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Rock! Shock! Pop!'s Best Blu-ray & UHD Releases Of 2020!
2020 fucking sucked, but just the same, we here at Rock! Shock! Pop! were once again lucky enough to review a lot of the really great releases that have come out in the last twelve months. Continuing the tradition started a few years ago, it's once again time to look back at the best of the best. So without further ado, here are our favorite titles that we were able to write up this year, ranked in no particular order and based on the ever important mix of entertainment value and quality... -
Rio Grande (Olive Films) Signature Series Blu-ray Review
Released by: Olive Films
Released on: November 17th, 2020.
Director: John Ford
Cast: Harry Carey, Jr., Claude Jarman, Jr., John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Merian C. Cooper, Ben Johnson
Year: 1950
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Rio Grande - Movie Review: In director John Ford's 1950 film, Rio Grande, made for Republic Pictures, John Wayne plays Lt. Colonel Kirby Yorke, a well-respected member of the United States Cavalry. Yorke is in charge of a camp a... -
Hair - Olive Signature Edition (Olive Films) Blu-ray Review
Released by: MGM
Released on: 6/7/2011
Director: Milos Forman
Cast: John Savage, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo, Dorsey Wright
Year: 1979
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Hair - Movie Review: Released theatrically in 1979 and based on the long running Broadway musical of the same name, Milos Forman's big screen version of Gerome Ragni and James Rado's Hair, which he made after his critically acclaimed adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over The Cu... -
Rock! Shock! Pop!'s Best DVD & Blu-ray Releases Of 2019!
2019 has come and gone and once again, we here at Rock! Shock! Pop! have been lucky enough to review a lot of the really great releases that have come out in the last twelve months. Continuing the tradition started a few years ago, it's once again time to look back at the best of the best. So without further ado, here are our favorite titles that we were able to write up this year, ranked in no particular order and based on the ever important mix of entertainment value and quality...
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in MoviesA Bucket Of Blood (Olive Films) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Olive Films
Released on: September 24th, 2019.
Director: Roger Corman
Cast: Dick Miller, Antony Carbone, Barbara Mouris
Year: 1959
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A Bucket Of Blood - Movie Review: In Roger Corman's 1959 film A Bucket Of Blood, we meet a busboy named Walter Paisley (Dick Miller) who toils away at his crummy job at a beatnik coffeehouse owned by the crotchety Leonard (Antony Carbone). Here Walter swoons over on of their... -
The Believers (Olive Films) Blu-ray Review
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Ian Jane
in MoviesThe Believers (Olive Films) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Olive Films
Released on: June 25th, 2019.
Director: John Schlesinger
Cast: Martin Sheen, Richard Masur, Jimmy Smits, Helen Shaver, Harley Cross
Year: 1987
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The Believers - Movie Review: Taking a page out of the occult horror playbook that seemed to be so popular throughout the seventies, John Schlesinger's The Believers is no modern masterpiece of unmitigated terror but upon revisiting the film, it ho... -
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Mr. Capra Goes To War: Frank Capra's World War II Documentaries (Olive Films) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Olive Films
Released on: November 6, 2018
Director: Frank Capra (credited)
Cast: Various
Year: 1942-1945
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Mr. Capra Goes To War: Frank Capra's World War II Documentaries - Movie Review: Frank Capra is often held up as a preeminent example of The American Director in film history circles. A long-time Hollywood veteran he began his career during the Silent Era and progressed into the sound era, writing and... -
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (Olive Films) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Olive Films
Released on: October 16th, 2018.
Director: Don Siegel
Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter, Larry Gates
Year: 1956
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Invasion Of The Body Snatchers - Movie Review: Directed by Don Siegel and released in 1956, Invasion Of The Body Snatchers has rightfully and understandably gone on to be recognized as a classic work of science fiction cinema, the kind that holds up well decades after it was made... -
in MoviesBound (Olive Signature Series) Blu-ray Review
Released by: Olive Films
Released on: August 28th, 2018.
Director: The Wachowskis
Cast: Jennifer Tilly, Gina Gershon, Joe Pantoliano, John P. Ryan
Year: 1996
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Bound - Movie Review: The feature film directorial debut of Andy and Lana (at the time Laurence) Wachowski, 1996's Bound follows the exploits of Corky (Gina Gershon), a hard-living tough talking ex-con recently let out of prison who takes a new job as a mainte... -
Cold Turkey
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C.D. Workman
in MoviesCold Turkey
Released by: Olive Films
Release date: May 29, 2018
Directed by: Norman Lear
Cast: Dick Van Dyke, Pippa Scott, Bob Newhart, Tom Poston, Bernard Hughes, Edward Everett Horton, Graham Jarvis, Vincent Gardenia, Jean Stapleton, Paul Benedict, M. Emmett Walsh
Year: 1971
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The Movie: Executives at the Valiant Tobacco Company hatch a scheme to paint Big Tobacco as an altruistic industry in the minds of the American public. The... -
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Five On The Black Hand Side
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Created by: Robert Morgan
in MoviesFive On The Black Hand Side
Released by: Olive Films
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Director: Oscar Williams
Cast: Clarice Taylor, Leonard Jackson, Virginia Capers, Glynn Turman, D'Urville Martin, Godfrey Cambridge
Year: 1973
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The Movie: Adapted by Charlie L. Russell from his own 1969 off-Broadway production of the same title, Five on the Black Hand Side is often unfairly lumped in with the “blaxploitation†genre simply because it features an all-blac... -
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Joe
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Horace Cordier
in MoviesJoe
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 upl... -
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Birdman Of Alcatraz, The
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Created by: Ian Jane
in MoviesBirdman Of Alcatraz, The
Released by: Olive Films
Released on: February 27th, 2018.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Thelma Ritter, Karl Malden, Telly Savalas, Neville Brand, Edmund O'Brien
Year: 1962
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The Movie:
When Birdman Of Alcatraz was released on Blu-ray by Twilight Time Releasing in 2014 (reviewed here), now out of print, Chris Workman had this to say about the film: After having shot to death the john wh... -
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Operation Petticoat
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Created by: C.D. Workman
in MoviesOperation Petticoat
Released by: Olive Films
Release date: November 28, 2017
Directed by: Blake Edwards
Cast: Cary Grant, Tony Curtis, Joan O'Brien, Dina Merrill, Gene Evans, Dick Sargent, Arthur O'Connell, Virginia Gregg, Robert F. Simon, Gavin MacLeod, Marion Ross
Year: 1959
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The Movie:
Sunk during a Japanese air raid while docked in the Philippines, the U.S.S. Sea Tiger is undergoing repairs when Lieutenant Commander Matt Sherman... -
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Return Of The Ape Man
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Created by: Ian Jane
in MoviesReturn Of The Ape Man
Released by: Olive Films
Released on: October 31st, 2017.
Director: Philip Rosen
Cast: Bela Lugosi, John Carradine, Frank Moran, George Zucco, Mary Currier, Teala Loring, Tod Andrews
Year: 1944
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The Movie: Philip Rosen's 1944 picture Return Of The Ape Man stars Bela Lugosi as Professor Dexter, a scientist who comes into possession of a block of ice containing the frozen corpse of… an ape man (George Zucco, then... -
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