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    Caligula - The Imperial Edition (Image Entertainment) DVD Review 

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    Published on 09-19-2020 09:13 AM
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    Released by: Image Entertainment
    Released on: October 2nd, 2007.
    Director: Tinto Brass/Bob Guccione
    Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Helen Mirren, Peter O’Toole, John Steiner
    Year: 1979
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    Caligula - The Imperial Edition – Movie Review:

    Caligula must have sounded like a sure thing. Famed writer and historian Gore Vidal wrote a script detailing the rise and fall of Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, better known as Caligula (his nickname meaning ‘Little Boots’). Bob Guccione, the founder of Penthouse Magazine helped bankroll the production meaning that there’d be no shortage of cash on hand to realize Vidal’s vision. Italian sexploitation auteur Tinto Brass, fresh off of the extremely successful Salon Kitty , was going to direct while Oscar award winning Danilo Donati was going to handle the set design and art direction. Master composer Bruno Nicolai (credited under the pseudonym of Paul Clemente) would supply an appropriately grandiose score, while in front of the camera the acting duties would be performed by such illustrious thespians as Malcolm McDowell, future Academy Award Winner Helen Mirren, Italian exploitation regular John     ...
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    Shivers (Vestron Video/Lionsgate) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Vestron Video/Lionsgate
    Released on: September 15th, 2020.
    Director: David Cronenberg
    Cast: Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Barbara Steele
    Year: 1975
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    Shivers – Movie Review:

    David Cronenberg’s 1975 feature film debut, also known as They Came From Within (and before that as The Parasite Murders), is set entirely in Starliner Towers, a fancy high-rise apartment building that is essentially self-sufficient and which is located on an island near Montreal. As two possible tenants arrive and discuss the facility with the property manager, upstairs an older man named Dr. Emil Hobbes (Fred Doederlein, who also appears in Cronenberg’s Scanners) murders and then cuts open the stomach of a young woman named Annabelle Brown (Cathy Graham)     ...
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    The Caller (Vinegar Syndrome) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
    Released on: September 29th, 2020.
    Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman
    Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Madolyn Smith
    Year: 1987
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    The Caller – Movie Review:

    Directed by Arthur Allan Seidelman and written by Michael Sloane, the man who created The Equalizer as well as The Master (yeah, that show where Lee Van Cleef plays a ninja!), 1987’s The Caller opens in a dark, dreary night where a woman (Madolyn     ...
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    Graveyards Of Honor (Arrow Video) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Arrow Video
    Released on: September 8th, 2020.
    Director: Kinji Fukasaku/Takeshi Miike
    Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya, Tetsuya Watari, Yumi Takigawa, Noburo Ando, Hajime Hana, Gorō Kishitani, Shingo Yamashiro, Narumi Arimori, Ryōsuke Miki
    Year: 1975/2002
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    Graveyards Of Honor – Movie Review:

    Arrow Video pairs together Kinji Fukasaku’s 1975 Yakuza classic Graveyard Of Honor with its 2002 remake, helmed by Takashi Miike. Both films are based on Fujita Goro's novel of the same name, which tells the story of real life Yakuza Rikio Ishikawa.

    Graveyard Of Honor (1975):

    In Kinji Fukasaku’s Graveyard of Honor, Tetsuya Watari (of Seijun Suzuki’s Tokyo Drifter) plays Rikio Ishikawa, an up and coming street thug of sorts who inadvertently ends up joining the Kawada Yakuza gang who operate out of Tokyo in the 1940s.

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    Ghost In The Shell (Lionsgate Releasing) 4K UHD/Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Lionsgate Releasing
    Released on: September 8th, 2020.
    Director: Mamoru Oshii
    Cast: Atsuko Tanaka, Iemasa Kayumi, Akio Ôtsuka
    Year: 1995
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    Ghost In The Shell – Movie Review:

    One of those rare anime features that even people not into anime know about, Ghost In The Shell is widely considered one of the best of its kind, and for a very good reason. A remarkably high concept Blade Runner inspired slice of cyberpunk sci-fi, it's exciting, tense, stylish and even pretty thought provoking.

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    Mikey (MVD Rewind Collection) Blu-ray Review 

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    Published on 09-14-2020 08:23 AM
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    Released by: MVD Rewind Collection
    Released on: August 11th, 2020.
    Director: Dennis Dimster-Denk
    Cast: Brian Bonsall, Josie Bissett, Ashley Laurence, Mimi Craven, John Diehl, Whit Hertford
    Year: 1992
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    Mikey – Movie Review:

    Director Dennis Dimster-Denk 1992 film introduces us to Mikey Kelvin (Brian Bonsall, who played Andy Keaton, the youngest Keaton of them all on Family Ties!) who, when we meet him as the opening credits play, is in the garage playing with     ...
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    Terminal Rush (Blast Films) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Blast Films
    Released on: June 5th, 2003.
    Director: Damien Lee
    Cast: Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson, Roddy Piper, Brett Halsey
    Year: 1995
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    Terminal Rush – Movie Review:

    A national monument held hostage. A forgotten hero rises with a vengeance. When a terrorist organization moves in on a huge hydro-electric dam and holds the crew members hostage, it’s up to a deputy played by Don ‘The Dragon’ Wilson (the kickboxing love machine from the Bloodfist     ...
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    The Black Pit Of Dr. M (Casa Negra) DVD Review 

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    The Black Pit Of Dr. M (Casa Negra) DVD Review
    Released by: Casa Negra
    Released on: August 29th, 2006.
    Director: Fernando Mendez
    Cast: Gaston Santos, Rafael Bertrand, Mapita Cortes, Carlos Ancira, Caroline Barrett, Luis Aragon
    Year: 1959
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    The Black Pit Of Dr. M – Movie Review:

    The Black Pit Of Dr. M, or in Mexico Misterios De Ultratumba, tells the macabre tale of one Dr. Mazali (Rafael Bertrand) – the Dr. M of the title - who runs a hospital for the mentally deranged.     ...
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    Video Essay - Coffin Joe's Bloody Exorcism 

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    Rock! Shock! Pop! is proud to host Paul A.J. Lewis' latest video essay, a deep dive into one of the strangest films from one of fandom's most iconic filmmakers, Coffin Joe.

    Without further     ...
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    Death Wish 3 (Scorpion Releasing) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Scorpion Releasing
    Released on: September 16th, 2020.
    Director: Michael Winner
    Cast: Charles Bronson, Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam
    Year: 1985
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    Death Wish 3 – Movie Review:

    As Michael Winner had directed Charles Bronson in the first two Death Wish films to great success it would go without saying that if Golan Globus, those legendary producers of some of the finest movies of the eighties, could team them up for a third and milk the franchise name for all it was worth they'd make it happen. And so they did just that. Bronson, with his career starting to head downhill at this point, begrudgingly agreed and this would     ...
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    Limbo (AGFA) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: AGFA
    Released on: September 29th, 2020.
    Director: Tina Krause
    Cast: Tina Krause, Barron, Suze Daufler, Sean Farrell, Mike Gingold
    Year: 1999
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    Limbo – Movie Review:

    The first and only movie to have been written and directed by cult movie siren (and Queens native) Tina Krause, 1999’s Limbo is a trip. It isn’t always a pleasant trip, but it’s a trip nevertheless. It opens in a bar where a white dude in a Bob Marley t-shirt slings drinks to a gaggle of locals, one of whom is Mike Gingold from Fangoria magazine sporting a bitchin’     ...
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    Pitch Black (Arrow Video) 4K UHD Review 

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    Pitch Black (Arrow Video) 4K UHD Review
    Released by: Arrow Video
    Released on: September 1st, 2020.
    Director: David Twohy
    Cast: Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Lewis Fitz-Gerald, Claudia Black
    Year: 2001
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    Pitch Black – Movie Review:

    A reasonably low budget (the picture was made for twenty million, which is low by major studio standards!) sci-fi/horror film shot in the middle of nowhere in Australia, David Twohy’s 2001 film Pitch Black wound up doing quite well at the box office and has since seen two follow up movies (one live action, one animated) and a couple of video game spin-offs.

    The film follows a few     ...
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    Alphabet City (Fun City Editions) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Fun City Editions
    Released on: September 29th, 2020.
    Director: Amos Poe
    Cast: Vincent Spano, Michael Winslow, Jami Gertz, Kate Vernon, Zohra Lampert
    Year: 1984
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    Alphabet City – Movie Review:

    From the man who gave us 1976's The Blank Generation (a fantastic look at New York City's burgeoning punk scene at the time featuring The Ramones, Blondie, Television, The New York Dolls and a bunch more) comes 1984’s Alphabet City, a picture that takes place entirely over one night and which     ...
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    Delta Force (Scorpion Releasing) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Scorpion Releasing
    Released on: September 1st, 2020.
    Director: Menahem Golan
    Cast: Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Robert Forster, Steve James, Robert Vaugh, Bo Svenson, George Kennedy, Joey Bishop
    Year: 1986
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    Delta Force – Movie Review:

    Who doesn’t love a good tough guy movie? It’s a well-known fact that sometimes the toughest guys of all hide their tough guyness underneath their beards. Enter Chuck Norris, the Karate Commando himself (remember that series?). Team     ...
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    Bonnie’s Kids (Dark Sky Films) DVD Review 

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    Published on 09-06-2020 09:19 AM
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    Released by: Dark Sky Films
    Released on: June 29th, 2010.
    Director: Arthur Marks
    Cast: Tiffany Bolling, Steve Sandor, Robin Mattson, Alex Rocco, Scott Brady, Leo Gordon, Timothy Brown
    Year: 1979
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    Bonnie’s Kids – Movie Review:

    Written and directed by Arthur Marks in 1973, Bonnie’s Kids delivers pretty much everything you’d want out of a seventies drive-in picture – guns, girls, bloodshed and boobies. It’s all there, with a couple of good plot twists thrown in     ...
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    Centerfold Girls (Dark Sky Films) DVD Review 

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    Released by: Dark Sky Films
    Released on: April 28th, 2009.
    Director: Arthur Marks, Bob Peete
    Cast: Andrew Prine, Tiffany Bolling, Aldo Ray, Ray Danton, Francine York, Jennifer Ashley, Jaime Lyn Bauer
    Year: 1975
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    Centerfold Girls – Movie Review:

    Essentially a serial killer film told in three parts, The Centerfold Girls begins by introducing us to an awkward man clad in a black suit named Clement Dunne (Andrew Prine) as he removes the corpse of a naked     ...
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    Cecilia (Blue Underground) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Blue Underground
    Released on: August 25th, 2020.
    Director: Jess Franco
    Cast: Muriel Montosse, Antonio Mayans, Pierre Taylou, Lina Romay
    Year: 1983
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    Cecilia – Movie Review:

    Jess Franco's 1982 softcore opus Cecilia had never before been released on DVD until Blue Underground got their hands on it in 2008. Twelve years later and the film gets a nice Blu-ray upgrade. This film is remarkably short on story but has some nice atmosphere, great cinematography and more quirky bumping and grinding than you can shake a stick at.

    Muriel Montosse plays the titular lead, a foxy young woman named Cecilia who has become bored in the scant few years she's been married     ...
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    New York Ripper (Blue Underground) 4k UHD Review 

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    Released by: Blue Underground
    Released on: June 25th, 2019.
    Director: Lucio Fulci
    Cast: Jack Hedley, Andrew Painter, Andrea Occhipinti, Alexandra Delli Colli
    Year: 1982
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    New York Ripper – Movie Review:

    Next to Zombie and The Beyond, Lucio Fulci’s New York Ripper is, if not one of his better-known pictures in mainstream circles, at least his most notorious. It’s been labeled as near pornographic, misogynist, sexist trash and it’s hard to argue with a few of those more colorful adjectives. That said, Fulci’s film definitely succeeds in creating an unsettling mood and a sleazy atmosphere – and it’s more fun to think he planned it that     ...
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    Split Second (MVD Rewind Collection) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: MVD Rewind Collection
    Released on: August 11th, 2020.
    Director: Tony Maylam
    Cast: Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Michael J. Pollard, Alastair Duncan, Pete Postlethwaite
    Year: 1992
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    Split Second – Movie Review:

    Set deep in the future of the year 2008, Split Second takes place in a London flooded with water (global warming really is a bitch) and seemingly in constant darkness. Here we’re introduced to a renegade cop named Harley Stone (Rutger Hauer. He’s the kind likely to shoot first and ask questions later, but you can’t argue with his results. Unfortunately, he lost his last partner in the line of duty, and that left some emotional     ...
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    Suckers (Synapse Films) Blu-ray Review 

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    Released by: Synapse Films
    Released on: August 25th, 2020.
    Director: Roger Nygard
    Cast: Lori Loughlin, Daniel Benzali, Louis Mandylor
    Year: 1999
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    Suckers – Movie Review:

    Written and directed by Roger Nygard, 1999’s Suckers introduces us to a man named Reggie (Daniel Benzali), who works as a used car salesman and who will stop at nothing to get the sale. In fact, he’s made a bit of a name for himself training the other recruits on his team to use similar tactics to his own and to simply not take no for an answer. He’s got plenty of tricks, but more importantly than that, he gets results.     ...
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