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            <title><![CDATA[Badge 373 - Cinématographe Limited Edition]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155558/badge373limitededition.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[There are movies about difficult subjects that ask difficult questions of their audience without pulling any punches or insulting their intelligence. It&amp;rsquo;s difficult, for example, to make a movie about a racist main character who somehow manages to never say anything racist. Police officer Eddie Ryan (Robert Duvall) is, indeed, a racist character who says racist and awful things and behaves in various disgusting ways. The problem is that Badge 373 doesn&amp;rsquo;t seem to be giving us a portrait of a man who harbors disgusting beliefs, but rather is a film that asks no tough questions of anyone. It simply&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 26 08:39:31 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Deep Water]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/157782/deepwater.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[With this gig, I sometimes like to pretend I&#039;m in a Bad Movie Addicts support group&amp;hellip;&amp;ldquo;Hello, my name is Matt&amp;hellip;and&amp;hellip;I love schlock cinema. I guess it all started with my childhood, y&amp;rsquo;know? My parents, it wasn&amp;rsquo;t their fault; they did their best to show me the classics, but I am an addict.&amp;rdquo; Renting &amp;lsquo;80s monster movies like Rawhead Rex on tape led to double-feature Roger Corman films on local TV stations, and now I spend a fortune collecting these things.&quot;
And I&amp;rsquo;ve been an addict my entire life. As often as I go to &quot;high-art cinema,&quot; I need that fix&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 26 14:33:49 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lurker]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/151356/lurker.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Lurker is a pretty solid addition to the obsessed fan subgenre; it holds up to films like The Fan (1981) or The Fan (1996) or even the German picture Der Fan (1982), but sets itself apart by not succumbing to past nomenclature. Jokes aside, this film does subvert the genre tropes in a few ways, mainly that the villain, Matt, is more successful than the characters in other films. In other films in this genre, the fan is usually either captured by the authorities or killed in a final struggle. This ending leaves the audience with a couple of different&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 26 07:06:47 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Our Town - Film Masters Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/121691/ourtown.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Our Town&amp;nbsp;has been a staple production of high school theater clubs for decades. Sadly, such over-exposure has fueled a perception of Thornton Wilder&#039;s Pulitzer Prize-winning play&amp;nbsp;as a trite, homespun, old-fashioned piece of Americana. Though I was familiar with snippets of&amp;nbsp;Our Town&amp;nbsp;- most likely from scenes performed in a youth acting class - I had never seen either the play or movie in its entirety before the Blu-ray from Film Masters arrived in my mailbox, so I must admit it was tough to keep any preconceived notions at bay. I must also admit the main reason I decided to review the&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 26 12:11:34 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Satan Wants You]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/146019/satanwantsyou.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[&quot;Satanic Panic&quot; is the term given to the media blitz that swept the nation in the &#039;80s. If daytime TV and even the nightly news were to be believed, Satan hid in every dark corner just waiting to make good, god-fearing people sacrifice animals, torture children, and eat babies. Or listen to Black Sabbath. Or play Dungeons and Dragons.
My familiarity with the Satanic Panic is through the McMartin Preschool case where multiple children alleged that they were, daily, being kidnapped, tortured, and forced to commit untold atrocities. But if you looked at the details, there was NO WAY it&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[huntermbush@gmail.com (Hunter Bush)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 26 07:22:11 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[White Zombie - Film Masters Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156436/white_zombie.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Thirty-five years before&amp;nbsp;Night of the Living Dead, director Victor Halperin and his brother, producer Edward Halperin, introduced zombies to the world of cinema, and audiences have been fascinated by these lumbering, catatonic, glassy-eyed, undead dead people ever since.&amp;nbsp;White Zombie&amp;nbsp;brought this supernatural concept to the early-1930s horror market hot on the heels of such monster hits (pun intended) as&amp;nbsp;Dracula&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;Frankenstein. Though mounted independently and released by United Artists,&amp;nbsp;White Zombie&amp;nbsp;exudes the flavor of Universal horror movies and even stars Dracula himself, Bela Lugosi.
My HDD colleague, M. Enois Duarte, wrote an excellent review of&amp;nbsp;White Zombie&amp;nbsp;when Kino Classics released the film on Blu-ray back&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 26 07:03:21 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Magnificent Bodyguards 3D]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/135184/magnificentbodyguards3d.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Some movies are the simple victims of transitional periods. Tastes may change. Filming techniques may be updated. Stars are on the cusp of breaking out into their own glory. Filmmakers&amp;rsquo; talents may be waning. All of these elements are true for 1978&amp;rsquo;s Jackie Chan adventure flick Magnificent Bodyguards 3D. But it&#039;s still a damn fun show, let&#039;s get into it.&amp;nbsp;
After Taiwan&amp;rsquo;s Dynasty Warriors and Revenge of the Shogun Women, it was Hong Kong&amp;rsquo;s turn to take a crack at 3-D martial arts mayhem. After being a background performer and stuntman and on the rise to his own leading status,&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 26 11:38:02 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Interrupted Melody - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/152327/interruptedmelodywarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Eleanor Parker was thrice nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award. Sadly, she never won, but those searing portrayals - in&amp;nbsp;Caged,&amp;nbsp;Detective Story, and&amp;nbsp;Interrupted Melody&amp;nbsp;- stand as timeless testimonials to her talent. Parker always claimed she gave her finest performance as opera singer Marjorie Lawrence in Interrupted Melody, and it&#039;s difficult to disagree with her assessment.&amp;nbsp;The actress fully commits to the difficult role and turns what otherwise might have been a run-of-the-mill biopic and disease-du-jour drama into an inspiring and impactful motion picture. Yes, there&#039;s still a lot of Hollywood artifice in director Curtis Bernhardt&#039;s film, but Parker always does her&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 26 06:31:33 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Love And Other Catastrophes]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/154745/loveandothercatastrophes.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Love and Other Catastrophes fits in well with the myriad of 90&amp;rsquo;s young adult-centered slacker films. I feel like this film is a direct response to Cameron Crowe&amp;rsquo;s Singles, which is about singles living in Seattle after college. That being said, the feel and execution of this film are closer to Empire Records, where the plot unfolds over one day in our characters&amp;rsquo; lives, and the tone is a little goofier than Singles. The film is a slice of life in the day of a university friend group as they navigate their film program, their various relationships, and try to&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 26 09:38:51 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Captains Courageous - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156039/captainscourageouswarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Few movies we loved as children retain their appeal when viewed from an adult perspective, but Captains Courageous is a rare and wonderful exception. One of the finest family films ever produced, this exciting and immensely human adventure story, based on Rudyard Kipling&#039;s classic novel, continues to charm, thrill, and move us almost 90 years after its premiere. Director Victor Fleming (Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz) embraces the yarn&#039;s tough and tender aspects and guides Spencer Tracy to a well-deserved Best Actor Oscar as the big-hearted, serene Portuguese fisherman Manuel Fidello, who teaches a spoiled young boy&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 26 07:47:35 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Door in the Floor]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/152400/thedoorinthefloor.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Door in the Floor is a film you don&amp;rsquo;t see very often anymore, or at least that&#039;s been made well. The film was released in 2004, a time when the erotic thriller genre was losing popularity in the movie-making world. This film isn&amp;rsquo;t so much a thriller as an erotic drama, which made me realize that the thriller element of the erotic thriller is actually the most important aspect of the genre, making the eroticism so much better. This film tries more to be a scandalous sex movie, which has interesting aspects to it, but ultimately doesn&amp;rsquo;t do anything&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 26 07:11:14 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Three Smart Girls]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159199/threesmartgirls.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[You know the story, but I&#039;d wager money you don&#039;t know its true origin. Almost of all of us have seen at least one incarnation of&amp;nbsp;The Parent Trap&amp;nbsp;(either the 1961 original with Hayley Mills, John Mills, and Maureen O&#039;Hara and/or the 1996 remake with Lindsay Lohan, Dennis Quaid, and Natasha Richardson) and had a grand old time watching the cute and mischievous twin sisters&#039; tireless efforts to reunite their divorced parents and sabotage their dad&#039;s romance with a hot-to-trot gold-digger. Now, maybe the screenwriter and German novelist upon whose book the first Parent Trap&amp;nbsp;movie is based had never seen&amp;nbsp;Three Smart&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 26 07:45:31 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ready or Not 2: Here I Come]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/157600/readyornot2hereicome.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Seven years is a long time between sequels. It&amp;rsquo;s one thing if there had been a bunch of films unleashed, rapid-fire, within a franchise and they needed a creative break. Scream is a franchise that&amp;rsquo;s due for a rest but always comes back better after some time away. But in the case of Ready or Not, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett&amp;rsquo;s devilishly gnarly eat-the-rich horror flick, it wasn&amp;rsquo;t a franchise to start - or necessarily even franchisable. Not to give too many spoilers of the first film, but the story of Samara Weaving&amp;rsquo;s Grace and her fight for survival against&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
                        <guid>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/157600/readyornot2hereicome.html</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 26 15:52:25 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Crack-Up - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156030/crackupwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[RKO produced a slew of film noirs in the 1940s. Some are classics, some are rightfully forgotten, and some don&#039;t get the credit they deserve.&amp;nbsp;Crack-Up&amp;nbsp;lands squarely in the latter category. This finely tuned, intriguing, and well-acted mystery is a favorite among the noir cognoscenti, but many classic fans might not be familiar with it. Blending psychological suspense with devious criminality, this taut tale set in the tony, big-money milieu of fine art opens with a bang and keeps us transfixed until the satisfying conclusion.
When crazed art expert George Steele (Pat O&#039;Brien) breaks into the Manhattan Museum during a manic&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 26 06:14:48 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gilmore Girls: The Series]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153421/gilmoregirlstheseries.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I don&amp;rsquo;t always go for family-drama comedy television series, but that one time I did, it was Gilmore Girls. By the time I was exposed to the show, it was chugging along towards its final seasons. Held against my will, my friendly lady neighbors plugged in their DVDs of Season One, and we were off to the races (I&amp;rsquo;d made them watch I don&amp;rsquo;t know how many movies of questionable value, so it was their turn). At first, I was intrigued. I thought the plucky, fast-paced dialog was entertaining, but after a few episodes, I was thoroughly charmed by the&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 26 08:17:17 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Follow Me Quietly - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/157013/followmequietlywarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Two decades before he directed two of the greatest serial killer movies of all time,&amp;nbsp;The Boston Strangler&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;10 Rillington Place, Richard Fleischer cut his teeth on a tidy little thriller called&amp;nbsp;Follow Me Quietly, which quietly and methodically chronicles the investigation and pursuit of a similar societal menace. The serial murderer in this shockingly short film noir - it runs a mere 59 minutes - always strikes on a rainy night, but kills indiscriminately and leaves few clues, flummoxing the homicide detectives assigned to the case. Fleischer takes this premise and constructs an engrossing police procedural around it.
Based on a story&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 26 07:08:18 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Manpower - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153227/manpowerwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Manpower&amp;nbsp;is one of those smorgasbord movies that lays everything out on the table and allows the audience to pick and choose the morsels they like best. You want action? It&#039;s there. Romance? There&#039;s a lopsided love triangle. There&#039;s also infantile slapstick comedy galore, plenty of male bonding and brawling, some illicit activity thrown in for good measure, and even a musical number. Do all those elements meld together into a cohesive whole? Not quite.
Director Raoul Walsh tries his best to make sense of all the nonsense, and somehow manages to churn out a surprisingly entertaining motion picture, but he&#039;s&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
                        <guid>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153227/manpowerwarnerarchivecollection.html</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 26 07:51:40 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nirvanna, The Band, The Show, The Movie]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158915/nirvannathebandtheshowthemovie.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Where to start with Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie? Unlike just about everyone else on this planet, it seems, I had never heard of Nirvanna the Band the Show, the web series (and later television series) upon which the movie is based. The web series, TV show, and movie all follow the comedic misadventures of musicians Matt and Jay (Matt Johnson and Jay McCarrol playing fictionalized versions of themselves). When we first drop in on the story, it&amp;rsquo;s 2008, and Matt, the self-appointed leader of the duo, proposes a plan to secure a high-profile gig for the two.&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 26 06:11:51 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Billy the Kid vs Dracula]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158925/billythekidvsdracula.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I&#039;ve loved bad movies long before I discovered that MST3K made hundreds of them watchable with their hilarious gags and commentaries. I&amp;rsquo;ve long held that the only truly &amp;ldquo;bad&amp;rdquo; movies are those that fail to deliver any kind of entertainment value at all. Whether you&amp;rsquo;re laughing with it or at it, if you&amp;rsquo;re enjoying your precious time, the film is redeemable. Stretching that limit, though, is William Beaudine&amp;rsquo;s Billy the Kid vs Dracula, starring Chuck Courtney and John Carradine as our headlining hero and villain.&amp;nbsp;
Shot virtually back to back with Beaudine&amp;rsquo;s other notorious Western/Horror mashup semi-stinker, Jesse James Meets&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 26 16:13:06 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[20,000 Years in Sing Sing - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156026/20000yearsinsingsingwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Spencer Tracy starred opposite some of Hollywood&#039;s most legendary actresses - Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy, Joan Crawford, Sylvia Sidney, Lana Turner, and, of course, Katharine Hepburn - but a few years before Tracy hit his stride as a leading man at MGM, he was paired with another young hopeful who would later become queen of the Warner Bros lot and arguably the most famous screen diva of Hollywood&#039;s Golden Age. That actress was the inimitable Bette Davis, and although the two don&#039;t generate the kind of combustible chemistry Tracy would one day share with Hepburn, they make a striking team,&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 26 06:31:58 -0700</pubDate>
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