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PR A Haunting - Season 5 - Aired 2012 on DVD Apr 23

These chilling tales of the supernatural take the viewer inside real-life horror stories, with each one-hour episode featuring eyewitness accounts and cinematic re-enactments of some of the most spine tingling and inexplicable stories ever recorded. As the mystery and origin of each family's case is unraveled, audiences are left with a lingering sense that life after death is much more powerful - and sometimes more possessive - than anyone could have possibly imagined...

Shout! Factory

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Posted by: News Editor - April 9, 2013, 7:39 am - PR
Keywords: horror

News Elisabeth Hasselbeck leaving 'The View': "We have no plans" for it, says Barbara Walters

- Zap2it

Posted by: News Editor - March 11, 2013, 8:45 am - News
Keywords: television, daytime, talk, the view, right wing, elisabeth hasselbeck, joy behar, barbara walters

News Joy Behar Leaving ABC's 'The View'

- Yahoo! TV

Posted by: News Editor - March 7, 2013, 8:02 pm - News
Keywords: television, daytime, talk, joy behar, barbara walters, elisabeth hasselbeck

DVD Review THE QATSI TRILOGY (BLU-RAY)

I've never experienced director Godfrey Reggio's game-changing, unique trilogy, but there's no better excuse to finally see them than this great new Blu-ray box set from The Criterion Collection.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - March 17, 2013, 6:53 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: sensory, wonder, galvanizing

DVD Review FEMME FATALES: THE COMPLETE FIRST SEASON

I like the premise of this sexy Cinemax anthology quasi-noir series more than I like the actual eps themselves, which is essentially attractive women taking control of various nasty situations, as well as being nude most of the time. They don't call it Skinemax for nothing.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - February 23, 2013, 8:57 am - DVD Review
Keywords: pulp, noir, femme fatales, tanit phoenix, anthology

DVD Review FOLLOWING (BLU-RAY)

Christopher Nolan's low-budget 16mm debut thriller receives the Blu-Ray treatment from Criterion.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - February 24, 2013, 9:06 am - DVD Review
Keywords: christopher nolan, time-shifting narrative, following, thriller

DVD Review TWO-LANE BLACKTOP (BLU-RAY)

Even if you're not a gearhead (and I most certainly am not) there's an undeniable sense of self-discovery and purpose in Two-Lane Blacktop, a stripped down, revved up love story about men, cars, women, life.

Recommended.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - January 6, 2013, 8:55 am - DVD Review
Keywords: cars, monte hellman, james taylor, dennis wilson

DVD Review RASHOMON (BLU-RAY)

It took longer than we wanted, but Kurosawa's influential, twisty masterpiece is finally available on Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection. It's also certainly no surprise that this 62-year-old film has never looked or sounded better.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - December 29, 2012, 6:24 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: thriller, truth, justice

PR Khodorkovsky on DVD Nov 6

A political documentary by Cyril Tuschi that examines the arrest and subsequent conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, the wealthiest man in Russia who became a symbol for political freedom.

Kino Lorber

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Posted by: News Editor - November 2, 2012, 6:49 am - PR
Keywords: documentary

PR Crossfire Hurricane: The Rise of the Stones to debut on HBO Nov 15

The Rolling Stones, the rock 'n' roll icons who have defined creativity, daring and durability, are to be chronicled in a kaleidoscopic new film that will debut Nov. 15 on HBO. With never-before-seen footage and fresh insights from the band themselves, the film will delight, shock and amaze longtime devotees, as well as another generation of fans, with its uniquely immersive style and tone. Crossfire Hurricane places the viewer right on the frontline of the band's most legendary escapades.

HBO

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Posted by: News Editor - November 1, 2012, 7:36 am - PR
Keywords: music

DVD Review BASKET CASE 3

The further adventures of Duane and his malformed, formerly conjoined twin brother Belial stick in my memory as a case of director Frank Henenlotter going to the well one too many times. That opinion could change, given that it's been at least 15 years since I've seen this second sequel, but I have a bad feeling it won't.

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Posted by: Chuck Aliaga - November 1, 2012, 6:27 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: macabre, conjoined, monsters

News Barbara Walters to Donald Trump: "You're making a fool of yourself"

Orlando Sentinel-Blog

Posted by: News Editor - October 25, 2012, 10:41 am - News
Keywords: television, the view, barbara walters, donald trump, celebrity apprentice, whoopi goldberg, sarah palin

DVD Review GREYSTONE PARK

Here's another 'found footage' genre entry, this time set inside an abandoned psychiatric hospital.

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Posted by: Rich Rosell - October 27, 2012, 7:51 am - DVD Review
Keywords: horror, found footage, oliver stone

PR Frank Spotnitz's Hunted debuts on Cinemax Oct 19

Golden Globe nominee Melissa George stars as Sam Hunter, a skilled, gutsy operative for Byzantium, a secretive private firm involved in global intelligence and espionage. After surviving an attempt on her life that may have been orchestrated by members of her own team, she returns to work, but doesn't know who to trust. Shot on location in Europe, the primetime suspense show debuts FRIDAY, OCT. 19 (10:00-11:00 p.m. ET/PT) on CINEMAX.

Cinemax

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Posted by: News Editor - October 18, 2012, 7:21 pm - PR
Keywords: action

DVD Review THE 39 STEPS (BLU-RAY)

Alfred Hitchcock was already a successful director when he adapted John Buchan's mystery thriller The Thirty-Nine Step, but this picture is where we see many of the staples of his later career come to fruition and gel in a way that few directors before or since have managed to accomplish. Criterion does this seminal movie proud in a loaded special edition that features a lovely and clean high-definition transfer of very difficult source material.

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Posted by: Mark Zimmer - September 3, 2012, 12:23 pm - DVD Review
Keywords: mystery, thriller, mcguffin, spies, scotland, hitchcock, cameo, precode

PR Kill List on DVD & Blu-ray Aug 14

The story of an ex-soldier turned contract killer who plunges into the heart of darkness - and takes the viewer with him on a ride from which there is no return. From director Ben Wheatley comes a mind-blowing genre concoction that marks a new milestone in the annals of modern horror.

IFC Entertainment

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Posted by: News Editor - July 29, 2012, 11:06 am - PR
Keywords: horror

PR Last Days Here on DVD Jul 31

Directors Don Argott and Demian Fenton offer a candid look at this madly talented artist, whose unexpected journey made him a prodigious diamond in the music business rough. For decades Liebling churned out genre-defining hard rock as the lead singer of the doom metal band Pentagram. But various acts of self-destruction, multiple band breakups and botched record deals condemned his music to obscurity.

IFC Entertainment

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Posted by: News Editor - July 6, 2012, 7:25 am - PR
Keywords: documentary

Article Addicted to Bristol's Show: Can Sarah Save Us?

The extreme voyeurism of reality television reaches out and tweaks the worst part of our natures. If Bristol Palin left her diary on the table in your kitchen, would you read it? If a Palin reality show was filmed in Alaska and nobody watched would it really be real? These questions and more bedevil me as we journey to the land of the midnight sun where the men are men and apparently the women are too in Bristol Palin: Life's A Tripp.

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Posted by: Joseph Burke - July 4, 2012, 9:47 am - Article
Keywords: reality, television