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Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are taken from promotional materials provided by Janus Films , not the Blu-ray edition under review. How might one go about transforming the rundown, low-rent districts, shipyards, and other workaday views in a non-tourist-attraction French port city into a visually lovely, sweet setting for a storybook-like political-fable film …

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Le Havre (Blu-ray)

Recommended A remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Dial M for Murder (1954) and the Frederick Knott play from which it was derived, A Perfect Murder (1998) cannily reconfigures its plot and characters for a much more cynical, modern day audience. Patrick Smith Kelly’s screenplay deviates from its source quite a bit, but the results aren’t terrible

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A Perfect Murder (Blu-ray)

Recommended In 10 Words or Less Making a movie from a game works with talented people Reviewer’s Bias* Loves: Madeline Kahn, Tim Curry, Clue Likes: Everyone else in the movie Dislikes: Extra-less Blu-Rays Hates: Missing Kahn The Movie It seems like Clue finds its way before my eyes every now and then, and I remember that it’s one of my favorite movies, starring some of my favorite actors, before …

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Clue: The Movie (Blu-ray)

Recommended Rob Gordon (John Cusack) is, by most accounts, a pretty unlikable guy. He’s deceitful, manipulative, self-centered, neurotic, callous and insensitive. He’s just been through an unexpected breakup with a longtime girlfriend, so he’s naturally doing a bit of self-reflection to figure out where everything went drastically, dreadfully wrong

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High Fidelity (Blu-ray)

Recommended I didn’t realize it until I was watching the movie, but Next of Kin is actually a style of action movie they don’t seem to make anymore: one that focuses on building up the moral or ethical code of its hero rather than the scheme of the villain. The conflict that Patrick Swayze’s Truman Gates faces is not a ticking time bomb or a mad terrorist, but the way his situation places …

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Next of Kin (Blu-ray)

Rent It The Film: Underutilized actor Nick Stahl, best known from his roles as an earthy super-powered prophet in HBO’s Carnivale , continues his streak of flimsy direct-to-video appearances with On the Inside , an institutional drama-thriller from Haunting in Connecticut director D.W.

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On the Inside (Blu-ray)

Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are provided by Music Box Films and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review.

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The Deep Blue Sea (Blu-ray)