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Top 10-ish Blu-ray releases

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Getting an HDTV and/or a Blu-ray player for Christmas? Here’s my list of BDs you should buy.  I used a complicated ratio to come up with the rankings.  It involved lots of integers and calculations and stuff.

The Town That Was.

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This is a documentary about the death of a town.  But it’s not the usual way a town dies.  Instead of a some industry drying up and no more employment available so people move away, this is a little more impressive.
You might have heard of Centralia, Pennsylvania.  It was partial inspiration for the Silent Hill [...]

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An almost review of Blood: The Last Vampire

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I don’t hate CGI in a movie. It never really bothers me. In fact, I actually quite like it at times. With the right budget and the right creative teams you can get some really impressive stuff.
In really low budget movies, it’s almost OK to give them a pass when the CG is [...]

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Bava vs Bava: The MST3K experiment.

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Many horror fans will know the name Mario Bava.  Amongst horror aficionados he is very highly rated. Some of his well known movies are Black Sabbath, Black Sunday, Twitch of the Death Nerve, Kill, Baby… Kill! and Planet of the Vampires.  He’s thought of as a master of the genre, as well as being more [...]

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Durex Performax

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Now I’m not one to brag, but this is something I really didn’t need (I can easily last 4 or 5 minutes) but they came as part of a multi pack I purchased recently.  I was kinda unsure as to what ones to get (it’s been so long since I bought any… I like to [...]