Today Andrew Jackson is regarded as one of American’s most controversial Presidents, but he’s also one of the country’s most interesting historical figures due to his humble beginnings, decorated military service, fiery temperament and rise to the land’s highest office. One of the most common talking points of Jackson’s legacy is his, at the time, […]
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Coupled with disaster classic, Earthquake, the lesser-known Rollercoaster comes back to DVD, but this time uncut and remastered from Via Vision Entertainment. Boasting an ensemble cast of Hollywood’s finest, George Segal stars as an amusement park safety inspector who must track down a determined saboteur from targeting rollercoasters across America. What was once a studio
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Coincidentally, the sign that beckoned me away from afternoon gridlock was Grace Street, which gave welcome passage to cheap parking behind Lido Cinemas, where I had come to see Amazing Grace. Over forty-five years in the making, this documentary feature presents Aretha Franklin singing gospel, the music of her youth, with a choir at the
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Out now on Blu-ray from Umbrella Entertainment, Drive-In Delirium: With a Vengeance offers up a fine blend of 157 action and sci-fi trailers, uncensored and remastered in high definition. Divided into two parts Cruise Control and The Year We Make Contact, the six-hour plus runtime speeds by faster than Roy Scheider in The French Connection’s
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Fred Zinnemann, the four-time Oscar-winning director and producer behind such monumental classics like High Noon, From Here to Eternity and A Man for All Seasons delivers a sombre fable born from the Spanish Civil War. Behold a Pale Horse stars Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn and Omar Sharif and is out now on Blu-ray from the
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Whether you love or loathe director Quentin Tarantino, the release of his films is an event and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, his most movie-centric piece to date, has warranted the status like no other. Set firmly in 1969 Los Angeles, an established but fading TV star and his long-time stuntman struggle to achieve
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Dive-In Delirium is back, the staple trailer compilation series from Umbrella Entertainment, who have two new massive volumes for genre fans to sink their fangs into, starting with Dive-In Delirium: Dead by Dawn, uncensored and remastered in two parts, The Final Chapter and A New Beginning. We once again we begin this latest volume in
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I enjoy westerns, be it the classics or modern titles, but not so much for the gun play, more for the exploration of morality in a savage land while our hero ponders his or her mortality. Edward Dmytryk’s Warlock does exactly that and then some, a remarkable genre piece out now on Blu-ray from Twilight
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I remember Coal Miner’s Daughter being one of those ‘event’ DVD releases during the format’s glory days and while I was a pretty avid collector of classic titles at the time, it was one of the few that slipped by me. However, the classic Hollywood biopic is back on store shelves thanks to Via Vision
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VHS cover-art, while amazing as it was, often oversold its respective title, but in the case of Reform School Girls, what you see it what you get. Now on DVD from Umbrella Entertainment, Tom DeSimone’s women-behind-bars staple follows a young woman, Jenny, who is sent to a reform school, ran by the corrupt warden Sutter
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