Oh, well. At least it’s finally available on DVD, so I can ditch my VHS. (Google it, kids.) Any Dolph Lundgren fan worth his weight in protein powder knows how welcome the MGM Limited Edition Collection release is. In a fun, sci-fi-tinged take on the buddy-cop formula, Lundgren (“The Expendables”) is the tough but easygoing […]
MGM Limited Edition Collection
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Captain America
As you know by now, it didn’t. If you managed not to catch it in its long-delayed VHS debut in 1993, the MGM Limited Edition Collection finally has issued the thing on DVD to tag along to interest on this summer’s big-budget, blockbuster “Captain America: The First Avenger.” Why didn’t it come out before now? […]
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Blood Bath
The similarities can’t be accidental, nor problematic — there’s plenty of room in horror fanatics’ collections for both. New to DVD from the MGM Limited Edition Collection, “Blood Bath” is far less concerned with comedy. William Campbell of “Dementia 13” headlines the picture — in black-and-white, not color as the box reads — as Antonio, […]
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Futureworld
The original Michael Crichton effort is something of a seminal sci-fi film of that decade, but Richard T. Heffron‘s is often forgotten, even if it’s not bad. Both take place at the high-tech amusement park Delos, which specializes in fulfilling adults’ fantasies, planting them in Western, Roman and medieval scenarios. This one picks up after […]