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            <title><![CDATA[For Whom the Bell Tolls: Special Edition]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/149049/forwhomthebelltolls.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hollywood hasn&#039;t been very kind to Ernest Hemingway. Translating his distinctive prose, thought-provoking themes, and complex characters to the screen often proved problematic during the Golden Age. Constrained by censorship and committed to pleasing audiences, the major studios routinely watered down Hemingway&#039;s works or changed them completely. For Whom the Bell Tolls&amp;nbsp;was a wildly popular feature; it was Paramount&#039;s top-grossing film of 1943 and the year&#039;s second-biggest moneymaker overall. It also earned 10 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Though the storyline remains largely faithful to the source novel, the guts of the book are nowhere to be found. For Whom&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 26 07:33:22 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Peter Sellers Centenary Collection (UK Import)]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/162881/thepetersellerscentenarycollectionukimport.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ladykillers (1955) 4/5

The Ladykillers is less of a Peter Sellers vehicle and way more of an Alec Guinness show. The story follows a nebby elderly woman who rents a room to what she thinks is a professor and his string quintet, who plan a robbery. The robbery scene is really well done, with twists and turns as they enlist Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Parker)&amp;mdash;unbeknownst to her&amp;mdash;to transfer the money from a train station back to the house, since she is a nice old lady who&#039;s happy to help her Lodger. After accidentally showing Mrs. Wilberforce the cash, she threatens&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 26 08:58:18 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Portrait in Black]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160208/portraitinblack.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Fourteen years after portraying one of film noir&#039;s sexiest femme fatales in&amp;nbsp;The Postman Always Rings Twice, Lana Turner returned to the genre in&amp;nbsp;Portrait in Black, a titillating thriller with a similar narrative. In both films, Turner conspires to eliminate an inconvenient husband with her far more virile paramour. In&amp;nbsp;Postman, it was John Garfield; in&amp;nbsp;Portait in Black, it&#039;s Anthony Quinn. The methods of murder may differ, but the messy aftermath marked by fear, paranoia, desperation, guilt, and resentment are the same.
The Postman Always Rings Twice&amp;nbsp;is by far the better film, but&amp;nbsp;Portrait in Black&amp;nbsp;is no slouch. Though too much gloss, slathered&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 26 06:08:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Hazing]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160954/thehazing.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Originally written to be a sequel to 1981&amp;rsquo;s Hell Night, The Hazing tells the story of a group of sorority and fraternity pledges who must spend the night in a supposedly haunted house as part of their initiation. Along the way, an attempt to procure a scavenger-hunt item runs them afoul of a wicked professor, kinda sorta killing him while in the process of stealing his copy of an ancient book of evil spells.
Once everyone arrives at the haunted house, the heads of the fraternity and sorority start scaring everyone with cheap props, flashing lights, and sound effects. The&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[lc81007@gmail.com (Lucas Chatfield)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 26 09:34:42 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dead Hunt]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158751/deadhunt.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This happened to me once: I wrote a panned review of someone&amp;rsquo;s horror movie, and they locked several other critics and me in a warehouse and picked us off one by one! Well, it didn&amp;rsquo;t actually happen to me, but it did happen to the folks in this film. Dead Hunt is about a group of online movie critics who write for a horror-centric movie review blog. The party takes place in an obvious warehouse, but in the script it&amp;rsquo;s a facility with a computerized system that lets the killer control all the door locks and lights remotely.
From there,&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 26 08:15:05 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159079/amidsummernightsdreamwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Adapting Shakespeare for the screen has always been a gamble. Though the plays of The Bard are undisputed literary masterworks, they don&#039;t generally enjoy wide appeal. Too highbrow, too lengthy, too erudite, too difficult to decipher the archaic language. Sir Laurence Olivier&#039;s Shakespeare trilogy -&amp;nbsp;Henry V,&amp;nbsp;Hamlet, and&amp;nbsp;Richard III&amp;nbsp;- stands as arguably the finest cinematic treatment of The Bard&#039;s work, but most shots at Shakespeare misfire. &quot;Noble failures&quot; might be a more accurate classification, because many of the films are well-made, but fail to attract and stimulate audiences.
The 1935 version of&amp;nbsp;A Midsummer Night&#039;s Dream&amp;nbsp;is a perfect example. Lovely to look&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 26 09:32:09 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ninja Wars]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159481/ninjawars.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Evil flying monks, mystical slice-and-dice powers, and the too-seldom-used head switcheroo method of identity theft are just the tip of the iceberg in Ninja Wars. It&#039;s a tale of high fantasy, filled to the brim with superhuman martial arts, love potions, and a host of characters who are not quite what they seem. It would be a disservice to Ninja Wars to try and explain too much of it. A campy sense of wonder and wild surprises around every corner are integral to its appeal. All I knew about it was the trailer, which was in untranslated Japanese, so&amp;hellip; I&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[lc81007@gmail.com (Lucas Chatfield)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 26 06:08:07 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Devil Queen - Kino Cult #53]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159008/thedevilqueen.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The titular devil of The Devil Queen is Rainha Diaba (Milton Gon&amp;ccedil;alves), a non-gender-specific crime boss with a gang of drag queens and sex workers to do her bidding. It&amp;rsquo;s not easy being the queen, so right from the start of the story, there are people in her web conspiring against her. Catitu (Nelson Xavier) is methodical in his strategy against her. He&amp;rsquo;s smart enough to know that if he goes after her directly, he&amp;rsquo;ll be killed instantly. He decides to use and manipulate a young dreamer who has ambitions, if not delusions of grandeur.
Bereco (Stepan Nercessian) is a&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 26 08:20:59 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Toga Party Massacre]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160919/togapartymassacre.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Gosh! So much has already been said&amp;nbsp;about&amp;nbsp;Toga&amp;nbsp;Party&amp;nbsp;Massacre&amp;nbsp;that&amp;nbsp;I don&amp;rsquo;t know where to start&amp;hellip;NOT! Once upon a time, Michael J. Heagle was that kid with the planet-sized imagination who ran around with cameras making his own little movies. Once he got to film school, he got hold of the latest in S-VHS camera technology, rounded up some high schoolers, and made a slightly better little movie.
Teenager Tina&amp;rsquo;s parents are going out of town for the weekend, leaving her and her bestie Mary unsupervised. Of course they&amp;rsquo;re gonna follow mom&amp;rsquo;s no-parties mandate&amp;hellip;as if! Before you can say Van Hagar, the house is&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[lc81007@gmail.com (Lucas Chatfield)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 26 07:00:22 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tarzan and His Mate - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/154268/tarzanandhismatewarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[It&#039;s rare, but sometimes a sequel really does outshine the original. The Godfather Part II,&amp;nbsp;Aliens, and&amp;nbsp;Toy Story 2&amp;nbsp;instantly spring to mind, and&amp;nbsp;Tarzan and His Mate&amp;nbsp;can be added to the list. The second installment of the long-running&amp;nbsp;Tarzan&amp;nbsp;series builds upon&amp;nbsp;Tarzan the Ape Man, amping up the action, romance, conflict, and - most notably - titillation. The film&amp;nbsp;takes full advantage of the lenient pre-Code guidelines and pushes the envelope about as far as it can go. The result is a rousing, sometimes shocking, often eye-opening film that&#039;s still wildly entertaining today.
At the end of&amp;nbsp;Tarzan the Ape Man, Jane (Maureen O&#039;Sullivan) chooses to&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 26 06:12:15 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Star Trek: The Complete Original Series 60th Anniversary]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159956/startrekthecompleteoriginalseries60thanniversary.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[As our old friend Joshua Zyber already so thoroughly reviewed the series at length when each season was offered in its own Blu-ray set, I&amp;rsquo;ll largely let his words stand. I have no disagreements with his take. For myself, when Star Trek: The Original Series is at its best (largely in the first season), it&amp;rsquo;s incredible, thoughtful, and thoroughly engrossing science fiction. When it&amp;rsquo;s at its worst&amp;hellip; it&amp;rsquo;s at least charming enough to get through the doldrums.&amp;nbsp;

Like many out there, I enjoyed Star Trek The Original Series through reruns. My earliest memories of enjoying this series were sitting on&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 26 11:59:17 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Black Cab]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160972/blackcab.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Ever gotten in an Uber or Taxi and wondered if you were actually going to make it home alive? That&amp;rsquo;s the real-life fear that Black Cab is poking at. I&amp;rsquo;ve certainly gotten a ride and wondered, &amp;ldquo;Where do they find these people?&amp;rdquo; Enter Synn&amp;oslash;ve Karlsen as Anne. She wakes up from a nightmare about being pregnant and in a cab. Next thing we know she&amp;rsquo;s in the real-life nightmare of going out to dinner with her Captain Superjerk boyfriend Patrick (Luke Norris) and the friends he&amp;rsquo;s been staying with ever since Anne kicked him out for cheating on her. In&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[lc81007@gmail.com (Lucas Chatfield)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 26 09:30:08 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Human Comedy - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160330/thehumancomedywarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Sometimes Mickey Rooney is just too much. The manic energy, the unrestrained mugging, the shameless overacting. In his relentless effort to entertain and give every role his absolute all, he often goes way over the top. It can be exhausting to watch him, and at times he can derail an otherwise excellent movie. (Don&#039;t get me started on&amp;nbsp;Breakfast at Tiffany&#039;s!) But when Rooney&#039;s good, he can be very, very good...and in&amp;nbsp;The Human Comedy&amp;nbsp;he&#039;s flat-out terrific.
Credit director Clarence Brown with dialing Rooney back and guiding the 22-year-old actor to arguably the most restrained, natural, and affecting performance of his career.&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 26 07:28:44 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goodbye Paradise]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160957/goodbyeparadise.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Any good noir is only as good as the lead character plunked into the web of intrigue. Michael Stacy (Ray Barrett) predates Jeffrey &amp;ldquo;The Dude&amp;rdquo; Lebowski by about fifteen years and finds a similarly disinterested mess of a man knee-deep in a situation he wanted no part of. Unlike The Big Lebowski&amp;rsquo;s stoner-slacker, Stacy at least has some experience in law enforcement. He&amp;rsquo;s disgraced, sure, and his turn toward the writing profession seems to be going even worse, but he knows how to follow a lead. He knows what threads to pull at to see what unravels. He&amp;rsquo;s just a&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 26 06:35:10 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Broadway Melody of 1938 - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160274/broadwaymelodyof1938warnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A few years after&amp;nbsp;The Broadway Melody&amp;nbsp;won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1930, MGM turned the backstage musical into a franchise.&amp;nbsp;Broadway Melody of 1936, starring tap dancer extraordinaire Eleanor Powell, heartthrob Robert Taylor, and lanky hoofer Buddy Ebsen, was the first installment, and its blockbuster success spurred the production of&amp;nbsp;Broadway Melody of 1938&amp;nbsp;two years later. Powell, Taylor, and Ebsen all return for the series&#039; third episode, and are joined by the fleet-footed George Murphy, vaudeville&#039;s &quot;Red Hot Mama&quot; Sophie Tucker, the British sophisticate Binnie Barnes, and comic character actors Robert Benchley and Billy Gilbert, but outshining them all is a&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 26 08:10:05 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sergeant Rutledge - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160268/sergeantrutledgewarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Some films hammer their theme home perfectly on the first swing. Some miss the mark by a wide margin. Others get damned close to nailing it on the first swing, but need a few more miss-swings before it&#039;s driven home. The latter scenario doesn&amp;rsquo;t make a film bad; they can be quite good, but in recognizing its shortcomings, you can see how a potentially masterpiece effort can be reduced to just being &amp;ldquo;quite good.&amp;rdquo; John Ford&amp;rsquo;s 1960 Western/Courtroom Drama/Whodunit&amp;nbsp;Sergeant Rutledge&amp;nbsp;is almost a masterpiece. Woody Strode and Jeffrey Hunter deliver fierce and commanding performances, but the film&amp;rsquo;s need to interject clunky,&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 26 05:28:33 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Presenting Lily Mars - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159069/presentinglilymarswarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Judy Garland starred in plenty of flagship musicals for MGM during her 15-year tenure at the studio, but one of her most entertaining efforts is a little-known, low-budget, black-and-white gem called Presenting Lily Mars. Originally envisioned as a straight dramatic vehicle for Lana Turner, this heartwarming and surprisingly humorous tale of a plucky Indiana teen who ventures to New York to forge a career on Broadway possesses none of the glitz and &amp;eacute;lan of Metro&#039;s Arthur Freed-Vincente Minnelli collaborations. Rather, it relies solely on Garland&#039;s fresh-faced charm and velvet-toned voice, and benefits immensely from those endearing and formidable qualities.
Musical&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 26 09:09:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tenement]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160922/tenement.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[After her mother dies, Soriya (Thorn Thanet) and her boyfriend Daichi (Yoshihiko Hosoda) travel from Japan to her homeland of Cambodia to get a better sense of who she was as a person. Her mother&amp;rsquo;s life was always shrouded in secrecy, having lived a turbulent, traumatic life that she didn&amp;rsquo;t speak about very often. She escaped Cambodia for Japan during the Khmer Rouge occupation, which killed anywhere between 1.5 and 3 million people in the 1970s. 
When the two arrive in Cambodia, the cab driver freezes up when they mention the name of the apartment complex they&amp;rsquo;re going to. Even&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 26 08:58:45 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Bad Seed (Remastered) - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160332/thebadseedwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Demonic children have been a ghoulish Hollywood staple for a number of years, and it&#039;s easy to see why. There&#039;s something innately terrifying about a vicious youngster who wreaks havoc on the adult world, but before little Damien of&amp;nbsp;The Omen&amp;nbsp;smiled devilishly at the camera and Regan of&amp;nbsp;The Exorcist&amp;nbsp;spun her head around, before&amp;nbsp;Orphan,&amp;nbsp;Children of the Corn,&amp;nbsp;and even Village of the Damned, there was Rhoda Penmark of The Bad Seed. Well-mannered, cheerful, with blonde, perfectly braided pigtails and often draped in a white pinafore dress, the diminutive Rhoda could be a lovely, innocent dream child...but if you happen to possess something she&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 26 07:26:50 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Wailing]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160916/thewailing.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Just when I thought I had Pedro Mart&amp;iacute;n-Calero&amp;rsquo;s The Wailing figured out, it pulled the rug out from under me. &amp;ldquo;Oh,&amp;rdquo; I thought. &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s sort of like a Spanish-language take on J-horror.&amp;rdquo; And, sure, there are some passing similarities to films like Pulse, with a monster who can only be seen when captured on camera. And it&amp;rsquo;s structured a bit like Ju-On, in which an evil location introduces us to one victim, who leads us to another victim, with our main character constantly changing. But this story, co-written by director Pedro Mart&amp;iacute;n-Calero and Isabel Pe&amp;ntilde;a, is no mere retread of&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 26 10:44:37 -0700</pubDate>
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