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    Sweet Sweetback’s Badasssss Song 

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    Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
    Released on: May 29th, 2018.
    Director: Melvin Van Peebles
    Cast: Melvin Van Peebles, Simon Chuckster, Hubert Scales, Mario Van Peebles, John Dullaghan, Wesley Gale, Niva Ruschell, John Amos, Lavelle Roby
    Year: 1971
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    The Movie:

    In 1971, a young filmmaker named Melvin Van Peebles would effectively kick start the 'blaxploitation' genre with his notorious full-length feature film, Sweet Sweetback's Badassss Song. This was a low budget picture (finished with money borrowed from none other than Bill Cosby), which he wrote, directed, produced and starred in made completely outside of the established     ...
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    Little Showoffs 

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    Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
    Released on: May 8th, 2018.
    Director: Zachary Youngblood, Curt McDowell
    Cast: Cindy Carver, Rene Lovins, Jeff Lyle, Lili Marlene, Karen Sweet
    Year: 1983
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    The Movie:

    Co-directed by Zachary Youngblood (of Confessions Of A Teenage Peanut Butter Freak fame) and an uncredited Curt McDowell (the man who gave us Thundercrack!), 1983’s Little Showoffs is an odd duck when compared     ...
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    Enchanting Ghost, The 

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    Released by: 88 Films
    Released on: February 26th, 2018.
    Director: Hsu Chiang Chou
    Cast: Mei-Yao Chang, Li Hua Yang, Hsiang Ting Ko
    Year: 1970
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    The Movie:

    Those expecting the over the top insanity of better known Shaw Brothers horror films made later in the seventies and in the early eighties might be disappointed with director Hsu Chiang Chou’s 1970 film The Enchanting Ghost. For a large     ...
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    Joe 

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    Published on 05-18-2018 08:18 AM
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    Released by: Olive Films
    Released on: April 24th, 2018.
    Director: John G. Avildsen
    Cast: Audrey Caire, Dennis Patrick, Patrick McDermott, Peter Boyle, Susan Sarandon
    Year: 1970
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    The Movie:

    As far as definitive counterculture themed films of the 60’s and early 70’s go, John G. Alvidsen’s JOE from 1970 might very well be the most unjustly overlooked. The ROCKY and KARATE KID director became synonymous with a kind of uplifting and almost     ...
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    New Centurions, The 

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    Released by: Twilight Time Releasing
    Released on: March 27th, 2017.
    Director: Richard Fleischer
    Cast: George C. Scott, Stacy Keach, Jane Alexander, Scott Wilson, Rosalind Cash, Erik Estrada, Clifton James
    Year: 1972
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    The Movie:

    Based on former L.A.P.D. officer Joseph Wambaugh’s autobiographical book of the same name, Richard Fleischer’s 1972 adaptation of The New Centurions follows the exploits of three rookie     ...
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    Old Dark House, The 

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    Released by: Eureka/Masters Of Cinema
    Released on: May 21st, 2018.
    Director: James Whale
    Cast: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Stuart, Charles Laughton
    Year: 1932
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    The Movie:

    Directed by James Whale way back when in 1932 for Universal, The Old Dark House is not be as well-known as some of the other classic Universal horror pictures of the time. It'll always live in the shadow of Whale's more famous Karloff collaborations, those obviously being Frankenstein     ...
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    Wonder Years, The – The Complete Series 

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    Released by: Time Life
    Released on: March 13th, 2018.
    Director: Various
    Cast: Danica McKellar, Fred Savage, Josh Saviano, Dan Lauria, Olivia D’Abo, Jason Hervey
    Year: 1988 - 1993
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    The Series:

    Co-created by Carol Black and Neal Marlens, The Wonder Years debuted on NBC on January 31, 1988 and the first season lasted only six episodes. The show was, however, a commercial and critical success and it was soon renewed for a full second season that ran seventeen episodes. Following their massive ‘complete series' release from last year, Star Vista is now making individual seasons available on DVD. The complete second series of the show ran from November 30th, 1988 through May 16th, 1989.

    For those unfamiliar with the show, it revolved around the exploits of Kevin Arnold (Fred Savage), a kid growing up in the late sixties. Kevin lived at home with his kindly mother Norma (Alley Mills), his surly father Jack (Dan Lauria), his hippie sister Karen (Olivia D'Abo) and his obnoxious older brother Wayne (Jason Hervey). Together they lived     ...
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    Outlaw, The 

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    Released by: Kino Lorber Studio Classics
    Released on: February 27th, 2018.
    Director: Howard Hughes
    Cast: Jane Russell, Walter Huston, Thomas Mitchell, Jack Buetel, Mimi Aguglia
    Year: 1943
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    The Movie:

    The second and final film to be directed by quirky business tycoon Howard Hughes, 1943's The Outlaw tells the story of notorious outlaw duo Billy the Kid (Jack Buetel in his first feature film appearance) and Doc Holliday (Walter     ...
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    Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension, The (Steelbook Edition) 

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    Released by: Shout! Factory
    Released on: May 15th, 2018.
    Director: W.D. Richter
    Cast: Peter Weller, John Lithgow, Ellen Barkin, Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Goldblum
    Year: 1984
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    The Movie:

    Directed by W.D. Richter, The Adventures Of Buckaroo Banzai Across The 8th Dimension was a notorious box office flop when it first hit theater screens in 1984 (this reviewer saw it first run with his father and sister in an otherwise completely empty theater!) but it has gone on to     ...
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    Drive-In Delirium: The New Batch 

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    Released by: Umbrella Entertainment
    Released on: April 4th, 2018.
    Director: Various
    Cast: Various
    Year: Various
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    The third entry in Umbrella Entertainment’s ongoing Drive-In Delirium series of trailer collections

    The trailers that make up pretty much the entirety of Drive-In Delirium: The New Batch are broken up into two sections and presented as follows (with some drive-in intermission ads and related bits thrown in here and there for good measure):     ...
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    Sweet Virginia 

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    Released by: Shout! Factory
    Released on: April 3rd, 2017.
    Director: Jamie M. Dagg
    Cast: Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogen Poots, Rosemarie Dewitt
    Year: 2017
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    The Movie:

    Elwood (Christopher Abbott) walks into a small-town watering hole late one night, not paying much mind to the fact that it’s closed. Here he encounters three men at a table who send him away. He goes but comes back shortly after     ...
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    Adult Fairy Tales 

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    Released by: 88 Films
    Released on: May 14th, 2018.
    Director: Harry Hurwitz (as Harry Tampa)
    Cast: Don Sparks, Sy Richardson, Irwin Corey, Linnea Quigley, Angela Aames, Martha Reeves
    Year: 1978
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    The Movie:

    The Prince (Don Sparks) of a fairy tale kingdom has just celebrated his twenty-first birthday and now that he’s a man, he has to prove to his father that he can sire a son or risk losing the kingdom he is set to inherit. The Prince has a problem, however – he can’t get it up! Not     ...
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    Flesh And Laces 

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    Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
    Released on: May 8th, 2018.
    Director: Carlos Tobalina
    Cast: Shauna Grant, Drea, Tamara Longley, Crystal Lake, Jamie Gillis, Joey Silvera, John Holmes, John Stagliano, Bill Margold, Rose Kimball, Rita Cruz
    Year: 1983
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    The Movie:

    Who better than Carlos Tobalina (as Troy Benny) to direct a two-part three-hour epic adult feature film like Flesh And Laces from 1983? If nothing else, the guy gets an A for effort – and what a cast! As to the story, well…

    A     ...
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    Bruce’s Deadly Fingers 

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    Released by: VCI Entertainment
    Released on: May 8th, 2018.
    Director: Joseph Kong
    Cast: Bruce Le, Chen Wai-Man, Lo Lieh, Nora Miao, Bolo Yeung
    Year: 1976
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    The Movie:

    OK, how do we sort this out…. so there’s a gangster played by Lo Lieh who really wants to get his hands on the ‘Kung Fu Finger Book,’ which was written by Bruce Lee before he died. He and his cronies decide that the best way to do this is to kidnap Bruce Lee's ex-girlfriend.     ...
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    Blue Vengeance 

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    Released by: Vinegar Syndrome
    Released on: May 1st, 2018.
    Director: J. Christian Ingvordsen
    Cast: J. Christian Ingvordsen, John Weiner, Garland Hunter, Tony Kruk
    Year: 1989
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    The Movie:

    Blue Vengeance opens at an insane asylum just outside of New York City where a convicted murderer named Mark Trex (John Weiner) busts his way out of room and makes his way to the city. On the way he kills a guy and sets his truck on fire, a move that he thinks will throw     ...
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    Jungle 

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    Released by: Umbrella Entertainment
    Released on: March 7th, 2018.
    Director: Greg McLean
    Cast: Thomas Kretschman, Alex Russell, Joel Jackson, Daniel Radcliffe
    Year: 2017
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    The Movie:

    Based on the book by Israeli traveler Yossi Ghinsberg (which was in turn based on his own exploits), Greg McLean’s 2017 film Jungle stars Daniel Radcliffe as Ghinsberg himself. The film is set in the 1980’s where Ghinsberg travels to the     ...
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    Boneyard, The 

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    Released by: 88 Films
    Released on: April 9th, 2017.
    Director: James Cummins
    Cast: Deborah Rose, Denise Young, Ed Nelson, James Cummins, James Eustermann, Norman Fell, Phyllis Diller
    Year: 1991
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    The Movie:

    A cop named Jersey Callum (Ed Nelson) and his young partner Gordon Mullin (James Eustermann) let themselves into the home of Alley Oates (Deborah Rose) to find it in shambles. It turns out Alley was just sleeping, and she’s     ...
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    Harry And Walter Go To New York 

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    Released by: Twilight Time
    Released on: February 24, 2018
    Director: Mark Rydell
    Cast: James Caan, Elliott Gould, Diane Keaton, Michael Caine, Jack Gilford, Charles Durning, Dennis Dugan, Carol Kane, Burt Young, David Proval, and Lesley Ann Warren
    Year: 1976
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    The Movie:

    Imagine a mash-up of The Sting and Ocean’s Eleven, but without     ...
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    Shadow, The - Leviathan 

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    Shadow, The - Leviathan
    Released by: Dynamite Entertainment
    Released on: May 9th, 2018.
    Written by: Si Spurrier, Dan Watters, Ricardo Jamie
    Illustrated by: Daniel Hdr
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    This one opens in a hospital. Here a soon to be doctor interning in the hospital named Mary Jerez treats a patient. As she does, she tells the patient about the time that she met ‘him’ and how it was a formative experience. She tells us how, in high school, she had a crush on her biology professor,     ...
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    Female Prisoner 101: Suck 

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    Released by: Impulse Pictures
    Released on: May 8th, 2018.
    Director: Koyo Ohara
    Cast: Naomi Tani, Tokuko Watanabe, Michio Murakami
    Year: 1977
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    A woman masturbates. She spits on her hand to make it a bit easier but goes at it in her prison cell, other inmates seemingly asleep nearby. She calls out to her 'honey' through the window but there's no one there. Guards come into the room and put a stop to her display. Her cellmates, now awake, assume she' gone crazy. She’s     ...
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