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All posts by Jake Cole
Blu-Ray Review: Deadly Eyes
Label: Shout Factory
MSRP: $26.99
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Region A
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Film: D+ / Video: C / Audio: C- / Extras: B
1982's Deadly Eyes has all the hallmarks of a cheap, exploitative horror movie. It establishes itself with a scientific lectu...
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Blu-Ray Review: The Unknown Known
Distributor: Anchor Bay
MSRP: $29.99
Release Date: July 01, 2014
Region A
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Movie: B+ / Video: B+ / Audio: B / Extras: B-
I first saw The Unknown Known at a press screening in Toronto, just before TIFF started last September. Surrounded by Ca...
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The Smart Dumb Films of Phil Lord and Christopher Miller
If Phil Lord and Christopher Miller can be defined by any one thing, it is their ability to turn flimsy properties into unexpected hits. Their first feature-length directorial project, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, an adaptation of the eponymous children’...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Ravenous”
Distributor: Shout! Factory/Scream Factory
MSRP: $24.97
Release Date: June 03, 2014
Region A
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Movie: A / Video: D / Audio: B+ / Extras: C
Antonia Bird’s Ravenous is a B-movie through and through. Set in the aftermath of the Mexican-A...
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DVD Review: “Hell Divers”
Distributor: Warner Archive
MSRP: $21.99
Release Date: 05/13/2014
Region 1
Buy at Warner Archive (all discs made to order)
Film: B, Video: B-, Audio: C+, Extras: D
From the moment Clark Gable’s gunner Steve Nelson comes into frame in Hell Divers, it’s ob...
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Blu-Ray Review: Cheap Thrills
Distributor: Drafthouse Films
MSRP: $24.95
Release Date: May 27, 2014
1 BD, Digital Download
Region A
Buy at Amazon or Drafthouse Films (with special editions)
Movie: C+, Video: A-, Audio: A-, Extras: C
A commentary on the present whose instant cult app...
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DVD Review: Lewis Black: Old Yeller — Live at the Borgata in Atlantic City
Distributor: Image Entertainment
MSRP: $14.98
Region 1
Release Date: May 6, 2014
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Movie: C+, Video: C+, Audio: B-, Extras: N/A
It’s been a few years since I’ve listened to Lewis Black. Like many, I came to the comic after his breakout appear...
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Blu-Ray Review: Rollerball (1975)
Label: Twilight Time
MSRP: $29.95
One-disc set (1 BD)
Release Date: May 13, 2014
Region Free
Buy Exclusively at ScreenArchives.com (Limited Supply of 3,000 Units)
Movie: C-, Video: B, Audio: C, Extras: C
Released a year prior to Network, Norman Jewison’...
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“Blended”: A Sour Sandler-Barrymore Reunion
At first, Blended seems like just the latest emotionally stunted Happy Madison production, those nearly annual occurrences that increasingly resemble ritualistic tributes to some ancient evil with horrible taste. It opens not merely in a Hooters but in the bat...
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Blu-Ray Review: “Sleepaway Camp”: Collector’s Edition
Label: Shout!/Scream Factory
MSRP: $29.93
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
Release Date: May 27,2014
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Movie: C+, Video: A-, Audio: B-, Extras: B
“In fond memory of Mom, a doer.” So begins Sleepaway Camp, a film that more than matches this bewilder...
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