Survival Is a Mental Outlook | Southern Comfort (1981) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

Southern Comfort (1981) - Powers Booth & Keith Carradine

By the time Southern Comfort, his fifth feature as director, left theaters as both a critical and box office failure in 1981, Walter Hill had made more flops than hits. He wouldn’t break out as an A-List Hollywood filmmaker until the blockbuster 48 Hrs. the following year. However, like many of Hill’s early movies, this… Read More Survival Is a Mental Outlook | Southern Comfort (1981) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

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You’ll Take It and Like It | The Maltese Falcon (1941) 4K Ultra HD

The Maltese Falcon (1941) - Humphrey Bogart

As a longtime movie collector with many hundreds of Blu-rays and 4K and DVD discs (and even still some Laserdiscs!) cluttering my shelves, the films of John Huston have a special place of honor in my collection. Not only was Huston a masterful director from Hollywood’s golden age who made a number of revered classics… Read More You’ll Take It and Like It | The Maltese Falcon (1941) 4K Ultra HD

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Not Very Starfleet | Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) on Paramount+

Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) - Michelle Yeoh

Long delayed from its original announcement almost a half-dozen years ago, the planned Star Trek: Discovery spinoff series Section 31 was eventually reduced to a television movie deposited onto streaming in the late January dumping ground. That this project saw any completion at all is no doubt a consequence of star Michelle Yeoh having won… Read More Not Very Starfleet | Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) on Paramount+

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This Place Has Its Strong Points | The Keep (1983) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

The Keep (1983)

I doubt even the biggest fans of The Keep would defend it too strenuously as a good movie. The film is a total mess by just about all objective criteria, with an incoherent story, erratic production values, and sometimes bizarre performances from actors capable of better. A huge bomb during its brief release in 1983,… Read More This Place Has Its Strong Points | The Keep (1983) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

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Truly More Than Meets the Eye | Transformers One (2024) 4K Ultra HD

Transformers One (2024)

Faced with steadily declining box office returns for their last few live-action Transformers movies, Hasbro and Paramount felt that the best course of action would be to return the franchise to its roots with an animated prequel. Sadly, despite mostly positive reviews from critics and word-of-mouth from those who bothered to go see it, the… Read More Truly More Than Meets the Eye | Transformers One (2024) 4K Ultra HD

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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1982-1994) | Skybound Comic Compendium Set Unboxing and Review

G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero Comic Compendium Set 2024

Welcome to 2025. We’re still in something of a vacation mode here at The Video File. To start the year off, we’re easing in with a mostly off-topic article that has no direct connection to either video or home theater, but that we hope some of you will enjoy anyway. Freshly unboxed is an item… Read More G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero (1982-1994) | Skybound Comic Compendium Set Unboxing and Review

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Every Show’s Your Last Show | A Prairie Home Companion (2006) Warner Archive Blu-ray

A Prairie Home Companion (2006) - Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, & Lindsay Lohan

Robert Altman’s final film, completed and released to theaters just five months before his death, A Prairie Home Companion is generally considered a minor work from the legendary director, often relegated to a trivia note in his career, if not forgotten amidst his more popular and acclaimed successes. That fate is at least a little… Read More Every Show’s Your Last Show | A Prairie Home Companion (2006) Warner Archive Blu-ray

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Grabthar’s Hammer and the Suns of Warvan | Galaxy Quest (1999) 4K Ultra HD

Galaxy Quest (1999) - Tim Allen, Alan Rickman, Sigourney Weaver

Released at Christmas of 1999 as one of the very last movies of that decade, the science-fiction adventure spoof Galaxy Quest was a solid box office hit, if not quite one of the year’s huge blockbusters. Marketing for the film presented it as a goofy Tim Allen comedy vehicle, like The Santa Clause in outer… Read More Grabthar’s Hammer and the Suns of Warvan | Galaxy Quest (1999) 4K Ultra HD

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Whatever This Is, It’s Loud and Unpleasant | Secret Level (2024) Amazon Prime Series Premiere

Secret Level (2024) - Pac-Man

The new animated series from the creators of Love, Death + Robots is, I suppose unsurprisingly, an infuriating mess and generally a huge waste of time. Coming in hot at the end of the year, Amazon Prime’s Secret Level is one of the worst new TV shows of 2024. Judging whether it will turn out… Read More Whatever This Is, It’s Loud and Unpleasant | Secret Level (2024) Amazon Prime Series Premiere

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