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Get Baked with the New Trailer for Netflix's COOKED WITH CANNABIS

Details: Published: 08 April 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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There is a revolution taking the cooking world by storm and it's all because of this star ingredient: Marijuana. And Netflix is picking up this whacky new trend by featuring it in an upcoming new series called Cooked With Cannabis, which appears to be THC-infused knock-off of ...

Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope - 4k Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 08 April 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Star Wars’ new caretakers, Disney, have gone to painstaking work to be able to release this series of films for the first time in 4K. After purchasing the franchise from George Lucas, acquiring 20th Century Fox, and continuing the Star Wars saga with (so far) 5 new ...

She's Allergic to Cats - Movie Review

Details: Published: 06 April 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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It's time to get weird. Menstruating demon cats. That’s what this “sad and dirty man-baby” dreams of when he’s not being visited by rats in his shitty Hollywood bungalow. Ironically, this is what happens when you sell out to “The Man” in ...

Munster, Go Home! (1966) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 05 April 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Munster, Go Home! is finally available! There’s something strange in the neighborhood and it’s NOT taking place at 1313 Mockingbird Lane this time. In fact, it’s happening far, far away from the macabre weirdness that is usually happening within the Mockingbird ...

Deep Space (1988) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 05 April 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Schlocky science fiction gets gutted in writer/director Fred Olen Ray’s Deep Space! Now on blu-ray thanks to Scorpion Releasing, this campy cult classic sees Charles Napier, the steely-eyed character actor who formed a career out of playing pissed-off military figures, as a Los Angeles ...

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 17 December 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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If one of the final moments of director J. J. Abrams’ Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker - two lightsabers sinking into the sands of Tattooine - hits you rather hollow, it is by the director’s choice. The Skywalker Saga is over with this film, but what’s shocking is that it really doesn’t feel ...

Bones (2001) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 02 April 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Because the gangster of love don’t need no fried chicken! Starring Snoop Dogg and Pam Grier, director Ernest Dickerson’s Bones is an incredibly tight updated take on blaxploitation flicks by way of horror. The mashing of genres works to create a film that has gone on to earn a sizable cult following ...

April Fool's Day: Collector's Edition (1986) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 31 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Because who doesn’t like a practical joke?! “On a clear day you can see the Kennedys.” That line of dialogue is one of the many clever lines in this cult classic from 1986. April Fool’s Day, directed by Fred Walton and written by Danilo Bach, is an undeniable masterpiece of mood and mayhem ...

Conquest (1983) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 01 April 2020; 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 ...

Same Boat - Movie Review

Details: Published: 30 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Bad for humanity or bad people. Is there a difference? Same Boat, opening with a hilarious assassination of the people who created reality television, doesn’t think so. In this time-traveling romantic comedy, there are always more people to kill and more bodies to stack. Welcome to the 28th ...