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Larry Cohen: Mystery & Misdirection will be released on August 26 via Scream Factory.

The Blu-ray set collects three films from the exploitation trailblazer behind the likes of The Stuff and It’s Alive: The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover, Special Effects, and Wicked Stepmother.

1977’s The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover is a biographical drama starring Broderick Crawford, James Wainwright, Jose Ferrer, Celeste Holm, Ronee Blakely, John Marley, and Michael Sacks.

Special Features:

2k Restoration from the Original Camera Negative (new) Audio: DTS-hd Master Audio Mono “The Most Feared Man: Scoring The Private Files Of J. Edgar Hoover” – Interview With Film Music Historian Daniel Schweiger (new) Original Trailer

1984’s Special Effects is a horror-thriller starring Zoë Lund, Eric Bogosian, Brad Rijn, and Kevin O’Connor.

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Audio: DTS-hd Master Audio Mono Trailer

1989’s Wicked Stepmother is a horror-comedy starring Bette Davis, Barbara Carrera, Colleen Camp, Lionel Stander, David Rasche,...

Alan Alda and co-star Mike Farrell argued over the ethics of a surgery scene in Mash season 7, which was written into an episode. Farrell argued his character B.J. wouldn't take part in an unnecessary surgery, even if it involved saving lives. This clash between Farrell and Alda added tension and moral complexity to "Preventative Medicine."

A classic Mash episode was improved by a genuine argument between Alan Alda and a co-star over the ethics involved in a key surgery sequence. Many Mash actors exited the show during its early years, despite the medical sitcom becoming a runaway hit for CBS. These exits accidentally added to the show's longevity, since the ensemble was periodically refreshed with great new characters like Potter (Harry Morgan) or Major Winchester (David Ogden Stiers).

Wayne Rogers' Trapper left Mash following season 3, with the actor feeling his role kept being diminished by the increasing focus put on Alda's Hawkeye.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga will be taking movie-goers back to the post-apocalyptic wasteland as envisioned by Mad Max franchise mastermind George Miller this weekend – but if you want to watch some more post-apocalyptic wasteland in the comfort of your own home tomorrow, May 24th, Shout! TV has you covered. They will be airing a marathon called Obscury Road, showing cult classic post-apocalyptic movies all day long!

The Obscury Road marathon will be airing on Shout! TV; as well as the Shout! TV app on Roku, Android, Apple TV, and Amazon Fire TV; and the following digital streaming platforms – Samsung TV Plus, Amazon Freevee, Local Now, Plex, Pluto TV, Sling TV, LG Channels, available on LG Smart TVs, Fubo, and Xumo.

Comic Crusaders provides the programming schedule, with the times in Pt:

10Am: Warlords of the 21st Century (Battletruck)

12Pm: Dune Warriors

2Pm: Wheels of Fire

4Pm: Deathsport

6Pm:...

Five decades ago, "M*A*S*H" all but invented the TV dramedy. There had been a few shows before the hit wartime sitcom that straddled the line between inspiring laughter and tears, and there would be plenty more after, but few have ever mixed the two seemingly contradictory genres as perfectly as "M*A*S*H" did.

Across its eleven seasons, the members of the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital partook in plots both side-splittingly funny — prank wars! Traveling long johns! Rib cravings! — and heart-wrenchingly somber. Through both its funniest moments and its darkest, the show adhered to a strong anti-war attitude, frequently focusing on the senseless loss of armed conflict and the zealous, jingoistic leaders who let it happen.

One such episode is "Preventative Medicine," a season 7 outing in which Hawkeye (Alan Alda) decides to medically sideline a bloodthirsty front-line commander who has a disturbingly high casualty rate. Over the course of the episode,...

Clint Eastwood proves again that he Owns the western genre with this odd tale of land reform insurrection and establishment blowback, in New Mexico of 1906. To direct the script by the great Elmore Leonard, Eastwood brought in the western movie legend John Sturges. But Sturges discovered that collaboration now meant acceding to whatever the star wanted. The beautifully filmed movie falls apart even though Sturges saved the day with an 11th hour stunt action climax.

Joe Kidd

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Kl Studio Classics

1972 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 88 min. / Street Date October 27, 2020 / available through Kino Lorber / 24.95

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Robert Duvall, John Saxon, Don Stroud, Stella García, James Wainwright, Paul Koslo, Gregory Walcott, Dick Van Patten, Lynne Marta, John Carter, Pepe Hern, Joaquín Martínez, Clint Ritchie, Chuck Hayward.

Cinematography: Bruce Surtees

Film Editor: Ferris Webster

Original Music: Lalo Schifrin

Written by Elmore Leonard

Produced by Sidney Beckerman

Directed by John Sturges

In 1971 the hottest...

Few ideas survive the times that spawned them, but Westworld, the 1973 Michael Crichton movie about an Old West amusement park populated by lifelike robots, is good enough that Hollywood's been coming back to it for more than 40 years. The original film, which was MGM's biggest box-office success of the year, spawned a sequel and a short-lived TV series; talk of a remake had been floated around for years, with everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to Quentin Tarantino being namedropped around the project at various points. (There was even a porn version,...

Michael Crichton’s cult classic Westworld, which imagines a Wild West-themed vacation destination inhabited by robots, is coming to HBO.

The pay network gave a pilot production commitment to the project from J.J. Abrams, Jonathan Nolan (Person of Interest), and producer Jerry Weintraub (Behind the Candelabra).

The logline for the adaptation of the 1973 film reads: “Set in the amazing world dreamt up by Michael Crichton, Westworld is a dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the future of sin.”

Nolan and Lisa Joy will write and executive produce the series; Nolan is set to direct the pilot.

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With Piranha and Humanoids from the Deep getting all the love lately in the news, we'd be remiss if we did not mention two other Corman cult classics that are poised to make their special edition double-feature DVD debut from Shout! Factory.

From the Press Release:

Brace yourself for twice the fun, twice the adrenaline rush, and twice the traction as Shout! Factory, in association with New Horizons Picture Corporation, is set to release a dynamic duo of Roger Corman classics on one double-feature collector’s edition DVD. August 3, 2010, will see the release of Deathsport/Battle Truck Collector’s Edition, which marks the first time Deathsport is being presented in a widescreen format as well as the first-ever DVD release of Battle Truck (released theatrically as Warlords of the 21st Century). This double-barreled dose of high-octane excitement decisively marks the latest summer installment from fan favorite Roger Corman’s Cult Classics home entertainment series.