Archive for the '4K UHD Blu-ray Review' Category
June 8th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Brian De Palma’s Hi, Mom! is a live wire dangling over a crowded sidewalk. Jon Rubin (Robert De Niro), is a Vietnam veteran drifting through New York. He has no clear direction beyond a restless desire to make himself matter. His latest scheme involves turning everyday life into pornography. He secretly films the residents of an apartment building across the street, convinced that reality itself can be packaged and sold.
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June 1st, 2026 by Jordan Grout
A college student uploads her consciousness into a robotic beaver. Hoppers has a premise so ridiculous that the only way to make it work is to embrace it completely and not apologize even for a second. This insanity turns out to be one of the best films of the year.
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May 26th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Maggie Gyllenhaal approaches Mary Shelley’s mythology with bloody fingers, tearing it wide open, infusing punk-rock fury, noir romance, old Hollywood musicals, and feminist rage before stitching it back together. She finally places it in a cannon and sends the whole creation staggering through Depression-era Chicago.
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May 26th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Ginger Snaps opens with two teenage sisters staging elaborate fake suicides for a school photography assignment, posing as mangled corpses with precise craftsmanship. All this is in the dead-eyed suburban wasteland of Bailey Downs, where Ginger Fitzgerald (Katharine Isabelle) and her younger sister Brigitte (Emily Perkins) drift through high school like ghosts, sneering whenever possible at the shallowness around them. They’ll make jokes about death over dinner, and they cling to each other with unhealthy intensity. Then one night, after sneaking out to pull a cruel prank involving a classmate’s dog, Ginger is mauled by something lurking in the woods just as she gets her first period.
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May 26th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
As a boy, Speed was the kid sitting in class with his mind drifting somewhere far beyond the school walls, imagining engines roaring and tires screaming across impossible racetracks. It completely consumed his imagination from childhood onward, a large part of it being his worship of his older brother Rex, himself a legendary driver, appearing larger than life.
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May 21st, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Maggie Gyllenhaal approaches Mary Shelley’s mythology with bloody fingers, tearing it wide open, infusing punk-rock fury, noir romance, old Hollywood musicals, and feminist rage before stitching it back together. She finally places it in a cannon and sends the whole creation staggering through Depression-era Chicago.
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May 19th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Here we go again. Avatar: Fire and Ash sends the Sullys into exile and pursuit, colliding with the Mangkwan clan, better known as the Ash People, a volcanic Na’vi tribe led by the mesmerizing Varang (Oona Chaplin). James Cameron stages their introduction with a raid erupting through smoke and fire, complete with airships attacked mid-flight, and Na’vi warriors falling through ash-filled skies.
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May 19th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Alien: Romulus returns to 4K UHD with a brand new steelbook with artwork by Matt Ferguson.
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May 18th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
The Da Vinci Code, a bloated studio spectacle, mistakes endless exposition for intelligence and grim seriousness for depth. Dan Brown’s novel was at the time, trashy momentum of an airport paperback, but Ron Howard and Akiva Goldsman’s adaptation suffocates under its own self-importance. The opening murder in the Louvre that should be pulpy is turned into accidental comedy.
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May 15th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
American ballet student Suzy Bannion arrives at a prestigious German dance academy and gradually discovers the school is a nest of witches hiding beneath velvet curtains and polished dance floors. Argento barely cares about the mystery in Suspiria. Style over substance is the name of the game, and Argento delivers enough style for ten films, crafting a sensation of dread from the second Suzy steps through the airport doors.
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May 13th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Fallout: Season Two drops its characters deeper into the radioactive nightmare, and what begins as another trek across the wasteland devolves into a bitter argument over power and legacy. The season leans harder into New Vegas this time, giving the narrative a more haunted atmosphere. Season 2 allows Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell) to stop being simply naïve and start becoming dangerous. There’s a sincerity to Ella Purnell’s performance, a fight behind her eyes to hold onto any morsel of sincerity even though the wasteland keeps sanding away pieces of her optimism.
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May 13th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Have ghosts ever been more obnoxious? Poor Giorgio Mainardi refuses to stay dead quietly. He spends most of Voices from Beyond drifting in and out of his daughter’s dreams, moaning from beyond the grave, demanding answers while his spoiled family circles his inheritance. In the hands of Lucio Fulci, I expected something somewhat haunting. Instead, what I got was a simple premise that stretches so thin that the atmosphere eventually starts giving way to repetition and exhaustion.
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May 11th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
I don’t have anything new to say that hasn’t already been said. David Fincher’s Fight Club arrived at the end of the 1990s, offering a portrait of spiritual starvation in a culture drowning in possessions. Edward Norton as the unnamed Narrator is an exhausted corporate recall investigator who calculates whether human lives are cheaper than automotive lawsuits, wandering through sleepless nights and sterile Ikea fantasies like a ghost haunting his own life. He finds emotional release only by infiltrating support groups for diseases he doesn’t have. These early scenes have a bitter, delirious humor. The Narrator sobs into the chest of Bob Paulson, the former bodybuilder played by Meat Loaf in a performance that would today be recognized during awards season.
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May 8th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Paranoia runs through Blue Thunder, a big, noisy helicopter picture full of exploding buildings and dogfights, punctuated with Roy Scheider squinting through aviators. Director John Badham set out to make a film about the fear of surveillance, militarized policing, and the people who claim to protect society already controlling it.
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May 6th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Released in 1951 after years of false starts, abandoned drafts, and creative infighting, Alice in Wonderland arrived carrying the weight of Lewis Carroll’s beloved novels but refusing to behave like a traditional Disney fairy tale. Audiences expecting another warm-hearted fantasy in the mold of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs or Cinderella instead found themselves trapped inside a kaleidoscope of talking flowers, vanishing cats, screaming royalty, and logic that intentionally collapses in on itself. The result initially confused critics and underperformed commercially, disappointing Walt Disney himself. Yet it’s slowly transformed from a black sheep into one of the studio’s most visually distinctive cult classics.
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May 5th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Will (Caleb McLaughlin) is a determined young goat in the vine-covered city of Vineland who dreams of playing professional roarball, a brutal, oversized spin on basketball dominated by towering animals. His passion is rooted in a childhood memory of attending a Thorns game with his mother, Louise (Jennifer Hudson), where he first idolizes star player Jett Fillmore (Gabrielle Union). Years later, that dream feels out of reach. Will’s broke, undersized, and dismissed as a “small.” That is, until a scrappy, viral one-on-one against arrogant MVP Mane Attraction (Aaron Pierre) unexpectedly lands him a spot on the struggling Thorns.
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May 5th, 2026 by Jordan Grout
Released in 1978 under the title Day of the Woman, Meir Zarchi’s low-budget production ignited outrage, drew bans, and became a fixture in debates about censorship and exploitation cinema. Its notoriety didn’t fade with time, it was fueled by critics who condemned it and audiences who sought it out precisely for that condemnation. Decades later, it still sits uneasily in film history, both reviled and defended.
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May 5th, 2026 by Gerard Iribe
This Danger: Diabolik 4K UHD review takes a look at Danger: Diabolik, the stylish comic book adaptation directed by Mario Bava. Based on the popular Italian fumetti created by Angela and Luciana Giussani, the film follows a master thief who stays one step ahead of both the law and the system he targets. With its bold visual design and playful tone, it remains a standout entry in 1960s European genre cinema, and a key title in Bava’s filmography. This might be the slickest a comic book movie looked before Hollywood even figured out what a comic book movie should be. Continue reading ‘Danger: Diabolik (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)’
