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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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            <title><![CDATA[Rose Marie (1936) - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158134/rosemariewarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[My mother and&amp;nbsp;All in the Family&#039;s Edith Bunker have one thing in common:&amp;nbsp;Rose Marie&amp;nbsp;was their favorite movie. The 1936 version of this time-honored operetta and its two stars, Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy, captivated my mom from childhood onward, giving her enormous pleasure throughout her very long life. At the age of 11, she saw Rose Marie&amp;nbsp;during its initial theatrical engagement and became an instant and avid MacDonald-Eddy fan. The way girls later would swoon over Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley...that&#039;s how my mom felt about Nelson Eddy, whose booming baritone so perfectly complemented MacDonald&#039;s soaring soprano. My mom wrote&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 26 07:00:22 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Beware of the Klowns]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/157714/bewareoftheklowns.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Some flicks are just ahead of their time. As I first settled in for the independent DIY horror flick, Beware of the Klowns, I thought this movie was made in response to those pranks that people were doing in 2016 when folks would just stand around looking ominous while wearing clown costumes and scaring people in the neighborhoods around the country.&amp;nbsp;However, I was shocked to learn that Beware of the Klowns was released one year prior to the scary clown meme pranks. It must have just been in the air or something. Beware of the Klowns feels like a silly&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 26 07:35:35 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Letty Lynton - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158145/lettylyntonwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the most hotly anticipated classic movie Blu-ray releases of 2026 was&amp;nbsp;Letty Lynton. Tied up in legal red tape for 90 long years (more on that below), this 1932 drama stands as one of Hollywood&#039;s most elusive films. For classics nerds like me, Letty Lynton&amp;nbsp;ranks&amp;nbsp;up there with the cut footage from both the 1954&amp;nbsp;A Star Is Born&amp;nbsp;and Orson Welles&#039;&amp;nbsp;The Magnificent Ambersons&amp;nbsp;as the holy grails of lost cinema. We&#039;re still waiting for&amp;nbsp;Star&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Ambersons, but&amp;nbsp;Letty Lynton&amp;nbsp;is here at last. The question is...was it worth the nine-decade wait?
I wasn&#039;t so sure at first. The film begins slowly and the narrative meanders as&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 26 06:43:58 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[We're No Angels - Cinématographe Limited Edition]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/147585/werenoangelslimitededition.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I know it&amp;rsquo;s said all the time, but&amp;nbsp;We&#039;re No Angels&amp;nbsp;is one of those movies you just can&amp;rsquo;t make today. I don&amp;rsquo;t mean in the way that it has outdated politics or whatever; it&amp;rsquo;s mostly because it is a really solid mid-budget movie with an incredible production design, a solid story, and a great cast working from a screenplay by David Mamet under the direction of Neil Jordan. The film itself is entertaining but not incredible; I love the two lead performances of Sean Penn and Robert De Niro. They both play such great affable criminals foisted into the position at&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 26 07:34:02 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Nun's Story - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/129820/thenunsstorywarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[It takes a special kind of actress to play a nun. She must project a purity of soul, exhibit a luminous, almost heavenly aura, and express utter sincerity and inner peace. With memorable turns in The Bells of St. Mary&#039;s&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Joan of Arc,&amp;nbsp;Ingrid Bergman was Hollywood&#039;s prime choice for religious roles in the 1940s, and when it came time to adapt Kathryn Hulme&#039;s bestselling book&amp;nbsp;The Nun&#039;s Story&amp;nbsp;for the screen in the mid-1950s, she was offered the titular part. By then, though, Bergman was in her mid-40s and too old to play a young novice, so she reportedly suggested Audrey Hepburn instead.&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 26 03:52:47 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Come Live with Me - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158084/comelivewithmewarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[A half-century before&amp;nbsp;Green Card, MGM released&amp;nbsp;Come Live with Me, an often enchanting immigration romcom that was topical back in 1941...and remains topical 85 years later. Whatever your views on the subject might be, it&#039;s awful tough to resist this funny, touching, and romantic film that beautifully showcases its high-wattage stars, James Stewart and Hedy Lamarr, and epitomizes the kind of glossy, sophisticated moviemaking that made MGM the Tiffany of Hollywood studios during the 1930s and &#039;40s.
Stewart&#039;s first film after winning a Best Actor Oscar as a tabloid reporter in&amp;nbsp;The Philadelphia Story&amp;nbsp;finds him playing&amp;nbsp;another scribe, Bill Smith, an aspiring novelist&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 26 08:53:30 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Outfit - Arrow Limited Edition]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/157475/theoutfitarrowlimitededition.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[As The Outfit begins, we&amp;rsquo;re dropped into the middle of a story, watching it unfold in every grisly detail. If it doesn&amp;rsquo;t make sense right away, don&amp;rsquo;t worry; we&amp;rsquo;ll get caught up soon. The story starts as a man is murdered by two hitmen in his yard. Cut to some short time later, his brother, Earl Macklin (Robert Duvall), is being released from prison on a weapons charge. The men who killed his brother come gunning for him, but Macklin is no fool and gets the drop on one of them, demanding to know who&amp;rsquo;s after him and why.
Macklin&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 26 08:09:01 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tahara]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/146692/taharalimitededition.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Tahara isn&#039;t anything wildly original, but it is done quite well. Two best friends, Carrie and Hannah (Madeline Grey DeFreece and Rachel Sennott, respectively) attend the funeral service and the mandatory post-funeral discussion session in the synagogue for a recently deceased classmate. Their attentions, however, are on a million other things: Tristan (Daniel Taveras) the cute boy Hannah is crushing on, the performative grieving of some other classmates, and a recent party attended by Hannah and the deceased, but NOT Carrie. The fact that the two are never quite on the same emotional wavelength creates subtle but constant friction in&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[huntermbush@gmail.com (Hunter Bush)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 26 07:49:45 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rounding]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/146718/roundinglimitededition.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[After the death of a patient shocks him into a breakdown, young doctor James Hayman (Namir Smallwood) transfers to a more rural hospital, hoping to start over somewhere that he could reset, do some good, and hopefully make some strides in his career. But he may not be as ready to return as he&#039;d like to think. When a young girl with a perplexing diagnosis comes to his notice, James begins to see something sinister happening under the surface of this idyllic new situation.
Rounding is a moody, cold, alienating experience that is nonetheless a pretty fascinating watch. A character&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[huntermbush@gmail.com (Hunter Bush)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 26 06:55:26 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Maid of Salem]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/151856/maidofsalem.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Fifteen years before playwright Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible, which cleverly uses the 1692 Salem Witch Trials to spotlight and condemn the fear, hysteria, and vindictive persecution that defined the probes of Senator Joseph McCarthy and the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in the early 1950s, Paramount produced Maid of Salem, the first movie to depict that shameful period in pre-revolutionary American history. Little did the cast and crew know at the time their industry soon would be targeted in the same vicious manner as the innocent victims in director Frank Lloyd&#039;s film. (And if you told them, they probably wouldn&#039;t&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 26 07:28:52 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Valley of Decision - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/152330/thevalleyofdecisionwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Greer Garson was the undisputed queen of the MGM lot in the 1940s. She racked up five consecutive Best Actress Oscar nominations (a record she shares with Bette Davis) between 1941 and 1945, and won the award for&amp;nbsp;Mrs. Miniver. Her enviable talent, prim and proper persona, and legendary partnership with Walter Pidgeon (the two made seven movies together) captivated audiences during those years, and they flocked to theaters in 1945 to see&amp;nbsp;The Valley of Decision, a huge moneymaker and tailor-made showcase for the British-born star.
Based on the bestselling, 788-page novel by Marcia Davenport, whose most acclaimed book is her&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 26 05:39:01 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The History of Sound]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/152325/thehistoryofsound.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The History of Sound is an incredibly paced, slow-burning story that spans one man&amp;rsquo;s entire life as he yearns for his fleeting love. The story follows Lionel (Paul Mescal), a poor, rural Appalachian boy with a natural talent for singing in the early 20th century. His talent is such that he gets a scholarship to attend the Boston Conservatory of Music. On a night out with his friends, Leon gets enchanted by the siren song of David (Josh O&amp;rsquo;Connor), who sits at the bar piano singing a folk song that Lionel recognizes from home. The two strike up a conversation&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 26 07:10:49 -0700</pubDate>
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