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Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988) - Blu-ray Review

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Killer Klowns from Outer Space - Blu-ray Review Fans of campy horror rejoice!  Those bizarrely goofy Killer Klowns are returning to the planet and this time they’ll land their circus tent of curiosities in glorious high definition.  And just in time, too.  The cinematic world was getting a bit boring. Right up there ...

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Haven: The Complete Second Season - Blu-ray Review

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Haven Second Season If you conduct a Google search about Syfy’s Haven, chances are you won’t find a wealth of information about this ongoing television series.  That, my friends, is a shame.  Based loosely of Stephen King’s The Colorado Kid, the remarkable mythology behind the supernatural ...

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The Navigator (1924) - Blu-ray Review

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The Navigator - Blu-ray Review Said to be Buster Keaton’s favorite of his own films (and the definite precursor to his celebrated masterpiece The General), 1924’s The Navigator is proof positive that Keaton was an ingenious comedic talent.  No silent movement from his tiny frame ...

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Safe - Blu-ray Review

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Safe - Movie Review Jason Statham is no stranger to the mess of pulp found inside his latest redemptive mission, Safe.  Written and directed by Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans), the rock’em, sock’em movie plays for eye-catching wit and the absolute crushing of skulls. You see, Statham ...

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Re-Animator (1985) - Blu-ray Review

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Re-Animator 1985 - Blu-ray Review It’s the movie that just won’t die. Just when you think it’s safe to return the laboratory and conduct your experiments again, H.P. Lovecraft’s Re-Animator in its entire gory splendor returns. This time, at long last, it takes to the halls of Science and Disgust ...

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Mother's Day (1980) - Blu-ray Review

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Mother's Day - Blu-ray Review Every son wants to make his mother proud.  It’s a primordial need.  This includes two sub-human brothers Ike (Holden McGuire) and Addley (Billy Ray McQuade) whose elderly mother spurs them on to perform violent sex acts and murderous deeds towards ...

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Haven: The Complete First Season - Blu-ray Review

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Haven - The COmplete First Season When it was first announced that Piranha, the 1978 original spoof of Jaws, which was directed by Joe Dante, written by John Sayles, and produced by Roger Corman was going to be remade, an audible groan was heard from the masses. This would never work so...

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The Walking Dead: The Complete Season Two - Blu-ray Review

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The Walking Dead - Blu-ray ReviewAMC, perhaps learning from the mistake of their minimalist approach to bonus material on the first release of Season One, do The Walking Dead and its fans a solid with the release of The Walking Dead: The Complete Season Two on blu-ray. The series ...

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Lovely Molly - Blu-ray Review

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Lovely Molly

Ah, the unblinking camcorder eye. Just what does it see? In co-writer and director Eduardo Sanchez’s Lovely Molly, that red eye records plenty of disturbing images but none more terrifying than a mind unwinding due to dark family secrets and serious drug abuse ...

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Some Like it Hot (1959) - Blu-ray Review

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Some Like it Hot - Blu-ray Review It’s hard to conceive in this era of remake-itus that some re-dos in the history of cinema go on to become classics in their own right. For genre fans, John Carpenter’s The Thing is often cited as a prime example. For comedy however, Billy Wilder’s beloved cross-dressing ...

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Bernie - Blu-ray Review

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Bernie - Movie Review Born from the pages of a Texas Monthly magazine article, Bernie tells the story of gregarious assistant funeral home director Bernhardt Tiede (Jack Black) and wealthy widow Marjorie Nugent (Shirley MacLaine). But more than it is the tale of the curiously improbable ...

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The Dictator - Blu-ray Review

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The Dictator - Movie Review No, comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has not flipped his lid.  The real-life pranks and antics he scored big laughs with in Borat and Bruno have been replaced with actors, but the dark and scathing commentary still underscores his latest, The Dictator.  Cohen still ...

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Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers (1989) - Blu-ray Review)

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Halloween 5: Revenge of Michael Meyers Surprise!  The knife is not yet blunt. After the solid return to form in Dwight H. Little’s Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers, things get really interesting in the darker and mythos expanding Halloween 5. Its critics condemn ...

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (1988) - Blu-ray Review

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Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Meyers - Blu-ray Rumor has it that when the John Carpenter and Debrah Hill penned (and, once again, Michael Myers-less) script for Halloween 4 was turned down, the duo promptly sold their rights to all things Halloween to producer Moustapha Akkad. Whether...

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - Blu-ray Review

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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen With Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, director Lasse Hallström and writer Simon Beaufoy cast a wide net for offbeat, quirk and whimsy. And while the odd title may suggest they’re on the right track, clearly something was lost in the adaptation from comic ...

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The Faculty (1998) - Blu-ray Review

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The Faculty - Blu-ray Review Take me to your teacher. High school is already weird enough.  Leave it to writer/director Robert Rodriguez to make it even weirder by stocking its halls with horny teens, jocks, geeks, and aliens.  The Faculty may not be the sharpest film in the world but, as a rip on all the  ...

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Friends With Kids - Blu-ray Review

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Friends With Kids Fresh off the rousing success of last year’s Bridesmaids, four members of that cast rejoin for Jennifer Westfeldt’s indie comedy Friends With Kids, an anemic little film that hits in stops and spurts but ultimately feels like nothing more than a feature-length sitcom ...

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Jaws (1975) - Blu-ray Review

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Jaws - Blu-ray Review Amity Island would like to welcome you back. The beach, however, is still closed. Jaws, as a BIG part of Universal’s 100th anniversary, has finally arrived on blu-ray with a detailed and loving restoration that adds new life to a film first released in 1975 ...

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