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Twistin 29th Nov 2022		DVD The Randolph Scott Round-Up - 6 Classic Westerns	Another USA release.
Twistin 29th Nov 2022		DVD Kurt Russell: 4-Movie Collection - Walt Disney	I own this USA release and there is absolutely no difference in any way to this release. Appears to be yet another case of the USA release simply being sold in Canada, but should not be listed as a unique Canada release.
Twistin 29th Nov 2022		DVD The Randolph Scott Round-Up - 6 Classic Westerns	Again, this just looks like the USA release with no difference in sight. It may have been sold in Canada, but I see nothing to indicate this being a unique Canadian issue.
Twistin 29th Nov 2022		DVD Classic Westerns - 10 Movie Collection	This is just the USA release with a Canada rating sticker on the back, right?
Twistin 16th Nov 2022		Multi-Format Turn-On, Groove In Rock Out!: Barry Richards TV Collection Vol. 1 - Reazar Productions	WOW!
Twistin 13th Nov 2022		Cinema Sex And Romance (1951)	Yeah, I use that sometimes too...the clipboard is my friend! My video player of choice is MPC-BE (Media Player Classic: Black Edition), which is the most versatile I have found on the PC (after bailing on VLC...) Capturing screens is easy, but with discs from those three aforementioned studios, the OS will recognize the disc, but when trying to launch them in the player, that process gets (intentionally) bypassed and nothing happens. Probably a simple line of forbid code...which is probably what AnyDVD is able to disable before it executes.
Twistin 12th Nov 2022		Cinema Sex And Romance (1951)	Thanks for the tip. I used that app many years ago, and it performed very well. Following that link, the site displayed a USA flag in the upper-right corner, yet only listed prices in Euros. But I can tell it is indeed pricey. Most movies have allowed me to cap screens, but nothing from Kino Lorber, Mill Creek or Echo Bridge. On titles from those labels, I can often manage to get title screens anyway, but sometimes not.
Twistin 11th Nov 2022		Cinema Sex And Romance (1951)	Thank you, Quad5point1. That title screen is a lot cleaner than the one I have on Blu-ray (apparently the disc is locked from loading on a PC, so I was unable to capture it, as well) Cheers, my friend!
Twistin 9th Nov 2022		Cinema Sex And Romance (1951)	If someone wants to grab the title screen from this YT video and add it to this page, please do...I cannot get Google to allow me into my YouTube account, and recovering that account is more trouble than it's worth.
Twistin 6th Nov 2022		Cinema Playing Dangerous 2 (1996)	Rated 6/10 A terrible era for film begets a film that is so bad it's...well, laughably bad. Or, as the producers might say, Laughable Bad 2. (they don't know an adjective from an adverb, do they?) Enough time has passed to where we can start embracing...erm, rather, enduring the grade-z mush that filled the VHS shelves at the end of its cycle. Welcome to a world where a 6-star rating is equal to a 1-star rating. It depends on your tolerance for camp. Recommendation: life is short, watch something else. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Twistin 6th Nov 2022		Cinema Sex And Romance (1951)	[YouTube Video]
Twistin 5th Nov 2022		Cinema The Legend Of Dog Lady Island (Werewolf Island) (2020)	The only trace of a werewolf in this film is on this title screen. I understand why they dumped the dreadful original title, but why not Zombie Island? Or Chainsaw Island? Or Lucifer Island?
Twistin 2nd Nov 2022		DVD The Green Slime - [none]	Pretty much has to be a bootleg; Warner owns the rights and are not known to license their catalog. No distributor, no bar code, DVD-R...certainly a boot.
Twistin 8th Oct 2022		Cinema Machuca (2004)	Rated 8/10 Very emotional dramatization of Chile's own 9/11 in 1973. A valid demonstration of political extremes from both sides destroying innocent people, as seen through the eyes of children, to illustrate the point. Throughout most of the film, the story is told effectively, although near the end Gonzalo returns home and stares at the renovation going on in his home - which conveniently provides a broad contrast to the horrors he just witnessed by Pinochet's military. I didn't feel it was necessary to make such an obvious conclusion about the social class division, particularly at such a crucial part of the film. That critique aside, Machuca is a moving story that takes place during a tragic episode of Chilean history, putting the spotlight on an event that is rarely addressed (and was actually more horrific than the film reveals.) 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Twistin 8th Oct 2022		Cinema Dinosaurus! (1960)	Rated 7/10 I imagine this was an effective thriller in 1960 for drive-in audiences, as well as the kids on Saturday afternoon matinées. Two dinosaurs and a caveman are awoken from a sleep state in the Caribbean Sea by construction workers on an island. One dinosaur is kid-friendly, the other a bloodthirsty Tyrannosaurus Rex, while our Neanderthal is mostly played for laughs. The dinosaurs are fairly effective on their own -- much more convincing than Godzilla several years prior - but when those dinosaurs have to appear onscreen with humans, the difference in film stock make the rear-screen projection look ridiculous. Not that there's any shortage of absurdity in the screenplay, like little Julio's conversations with the endearing Brontosaurus, or love interest Betty singing to our hapless troglodyte, or the clumsy lighting that casts massive shadows in all the night scenes. Yet for all its faults, Dinosaurus! still manages to entertain. It isn't so poor that you can't turn off your brain and just go with it. 1 person found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Twistin 26th Sep 2022		DVD We Are Marshall - Warner Home Video	Why do people keep putting the date for a film's theatrical release in the Date field? That is for the release date of the media (in this case, the DVD.) The DVD was released Sep. 18, 2007 -- not 2006. [Changed. mod]
Twistin 20th Sep 2022		Cinema The Stupids (1996)	Sadly, I'm guessing a renewal of interest in the film is remote, and may NEVER happen. There's no explaining the general public's uncultured palate. :-)
Twistin 19th Sep 2022		Cinema The Stupids (1996)	Interesting. I searched Blu-ray.com's thorough database and while in USA mode, I found three vendors offering it streaming in HD (!), others in SD, plus two DVDs still in print. But after changing my search flag to UK, I went to the film's overview page and found no link to "Releases" like was on the USA page. So it seems to be unavailable in the UK. Hmm, it must have done bad business there and Warner didn't bother. (Of course, it did bad business here, as well!) Good time to have a region-free player? It will probably never get a 4k release, but I sure wish they'd use those HD masters to at least offer a Blu-ray while physical media is still hanging on. Warner rarely licenses their titles to boutique labels, which would be this film's best bet.
Twistin 19th Sep 2022		Cinema The Stupids (1996)	Rated 9/10 I never thought Tom Arnold was very funny. I gave all of his stuff a chance, but not until True Lies did I ever see his shtick work. Despite that, I expected "The Stupids" to be what most people think it is anyway: stupid. I was dragged to the cinema to see it by a couple of friends. One of them thought it was just OK, the other thought it was the worst film he'd ever seen. The latter friend, however, still laughed because during the movie, one man in the back of the room laughed hysterically at every joke, every gag. It was a great, infectious laugh and forced you to laugh along with him. Oh, there was only one other person in the theater...yes, it completely tanked at the boxoffice. Me, I thought the whole affair was brilliantly...stupid. That's kinda the whole point, which goes over most people's heads. My tastes rarely align with the folks who listen to bland pop music, watch reality shows, read People magazine, or wear the latest fashions. If you're one of the Joneses, don't expect to get much from this under-appreciated John Landis satire. If you color outside the lines, however, you might wanna give this one another try, if only for "I'm My Own Grandpa". 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Twistin 18th Aug 2022		Cinema Nope (2022)	The "new master of horror"?!? For one film? Which, IMHO, was a screed in wolf's clothing. And it's why I wouldn't see this even if you paid me.
Twistin 4th Aug 2022		Cinema Airport 1975 (1974)	Rated 7/10 Certainly one of the most inane thrillers of our time. Still, I can't get enough of films this bad, especially when the incompetent filmmakers appear to have had no idea what a turd they were creating. Some of the most embarrassing acting to ever disgrace the screen from folks like Charlton Heston, Karen Black, Sid Caesar, Myrna Loy, Erik Estrada, Gloria Swanson, Susan Clark, and even F-Troop's Larry Storch! Some performers manage to save some face (Efrem Zimbalist, Dana Andrews, Roy Thinnes - all wasted). The best line in the whole film -- and there's a lot of competition -- is delivered by Linda Blair, who plays a sick teenager en route to receive a kidney transplant. As her mother tries to convince her to get some rest, she explains how difficult that task is because "People are so interesting!" And don't even get me started on Helen Reddy's singing nun... 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Twistin 28th Jun 2022		DVD Pink Floyd: The Wall - Sony BMG Music Entertainment	Amazon's dates are all over the road and are frequently incorrect.
Twistin 23rd Jun 2022		DVD Pink Floyd: The Wall - Sony BMG Music Entertainment	There were no commercial DVDs released in 1982. The date field is for the release date of the DVD -- NOT the movie. The film's release date is already covered on the linked film to the Cinema World entry. This DVD was released in 2005. Pink Floyd - The Wall DVD (on Blu-ray.com) The dates (year) for DVDs, Blu-rays, etc. are typically noted on the packaging, but Blu-ray.com is the most reliable site for (most) full release dates for disc media. EDIT: Fixed typo in link
Twistin 19th Jun 2022		Cinema Crack In The Mirror (1960)	Surely this is not any kind of title screen -- certainly not for a 20th Century Fox major release. Or is this just an image file knocked-up in some Photoshop variant that has no bearing on the film itself?
Twistin 15th Jun 2022		Cinema Greaser's Palace (1972)	Rated 7/10 Yet another offbeat film journey from the warped mind of Robert Downey, Sr. (an acquired taste, indeed.) Allan Arbus (possibly the only normal person in Downey's Putney Swope) is the Christ-like Jessy, who walks on water and performs miracles casually on his journey to audition his song-and-dance routine in Jerusalem. He ultimately gets his big audition at the saloon owned by badass outlaw/killer, Seaweedhead Greaser (who kills his own son several times in the film...) I read an apt summary once on a blog that described Greaser's Palace as a cross between "El Topo" and "The Life of Brian", although this was released years before Monty Python went there. If you're just looking for something different, this is it. If you love offbeat, quirky cult films, you'll probably love it. 2 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Twistin 27th May 2022		Cinema Martin's Day (1985)	Rated 5/10 Most of the name cast looks like they invested 1-2 days to shoot their parts, with the majority of the screen time occupied by Richard Harris and Justin Henry. Both are annoying, truth be told, so by their occupying most of the film puts it at a disadvantage from the starting gate. Very often, Canada-isms get shoved to the forefront, but on the flip side, the locations do look pretty nice and remind me of my one and only trip there. And I always appreciate watching Lindsay Wagner. The storyline seems to be a mere excuse to trumpet a handful of social issues (ie, teen incarceration creates innocent criminals, parental issues, environmental concerns, etc.) Most of those are served up with music so thick in melodrama that it has the opposite of the intended effect. There's no real reason to seek this one out, but if you have insomnia and it's on the late, late show, it's not a total loss. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Twistin 21st May 2022		Cinema Jump Out Boys (Lords Of The Street) (2013)	Rated 1/10 Incredulously terrible. Nothing about the film merits sitting through it, but the acting is particularly poor. The support players are all nobodies because none of them have any talent. The two "stars", Kris Kristofferson and DMX, amateurishly attempt to create some semblance of the buddy motif that has been beaten over moviegoers heads ever since the success of the first Lethal Weapon film. Kristofferson is such an old codger at this stage, and he attempts to replicate the witty repartee Nick Nolte enjoyed with Eddie Murphy in 48 HRS by babbling on about Willie Nelson. We're supposed to be amused by this and the incoherent, mumbled responses by rapper DMX, but since the latter star has the same talent as the no-namers, the only word that can even be understood is "fuck". Waste an hour and a half of your life at your own peril. 5 people found this review helpful. ✔︎ Helpful Review?
Twistin 6th May 2022		Cinema Beware: Children At Play (1989)	I agree with all of those choices, Alex, except "The Children", (which I saw in the theatre and again later on home video, expecting to like it better the second time around), but it was just amateur-hour for me, my fresh view a rubber stamp of my first impression. "Mikey" was great, I thought, as well as the noted damned films. Another worthwhile effort, of course, is The Brood. I would also recommend, Bloody Birthday, which is from 1981 (and wearing a lot of that year's stylistic affectations), but it's not contrived and features some nice, creepy performances. Also. the cult classic, Devil Times Five is a low-budget, exploitation treat. Then there's the 2006 kid-zombie film, Wicked Little Things, which I have yet to see.
Twistin 22nd Apr 2022		Cinema Hotel	I agree, what a waste of some talented people on this Dogme 95 experimental rubbish. Apparently it was mostly improvised, as well. I'd have hated to be the one funding this mess.
Twistin 19th Apr 2022		Cinema Naked Moonshine (1964)	An early take on the "three girls and a cup" sensation of the 2000s?

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