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In Retrospect: Robert Wise and Julie Harris Converge on ‘Hill House’

Features Film Features By Judy Sloane|July 28, 2023 |0

By JUDY SLOANE Front Row Features Generally acknowledged by movie historians as one of the most scary ghost films ever produced, “The Haunting” was shot in Britain in the autumn of 1962 and has gone on to become a cult classic. Based on Shirley Jackson’s 1958 novel The Haunting of Hill House, the [...]

‘Friday the 13th Collection,’ and (mostly) More Horror on Home Entertainment … Plus Giveaways!

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews News By Angela Dawson|August 7, 2021 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Movies Friday the 13th 8-Movie Collection (Horror) Take a ride down memory lane with everyone’s favorite psychotic killer Jason Voorhees in the new “Friday the 13th 8-Movie Collection” on Blu-ray, arriving Aug. 10, Paramount Home Entertainment. Get ready for th [...]

‘Gangs of London,’ ‘G.I. Joe,’ ‘Jakob’s Wife,’ More Arrive on Home Entertainment This Week

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews News By Angela Dawson|July 18, 2021 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Movies G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and G.I. Joe: Retaliation (Action) Based on Hasbro’s wildly popular action figures, Paramount Pictures’ big screen global blockbusters “G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra” and “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” make their long-awaited U.S. 4K U [...]

‘Almost Famous,’ ‘Snatch,’ ‘SpongeBob,’ More on Home Entertainment

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews News By Angela Dawson|July 12, 2021 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Movies Almost Famous (Drama) Academy Award winner Cameron Crowe’s deeply personal and universally entertaining coming-of-age film “Almost Famous” turns 21 in style, arriving for the first time on 4K Ultra HD in a limited edition Steelbook, as well as in a new l [...]

‘The Alienist,’ ‘Last Action Hero,’ ‘Mission: Impossible,’ More on Home Entertainment this Week

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews News By Angela Dawson|May 16, 2021 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Movies The Columnist (Horror) A successful journalist, pushed to the limit by online trolls, finds a bloody good way to rid herself of writer’s block in the black comedy “The Columnist,” available now on DVD/Digital, from Film Movement. Femke Boot (Katja Herber [...]

‘Marijuana Conspiracy,’ ‘Mortuary Collection,’ More on Home Entertainment This Week

Blu-Ray / DVD Reviews News By Angela Dawson|April 21, 2021 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features Movies 86 Melrose Avenue (Action drama) Lili Matt’s nail-biting thriller “86 Melrose Avenue,” the story of an ex-marine with PTSD who holds an art gallery hostage, will be available On Demand and Digital Tuesday April 20, from Gravitas Ventures. The film [...]

REVIEW: ‘The Craft: Legacy’ Attempts to Conjure Female Empowerment

Film Reviews Reviews By Lynn Barker|October 27, 2020 |0

By LYNN BARKER Front Row Features Film Critic In 1996, teenage girls were inspired to take a crack at spell-casting with the release of “The Craft,” directed by Andrew Fleming and starring Neve Campbell, Robin Tunney, Fairuza Balk and Rachel True. In the process, those fans learned that witchcraf [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Blumhouse TV Chief Talks Slate of Films for Welcome to the Blumhouse Rolling Out this Week

Features TV Features By Angela Dawson|October 6, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Amazon Prime Video’s “Welcome to the Blumhouse,” a program of eight unsettling, genre movies produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios, premieres this week with “Black Box” and “The Lie,” scheduled for ex [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Will Wernick Takes Viewers on Another Escape Room Journey with an International Twist

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|September 16, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Horror filmmaker Will Wernick recalls visiting his first escape room The Basement in northern Los Angeles in advance of making his 2017 film “Escape Room.” He has since visited 20 of these experiential game locations in which teams move through a buil [...]

EXCLUSIVE: Horrormeister Aaron B. Koontz Knocks Out Cowboys vs. Witches Mashup with ‘The Pale Door’

Features Film Features By Angela Dawson|August 18, 2020 |0

By ANGELA DAWSON Front Row Features HOLLYWOOD—Horror filmmaker Aaron B. Koontz recalls as a child having a coloring book filled with forest animals but instead of using the greens and browns and other colors of the woods and staying inside the lines, he instead would transport the animals in to s [...]