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            <title><![CDATA[First Love (1939)]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160221/firstlove.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Many movies throughout cinema history have been dubbed &quot;Cinderella stories,&quot; but&amp;nbsp;First Love&amp;nbsp;is an actual Cinderella tale. This captivating 1939 film draws its entire plot structure from the beloved folk tale popularized by the Brothers Grimm in the early 19th century. A few character and narrative alterations freshen it up for contemporary audiences, but it&#039;s unmistakably Cinderella. And therein lies its charm.
Following her graduation from boarding school, orphaned student Constance Harding (Deanna Durbin) heads to the palatial New York City townhouse of her affluent relatives, the Clintons. Aunt Grace (Leatrice Joy) and Uncle Jim (Eugene Palette) took Connie in after&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 26 05:05:52 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Savage Vows]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156762/savagevows.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Savage Vows is a pretty run-of-the-mill shot-on-video slasher film. The film revolves around a group of friends who meet up after one of their friends dies in a car wreck. Consoling the husband of the deceased, the group of friends goes on a lake rental in the middle of the woods (suburbs) to keep each other company while they&amp;rsquo;re all in grief.&amp;nbsp; All while they&amp;rsquo;re at the lake house, they begin to be picked off one by one, all while arguing with each other over past indiscretions. As with most shot-on-video slashers, the best part is the cheesy use of&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 26 07:33:19 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Torrid Zone - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160323/torridzonewarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[James Cagney and Pat O&#039;Brien were good friends off-screen and frequent co-stars on-screen. Their good-natured ribbing, brash, fast-talking attitudes, playful one-upmanship, and petty quarreling delighted audiences and produced a captivating cinematic bromance that often felt more authentic than their liaisons with their sexy leading ladies. Torrid Zone&amp;nbsp;would be their eighth and final film together, and their partnership goes out with a bang in this boisterous action comedy that looks like it was as much fun to make as it is to watch. Cagney and O&#039;Brien - and the lovely, sassy Ann Sheridan - seem to be having a grand old&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 26 05:48:43 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dead Man's Wire]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155655/deadmanswire.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Dead Man&amp;rsquo;s Wire begins on a cold February morning in the 1970s. Tony Kiritsis (Bill Skarsg&amp;aring;rd) walks into the offices of Meridian Mortgage regarding his loan that he&amp;rsquo;s been unable to make payments on, with a mysterious white package under his arm (that&amp;rsquo;s never good). Immediately, his plan begins to go awry. The receptionist at the front is different; he doesn&amp;rsquo;t recognize her. He&amp;rsquo;s thrown off. And the man he has the appointment with, M.L. Hall (Al Pacino), is on vacation, so at the last minute, he has to meet with his son, Richard (Dacre Montgomery).
Richard leads Tony into&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 26 10:05:36 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Seventh Cross - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159041/theseventhcrosswarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Few Hollywood movies depicted Nazi concentration camps and directly addressed the systematic targeting of innocent people by the German government while World War II was still being fought.&amp;nbsp;The Seventh Cross, an adaptation of the novel by Anna Seghers, was one of those rare films, and draws much of its power from exposing the unbridled cruelty, bigotry, and inhumanity that defined such a reprehensible regime. It&#039;s a gripping movie that still packs potent punches and reminds us of the precious nature and fragility of the freedoms we take for granted and enjoy today.
The Seventh Cross&amp;nbsp;takes place in 1936, a full&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 26 08:30:48 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wag the Dog - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160327/wagthedogwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Some films just absolutely nail it from frame one to the final asterisk of the credits that claims that it was a work of fiction. They&amp;rsquo;re the perfect piece of art for the time they were made, but also remain relevant decades later. The screenplay crackles. The direction is deft and effortless. The performances are top shelf. I&amp;rsquo;ve slung a few five-star reviews in my time with HDD, but few of those I&amp;rsquo;d dare call perfect. Wag the Dog is one of the few that fits the bill.&amp;nbsp;
Loosely based on the novel by Larry Beinhart (it&amp;rsquo;s more conceptually related&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 26 07:54:29 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Random Harvest - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159072/randomharvestwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Random Harvest is the kind of schmaltzy romantic drama your grandmother would love. Prim and proper, rife with repressed emotion and eloquent anguish, this adaptation of James Hilton&#039;s bestselling novel will surely wring tears from the over-60 set - and grudging respect from those much younger. For despite its English reserve and impossibly dignified depiction of true love,&amp;nbsp;Random Harvest&amp;nbsp;remains one of the sweetest and most sincere love stories of Hollywood&#039;s Golden Age, and one of MGM&#039;s classiest productions.
The crux of its drama, however, is nothing but a hackneyed movie clich&amp;eacute;. Say &quot;amnesia,&quot; and what comes to mind is a&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 26 05:09:48 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Macao - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159030/macaowarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[After recognizing the incendiary chemistry between Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in&amp;nbsp;His Kind of Woman, RKO studio mogul Howard Hughes rushed them into a second vehicle to keep the flames of sexual passion burning. Mexico served the pair well in&amp;nbsp;His Kind of Woman, so Hughes shipped them off to Asia for their second joint feature...or at least a facsimile of the continent that could be hastily constructed on the RKO lot.&amp;nbsp;Macao&amp;nbsp;sure sounds exotic, but rip away the tropical Asian veneer and it&#039;s just a standard film noir that&#039;s as sullen and sassy as its two stars.
Off the south coast&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 26 07:41:09 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Heaven: A Film By Diane Keaton]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/152793/heaven.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[In Heaven, everything is fine. Diane Keaton really has an incredible directorial debut in Heaven. It is a quirky documentary that features several talking heads who describe different aspects of their faith and, most importantly, what they think of the afterlife. The documentary uses several interstitials that frame questions, and then the normal folks respond in turn. Between and during the question portion, Keaton expertly includes old Hollywood clips; the editing and stylistic sets make this documentary unlike any other. For the most part, Heaven is quirky and fun because the sets and lighting are almost abstract; framing each person&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 26 07:00:17 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Exit 8]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/157946/exit8.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Lost Man (Kazunari Ninomiya) has no other name beyond this simple description. When we first meet him, it&amp;rsquo;s through his perspective, as he rides the train to work. He witnesses a man screaming at a woman for failing to keep her baby quiet on the cramped train, and he does nothing. He turns his music up and dissociates from the confrontation. As he steps out of the train, onto the platform, he&amp;rsquo;s at the center of another awkward confrontation, one that he can&amp;rsquo;t so easily escape from, although he does try: His ex-girlfriend is pregnant. While he tries to&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 26 07:56:31 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Crime Wave - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159033/crimewavewarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[How&#039;s this for a movie ad line:&amp;nbsp;&quot;Every mugger-nest, creep-joint and dim-lit dive busts wide-open in the year&#039;s bullet-ridden cops vs. killers sensation!&quot;&amp;nbsp;If that doesn&#039;t get you into a theater, nothing will! The question is...can the 1954 thriller&amp;nbsp;Crime Wave&amp;nbsp;live up to that tantalizing description? The answer is a resounding yes! Director Andr&amp;eacute; De Toth&#039;s taut, realistic film noir leads us into the dark alleys, dingy back rooms, and mean streets of Los Angeles as it details an LAPD detective&#039;s dogged pursuit of a gang of prison escapees whose insatiable thirst for cash leads them to commit a string of robberies.
&quot;Just&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 26 09:51:18 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Last Showgirl]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158077/thelastshowgirl.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Movies set in Las Vegas are a wholly different animal than any other city. New York stories run the gamut from sleaze and grit to finding beauty in a self-contained universe swallowed up by an endless spread of skyscrapers. Los Angeles stories can feel lived-in or fantastical, depending on who&amp;rsquo;s telling it. But Las Vegas? Las Vegas is a place that prides itself on legalized sin. Gambling, alcohol, and sex, as much as you want, as long as you can afford it. 
Gia Coppola shoots Las Vegas in The Last Showgirl with a kind of melancholic admiration. The film doesn&amp;rsquo;t&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 26 06:15:36 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Colt .45 - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159036/colt45warnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[One of my favorite Hollywood practices was taking a popular film property and turning it into a long-running television series. Ever since that glowing box was introduced into American homes, they needed content to fill the space between advertisements. Hollywood had the product; now all they had to do was adapt it for long-form entertainment. One such property was Colt .45 (the film, not the beer).&amp;nbsp;
Taking a loose reworking of the film&amp;rsquo;s plot, the series starred Wayde Preston (and later Donald May when Preston left) and ran for 67 episodes over three seasons. The series was about the Colt&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 26 11:08:25 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158101/thirtysecondsovertokyowarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Most of Hollywood&#039;s World War II movies produced during the war era favor propaganda over realism, but not&amp;nbsp;Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo. During a period when keeping the homefront&#039;s spirits up, rallying support for the troops, fostering hope, selling war bonds, and putting forth an image of strength were all top priorities for the major studios,&amp;nbsp;Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo&amp;nbsp;took a different tack, intently focusing on the military mission that&#039;s central to its story and letting the &quot;propaganda&quot; take care of itself. Accurately depicting the first bombing attack on Japanese soil without embellishing the action and skewing the facts supersedes any flag-waving&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 26 07:44:07 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Money from Home 3-D]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158024/moneyfromhome3d.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The strange thing about watching old movies, I&amp;rsquo;ve found, is the number of duo acts there were. That&amp;rsquo;s not something you really see these days. I mean, we have modern stars who frequently share the screen together (especially if they&amp;rsquo;re part of a particular shared cinematic universe), but it&amp;rsquo;s not a pointed marketing gimmick like it used to be. We don&amp;rsquo;t have a modern Abbott and Costello. We don&amp;rsquo;t have a modern version of Hope and Crosby shingle to hang a film&amp;rsquo;s title on. For ten years, one of the biggest duo acts relied on the silky smooth voice of&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 26 09:22:02 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Night and Day - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158099/nightanddaywarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Songwriter biopics were all the rage in the mid-1940s, but contemporary viewers were forced to take the bio portion of the pic with a huge grain of salt. Truth comes at a heavy premium in most of these splashy, tune-laden productions that showcase the songs of their subjects, but either beef up or tone down their private lives. Screenwriters either fabricated events to inject some drama into the composer&#039;s dull life or camouflaged key elements of their personalities and sanitized any seemingly unseemly proclivities to appease the stringent censors, protect the songwriter&#039;s reputation, and make their product palatable to the&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 26 05:56:49 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Strange Cargo - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158130/strangecargowarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Screen icons Joan Crawford and Clark Gable teamed up for eight pictures between 1931 and 1940. They made dramas, crime flicks, romcoms, even a backstage musical. All of them stand as solid, entertaining star vehicles that showcase their inimitable personalities and undeniable allure, but none of the films they made together match many of the movies they made apart.
Strange Cargo&amp;nbsp;comes close. Trading glamor for grit, the last Crawford-Gable collaboration&amp;nbsp;just might be their best. It&#039;s certainly the duo&#039;s most complex, substantive, and challenging feature, and both stars admirably meet the moment.

Strange Cargo&amp;nbsp;showcases&amp;nbsp;a more mature Crawford and Gable. By 1940,&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 26 07:05:10 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bubble 3-D - Kino Cult #52]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159211/thebubblekinocult52.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Some movies exist because they&amp;rsquo;re great conceptions from a visionary filmmaker. Other films are conceived as the result of a filmmaker armed with visionary new technology. From the man who kickstarted the 3-D boom in the 1950s with the adventurous multi-dimensional retelling of the Tsavo lions in Bwana Devil, Arch Oboler was ready to reintroduce the world to three-dimensional cinema with The Bubble. Unlike previous dual-strip 3-D systems, Oboler employed the new single-strip Space-Vision system as an economical way to film and project high-quality 3-D content. His first attempt to revitalize 3-D was 1966&amp;rsquo;s Science Fiction adventure,&amp;nbsp;The Bubble.&amp;nbsp;
An absolutely&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 26 11:16:21 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Stupefying Siren Tales of Pamela Sutch]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160585/thestupefyingsirentalesofpamelasutch.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Stupefying Siren Tales of Pamela Sutch is a wonderful collection of heartfelt movies that are honestly pretty bad but wildly entertaining. Pamela Sutch is a mainstay at the WAVE collective, who are known mostly for sleezy SOV horror pics, one of which I previously reviewed, Bloody Creek. These films are always shot on video, always goofily written and acted, and always entertaining to watch in awe and fascination. Pamela Sutch at the time was a former actress in many of these films produced and distributed by WAVE, but finally she gets behind the video camera to direct six one-of-a-kind-&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 26 09:09:13 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/157553/strangejourneythestoryofrockyhorror.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[What is it about The Rocky Horror Picture Show&amp;mdash;this strange, strange film that&amp;rsquo;s part sci-fi, part horror, part musical, part drag show&amp;mdash;that comes together as a celebration of oddities, queer culture, and life? It shouldn&amp;rsquo;t work. But it does. And it works on so many levels, even for folks who don&amp;rsquo;t particularly like the movie. I remember when I first attended the midnight show, I sat next to a woman who thought the movie was a piece of crap, but she adored the midnight show, her friends, the costumes, and the whole vibe of being there.
I belong to the&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 26 07:27:06 -0700</pubDate>
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