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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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            <title><![CDATA[Arrowsmith - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156041/arrowsmithwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Films and TV shows about doctors and medicine have captivated audiences for almost a century, and one of the first was&amp;nbsp;Arrowsmith. A loose adaptation of Sinclair Lewis&#039; Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about a dedicated physician who devotes his life to the medical profession, this pre-Code drama paints a fairly accurate portrait of the struggles, conflicts, and moral dilemmas doctors must face as they strive to provide the best care and discover cures for serious diseases. Though the movie romanticizes and canonizes Lewis&#039; very flawed titular character, it remains a largely absorbing portrait of a man whose first and most passionate love&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 26 08:26:26 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Master of Ballantrae - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/150792/themasterofballantrae1953warnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Errol Flynn&#039;s Warner Bros swan song was&amp;nbsp;The Master of Ballantrae. The 1953 film marked the end of an era for the actor and concluded a tumultuous, 18-year partnership with the studio that discovered, groomed, nurtured, and indulged him. Flynn was hard to handle and impossible to manage during his Warner tenure, and after years of heavy drinking, smoking, tempestuous romances, drug use, and rebellious behavior, he looked puffy, pudgy, and much older than his 43 years. Somehow, though, in this&amp;nbsp;spirited, colorful adaptation of the 1889 Robert Louis Stevenson novel, he often rises to the occasion and projects glimmers of the&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 26 04:39:56 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Folies Meurtrières and the Films of Antoine Pellissier]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/154750/foliesmeurtrieresandthefilmsofantoinepellissier.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The full-length films of Antoine all vary in quality. His earlier film&amp;nbsp;Folies Meurtrueres, which the collection is named for, is a very slow-paced and interesting serial killer flick. The film revolves around several non-associated women who get murdered in an almost Giallo style by a faceless leather-clad murderer. And this film just goes on to the next and the next person in an interesting take on the genre where there is not much of a plot, rather an. Exhibition of Pellissier&amp;rsquo;s gore prowess. All his other films are not as brief, and all eschew the art film form of Folies&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
                        <guid>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/154750/foliesmeurtrieresandthefilmsofantoinepellissier.html</guid>
            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 26 11:03:25 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hoagie]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/154755/hoagie.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hoagie is a real gem of a low-budget creature feature with a heart of gold. Hoagie is a story about a family man named Brendan Bean who moves into a new neighborhood and falls into the care of a homunculus named Hoagie, who, for some reason, has the power to grant wishes. Before we even meet Brendan, there&amp;rsquo;s a very long opening about the previous owner of Hoagie, who obtains him from a roadside curio store. Here, the cashier of the store performs incredibly blas&amp;eacute; and hilariously bored, the perfect performance portraying a bored retail employee who is totally over&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 26 07:34:10 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Silver River - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/151367/silverriverwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Most movie fans rightfully associate Errol Flynn with swashbucklers like&amp;nbsp;The Adventures of Robin Hood&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;The Sea Hawk, but if you delve into his extensive filmography you&#039;ll find this dashing Tasmanian actor also starred in no fewer than eight westerns. That&#039;s right, westerns! You might think the refined Flynn with his lilting speech patterns, hint of a British accent, and debonair sophistication would look like a fish out of water next to the crusty Old West cowpokes who populate these distinctly American movies, but somehow Flynn&#039;s rugged, masculine persona overshadows such handicaps. Though Flynn could never be considered a great actor, his&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 26 06:48:33 -0700</pubDate>
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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>
                        
                        <guid>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/146019/satanwantsyou.html</guid>
            <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>
                        
                        <guid>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/152327/interruptedmelodywarnerarchivecollection.html</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 26 06:31:33 -0700</pubDate>
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