by Tom Davis, Jan 28 2011 // 11:00 AM

I don’t know how many of you remember movies from the early 1970s, or were even alive in the 1970s, but the period from 1969 to 1975 witnessed a wealth of gritty, nihilistic B-movie dramas. The protagonists were often shady anti-heroes involved in some violent pursuit either above or below the law.
Easy Rider in 1969 probably spawned the genre (or Bonnie and Clyde in 1967), and was shortly followed by Dirty Harry (1971), Badlands (1973), Death Wish (1974), and my personal favorite, Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry (1974), among many others. The genre died out about the time Smokey and the Bandit arrived in 1977, when a smirking Burt Reynolds and an over-the-top Jackie Gleason turned it into a southern-fried mockery.
This type of film was personified by Charles Bronson, the lead in Death Wish, who typified the craggy, mumbling, speak-little-but-carry-a-big-Magnum character that was often at the center of these movies. Bronson, like Clint Eastwood, was never very likeable in his films, but he had an air of cold-blooded ruthlessness that made you cheer for him anyway, as the baddies he dispatched were always much more sinister (but much less charismatic) than he was.
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Tagged: Action, Badlands, Ben Foster, Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Bronson, Death Wish, Dirty Harry, Dirty mary Crazy Larry, Donald Sutherland, Easy Rider, Jason Statham, Simon West, The Mechanic, Tony Goldwyn
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by Joe Gillis, Oct 20 2009 // 1:00 PM

Here’s a list of some of the new movie and TV shows coming to DVD and Blu-ray this week that we’re looking forward to seeing. Also, there’s some classic, and not-so-classic, movies hitting Blu-ray for the first time this week as well.
Of all the new releases, we’re particularly interested in the Blu-ray versions of movies and TV shows such as Blood: The Last Vampire, Easy Rider and the first seasons of Hawaii Five-O and Vega$. Plus, I think some movie with lots of robots, explosions and Megan Fox also came out this week as well.
Check them out.
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Blood: The Last Vampire ~ Michael Byrne, Constantine Gregory, Yasuaki Kurata (DVD and Blu-ray)
Cheri ~ Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates (DVD – 2009)
Easy Rider ~ Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Jack Nicholson (Blu-ray)
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Tagged: Blood: The Last Vampire, Easy Rider, Hawaii Five-O, Jack Nicholson, Kevin Costner, Planes, Steve Martin, Trains and Automobiles, Transformers 2, Vega$
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