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Body Double (40th Anniversary Steelbook) (4K UHD Blu-ray Review)

I have been a fan of the thriller genre for a long as I can remember.  Whether it’s a mystery, or a police thriller, or a chase film, the genre has often been one I lovingly revisit as much as I can.  You cannot mention the thriller genre without mentioning Alfred Hitchcock and the same […]

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40 Years of Scandalous Good Times — BODY DOUBLE comes to 4K UHD Steelbook on September 24th!

Brian De Palma invites you to witness a seduction… a mystery… a murder. It’s BODY DOUBLE — a spine-tingling look at voyeurism and sexuality from the modern master of suspense. Jake Scully (Craig Wasson), an unemployed actor, is asked to house-sit at a luxurious hillside apartment. As a bonus, the home offers Jake a telescopic […]

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Forgotten Friday Flick – “Cherry 2000”

To celebrate the power of strong women in cinema, I thought I’d add my two cents by celebrating a reposting of an MIA past picture dissection featuring a tough lady movie character who definitely leads the way – welcome to Forgotten Friday Flick!  Today’s selection has a gutsy gal who is asked to help a […]

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Forgotten Friday Flick – “Body Double”

This is the week where we finally see the release of the five-star doc De Palma on Blu-ray, so there’s time for one more grandiose gander at past picture pleasure via the master of suspense – welcome to Forgotten Friday Flick!  For a final stab at De Palma dissection the last choice is an obvious […]

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Forgotten Friday Flick – “The Bonfire Of The Vanities”

This week in our continued Friday dissection of past De Palma ditties I’m heading down a controversial road with a film that even the man himself has distanced himself from – welcome to Forgotten Friday Flick!  Destined to be one of the most discussed and disagreed with selections to date (it was after all nominated […]

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Roar (Blu-ray Review)

On November 3rd, Olive Films will release on Blu-ray Noel Marshall’s sole––and career-derailing––directorial effort, the notorious 1981 family affair with big cats, Roar (1981).Produced over the course of ten years, Roar is an audacious cinematic experiment: a thriller showcasing the majesty and ferocity of African lions, filmed on location amidst dozens of actual untrained cats. Photographed […]

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Back To The Jurassic (Blu-ray Review)

When Jurassic Park came out back in 1993 we (at least here in the United States) got some big time dinosaur fever.  Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur style.  Exhibits, educational adventures, books, movies, television was all focused on learning more about our prehistoric Earthly inhabitants.  This time around with […]

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Working Girl (Blu-ray Review)

Truth be told, I had never seen Working Girl before.  However, one look at the Blu-ray’s cover is all it took for me to get that warm and fuzzy feeling that I was about to watch something special simply because of the very young now everyday household names on it.  And after coming off an Alien binge […]

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Automata (Blu-ray Review)

Isn’t it funny to think that Alex Proyas’ 2004 sci-fi action-thriller I, Robot is already ten years old?  It doesn’t seem that long.  The CG effects don’t look aged.  The actors, save for a young Shia LaBeouf, don’t look like they’ve aged all that much, either.  The story hasn’t aged, as is evidenced by the […]

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AUTOMATA: Starring Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith, And Dylan McDermott Comes To Blu-ray This November

Millennium Entertainment is proud to announce the home entertainment release of Gabe Ibáñez’s sci-fi thriller, AUTOMATA. Antonio Banderas (Desperado, Evita, The Mask of Zorro, Machete Kills) leads the all-star cast of Melanie Griffith (Working Girl, Lolita, HBO’s RKO 281), Dylan McDermott (ABC’s “The Practice,” Olympus Has Fallen, CBS’ “Hostages”) and Robert Forster (Jackie Brown, Mulholland Drive, The Descendants, […]

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