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4K Ultra HD Review – Pale Rider (1985)

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Pale Rider, 1985. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Clint Eastwood, Michael Moriarty, John Russell, Carrie Snodgress, Sydney Penny, Richard Dysart, Richard Kiel, Chris Penn, Charles Hallahan, Doug McGrath. SYNOPSIS: A mysterious preacher helps a small mining village against the onslaught of a major mining company trying to take over their land. Having helped reinvent the […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Russ Meyer’s Up! (1976)

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Up!, 1976. Directed by Russ Meyer. Starring Raven De La Croix, Edward Schaaf, Robert McLane, Candy Samples, Janet Wood, Su Ling, Kitten Natividad, Foxy Lae. SYNOPSIS: Adolf Hitler is alive and living in 1970s America, but upon his murder a mysterious and very alluring stranger arrives in town. Even within the realms of Russ Meyer […]

4K Ultra HD Review – The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)

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The Outlaw Josey Wales, 1976. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring Clint Eastwood, Sondra Locke, John Vernon, Bill McKinney, Chief Dan George, Will Sampson, Royal Dano, Paula Trueman, John Russell, and Sam Bottoms. SYNOPSIS: A farmer whose family is murdered by Union soldiers during the civil war seeks revenge, picking up a few waifs and strays […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Russ Meyer’s Motorpsycho! (1965)

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Motorpsycho!, 1965. Directed by Russ Meyer. Starring Haji, Alex Rocco, Steve Oliver, Lane Carroll, Russ Meyer, Sharon Lee, Coleman Francis, Holle K. Winters, Arshalouis Aivazian. SYNOPSIS: A vet and a sexy widow team up take on a violent biker gang who attacked their respective partners. Following on from their superb 4K UHD restorations of his […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Four Flies On Grey Velvet (1971)

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Four Flies On Grey Velvet, 1971. Directed by Dario Argento. Starring Michael Brandon, Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Bud Spencer, and Calisto Calisti. SYNOPSIS: A man who thinks he accidentally murdered someone he thought was stalking him attempts to unravel a mystery when he discovers there was more behind it. It has been a long time […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Dirty Harry (1971)

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Dirty Harry, 1971. Directed by Don Siegel. Starring Clint Eastwood, John Vernon, Andrew Robinson, Harry Guardino, John Mitchum, Ruth Kobart, Reni Santoni. SYNOPSIS: A psychopath named Scorpio terrorizes San Francisco, so the force send uncompromising cop ‘Dirty’ Harry Callahan to do what he does best. There is always a danger when revisiting a classic movie […]

Blu-ray Review – The Coffee Table (2022)

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The Coffee Table, 2022. Directed by Caye Casas. Starring David Pareja, Estefanía de los Santos, Josep Maria Riera, Claudia Riera, and Itziar Castro. SYNOPSIS: A decision to buy a new coffee table heralds the beginning of a very bad day for a married Spanish couple with a new baby. If ever there was a movie […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Trancers (1984)

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Trancers, 1984. Directed by Charles Band. Starring Tim Thomerson, Helen Hunt, Art LaFleur, Michael Stefani, Telma Hopkins, and Richard Herd. SYNOPSIS: A bounty hunter from the future travels back in time to 1980s Los Angeles to apprehend a crime lord who can turn people into violent zombies. It’s 1984 Los Angeles and Charles Band has […]

Blu-ray Review -The House of the Devil (2009)

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The House of the Devil, 2009. Directed by Ti West. Starring Jocelin Donahue, Tom Noonan, Mary Woronov, AJ Bowen, Dee Wallace, Brenda Cooney, and Greta Gerwig. SYNOPSIS: A university student accepts a babysitting job that turns out not to be quite what was advertised. Harking back to an era when these types of movies were […]

4K Ultra HD Review – Four Sided Triangle (1953)

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Four Sided Triangle, 1953. Directed by Terence Fisher. Starring Barbara Payton, James Hayter, Stephen Murray, John Van Eyssen, and Percy Marmont. SYNOPSIS: A scientist creates an exact replica of the woman he loves when she marries his childhood friend. This 4K UHD release is the second to come from the resurrected Hammer Films stable following […]