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Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship
Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship is a story of two men who were complete strangers but who share a common denominator—one man’s wife was sleeping with the other man. After many lies and the truth finally unfolding, Bert discovers that his wife, Linda, is having an affair with Arnie. Arnie probably doesn’t realize that [...]
From the Head
Breaking Glass Picture’s new release is a movie called From the Head, which examines the life of a men’s room attendant named Shoes. It’s New York City in 1995, and Shoes works in a strip joint that is always busy with men from all walks of life trying to forget their troubles with booze and broads. [...]
Jack the Giant Slayer
Bryan Singer’s (Usual Suspects) visually ambitious new take on “Jack and the Beanstalk” comes to Blu-ray and DVD. Years ago, there was a war between the humans and the giants who live on a floating island far above the Earth’s surface. Connected via a magic beanstalk, the giants rained down destruction on the human race [...]
A Good Day to Die Hard
Yippee Ki-Yay, John McClane is back. Not better than ever, but certainly back. Bruce Willis reprises the iconic action hero role for the sixth time, and proves once again that he can still hold his own as a legitimate action star 25 years after the original Die Hard. The first movie is a classic: one [...]
The Princess and the Pilot: Premium Edition
The release of The Princess and the Pilot (2011) on North American Blu-ray marks NIS America’s first foray into distributing anime feature films. To confer their usual Premium Edition treatment on a single, feature-length film may seem like an overextension of resources at first, especially since they had only previously presented episodic anime series in [...]
The Philadelphia Experiment
Remember the time a World War II Navy Destroyer fell out of the sky and destroyed a Chicago Skyscraper? Well, the producers of The Philadelphia Experiment do because this film is based on actual events. Basically the story is that a team of scientists aboard the aforementioned Navy Ship, in an attempt to render the [...]
In Old Arizona
In Old Arizona (1929) is one of those landmark achievements of cinema that is at once incredible to behold and yet a tad difficult to watch. Produced in the earliest days of the talkies, In Old Arizona was the first feature-length film to prominently incorporate sound captured outdoors instead of on a controlled studio lot. [...]
Knife Fight
Paul Turner (Rob Lowe; Parks and Recreation) is a world-class political campaign consultant, putting the right person in the right political office despite what personal shortcomings they may have. He’s all about the greater good, and along with his new assistant Kerstin (Jamie Chung) is working to reelect a California state senator (David Harbour) and [...]
The Giant Spider
“Giant mutated animal” movies have made something of a comeback over the last few years thanks to the efforts of the SyFy Channel and their production cohorts, Roger Corman and The Asylum. As goofy fun as some of those films have been, though, it’s rare that any of them actually recall their ancient ancestors in [...]
The Loving Story
Richard and Mildred Loving were a mixed race couple who got married in a time and place when marriage between the races was illegal. They hid their marriage and traveled separately to avoid being arrested and imprisoned on a regular basis. Finally having enough, they decided to hire a lawyer (Bernard S. Cohen) to fight [...]
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