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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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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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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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Wolverineing Is Hard | Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 4K Ultra HD

Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) - Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman

Universes and movie franchises collide in Deadpool & Wolverine, the blockbuster crossover that functions simultaneously as: 1) a trilogy-capping sequel to the popular Deadpool series, 2) the official merger of the X-Men (and some other less-loved stragglers) into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and 3) the point where Disney gives up pretending that any of this… Read More Wolverineing Is Hard | Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 4K Ultra HD

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You’re Dead, Honey | The Terminator (1984) 4K Ultra HD

The Terminator (1984) - Arnold Schwarzenegger

Five sequels, a couple TV spinoffs, and innumerable viewings later, The Terminator is no longer the same movie it was forty years ago. What started as a scrappy, low-budget thriller made by a relatively unknown young director desperate to prove himself, has transformed into the first cog in a popular and long-running franchise, as well… Read More You’re Dead, Honey | The Terminator (1984) 4K Ultra HD

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Be Careful How You Write It | All the President’s Men (1976) Blu-ray

All the President's Men (1976)

Looking back on it from the perspective of another particularly fraught moment in American history, the 1976 film adaptation of All the President’s Men feels both as timely and relevant as it ever has and, simultaneously, like an almost quaint artifact from an era in which truth and facts still had some currency in the… Read More Be Careful How You Write It | All the President’s Men (1976) Blu-ray

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Deathly Silence | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) 4K Ultra HD

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

If not the first horror movie ever made, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari was an early feature film to explore the macabre side of cinema. While exact records of its critical and financial reception back in 1920 are somewhat unreliable and often contradictory, the film proved highly influential on the development of the horror genre,… Read More Deathly Silence | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) 4K Ultra HD

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