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No Escape from the Real World | The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988) Blu-ray

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)

With a narrative premise that sounds like a gimmick, if not the basis for a comedy, The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey is in fact a very heavy drama with significant physical, emotional, and spiritual stakes for its characters. Although imperfect, the movie is quite an impressive artistic achievement that seemed at the time to signal… Read More No Escape from the Real World | The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988) Blu-ray

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There Can Be No Doubt About His Sex | Orlando (1992) 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

Orlando (1992) - Tilda Swinton

Adapted from a supposedly unadaptable 1928 novel by legendary author Virginia Woolf, Orlando was a key work of the early 1990s independent film movement and continues to reverberate in select areas of popular culture decades later. Spanning a period of some four hundred years, the story is a sweeping meditation on historical significance, personal identity,… Read More There Can Be No Doubt About His Sex | Orlando (1992) 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray

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Do We Have Any Real Gunmen in This Room? | The Quick and the Dead (1995) 4K Ultra HD

The Quick and the Dead (1995) - Sharon Stone

With the huge success of Dances with Wolves and Unforgiven, Westerns made a big comeback on cinema screens in the early 1990s. Not all of them were awards bait, however. The likes of Tombstone or Young Guns II were just rowdy fun, while director Sam Raimi (creator of the Evil Dead franchise) dabbled with a… Read More Do We Have Any Real Gunmen in This Room? | The Quick and the Dead (1995) 4K Ultra HD

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There’s Nothin’ Wrong with Goin’ Nowhere, Baby | Streets of Fire (1984) 4K Ultra HD

Streets of Fire (1984) - Diane Lane

A movie that could only possibly have been created at the specific moment it was made, yet also simultaneously ahead of its time, Streets of Fire perplexed both critics and audiences during the summer of 1984, but has endured as a delightful cult property that, quite honestly, only gets better with age. I’ve watched the… Read More There’s Nothin’ Wrong with Goin’ Nowhere, Baby | Streets of Fire (1984) 4K Ultra HD

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Wouldn’t You Like to Do a Little Detecting Once in a While, Just for Fun? | The Thin Man (1934) Blu-ray

The Thin Man (1934) - Myrna Loy & William Powell

In real life, the prospect of investigating a murder is a grim business that should be conducted with the utmost seriousness and fastidious attention to detail. Yet movies and TV frequently present the job as being so much fun, the type of thing a clever person or team can do in their spare time for… Read More Wouldn’t You Like to Do a Little Detecting Once in a While, Just for Fun? | The Thin Man (1934) Blu-ray

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This Is Not the Work of a Cook | Under Siege (1992) 4K Ultra HD

Under Siege (1992) - Steven Seagal & Erika Eleniak

Remembered largely as one of the better Die Hard knockoffs that proliferated in the late 1980s and most of the following decade, the 1992 action thriller Under Siege makes almost no pretense of being anything other than what it is. The movie earned the nickname “Die Hard on a battleship” immediately upon release and wears… Read More This Is Not the Work of a Cook | Under Siege (1992) 4K Ultra HD

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