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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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The Campaign - Blu-ray Review

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The Campaign - Movie Review In this frustrating election year, The Campaign has a chance to score big.  We all need a laugh…especially at politicians.  Politically incorrect satire?  Not quite.  No doubt Will Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis bring the politically incorrect to the table.  Moments of comedic ...

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Safety Not Guaranteed - Blu-ray Review

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Safety Not Guaranteed - Blu-ray Review Director Colin Trevorrow might have just redefined “harmless” with his directorial debut.  As far as romantic comedies go, Safety Not Guaranteed definitely has something to say about human companionship and being understood.  It feels a bit too small, though, ...

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Lost Girl: Season One - Blu-ray Review

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Lost Girl: Season One - Blu-ray Review The supernatural world just got a bit sexier.  From Canada, Lost Girl: Season One – complete and uncut - arrives on blu-ray to appease its rabid cult fan base here in the United States.  Currently airing on Syfy, Lost Girl explores an alternate universe where...

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Cinderella (1950): Diamond Edition - Blu-ray Review

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Cinderella - Blu-ray Review After an eight year hiatus of major animated theatrical releases, thanks to World War 2 and lower box office returns, Disney would again take a major gamble, as he did with Snow White, and put into production a lavish animated fairy tale at the princely sum of ...

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The Penalty (1920) - Blu-ray Review

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The Penalty - Blu-ray Review When it comes to enjoying a nice chilly October night – especially near Halloween’s festive date – there’s nothing else like the scares of a good silent horror film to entertain.  Saturated with mood and melodramatic with its frights, little else will do it right to get you ...

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Masters of the Universe - 25th Anniversary Edition - Blu-ray Review

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Masters of the Universe - Blu-ray He-man and the Master of the Universe has to be one of the most successful merchandising/entertainment properties to come out of the Eighties there ever was. Every kid in the world clamoured for another episode at the time, and bugged their parents to ...

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Alcatraz: The Complete Series - Blu-ray Review

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Alcatraz: The Complete Series - Blu-ray Review Fox Network is notorious for killing promising shows without giving them a fair shake.  Alcatraz, produced by J.J. Abrams, came in as a mid-season replacement in January 2012 and lasted for a whopping 13 episodes before retiring for the summer. The exciting ...

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Gone in 60 Seconds (1974) - Blu-ray Review

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Gone in 60 Seconds - Blu-ray Review

Know this, your car - locked or heavily armed - is not safe from H.B. Halicki's badass crew of car thieves. It might not be as sleek as the Nicolas Cage remake from 2000, but H.B. Halicki’s original Gone in 60 Seconds boasts a 40 minute car chase that wrecks  ...

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Terror Train (1980) - Blu-ray Review

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Terror Train - Blu-ray Review

No one screams like Jamie Lee Curtis.  No one. Combine those ear-piercing screams with a creepy Groucho Marx mask, a young David Copperfield, a ghostly train ride, and you have sure fire success for a late October night full of terror and mystery ...

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The Funhouse (1981) - Blu-ray Review

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The Funhouse (1981) - Movie Review The Funhouse, being director Tobe Hooper’s ode to the classic Universal monsters and to late-night carnivals everywhere, is an odd slice of americana horror.  It, when slashers were all the rage, decided to turn its back on the popular movement and reintroduced ...

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Moonrise Kingdom - Blu-ray Review

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Moonrise Kingdom - Movie Review Prepare to roll your eyes.  I’m about to make a declaration that will probably offend some and cause a mild panic in others. Ready? Moonrise Kingdom is the absolute best Wes Anderson film. With this passionate look at the past, it seems the director of...

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Chernobyl Diaries - Blu-ray Review

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Chernobyl Diaries - Movie ReviewOffering a little slice of horror to start off the summer, writer/producer Oren Peli (the brain behind Paranormal Activity) revisits the found footage phenomenon and presents us with a collection of nasty-looking nuclear mutants on a European vacation.  Many audience ...

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The Tall Man - DVD Review

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The Tall Man - DVD Review Available now for your viewing pleasure on DVD - THE TALL MAN. Jessica Biehl tries her best to look Native American in this wannabe thriller from Pascal Laugier. Who's that you ask? I don't know! This is the first movie I've seen from him and first impressions ...

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Prometheus - Blu-ray Review

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Prometheus Movie Review It’s been about a week since I have seen Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.  Its themes – both haunting and human – have been resting inside me while I contemplate the dynamics of what I’ve seen.  Since then, I have seen the adverts on the television with the ...

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Red Dawn (1984) - Blu-ray Review

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Red Dawn 1984- Blu-ray Review Released towards the tail end of The Cold War, 1984’s Red Dawn serves as writer/director John Milius’ follow-up to his compromised stab at epic fantasy Conan the Barbarian.  With MGM finally releasing the now two-year-old remake (which is probably not ...

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E.T. : The Extra-Terrestrial - Blu-ray Review

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E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial - blu-ray review And, with this release, Spielberg makes good on his promise to never revisit his classic films and tweak them with newly-minted special effects, additional footage, and whatever PC changes modern times dictate. For its blu-ray release E.T. The Extra Terrestrial ....

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Pet Sematary (1989) - Blu-ray Review

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Pet Sematary - Blu-ray Review Time has not been kind to Mary Lambert's adaptation of Stephen King’s Pet Sematary.  Wait.  Another lousy Stephen King movie, you ask?  Big surprise, I know, as there are a ton of them.  More so than there need be for source material that is so ...

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