoons were a heavenly institution. Six solid hours of animated splendour! And, as the years progressed, and the likes of Transformers, Masters of the Universe, The Smurfs, (and I could ...

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The Day - Blu-ray Review

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The Day - Blu-ray Review The Day is as trying and as bleak as its opening scene – of five savaged survivors on a wearily constant move - suggests.  Too bad it’s also as empty as the road they travel as far as meaningful film experiences go.  The drab post-apocalyptic setting suggests ...

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Lawless - Blu-ray Review

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Lawless - Movie Review When the name Bondurant is mentioned in the smoky hills of rural Virginia, everything stops. People freeze dead in their tracks, critters scurry into the deep brush or beneath the baseboards, and the incessant drone of the tree-bound cicadas is replaced by ...

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ParaNorman - Blu-ray Review

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Paranorman - Movie Review In the summer that saw Pixar falter once again, it is pretty easy to declare ParaNorman, from the studio that brought Coraline to life, as the best animated feature of the year so far.  The mighty production houses are slipping or maintaining status quo and their ...

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The Expendables 2 - Blu-ray Review

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The Expendables 2 - Movie Review Many of the questions surrounding the follow-up to Sylvester Stallone’s wildly popular, star-studded geriatric action piece The Expendables, which turned out to be a more-than-worthy $274 million launch of a new franchise, have been answered. The promise ...

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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 (2012) - Blu-ray Review

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The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 - Blu-ray review In the 1980s, DC Comics took their tales of Batman to new heights. Years before Tim Burton took the helm as director of Batman (1989), Frank Miller and Alan Moore took the Dark Knight to new heights and new intense worlds. Many of these graphic novels and ...

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Lost Girl: Season Two - Blu-ray Review

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Lost Girl: Season Two - Blu-ray Review Riddle me this, dear readers.  What’s sexy and snarky and full of enough world mythology tidbits to please any serious fan of Joseph Campbell? Here’s a hint.  It’s Canadian. Here’s another hint.  You probably aren’t watching it. Ah, you’re getting warmer ...

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Scrooged - Blu-ray Review

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Scrooged - Blu-ray Review One of the most frustrating things this reviewer sees every Christmas is the list of perennial favourite festive season movies to watch, and this not on it. Richard Donner took time out from blowing shit up in Lethal Weapon movies to guide Bill Murray through ...

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The Pete Walker Collection: House of Whipcord/Die Screaming, Marianne/The Comeback/Schizo - Blu-ray Review

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The Pete Walker Collection

Social taboos be damned! Opening with a statement that reads, “This picture is dedicated to those who are disturbed by today’s lax moral codes and who eagerly await the return of corporal and capital punishment”, 1974’s House of Whipcord opens a brand new gore-ific ...

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Lawrence of Arabia - Blu-ray Review

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Lawrence of Arabia - Blu-ray Review Hollywood simply does not (and cannot afford to) make films as powerfully epic as David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia.  The Best Picture winner of 1962 - rather expensively shot on location in Jordan, Morocco, the Sierra Nevada mountains, and in Spain - is a masterfully ...

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The Watch - Blu-ray Review

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The Watch - Movie Review Let’s face it. Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn aren’t getting any younger and both are in serious need of a hit. Their collective dry spell is a bit overlong and both are capable comedians… but their guaranteed shtick gets a bit tiresome. One talks too much ...

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Fritz Lang’s Die Nibelungen: Kino Classics Deluxe Remastered Edition - Blu-ray Review

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die-nibelungen - blu-ray review Greed and revenge are two of the most primal motivators in all of storytelling.  Combine these elements with a fantastical setting that practically bleeds brooding splendor and you have the dense dragontastic beginnings of Fritz Lang’s Die Nibelungen, a ...

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John Carpenter’s They Live (1988) - Blu-ray Review

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Jahn Carpenter's They Live - Blu-ray Review The election’s over, friends.  It’s time to chew bubblegum and kick ass again! Director John Carpenter had a nice run, didn’t he?  Between the late 1970’s and the early 1990’s, Carpenter was king of science fiction and horror.  Even if – as is the case with 1988’s They Live ...

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The Amazing Spider-Man - Blu-ray Review

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The Amazing Spider-man - Movie Review In just five short years, Marvel’s Spider-Man gets the redbooted remake in Marc Webb’s thrilling The Amazing Spider-Man.  While, before seeing the picture, one could argue the rationale of such a move on Columbia’s part, the necessity however becomes clear rather ...

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Brave - Blu-ray Review

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Brave - Movie Review It might have taken two-decades but Pixar – the animation company responsible for Toy Story, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, and The Incredibles – is finally (and rather specifically) addressing their female audiences with the heroine-led mother and ...

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Dark Star (1975) Thermostellar Edition - Blu-ray Review

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Dark Star - Blu-ray Review Dan O’Bannon and John Carpenter’s crudely crafted science fiction comedy gets new life this month on blu-ray thanks to the archival efforts of VCI Entertainment.  Amazing that this film began its life as a student film project all those years ago and, while it’s ...

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Rosemary's Baby: The Criterion Collection - Blu-ray Review

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Rosemary's Baby - Blu-ray Review 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 ...

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