Blu-ray Review: Fatal Vision

Originally aired on NBC over two consecutive nights in November 1984, Fatal Vision puts the spotlight on the usually serene Fort Bragg, North Carolina. There, on February 17, 1970, Captain Jeffrey MacDonald, M.D., (Gary Cole)

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The Cincinnati Kid

DVD Review: The Cincinnati Kid

Back in print on DVD courtesy of Warner Archive, The Cincinnati Kid was adapted by Ring Lardner, Jr (M*A*S*H) and Terry Southern (Easy Rider) from a novel by Richard Jessup. Steve McQueen (The Blob) was

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Blu-ray Review: Ruby Gentry

[amazon_link asins=’B079PGX6LT’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’301c3715-6cf6-11e8-a279-11fe5b1aad2d’]Had Ruby Gentry been released just a few years later, it might have been mistaken for a Tennessee Williams adaptation. Instead, it was written directly for the screen by Silva

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Blu-ray Review: The Hanging Tree

[amazon_link asins=’B078J5WDKC’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’e8e651e3-0f87-11e8-8813-4d74d61cb7da’]A modest success at the time of its release, The Hanging Tree (1959) is now largely considered a superior entry into the then fading western genre. It also marked one

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Birdman of Alcatraz (Blu-ray)

After directing over 140 television shows for CBS during the 1950’s, and receiving mixed reviews for his first two films, 1962 proved to be a pivotal year for John Frankenheimer. Both The Manchurian Candidate, and

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Diplomatic Courier

DVD Review: Diplomatic Courier

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment recently debuted Fox Cinema Archives, a new manufacture-on-demand (MOD) series which will bring several hard to find films to DVD for the first time ever. The first wave of titles

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