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Are We Talkin’ Little Space Friends Here? | The Abyss (1989) 4K Ultra HD

The Abyss (1989) - Ed Harris as Bud Brigman

Discounting his debut on the schlocky Piranha II: The Spawning, which the filmmaker himself leaves off his résumé, 1989’s The Abyss remains the only box office failure James Cameron has directed to date. Since emerging with The Terminator in 1984, Cameron has helmed one blockbuster hit after another, including two (Titanic and Avatar) that respectively… Read More Are We Talkin’ Little Space Friends Here? | The Abyss (1989) 4K Ultra HD

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You Do Not Have Time to Tango | True Lies (1994) 4K Ultra HD

True Lies (1994) - Jamie Lee Curtis & Arnold Schwarzenegger

James Cameron’s 1994 action blockbuster True Lies had been neglected for so long during the home video era that most fans gave up hope for a decent release of it years ago. Remarkably, after literal decades of unfulfilled rumors, what seemed impossible finally happened. Cameron’s production company Lightstorm Entertainment (via its current corporate distributor, Disney)… Read More You Do Not Have Time to Tango | True Lies (1994) 4K Ultra HD

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I Thought You’d Be Bigger | Road House (1989) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

Road House (1989) - Patrick Swayze & Sam Elliott

For a cult film with such an exalted reputation, Road House winds up being surprisingly modest in scope or ambition when you watch it play out. As a young boy who hit his teenage years in the late 1980s, I’d of course seen the movie before, and more than once, but my last viewing was… Read More I Thought You’d Be Bigger | Road House (1989) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

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Underground Goddamn Monsters! | Tremors (1990) Arrow Video 4K Ultra HD

Far off, in a harsh desert landscape isolated from the centers of civilization, a small pocket of humanity struggles to claw out a meager existence from the unforgiving environment. As if not difficult enough on its own, that challenge is made nearly impossible by sudden attacks from monstrous sandworms burrowing beneath the ground right under… Read More Underground Goddamn Monsters! | Tremors (1990) Arrow Video 4K Ultra HD

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A Scumbag for the Right Side | Deep Cover (1992) Criterion Collection Blu-ray

Deep Cover (1992)

Released in early 1992, advertising for the crime thriller Deep Cover played up star Laurence Fishburne’s involvement in the previous summer’s breakout hit Boyz n the Hood and generally tried to connect the film to the run of other so-called ‘hood movies that had made waves during that period. Although it scored positive reviews from… Read More A Scumbag for the Right Side | Deep Cover (1992) Criterion Collection Blu-ray

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Going Primal | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) 4K Ultra HD

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023)

If not quite as satisfying (to old-school Generation 1 fans like myself, at least) as the 2018 Bumblebee prequel movie, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts works well enough in broad terms to prove that the franchise remains better off without Michael Bay at the helm. Sadly, the film continued the series’ downward trajectory at the… Read More Going Primal | Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (2023) 4K Ultra HD

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Death to Realism | eXistenZ (1999) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

eXistenz (1999)

After more than a decade exploring other subjects and genres that interested him, filmmaker David Cronenberg returned to the so-called “body horror” cycle of his early career with the 1999 thriller eXistenZ. While the director himself has argued that this particular movie was more science-fiction than horror, the connective tissue (in multiple senses) with his… Read More Death to Realism | eXistenZ (1999) Vinegar Syndrome 4K Ultra HD

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Yesterday Belongs to Us | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) 4K Ultra HD

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)

Nostalgia is a trap that Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny both comments upon and falls victim to. The fifth entry in the venerable franchise arrives fifteen years after the last one, which was itself already nineteen years after everybody already assumed that the Indiana Jones Trilogy had satisfactorily concluded. Coming so late, the… Read More Yesterday Belongs to Us | Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) 4K Ultra HD

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