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Details: Created: 04 September 2019; Published: 04 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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IT. HAS. ARRIVED. Fred Jones. Daphne Blake. Velma Dinkley. Shaggy Rogers. And a Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. That’s right, kiddos, the Mystery Machine has pulled up in all-new (AND BOLD) colors! The details! The animation! And all the fun-loving, free-wheeling, sandwich-gobbling spirit ...

Details: Created: 31 August 2019; Published: 31 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Hell Comes to Frogtown and only "Rowdy" Roddy Piper as Sam Hell can save the day. I don’t know whose idea it was – cinematographer/director Donald G. Jackson or writer/producer Randall Frakes or, hell, the B-film minded souls over at Roger Corman’s New World Pictures – but strapping a bomb onto Piper’s ...

Details: Created: 27 August 2019; Published: 27 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Dark. Intense. Edgy. Consistently bold. Endlessly imaginative. And, of late, experiencing a bit of a renaissance in popularity, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is now – on the eve of its 25th Anniversary – being celebrated with its own documentary. What We Leave Behind: Looking Back On Star Trek: Deep ...

Details: Created: 21 August 2019; Published: 21 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Grab the wolfsbane! Get the garlic! Cult filmmaker William Beaudine takes aim and squeezes the B-movie trigger again! From The Ape Man to Voodoo Man, the director constantly drums up a lot of B-movie mayhem. Here, he ...

Details: Created: 21 August 2019; Published: 21 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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In which Frankenstein gives us the two fingered salute! You’ll laugh! You’ll cry!! The Horror of Frankenstein and its bodybuilding monster will be why! Scientific twaddle has never been so supercilious than here in this Hammer flick from 1970 ...

Details: Created: 21 August 2019; Published: 21 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Atomic fusion gets jazzed up! Thanks to a righteously jazzy score from composer Ralph Carmichael and an off-kilter (but campy) vibe, an underappreciated science fiction gem gets the blu-ray treatment courtesy of Kino ...

Details: Created: 18 August 2019; Published: 18 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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I mean, it isn’t every day you see a body being dragged on the ground by your grandparents. That’s just one of the MANY shocks in this creepy gem from the video store. Newly scanned and remastered in 4K from its original 35mm camera negative, Vinegar Syndrome gives us another ...

Details: Created: 15 August 2019; Published: 15 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Because maybe the Easter Bunny DOES crap colored eggs! Radioland Murders, directed by Mel Smith (The Tall Guy, Bean) and co-written by George Lucas, is a throwback to another era of comedy. Unfortunately, none of that was recognized when the film was ...

Details: Created: 15 August 2019; Published: 15 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Bloody rabbits do not belong in the shower! That’s one lessen to learn here with this flick. The other is that you simply do not mess with a bleach-blonde James Spader. You are simply asking for a whole hell of a lot of trouble ...

Details: Created: 11 August 2019; Published: 11 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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You’re dead meat, Pilgrim. Highly quotable and completely off its rocker in all the best ways possible, Weird Science is back in circulation thanks to the lovable charm of two high school losers as they go from zeroes to heroes for one fantastical weekend in a ...