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Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip DVD Review
Alvin and his chipmunk brothers return for a fourth feature film in Walt Becker’s Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip. If you’ve seen any of...
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Perry Mason Movie Collection: Volume 5 DVD Review
Actor Raymond Burr’s final film appearances are contained in the Perry Mason Movie Collection: Volume 5. Though Burr was dying of cancer (and...
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Red Skies of Montana DVD Review
The title of Joseph M. Newman’s Red Skies of Montana might suggest a picturesque western romance, but it’s actually nothing of the sort....
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Black Sabbath DVD Review
One of a number of horror anthologies cranked out for cinemas in the 1960s, Mario Bava’s Black Sabbath is among the better ones.
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Bad Boy (1935) DVD Review
James Dunn turns on the charm as a hapless new husband in John Blystone’s comedy-drama Bad Boy. Not even running an hour and likely slated for...
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Land of Doom DVD Review
A future world turns deadly for a man and woman searching for safety in Peter Maris’ Land of Doom.
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The Games (1970) DVD Review
Just as John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix took an international sports event and used it as a basis to explore the psyches of a cross-section of...
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The Midnight Man (2016) DVD Review
A made-for-home video crime thriller, D.C. Hamilton’s The Midnight Man offers an engaging protagonist, a couple of notable surprises, and...
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The Purple Hills DVD Review
An entertaining western of the old school (which might later have served as the plot for an hour-long episode of any of television's most popular...
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It Happened in Flatbush DVD Review
Ray McCarey’s It Happened in Flatbush is a pleasant little programmer with nifty performances from a host of familiar character actors acting a...
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<b>Stonewall (2015) DVD Review</b><p><p>The monumental first steps in the gay liberation movement get a somewhat erratic treatment in Roland Emmerich’s <em class='bbc'>Stonewall</em>. In attempting to take a major event and personalize it through the eyes of a single participant, the film loses...
<b>Hitler's Madman DVD review</b><p><p><em class='bbc'> </em><br /><br /><em class='bbc'>Hitler's Madman</em> is a fascinating semi-fictional account of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, one of the most notorious Nazis in the German Army. He was the Deputy/Acting...
<b>It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia: The Complete Season 10 DVD Review</b><p><p>It has been a couple of years since review materials were sent for <em class='bbc'>It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia</em>. During that time, Fox has dropped the Blu-ray releases for many of its television...
<b>I Deal in Danger DVD Review</b><p><p>After putting himself into the national consciousness by playing Sir Lancelot in the original Broadway cast of <em class='bbc'>Camelot</em>, becoming a genuine stage heartthrob, and winning a 1962 Grammy as the outstanding new recording artist of the year...
<b>Hitler's Children DVD Review</b><p><p><em class='bbc'> </em></p><p> </p><p>
<em class='bbc'>Hitler's Children</em> (1943) is a fascinating low-budget programmer from RKO about Nazi Germany during the years leading up to World War II. Leonard Maltin says that the film was...
<b>Number One (1969) DVD Review</b><p><p>Charlton Heston played so many larger-than-life characters in his career than when it came time to play regular guys (even those imbued with special gifts), it seemed sometimes difficult as an audience to adjust to his status as an ordinary man. His role...
<b>Walk Tall DVD Review</b><p><p>Sometimes made-on-demand programs like Fox Cinema Archives allow a movie fan to discover a mystery or a western or a musical that is a hidden gem, relatively unknown to the general movie population and just waiting to be discovered. Maury Dexter's <em...
<b>The Snows of Kilimanjaro DVD Review</b><p><p>Pasting plot pieces from several stories by Ernest Hemingway to fashion its episodic story, Henry King’s <em class='bbc'>The Snows of Kilimanjaro</em> makes for an entertaining triple dose of Hemingway storytelling. With a top cast of stars and...
<b>McHale's Navy: The Complete Series DVD Review</b><p><p><em class='bbc'> </em></p><p> </p><p>
<em class='bbc'>McHale's Navy</em> is one of the iconic television shows from the 1960s. All four seasons were previously released in single-season sets, but now Shout! Factory...
<b>Kingdom: The Complete Season 1 DVD Review</b><p><p>Watching television in the “old” days (say, the 1960s) used to be such an easy proposition. You had three choices, and that was it: no home video, no DVRs, no cable networks, no streaming. Today, in addition to hundreds of cable channels...
<b>Dance Macabre DVD Review</b><p><p>There is a serial killer on the loose at the Ballet Russe in Greydon Clark’s <em class='bbc'>Dance Macabre</em>. What might have been a decent thriller along the lines of <em class='bbc'>Dressed to Kill</em> with a better script, more deceptive direction, and...
<b>The Culpepper Cattle Co. DVD Review</b><p><p>Another coming-of-age drama of the 1970s, Dick Richards’ <em class='bbc'>The Culpepper Cattle Co.</em> takes its protagonist on a road trip where he not only matures but also has the star dust permanently shaken from his eyes in a film that’s both...
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HBO’s first epic fantasy series, based on George R.R. Martin’s novel “A Game of Thrones,” maintains the same quality of storytelling and filmmaking as the cable network’s past properties, historical dramas “Deadwood” and “Rome.”...
<b>CPO Sharkey: The Complete Season 2 DVD Review</b><p><p>One gets the impression that the suits at NBC never had a lot of faith in the Don Rickles program <em class='bbc'>CPO Sharkey</em>. It began its two-season run as a mid-season replacement in December, 1976 and it was not even on the...
<b>The Last Man on Earth: The Complete First Season DVD Review</b><p><p>Spoilers aside, Will Forte may be playing the title role in <em class='bbc'>The Last Man on Earth</em>, but he most definitely isn’t the last man on Earth, nor is the planet lacking any women either. In Fox’s successful...
<b>Modern Family: The Complete Sixth Season DVD Review</b><p><p>Six seasons into its run and the five-time Emmy winner for Best Comedy Series <em class='bbc'>Modern Family</em> has another hilariously entertaining season. Is it as good as the earlier seasons were? It’s debatable, and most...
<b>Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume One DVD Review</b><p><p>With the out of print Rhino sets often selling for multiples of their original list price, Shout! Factory has begun re-issuing those sets, starting with <em class='bbc'>Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume One</em>, with updated...
<b>The Goldbergs: The Complete Second Season DVD Review</b><p><p>The favorite TV family of the 1980s returned for a second season of <em class='bbc'>The Goldbergs</em> on ABC, sticking with the formula that worked well in its first season, but still allowed for some growth in the series...
<b>Joanna DVD Review</b><p><p>Swinging London served as the basis for a great many character studies in the 1960s. Some like <em class='bbc'>Darling, </em><em class='bbc'>Georgy Girl,</em> and <em class='bbc'>Alfie </em>are still fondly remembered while others like Michael Sarne’s <em...
<b>Made for Each Other (1971) DVD Review</b><p><p>Robert B. Bean’s <em class='bbc'>Made for Each Other</em> takes the comedy of neuroses and beats it to within an inch of its life. The two main characters in the film are painfully flawed and sometimes almost dangerously dysfunctional, and...