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Here's another label I've been meaning to get onto this site for a while: Indicator/ Powerhouse. They're a UK outfit that started up in the tail end of 2016, releasing some impressive special editions, often of titles Twilight Time had released as limited editions in the US. And that certainly holds true with today's film, The Front , which Indicator put out via their own limited edition Blu-ray/…
At the end of this summer, Paramount has upgraded a handful of back catalog titles to blu, including Problem Child , BASEketball , EDtv , For Love of the Game and my favorite of the bunch: Bowfinger . At the moment, they're Best Buy exclusives. It's just for a very limited time, though; they'll be available everywhere else later in October. But for now, you can only get them from Best Buy. And you…
Quick! What's the difference between the Collector's Edition, Special Edition, 40th Anniversary Edition and Extraordinarily Deluxe Edition of Monty Python and the Holy Grail ? It's a comedy classic and, apparently, money in the bank for Sony, who seemingly re-release this film on home video every year in a new edition. And I bet even the people who worked on them couldn't keep them all straight.…
A couple of Larry Fessenden 's better known horror films have been available on DVD for a while. But not until 2014, when Scream Factory rounded them up during their partnership with IFC's horror division, did we get them all, and in HD to boot. First we got Beneath , a TV movie he made for the Chiller channel, and then in 2015 we got everything else in an impressive, four disc Larry Fessenden…
For many years, Day Of the Dead was the under-appreciated, unloved entry in George Romero 's epic "Dead Trilogy." It was the dumb, trashy 80s film that followed two horror masterpieces that each had dramatically revolutionized the genre. And okay, Day didn't have the formative impact its predecessors had; but over the decades, its reputation has grown and solidified as, if nothing else, one of the…
H a p p y h o l i d a y s , everyone! It's that time of year again, to gather 'round the hearth and spend this magical evening with your chosen family, whether that be your relatives, closest friends, or Amando de Ossorio 's iconic Blind Dead . Yes, before Dan Brown turned his creative sites on the Knights Templar, before John Krasinski started claiming credit for inventing monsters that hunt by…
I've gotten stuck in pretty deep reviewing a couple of multi-film collections, which has taken longer than expected. As a consequence, I've started to go pretty long without an update. So that's still coming. But in the meantime, here's a quick, DVD/ BD comparison of a single catalog title I can get up a little faster. It's a film that was bound to wind up on this site sooner or late anyway; I…
Folks, you might find this hard to believe, but the state of physical media in this world was once so much more plentiful, that studios would just give you some for free! Major motion pictures, Oscar Award winners, hit TV shows, junk, you name it. You could just pick them up at a store, find them mailed to your house unsolicited, or get with a box of cereal. No kidding. I lived through it and I…
Y'know, I think 1996's The Frighteners may well be my favorite Peter Jackson film. He's certainly made more ambitious films, and more charmingly scrappy indie flicks. Heavenly Creatures may be more moving, The Lord Of the Rings trilogy more epic, and Braindead more gleefully gruesome. But this one just situates in the perfect middle: Baby Bear's Just Right porridge (and featuring Jeffrey Combs '…
Stuart Gordon 's Re-Animator is in the weirdly unique position where its unrated version is actually shorter than its censored, R-rated version. By several minutes, too; not just a few seconds. I remember holding both VHS tapes in my hands back in the day and thinking they had to have been mislabeled; but no, it's true. Why? Because the R-rated version, though missing the most extreme,…
