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            <title><![CDATA[The Lost Patrol (1934) - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/161452/thelostpatrolwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[It&#039;s every soldier&#039;s nightmare. Imagine being cut loose from the order and discipline of your central command in enemy territory without a battle plan or means of communication. You&#039;re short on rations, disoriented, and forced to wander aimlessly over unfamiliar, remote, and dangerous terrain. How long can you survive the elements, your circumstances, and a bloodthirsty enemy lurking in the landscape? That&#039;s the premise of&amp;nbsp;The Lost Patrol, a stark, thoughtful, and uncompromising anti-war film from director John Ford. Mixing tension and moments of horror with character studies of tough yet vulnerable soldiers, this brisk, 74-minute pre-Code movie wields plenty of&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 26 08:57:06 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dear Heart - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/161442/dearheartwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[She wasn&#039;t a beauty in the traditional sense and never fit the Hollywood movie star mold, but boy, could she act. From the moment she appears on screen, no matter what part she&#039;s playing, Geraldine Page commands and rivets attention, instantly drawing us into the world of her quirky characters. She doesn&#039;t grab us with histrionics or a hey-look-at-me swagger; she reels us in with tiny tics and nuances that within seconds delineate her roles. Whether she&#039;s playing a vixen, a villain, a repressed spinster, or a sweet old lady, Page is a luminous presence and fascinating to watch.
Dear&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 26 05:46:29 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Marked Woman - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/161440/markedwomanwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Marked Woman marked the dawn of the Bette Davis renaissance, and though this typical Warner Bros gangster yarn with a feminine twist is a far cry from such classic Davis fare as Jezebel, Dark Victory, and Now, Voyager, it nevertheless began the actress&#039;s reign as queen of the lot and gave her the type of meaty role for which she&#039;d been clamoring for years. After breaching her contract in pursuit of worthier parts and losing a well-publicized court battle to make movies overseas, Davis returned to Warner Bros in 1936 to eat humble pie and resume what was left of&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 26 07:53:52 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Holy Trinity]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/156738/holytrinity.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I loved this movie. It&amp;rsquo;s insane, artistic, sexy, gross, and very gay with it. Holy Trinity stars writer-director pseudonymously named GlamHag as the titular Trinity, a paint-huffing dominatrix who, after finding a mysterious paint can, huffs to her content and is granted the ability to talk to the dead. The film is more than its silly premise suggests; it&amp;rsquo;s about the inner workings of found family and community, the filmmaker&amp;rsquo;s past traumas involving the Catholic Church, and the interpersonal sexual relationship between her and her partner/sub.
This film is so inventive and creative with its low budget. The sets are&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 26 10:02:14 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Queen of Black Magic]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/162250/thequeenofblackmagic.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Queen of Black Magic is a loose remake of the early-80s Indonesian shocker of the same name. While that movie was based more on traditional witchcraft and black magic lore, this remake&amp;ndash;premiering theatrically in 2019 in Indonesia and then on Shudder in the U.S. in 2021&amp;ndash;has more in common with things like The Evil Dead.&amp;nbsp;
Three close friends who grew up together in an orphanage return with their families years later. Mr. Bandi, the director of the orphanage who raised the boys, is dying. The friends, now married men, have come to visit Mr. Bandi and to decide what&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[lc81007@gmail.com (Lucas Chatfield)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 26 06:53:22 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Boys Town - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/161432/boystownwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Some classics age well, others don&#039;t, and unfortunately Boys Town falls into the second category. I&#039;m fully aware I risk the wrath of God for shunning this warm-hearted tale of an unselfish priest who dedicates his life to nurturing troubled, orphaned, and recalcitrant boys, but the film&#039;s trite message (&quot;There&#039;s no such thing as a bad boy&quot;) and preachy tone - not to mention Mickey Rooney&#039;s outrageously hammy performance - don&#039;t play well today. The basic themes of&amp;nbsp;Boys Town&amp;nbsp;remain timeless and stirring, but their hackneyed treatment by director Norman Taurog and screenwriters John Meehan and Dore Schary - all of&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 26 05:01:30 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/161378/gaildaughtryandthecelebritysexpass.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass is a film with a very thin premise. Allegedly, this was part of what drew director David Wain and co-writer Ken Marino to working on it: it&#039;s clich&amp;eacute; and it doesn&#039;t really go anywhere in a grounded universe. So Wain, Marino and their crew set out to create a universe where it could work. One that mostly represents our own, but not in any ways that would inhibit the fun that could be had.
We follow the titular Gail Daughtry (Zoey Deutch), a hairdresser who&#039;s about to be married. When her husband-to-be cashes&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[huntermbush@gmail.com (Hunter Bush)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 26 12:24:44 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Blair Witch Project: Definitive Collector's Edition]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/161104/theblairwitchprojectle.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[I think you had to be a teenager in 1999 to get the full Blair Witch Project experience. That&amp;rsquo;s not to say anyone else can&amp;rsquo;t admire, appreciate, or even adore it, but there was a magical window, tinged with equal parts naivete and skepticism, that made The Blair Witch Project irresistible. Much of the film&amp;rsquo;s marketing campaign fueled the question we all wondered, but were too embarrassed to admit: Was what happened to those kids real, or was this just another movie?
The skeptic in me quickly figured, &amp;ldquo;It&amp;rsquo;s all bunk. This was all faked to get us to see&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 26 10:21:39 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mr. K]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/157680/mrk.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Mr. K is Kafkaesque in the truest sense. The film is a loose retelling of Franz Kafka&amp;rsquo;s The Castle, which involves a protagonist, K., who enters a village looking to gain access to the castle where the local leaders of the town reside, but gets the runaround via absurd bureaucracy and finds himself unable to leave the town until he can talk to these bureaucrats, and he winds up staying in the town until he dies. This film, while not a direct adaptation, is for sure a homage to everything Kafkaesque. The film follows a traveling magician, Mr. K. While&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 26 11:46:43 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Marshmallow]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159529/marshmallow.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Over the decades, filmmakers have tried to shake up the more tried-and-true subgenres of horror films to varying degrees of success. Whether placing vampires in the Wild West, sending slasher villains to outer space, or mining old Twilight Zone episodes for a reliable twist to mash up with a haunted house tale, the possible combinations for a viable concept are endless. The trick lies not only in selecting the pieces, but also in making the combination pay off. Horror audiences are a fickle crowd. It&#039;s becoming more and more difficult to produce a universally celebrated film these days.
The summer&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[lc81007@gmail.com (Lucas Chatfield)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 26 08:52:47 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ninja Zombie]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158789/ninjazombie.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[You know what you&amp;rsquo;re going to get with a name like that: it isn&amp;rsquo;t promising anything other than a great schlocky time. As the title suggests, the film follows the tragic murder of a martial arts expert, Jack Chase, and his subsequent reanimation into a zombie who happens to be a ninja. The film begins with Jack and his fianc&amp;eacute;e, happy to begin their lives together, only for Jack to be struck down by a spider-centric cult of ninjas after he saved an archaeologist from a mugging by them. This film plot is incredibly convoluted, believe it or not. From&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 26 13:12:13 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hyperspace 3D]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/139816/hyperspace3d.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Parody and spoof comedy are an art form all of their own. You can&amp;rsquo;t just smash together a bunch of random genre movie references with a stale comedic take and call it a good spoof - I&amp;rsquo;m looking at you, Scary Movie 2026. Sure, the references need to be overt enough for the audience to know what&amp;rsquo;s being parodied, but the parody also needs to be in the service of its own set story. That&amp;rsquo;s why Airplane worked so beautifully. It&amp;rsquo;s why The Naked Gun is so hilarious forty years later. It&amp;rsquo;s why Mel Brooks&amp;rsquo; 1974 one-two punch of Blazing&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[mattedscreen@gmail.com (Matthew Hartman)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 26 11:03:37 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[For Whom the Bell Tolls: Special Edition]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/149049/forwhomthebelltolls.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Hollywood hasn&#039;t been very kind to Ernest Hemingway. Translating his distinctive prose, thought-provoking themes, and complex characters to the screen often proved problematic during the Golden Age. Constrained by censorship and committed to pleasing audiences, the major studios routinely watered down Hemingway&#039;s works or changed them completely. For Whom the Bell Tolls&amp;nbsp;was a wildly popular feature; it was Paramount&#039;s top-grossing film of 1943 and the year&#039;s second-biggest moneymaker overall. It also earned 10 Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Though the storyline remains largely faithful to the source novel, the guts of the book are nowhere to be found. For Whom&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
                        <guid>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/149049/forwhomthebelltolls.html</guid>
            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 26 07:33:22 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Peter Sellers Centenary Collection (UK Import)]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/162881/thepetersellerscentenarycollectionukimport.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The Ladykillers (1955) 4/5

The Ladykillers is less of a Peter Sellers vehicle and way more of an Alec Guinness show. The story follows a nebby elderly woman who rents a room to what she thinks is a professor and his string quintet, who plan a robbery. The robbery scene is really well done, with twists and turns as they enlist Mrs. Wilberforce (Katie Parker)&amp;mdash;unbeknownst to her&amp;mdash;to transfer the money from a train station back to the house, since she is a nice old lady who&#039;s happy to help her Lodger. After accidentally showing Mrs. Wilberforce the cash, she threatens&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 26 08:58:18 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Portrait in Black]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160208/portraitinblack.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Fourteen years after portraying one of film noir&#039;s sexiest femme fatales in&amp;nbsp;The Postman Always Rings Twice, Lana Turner returned to the genre in&amp;nbsp;Portrait in Black, a titillating thriller with a similar narrative. In both films, Turner conspires to eliminate an inconvenient husband with her far more virile paramour. In&amp;nbsp;Postman, it was John Garfield; in&amp;nbsp;Portait in Black, it&#039;s Anthony Quinn. The methods of murder may differ, but the messy aftermath marked by fear, paranoia, desperation, guilt, and resentment are the same.
The Postman Always Rings Twice&amp;nbsp;is by far the better film, but&amp;nbsp;Portrait in Black&amp;nbsp;is no slouch. Though too much gloss, slathered&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 26 06:08:00 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Hazing]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/160954/thehazing.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Originally written to be a sequel to 1981&amp;rsquo;s Hell Night, The Hazing tells the story of a group of sorority and fraternity pledges who must spend the night in a supposedly haunted house as part of their initiation. Along the way, an attempt to procure a scavenger-hunt item runs them afoul of a wicked professor, kinda sorta killing him while in the process of stealing his copy of an ancient book of evil spells.
Once everyone arrives at the haunted house, the heads of the fraternity and sorority start scaring everyone with cheap props, flashing lights, and sound effects. The&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[lc81007@gmail.com (Lucas Chatfield)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 26 09:34:42 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Dead Hunt]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/158751/deadhunt.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[This happened to me once: I wrote a panned review of someone&amp;rsquo;s horror movie, and they locked several other critics and me in a warehouse and picked us off one by one! Well, it didn&amp;rsquo;t actually happen to me, but it did happen to the folks in this film. Dead Hunt is about a group of online movie critics who write for a horror-centric movie review blog. The party takes place in an obvious warehouse, but in the script it&amp;rsquo;s a facility with a computerized system that lets the killer control all the door locks and lights remotely.
From there,&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[samchristian111@gmail.com (Sam Christian)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 26 08:15:05 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) - Warner Archive Collection]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159079/amidsummernightsdreamwarnerarchivecollection.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Adapting Shakespeare for the screen has always been a gamble. Though the plays of The Bard are undisputed literary masterworks, they don&#039;t generally enjoy wide appeal. Too highbrow, too lengthy, too erudite, too difficult to decipher the archaic language. Sir Laurence Olivier&#039;s Shakespeare trilogy -&amp;nbsp;Henry V,&amp;nbsp;Hamlet, and&amp;nbsp;Richard III&amp;nbsp;- stands as arguably the finest cinematic treatment of The Bard&#039;s work, but most shots at Shakespeare misfire. &quot;Noble failures&quot; might be a more accurate classification, because many of the films are well-made, but fail to attract and stimulate audiences.
The 1935 version of&amp;nbsp;A Midsummer Night&#039;s Dream&amp;nbsp;is a perfect example. Lovely to look&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[david@highdefdigest.com (David Krauss)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 26 09:32:09 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Ninja Wars]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159481/ninjawars.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[Evil flying monks, mystical slice-and-dice powers, and the too-seldom-used head switcheroo method of identity theft are just the tip of the iceberg in Ninja Wars. It&#039;s a tale of high fantasy, filled to the brim with superhuman martial arts, love potions, and a host of characters who are not quite what they seem. It would be a disservice to Ninja Wars to try and explain too much of it. A campy sense of wonder and wild surprises around every corner are integral to its appeal. All I knew about it was the trailer, which was in untranslated Japanese, so&amp;hellip; I&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[lc81007@gmail.com (Lucas Chatfield)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 26 06:08:07 -0700</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Devil Queen - Kino Cult #53]]></title>
            <link>https://bluray.highdefdigest.com/159008/thedevilqueen.html</link>
            <description><![CDATA[The titular devil of The Devil Queen is Rainha Diaba (Milton Gon&amp;ccedil;alves), a non-gender-specific crime boss with a gang of drag queens and sex workers to do her bidding. It&amp;rsquo;s not easy being the queen, so right from the start of the story, there are people in her web conspiring against her. Catitu (Nelson Xavier) is methodical in his strategy against her. He&amp;rsquo;s smart enough to know that if he goes after her directly, he&amp;rsquo;ll be killed instantly. He decides to use and manipulate a young dreamer who has ambitions, if not delusions of grandeur.
Bereco (Stepan Nercessian) is a&#8230;]]></description>
                        <author><![CDATA[billyleerussell@gmail.com (Billy Russell)]]></author>
                        
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 26 08:20:59 -0700</pubDate>
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