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Warning from Space (1956) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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GIANT STARFISH FROM SPACE! Holy crap, humans! Run for your lives! These baggy-suited martians with eyes where their stomachs ought to be might just tickle you to death ...

Don't Panic (1987) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 20 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Move over, Jason! There’s a new Boogeyman on the block and his name is . . . Virgil! Now, doesn’t that put the fear of God in you?! The filmmakers of this so-bad-its-not-really-good-at-all horror film were kind of banking on that draw. Oops. Virgil the ancient Roman poet of the Augustan period? Well, ...

Slithis - AKA Spawn of the Slithis (1978) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Radioactive cultists and transient meth-heads unite! Slithis has returned from the contaminated depths of the canals to kill again. Grab the 6-pack from the fridge, Horror Hounds and Gore-Gore Girls, we're going to need a steady stream of 12 fluid ounces to get through this mad tale of yet ...

Dead Air - Movie Review

Details: Published: 18 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Breaker! Breaker! Hello out there! Anyone home? Dead Air begins with a blur. It is in the blurry lines where we stay as our story comes into focus - with the sound of a gun going off! This is a movie about something revealing itself from the past and, for one widowed man, the consequences ...

Death Trip - Movie Review

Details: Published: 17 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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The dead of winter, you say? Well, welcome to it. Death Trip - full of snowy thrills and chills - is EXACTLY what the doctor ordered to survive what has to be one of the most bizarre spells of winter weather in a decade ...

The Suspect (1944) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 13 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Suspicions! Accusations! It’s all on the screen in this minor film noir classic. The Suspect arrives on blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber and I, as a fan of Laughton’s performances, couldn’t be happier ...

The Act of Reading - Movie Review

Details: Published: 15 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...

Voyage Into Space (1970) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 13 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Because the nonsensical matters! That’s why Voyage into Space exists! Seriously, though, you don’t get Iron Giant without a stop alongside Voyage into Space, about a boy who controls an IRON GIANT (yeah, I went there!) with his wristwatch! ...

Paradise Cove - Movie Review

Details: Published: 11 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Here, there be trespassers! Paradise Cove, a new thriller from Quiver Distribution, is what happens when the homeless get sexy and sassy! ...

Masterpiece: All Creatures Great & Small (2020) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 10 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Calling all vets! There is a heartwarming calm at the center of All Creatures Great & Small, a family drama that is more about optimism than anything else. It is a calm that is hard to explain in these trying times yet it exists and flourishes with each and every episode as lush, rolling...