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            <title><![CDATA[Beethoven: Special Edition]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/143301/beethoven.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[All animal movies have a formula, and they&amp;rsquo;re all different. Horse movies, for example, are a more dramatic affair. They&amp;rsquo;re about the bond humans have with animals, this primal connection between man and beast. Dog movies, on the other hand, are usually about some uptight paterfamilias who, god bless him, is set in his ways and needs to have his comfort zone shaken up by some wild, untamed quadruped who shows this square a thing or two about living.
Charles Grodin plays George Newton, the uptight father. Beethoven, who&amp;rsquo;s still just a wee, cute puppy, escapes from the clutches of&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 26 09:26:38 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Birthrite]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153773/birthrite.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Birthrite is a solid attempt at a pregnancy horror film, while not hitting most of the marks. The film stars Alice Kremelberg as Wren, a woman who is bequeathed a home in the New York boonies, and with her long-term girlfriend Maya, decides to move into the house to start their family. Once the two settle in, Wren starts showing a baby bump, and the pair goes to a fertility doctor who, as it turns out, had close ties with her relative who died. As they settle into the house, we see a lot of scenes attempting to set the&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 26 07:21:33 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Twin Cheeks]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153004/twincheeks.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Twin Cheeks is a hilarious low-budget send-up of David Lynch&amp;rsquo;s hit TV series, Twin Peaks. Well almost. As we learn in the supplements, the film&#039;s director, Kelly Hughes, had never seen the show Twin Peaks until after making the film, but was also inspired by&amp;nbsp;Fire Walk With Me. In a queer gender bent version of Twin Peaks, we see the death of the homecoming king after cruising for anonymous gay sex in the woods. While this happens, there&amp;rsquo;s a split screen of the murder taking place and his mother talking about how good of a boy he was ETC. The&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 26 10:18:34 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[High Road to China - Imprint Films #532]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/157276/highroadtochinaimprintfilms532.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[It&amp;rsquo;s easy to cast Brian G. Hutton&amp;rsquo;s adaptation of Jon Cleary&amp;rsquo;s novel as a simple Indiana Jones clone. That&amp;rsquo;s even easier to do when you have tall Tom &quot;Almost Indy&quot; Selleck standing as the haunted, heavy-drinking, high-flying ace O&amp;rsquo;Malley while Bess Armstrong steps in as the plucky, headstrong Eve Tozer. Hell, the film is even a period piece, casting the action back to the 1920s. Lacking any Nazis, the similarities between High Road to China and Raiders of the Lost Ark end at the character dynamics. Tossing away this film as a mere clone would be a disservice to one&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 26 07:07:50 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Stöned Age: Vestron Collector's Series #38]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156223/thestonedagecollectorsedition.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[If there&amp;rsquo;s one thing that&amp;rsquo;s tough on any film, especially a low-budget independent feature, it&amp;rsquo;s being late to the party. Worse, you can be cast off as a clone of a better-received film and dismissed. A strong case for the point would be James Melkonian&amp;rsquo;s 1994 crazy night stoner comedy&amp;nbsp; The St&amp;ouml;ned Age. Our heroes are certainly dazed and probably more than a little confused about their futures, but this wild one-night ride cuts a different path through Torrence, California, in 1980.&amp;nbsp;
The night is like any other for stoner teens Hubbs (Bradford Tatum) and Joe(Michael Kopelow). Find some chicks,&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 26 11:47:16 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tea and Sympathy - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155062/teaandsympathywarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Many believed&amp;nbsp;Tea and Sympathy&amp;nbsp;could never be filmed due to its taboo subject matter, but after some critical narrative alterations and major concessions to the censors, MGM produced a fine screen version of Robert Anderson&#039;s hit Broadway play. The story of a sensitive teenage boy who doesn&#039;t fit in with his macho peers at an all-boys boarding school and is mercilessly bullied and ostracized as a result insightfully examines masculinity in American society and how going against the grain of established mores can crush the human psyche and spirit. Though the movie wasn&#039;t allowed to call a spade a spade and&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 26 07:30:56 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Man Who Came to Dinner - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155065/themanwhocametodinnerwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Though Bette Davis and Ann Sheridan receive top billing in The Man Who Came to Dinner, the real star of director William Keighley&#039;s sprightly adaptation of the hit comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman is Monty Woolley. After all, the acerbic bearded actor plays the title role and even created the lovably cantankerous crank on the Broadway stage. Woolley devours the part of Sheridan Whiteside once again in the film version, bringing plenty of caustic bite to the pompous, prima donna commentator who becomes the eternal houseguest of Ernest and Daisy Stanley (Grant Mitchell and Billie Burke) when&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 26 07:10:26 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Stewardesses 3D - Kino Cult #45]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153377/thestewardesses3d.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Damn, has it really been 9 years since I reviewed the original Kino Lorber/3-D Film Archive release of Alan Silliphant&amp;rsquo;s The Stewardesses? Time flies fast and furious in this game. As KLSC and the team at 3-D Film Archive continue to roll out restored Blu-ray releases of semi-forgotten favorites, it&amp;rsquo;s always fun to dig back into the vault. Not that I needed a new disc to give me a reason to rewatch this three-dimensional jiggler, but we&amp;rsquo;ve got a new disc now, and it&amp;rsquo;s worth every penny. While I&amp;rsquo;ll cherish my 3DTV until the day its board blinks out and&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 26 13:35:35 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Gay Divorcee - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155031/thegaydivorceewarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Perfection. It&#039;s an elusive quality - eternally sought and rarely achieved. Yet Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made it their standard, and in 10 films produced between 1933 and 1949, this ethereal dance team defined the term. Whether stomping out exuberant tap routines, waltzing on air, or constructing devastating mini-dramas to the music of Gershwin, Kern, and Berlin, Astaire and Rogers rarely make a false move. With impeccable style and grace, they sashay across the floor, wordlessly infusing a multitude of emotions into twirls, lifts, and dips. The phrase &quot;poetry in motion&quot; surely was coined with them in mind, and&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 26 08:45:15 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Hi-Lo Country]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/152730/thehilocountry.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Pete (Billy Crudup) and his buddy &quot;Big Boy&quot; (Woody Harrelson) are friends through it all. They meet when Pete sells Big Boy a horse, and Big Boy offers to help him with a ranch. With a bit of a shrug, Pete says there&#039;s no way he could afford to pay for help. Big Boy insists. He ain&#039;t asking for a job, he&#039;s offering to help the man. And, just like that, the two are thick as thieves. When the Second World War rages on, the two enlist together--Pete opts for the Army, serving his time in Europe, and Big Boy&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 26 07:37:02 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Specter's Rock]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153007/spectersrock.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Specter&#039;s Rock is one of those movies that&amp;rsquo;s pretty hard to follow plot-wise, but is wildly entertaining to watch. Highly influenced by the work of David Lynch, Specter&#039;s Rock deals with themes of the connectivity of dreams, murder, and weird happenings, and a cavalcade of oddball characters delivering unhinged dialogue. This film is hard to follow at times. The plot revolves around a few different characters sharing time equally on screen. The story starts with Geneva seeing her boyfriend in the corner of her room late at night, only to find out that he was murdered at the exact moment&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 26 07:16:38 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[It All Came True - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155027/itallcametruewarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve always liked Ann Sheridan. Unfairly saddled with the sexpot nickname &quot;The Oomph Girl,&quot; the alluring Warner Brothers star rarely got the credit she deserved for her substantial acting talent. Though often stuck in the shadow of studio queen Bette Davis and her ladies in waiting Joan Crawford, Olivia de Havilland, and Ida Lupino, Sheridan nevertheless brightened many a 1940s feature. Her beauty, mellifluous contralto voice, and street-smart, take-no-prisoners attitude made her an ideal leading lady for such legendary Warner tough guys as Cagney, Bogart, and Raft. She could take their guff and give it back twofold, but also possessed&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 26 06:59:35 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Primate]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/154996/primate.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[It&amp;rsquo;s been a bit since we last saw a really good creature feature horror film that wasn&amp;rsquo;t played to comedic leanings, a cheap mockbuster, or completely missed its potential. As an example, I enjoyed the hell out of Cocaine Bear, but that was because it was more funny and gory than actually scary. I thought the concept for 2025&#039;s Anaconda&amp;nbsp;was a perfect setup, but y&#039;know, it helps when your giant snake movie actually has a giant snake for longer than the last 20 minites. Before this year, I couldn&amp;rsquo;t recall the last man-vs-nature creature feature horror picture that plastered me&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 26 09:07:02 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Girls Town]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/151996/girlstown.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Girls Town is a fun, albeit serious, look at four young high school seniors who, after a classmate&amp;rsquo;s death, try to navigate life, their future, and the patriarchal forces that stand in their way. After their close friend Nikki&amp;rsquo;s (Aunjanue Ellis Taylor) suicide, three girls, Emma (Anna Grace), Angela (Bruklin Harris), and Patti (Lili Taylor), discover her diary where she admits her cause for suicide.
Girls Town is a superb 90&amp;rsquo;s indie movie and feels incredibly similar to Hal Hartley movies in the best way possible, but substitute Brooklyn for Long Island. The film follows a group of 4 friends&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 26 08:37:33 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Greenland 2: Migration]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/154010/greenland2migration.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Greenland caught me off guard when I saw it some years back. I saw the ads and, like so many other folks, tuned it out as yet another disaster movie. It became background noise. I saw a positive review from a writer I admire, and the gist of it was, &quot;I know it looks derivative, but it&#039;s got some real heart to it.&quot; And then someone else I knew said they liked it, followed by someone else, and so on and so on. Eventually, I saw it, and I liked it quite a bit. There was an emotional rawness to&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 26 08:19:04 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[I Met Him in Paris]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/151848/imethiminparis.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I Met Him in Paris&amp;nbsp;really should have been titled&amp;nbsp;&quot;I Met THEM in Paris,&quot;&amp;nbsp;because this mid-1930s screwball romcom begins with its heroine meeting&amp;nbsp;two&amp;nbsp;men in a Paris bar, both of whom are instantly smitten. Both guys then spend the rest of the movie relentlessly pursuing her in their respective, inimitable ways. And while Paris does play a part in the film, it&#039;s a small one. The bulk of the zany action transpires in Switzerland, and it&#039;s out on the slopes, on the ice rink, and in bobsleds and horse-drawn sleighs, where some of the funniest scenes of this underrated romp take place.&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 26 07:19:45 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cobra Kai: The Complete Series]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/154410/cobrakaithecompleteseries.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Honest talk up front...Truth is, I was prepared to punch in this review about two weeks ago. I&amp;rsquo;d written a longer, more detailed season-focused review and appreciation of this series created by Josh Heald, Jon Hurwitz, and Hayden Schlossberg, but a random technical disaster struck my cloud storage. But something happened where I lost (at a guess) about 30% of my stored review drafts, including roughly 15 gigs of full-scale Blu-ray and 4K images. One day, all of that material was there; the next day, it was just gone. The folders are still there, but the images and documents? Poof,&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
                        <guid>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/154410/cobrakaithecompleteseries.html</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 26 07:44:28 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Honky Tonk - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155029/honkytonkwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Clark Gable winningly played charming rascals for most of his 30-year career, and one of the characters that best represents that signature persona is &quot;Candy&quot; Johnson, a cocky, cynical con man who woos the lovely Lana Turner in a one-horse Nevada town in&amp;nbsp;Honky Tonk. A somewhat schizophrenic film that unevenly blends comedy, drama, and romance, this high-spirited western was MGM&#039;s top moneymaker in 1941 and the year&#039;s second highest grossing movie behind Warner Bros&#039;&amp;nbsp;Sergeant York.
You&#039;d think all that dough would ensure&amp;nbsp;Honky Tonk&#039;s legacy, but director Jack Conway&#039;s film fell by wayside over the ensuing decades, largely because it can&#039;t&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 26 08:43:39 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mogambo - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/154248/mogambowarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[One strategy Hollywood employed to fend off the encroaching threat of television before the advent of CinemaScope was to hit the road. Traveling across the globe to shoot a movie instead of recreating locations on a studio soundstage or backlot often resulted in a box office bump, as the allure of exotic locales enticed viewers back into theaters. Africa was a popular destination because it was largely unexplored by average Americans and afforded audiences the opportunity to see wildlife in its natural habitat instead of behind bars in a zoo.&amp;nbsp;The African Queen&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;King Solomon&#039;s Mines&amp;nbsp;turned lucrative profits by transporting audiences to&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 26 09:57:21 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[America 3000]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/146064/america3000.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In the year 3000, or somewhere thereabouts, some time after a devastating nuclear war, the world has been rebuilt in the same fashion that every other post-apocalyptic movie from the 80s is, replete with silly costumes and women with big hair. This time, though, women (called &quot;Fraus&quot;) have inherited the desolated landscape, and they rule with an iron fist. Men (called &quot;Plugots&quot;) are enslaved and treated as mere sexual objects. As the movie begins, two Plugots, Krovis (Chuck Wagner) and Gruss (William Wallace, who also narrates), escape during a riot and flee to a city that had been irradiated during&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 26 09:43:27 -0700</pubDate>
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