The Video File
Joshua ZyberThe Video File is a curated journey, one title at a time, through a huge movie collection that took decades to amass on media formats including Blu-ray, 4K, DVD, Laserdisc, and possibly others. (Streaming gets some viewing time as well.)
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Local Hero (1983) | A Little Time Is All We Have Left
Released way back in the distant past of 1983, Scottish filmmaker Bill Forsyth’s Local Hero concerns a major industrial corporation’s attempt to buy up the land in a rural community in order to strip it of all natural resources, unconcerned...
The Fearless Vampire Killers (1967) | From the Video File Archives
As the rest of her Carpathian village sleeps, a comely virgin cowers in her bed watching a menacing figure enter through the window. Terrified, the girl grabs a crucifix from the wall and holds it before her to ward off the fearsome creatur...
The Killer (2024) | From the Video File Archives
The Killer is legendary action filmmaker John Woo’s masterpiece. To be clear, when I say that, I’m of course referring to Woo’s 1989 film called The Killer. His new 2024 movie also called The Killer, which is being promoted as a self-direct...
The Killer (2023) | From the Video File Archives
Following a brief and frankly uneventful theatrical release, the latest feature from acclaimed filmmaker David Fincher arrives at what was always intended to be its true home on Netflix. Based on a French graphic novel series from 1998 that...
Film After 11 Podcast | The Killer (1989)
Flagrantly and with full intention violating my own arbitrary rule against watching R-rated movies for our Film After 11 podcast (at least knowingly so), I decided to introduce one of my sons to John Woo’s blood-soaked action masterpiece Th...
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Writer/editor of The Video File Blog. Host of the "Film at 11" podcast. Formerly a writer at High-Def Digest, Home Theater magazine and others. Obsessive collector of movies on physical media, from Laserdisc to DVD, Blu-ray, and 4K.
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