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Widows (2018) - Movie Review

In film, mass audience appeal and brains rarely ever go together. Just ask Paul Blart. Yet, with his heist thriller Widows, filmmaker Steve McQueen proves that it is actually possible to make an intelligent film that is also appealing to a wide audience ...

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Elves (2018) - Movie Review

The red lights strung without care.  The hushed voices coming from just around the corner.  The decrepit elf under the bed.  And the smile; THAT stretched out smile.  It shouldn’t be on the face of a child so young, but it is in this horror movie.  Christmas shouldn’t be  ...

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Woody and the Rest of the Toys are Back in TOY STORY 4 Teaser Trailer

Netflix follows its short teaser that debuted earlier this month with the full trailer for the reboot of Benji, the popular Joe Camp written and directed film of the '70s that launched Benji-mania into American consciousness and carved a place for scruffy little puppies into the hearts of ...

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Revenge of the Dead (1983) - Blu-ray Review

A shell of a building. An empty room. And a line of monitors all tuned in to the same dead channel: a close-up of a corpse. It is the face of Don Luigi Costa, a religious man who gave up his vows after his horrible diagnosis. How bizarre! How eerie! How utterly unusual! What  ...

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Saturday Night 11.10 - Echosynthetic Fest 2018: Part Three

. . and, boy, did the lineup on Saturday night ever deliver.

From the very moment the stage darkened, we stood transfixed.  Anticipation practically dripped from the ceiling.  The audience was charged-up and anxious.  We were about to witness chiptune history.  THE Unholy Rat King, making his live debut...

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Friday Night 11.9 - Echosynthetic Fest 2018: Part Two

. . . and then the stage dimmed.

Only one figure was seen walking through the darkness. This woman, with long flowing hair and a gorgeous voice, stood ready at the keyboards. Glitbiter, hailing from Los Angeles, kicked off the two-nights of

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The Warm Up - Echosynthetic Fest 2018: Part One

It was a cold and wet night in Atlanta, Georgia. My flight had arrived in the early afternoon and nothing much had changed weather-wise; even my bones shivered from inside my leather jacket.

You wouldn’t know anything about that wintery weather from inside The Earl

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Happy Birthday to Me: Indicator Series (1981) - Blu-ray Review

Kebob skewers.  They aren’t meant to be shoved straight into the throat.  But that’s what happens when one poor girl is pushed to the limits and finds herself without the usual murder weapon.  Happy Eating! ...

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Stephen King's Sleepwalkers (1992) - Blu-ray Review

I hate cats.  I have an old joke that I use in the classroom.  First day stuff, so students know where I stand on the issue of those nasty fur balls.  It goes like this: “Rough start to the day.  I ran over a cat on the way to work.  (Pause.)  Yeah, I had to cross two lanes of traffic ...

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The Meg (2018) - Blu-ray Review

The end of the summer season is upon us, Moviegoers.  What better way to celebrate the last hurrah of silliness then with a mega-sized shark causing all sorts of chaos at the cinema?  True, The Meg – about a 75-foot-long prehistoric shark known as the Megalodon ...

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