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Blu-Rays you must see

Quatermass II

            One of the best presents I’ve gotten recently was Quatermass II, a staggering box set from British Hammer Studios (famous for bring blood and heaving breasts into cinemas in the late 60s, not to mention the Christopher Lee Dracula movies…
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Shaw-Shock

            Three deranged Asian supernatural-themed excesses from the golden days of Shaw Brothers cinema are unleashed in an impressive box set from Imprint.              Founded by the wealthy Shanghai textile factory owner Run Run Shaw with his male siblings, Shaw Brothers became…
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The Deadly Spawn

            This scrappy, gory 1982 sci-fi cult classic, locally made on a low budget but with phenomenal special effects, is about a meteorite that crashes to earth carrying toothy little alien horrors which take up residence in the watery basement of…
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This Property is Condemned

            Out now from Imprint is a stunning-looking Blu-ray of an oddball 1966 Tennessee Williams adaptation, This Property is Condemned, starring Natalie Wood, Robert Redford, Kate Reid, Charles Bronson and Mary Badham. Studios at the time were strip-mining anything Tennessee Williams,…
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The Big Heat

            Pauline Kael described Fritz Lang’s 1953 film The Big Heat as “A definitive film noir…it’s designed in light and shadows, and its underworld atmosphere glistens with the possibilities of sadism.” Criterion has just put out a stunning 4K UHD Blu-ray…
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