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Pennyworth: The Complete Second Season arrives on Blu-ray and DVD from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment. The origin behind Bruce Wayne’s loyal butler continues and stars Jack Bannon.
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Blind Beast arrives on Blu-ray from Arrow Video and includes an audio commentary, introduction, video essay, trailer and photo gallery.
Chain Lightning debuts on Blu-ray courtesy of the Warner Archive Collection receiving a new video restoration and stars Humphrey Bogart and Eleanor Parker.
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One Crazy Summer is perhaps might be underrated as it does get overshadowed by many other comedies from the 1980s, but I found myself laughing throughout mainly for the bizarre scenes alongside John Cusack’s deadpan line deliveries.
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Stardust is a biopic on David Bowie’s early career starring Johnny Flynn and Jena Malone. Shout Factory releases the movie on Blu-ray and DVD.
The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It might break the formula a bit but I found myself a little disconnected and the primary saving grace is once again with Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga, both still great together and gives the film the necessary heart.
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Jurassic Hunt was is an el-cheapo direct-to-video action science fiction film starring Courtney Loggins, Ruben Fla and Tarkan Dospil.
Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is probably an unnecessary sequel and it does have its flaws from a flimsy plot and some of the humor doesn’t work, but for the most part I did like the core main characters and the addition of Salma Hayek was the highlight.
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Shadow of the Thin Man, the fourth in the series, debuts on Blu-ray courtesy of the Warner Archive Collection receiving a new video restoration and stars William Powell and Myrna Loy and is out August 17th.
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Strike Commando 2 is a more (on purpose) comedic than the first movie and while it’s still not good per se, I do think there’s enough to make this a fun evening viewing amongst friends to mock and laugh at.
Strike Commando might be an unabashed rip-off of Rambo but there’s plenty of be entertained by, well at least in how bad it is. This is the kind of movie to make fun off MST3K style although it is tough sitting through alone…
Overall, the Friday the 13th: 8 Movie Collection offers the movies under license by Paramount and while it does not include any new features from the Shout Factory box set, if you can get this at a reasonable price, you will get upgraded picture on the first four films.
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F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer is a sci-fi drama from 1932 from Germany and stars Hans Albers, Synille Schmitz and Paul Hartmann. The Kino Lorber release comes with an audio commentary and English-language version.
All in all, even as someone who doesn’t gravitates toward the western genre, I found these four films part of the Vengeance Trails box set to all be well made films, all with revenge as a central theme.
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Profile arrives on Blu-ray and DVD from Universal Pictures on August 10th. This suspense-thriller stars Valane Kane and Morgan Watkins.