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            <title><![CDATA[Variety Girl]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155277/varietygirl.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[All-star films were all the rage in the mid-1940s. Almost every Hollywood studio showcased its top contract players in lightweight vehicles that either saluted popular songwriters, pumped up enthusiasm for the war effort, or allowed drama kings and queens the chance to let their hair down and spoof their image. 1947&#039;s&amp;nbsp;Variety Girl&amp;nbsp;falls&amp;nbsp;into the latter category, but despite more than 30 cameos by some of Paramount&#039;s biggest stars, this scatter-brained, behind-the-scenes look at Hollywood is one of the genre&#039;s weakest entries. While it&#039;s fun to spot all the various personalities in different milieus, the flimsy plot labors mightily to work them&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 May 26 07:59:23 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Avatar: Fire and Ash - 3D]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156410/avatarfireandash3d.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Since I already reviewed this in 4K, I&#039;ll just paste in my thoughts here.
His name is James, James CameronThe bravest pioneerNo budget too steep, no sea too deepWho&#039;s that?It&#039;s him, James CameronJames, James Cameron explorer of the seaWith a dying thirst to be the firstCould it be? Yeah that&#039;s him!James Cameron&amp;nbsp;
Whenever Cameron has a new movie or one of his films gets a new disc release, I just have to go watch that South Park episode again. It&amp;rsquo;s just too damn funny, but it&amp;rsquo;s also true - James Cameron does what James Cameron does because James Cameron is&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 20 May 26 10:12:54 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Blue Thunder: The Complete Series]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156010/bluethunderthecompleteseries.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[You know what they say, they can&amp;rsquo;t all be Airwolf&amp;hellip; hell, even Airwolf couldn&amp;rsquo;t be Airwolf for more than a couple of seasons - but that didn&amp;rsquo;t stop Blue Thunder from giving it a go! Rolling our story back a tad, imagine it&amp;rsquo;s the 1980s, and the salivating demand for military action shows was at a peak. This was a time when Stallone was blowing up the commies in 1985&amp;rsquo;s Rambo: First Blood Part II and Schwarzenegger was&amp;nbsp;laying waste to a nondescript Central American army single-handed in Commando, and the kids were getting their fix with G.I. Joe - television&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 26 11:55:25 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Creepy Creature Double Feature: The Slime People & The Crawling Hand]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153586/creepycreaturedoublefeaturetheslimepeoplethecrawlinghand.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The slime people attack and are pushed out of the survivor&#039;s shelter...&quot;Incidentally, my name is Calvin Johnson.&quot;
The only genuinely bad movies are boring movies. I say it this way because you can have a &amp;ldquo;bad movie&amp;rdquo; that stretches a low budget to the breaking point with amateur actors and hokey plotting - but it can still be incredibly entertaining. We just happen to be looking at two such films in one brilliant Double Feature package of The Crawling Hand and The Slime People. Both films happen to be produced by the legendary Joseph F. Robertson.
Perhaps the best way&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 26 10:02:18 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Liebestraum - Cinématographe Limited Edition]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156673/liebestraumlimitededition.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[It&#039;s always fun to compare the sensibilities of a &quot;classic&quot; noir, an old black and white film from the 1940s, versus a so-called &quot;neo&quot; noir, and to see how different they are. In most classic versions of a noir tale, cloaked in the shadows of the night, beams of light bleeding in through the slats on a pair of blinds in front of a window, they were lusty tales of sex and murder, but so much of the eroticism had to be hinted at or alluded to with subtle fadeouts due to the standards in place due to the Hays&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 26 06:33:44 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Looney Tunes Collector's Choice: Volume 3]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/127253/looneytunescollectorschoicevolume3.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[At HDD, we may not have been as diligent as we&amp;rsquo;d like to have been about covering these Looney Tunes sets over the years. The simple reason is that we had hoped that, as these cartoons changed hands from either Warner Bros. proper or to Warner Archive, some of the more troublesome shorts would see new work, while also aiming for a Complete Collection opportunity for all of the shorts. A bit of both has happened.&amp;nbsp;
We&amp;rsquo;ve had greatest hits come to disc, and with the Collector&amp;rsquo;s Choice line, some of the more obscure fan favorites got their time to&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 26 16:49:44 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hanna-Barbera's Superstars 10: The Complete Film Collection - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/127064/hannabarberassuperstars10thecompletefilmcollectionwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[As much as I hate to admit it to myself, I am at that age now, where just about every film or show from my childhood that I&amp;rsquo;m re-experiencing has to be viewed through that lens of nostalgia. Old movies. Old video games. Looking through my old comic books. Recently&amp;nbsp;Red Sonja on 4K UHD. All nostalgic runs. Some good, some bad. So, this is where I dive into a piece of my childhood, Hanna-Barbera&amp;rsquo;s Superstars 10. In 1987, I was all of five, almost six, and William Hanna and Joseph Barbera punched out feature-length animated films of their fan-favorite characters&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 26 13:47:50 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fuji_Jukai.mov]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153044/fuji_jukaimov.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Content Warning: The following review discusses acts of suicide within the story of the film.&amp;nbsp;
Fuji_Jukai.mov is a truly special found footage movie, shot entirely on an iPhone. The film incorporates iPhone tech in a way that other found-footage films like Unfriended used&amp;nbsp;in-screen video calls and screen sharing as the crux of the footage. The story starts with a news crew filming a segment at the trailhead into Fuji Jukai, aka Japan&#039;s infamous forest. While filming, they find an abandoned iPhone with a long video. As we watch the video play out, the film follows three high school girls, Ami&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 26 07:45:48 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155649/artspiegelmandisasterismymuse.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[How do you contain the life of an artist who&amp;rsquo;s created such wild and varied works as the Garbage Pail Kids trading cards, and the anthropomorphic animal graphic novel about the Holocaust, Maus, into a mere hour and forty minutes? Art Spiegelman is hard to define. He&amp;rsquo;s a cartoonist, sure, but that sounds reductive. He&amp;rsquo;s a creator of underground, irreverent comics. He&amp;rsquo;s also responsible for bringing uncomfortable subjects like the Holocaust into the social lexicon, so that we may never forget the horrors of that history.
Like all great artists, he&amp;rsquo;s all of those things and more. He&amp;rsquo;s a deeply&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 26 08:10:13 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Beethoven: Special Edition]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/143301/beethoven.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[All animal movies have a formula, and they&amp;rsquo;re all different. Horse movies, for example, are a more dramatic affair. They&amp;rsquo;re about the bond humans have with animals, this primal connection between man and beast. Dog movies, on the other hand, are usually about some uptight paterfamilias who, god bless him, is set in his ways and needs to have his comfort zone shaken up by some wild, untamed quadruped who shows this square a thing or two about living.
Charles Grodin plays George Newton, the uptight father. Beethoven, who&amp;rsquo;s still just a wee, cute puppy, escapes from the clutches of&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 26 09:26:38 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Birthrite]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153773/birthrite.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Birthrite is a solid attempt at a pregnancy horror film, while not hitting most of the marks. The film stars Alice Kremelberg as Wren, a woman who is bequeathed a home in the New York boonies, and with her long-term girlfriend Maya, decides to move into the house to start their family. Once the two settle in, Wren starts showing a baby bump, and the pair goes to a fertility doctor who, as it turns out, had close ties with her relative who died. As they settle into the house, we see a lot of scenes attempting to set the&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 26 07:21:33 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Twin Cheeks]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153004/twincheeks.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Twin Cheeks is a hilarious low-budget send-up of David Lynch&amp;rsquo;s hit TV series, Twin Peaks. Well almost. As we learn in the supplements, the film&#039;s director, Kelly Hughes, had never seen the show Twin Peaks until after making the film, but was also inspired by&amp;nbsp;Fire Walk With Me. In a queer gender bent version of Twin Peaks, we see the death of the homecoming king after cruising for anonymous gay sex in the woods. While this happens, there&amp;rsquo;s a split screen of the murder taking place and his mother talking about how good of a boy he was ETC. The&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Apr 26 10:18:34 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[High Road to China - Imprint Films #532]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/157276/highroadtochinaimprintfilms532.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[It&amp;rsquo;s easy to cast Brian G. Hutton&amp;rsquo;s adaptation of Jon Cleary&amp;rsquo;s novel as a simple Indiana Jones clone. That&amp;rsquo;s even easier to do when you have tall Tom &quot;Almost Indy&quot; Selleck standing as the haunted, heavy-drinking, high-flying ace O&amp;rsquo;Malley while Bess Armstrong steps in as the plucky, headstrong Eve Tozer. Hell, the film is even a period piece, casting the action back to the 1920s. Lacking any Nazis, the similarities between High Road to China and Raiders of the Lost Ark end at the character dynamics. Tossing away this film as a mere clone would be a disservice to one&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
                        <guid>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/157276/highroadtochinaimprintfilms532.html</guid>
            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 26 07:07:50 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Stöned Age: Vestron Collector's Series #38]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156223/thestonedagecollectorsedition.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[If there&amp;rsquo;s one thing that&amp;rsquo;s tough on any film, especially a low-budget independent feature, it&amp;rsquo;s being late to the party. Worse, you can be cast off as a clone of a better-received film and dismissed. A strong case for the point would be James Melkonian&amp;rsquo;s 1994 crazy night stoner comedy&amp;nbsp; The St&amp;ouml;ned Age. Our heroes are certainly dazed and probably more than a little confused about their futures, but this wild one-night ride cuts a different path through Torrence, California, in 1980.&amp;nbsp;
The night is like any other for stoner teens Hubbs (Bradford Tatum) and Joe(Michael Kopelow). Find some chicks,&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
                        <guid>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156223/thestonedagecollectorsedition.html</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 26 11:47:16 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tea and Sympathy - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155062/teaandsympathywarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Many believed&amp;nbsp;Tea and Sympathy&amp;nbsp;could never be filmed due to its taboo subject matter, but after some critical narrative alterations and major concessions to the censors, MGM produced a fine screen version of Robert Anderson&#039;s hit Broadway play. The story of a sensitive teenage boy who doesn&#039;t fit in with his macho peers at an all-boys boarding school and is mercilessly bullied and ostracized as a result insightfully examines masculinity in American society and how going against the grain of established mores can crush the human psyche and spirit. Though the movie wasn&#039;t allowed to call a spade a spade and&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 26 07:30:56 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Man Who Came to Dinner - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155065/themanwhocametodinnerwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Though Bette Davis and Ann Sheridan receive top billing in The Man Who Came to Dinner, the real star of director William Keighley&#039;s sprightly adaptation of the hit comedy by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman is Monty Woolley. After all, the acerbic bearded actor plays the title role and even created the lovably cantankerous crank on the Broadway stage. Woolley devours the part of Sheridan Whiteside once again in the film version, bringing plenty of caustic bite to the pompous, prima donna commentator who becomes the eternal houseguest of Ernest and Daisy Stanley (Grant Mitchell and Billie Burke) when&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 26 07:10:26 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Stewardesses 3D - Kino Cult #45]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153377/thestewardesses3d.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Damn, has it really been 9 years since I reviewed the original Kino Lorber/3-D Film Archive release of Alan Silliphant&amp;rsquo;s The Stewardesses? Time flies fast and furious in this game. As KLSC and the team at 3-D Film Archive continue to roll out restored Blu-ray releases of semi-forgotten favorites, it&amp;rsquo;s always fun to dig back into the vault. Not that I needed a new disc to give me a reason to rewatch this three-dimensional jiggler, but we&amp;rsquo;ve got a new disc now, and it&amp;rsquo;s worth every penny. While I&amp;rsquo;ll cherish my 3DTV until the day its board blinks out and&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
                        <guid>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153377/thestewardesses3d.html</guid>
            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 26 13:35:35 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Gay Divorcee - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155031/thegaydivorceewarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Perfection. It&#039;s an elusive quality - eternally sought and rarely achieved. Yet Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers made it their standard, and in 10 films produced between 1933 and 1949, this ethereal dance team defined the term. Whether stomping out exuberant tap routines, waltzing on air, or constructing devastating mini-dramas to the music of Gershwin, Kern, and Berlin, Astaire and Rogers rarely make a false move. With impeccable style and grace, they sashay across the floor, wordlessly infusing a multitude of emotions into twirls, lifts, and dips. The phrase &quot;poetry in motion&quot; surely was coined with them in mind, and&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
                        <guid>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/155031/thegaydivorceewarnerarchivecollection.html</guid>
            <pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 26 08:45:15 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Hi-Lo Country]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/152730/thehilocountry.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Pete (Billy Crudup) and his buddy &quot;Big Boy&quot; (Woody Harrelson) are friends through it all. They meet when Pete sells Big Boy a horse, and Big Boy offers to help him with a ranch. With a bit of a shrug, Pete says there&#039;s no way he could afford to pay for help. Big Boy insists. He ain&#039;t asking for a job, he&#039;s offering to help the man. And, just like that, the two are thick as thieves. When the Second World War rages on, the two enlist together--Pete opts for the Army, serving his time in Europe, and Big Boy&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
                        <guid>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/152730/thehilocountry.html</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 26 07:37:02 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Specter's Rock]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/153007/spectersrock.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Specter&#039;s Rock is one of those movies that&amp;rsquo;s pretty hard to follow plot-wise, but is wildly entertaining to watch. Highly influenced by the work of David Lynch, Specter&#039;s Rock deals with themes of the connectivity of dreams, murder, and weird happenings, and a cavalcade of oddball characters delivering unhinged dialogue. This film is hard to follow at times. The plot revolves around a few different characters sharing time equally on screen. The story starts with Geneva seeing her boyfriend in the corner of her room late at night, only to find out that he was murdered at the exact moment&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 26 07:16:38 -0700</pubDate>
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