Category: Blu-Ray’s

Blu-Ray’s

Blu-ray Review: Dreamgirls (Director’s Extended Edition) (2006)

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Blu-ray Review: The House (2017)

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Blu-ray Review: The Big Sick (2017)

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Blu-ray Review: A Ghost Story (2017)

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Blu-ray Review: SpaceCamp (1986)

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Blu-ray Review: Flipper – Season One

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Blu-ray Review: The Mummy (2017)

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Blu-ray Review: The Vietnam War – A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick (2017)

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Blu-ray Review: Kid Galahad (1962)

A remake of the 1937 movie of the same name, Kid Galahad is an above average entry in Presley’s filmography that doesn’t stray from the formula that made him a box office success. Let Elvis do his thing: sing a

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Blu-ray Review: Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)

Tennessee Williams was no stranger to tackling controversial themes in his plays–madness, sexuality, and domineering Southern matriarchs were frequent targets. Suddenly, Last Summer adapted for the screen by Williams with an assist from Gore Vidal from his 1958 play, is

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