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- By Loron Hays
I’ll be blunt. Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, both as a film and a Star Trek entry, is not very good. It isn’t completely without joy (it’s the few chuckles that save this from being a complete downer) but the older the film gets the harder it becomes to defend its ...
Read more: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
Writer/director Jeff Nichols’ love of Mark Twain shines brightly through every frame of his latest film called Mud, the story of a young boy’s coming of age in Southeastern Arkansas’ sultry delta region. While the film’s river setting, its teenage protagonists, and ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
So concludes the four picture deal that began so spectacularly in 2008 with Marvel’s major cinematic gamble: Iron Man. Now three stand-alones/and a crossover film later, has that film gotten a worthy third entry? Phase Two of Marvel’s cinematic universe kicks off with ...
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- By Loron Hays
Romantic comedies don’t get more manipulative than writer/director David O. Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook. They typically can’t get any more damaged either. Centered rather seriously upon mental illness, Russell constructs a fragile film built upon instability ...
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- By Loron Hays
Writer/director Shane Carruth is one bold son of a bitch. Upstream Color is proof of that. He is also the thinking man’s filmmaker and delivers, four years after Primer - his stunning debut - a follow-up that is equally disturbing. His visuals are poem-like ...
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- By Loron Hays
Produced by Guillermo Del Toro, Andy Muschietti’s Mama is not unlike an atmospheric fairy tale. It’s focused on a pair of orphaned siblings left to fend for themselves for five years. They aren’t alone, though. The spindly figure in the billowing in the deep shadows is ...
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Saying goodbye is a hard thing to do. Given that most television dramas overstay their welcome and most science fiction shows never get the chance to say hello, the fifth and final season of Fringe is one lucky dog. Fox essentially allowed this show - with a cut ...
Read more: Fringe: The Complete Fifth and Final Season - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Created, produced, and written by Bob & Harvey Weinstein, The Burning is a slasher picture about summer camp, horny teenagers, and a prank gone seriously awry. Released in 1981, The Burning – directed by Tony Maylam – offers nothing new to the genre ...
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- By Loron Hays
Disturbing is a word that comes to mind after finally seeing this horror anthology. Interesting also comes to mind. Unfortunately, this doesn’t all add up to be a winning combination. While largely uneven – and sometimes just simply too bizarre for its own good ...
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- By Loron Hays
Pop-pops everywhere, celebrate! Olive Films continues their archival campaign to bring long-forgotten into the HD realm with Cary Grant’s Father Goose. It is a true classic of the romantic comedy genre and, released in December of 1964, went on to earn two ...
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- By Loron Hays
Oh my glob! The very first season of Adventure Time has finally crash-landed onto Blu-Ray! Run to the stores, grab it along with some sugary snacks, and settle in with 26-magical themed episodes of F-U-N. Created by Pen Ward, Adventure Time is just about as ...
Read more: Adventure Time: The Complete First Season (2010) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Starring the legendary Peter Fonda, this action-packed double feature release from Shout Factory features a couple of classic drive-in B-movies – Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry and Race with the Devil – from 1974 and both, no matter how you put it, are worth checking out. ...
Read more: Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry/Race with the Devil (1974) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
It’s time, once again, to barrel down the post-apocalyptic Fury Road, Mad Maxinators. Put the pedal to the medal and hang on tight. There’s no place to rest easy. Not anymore. Not with the evil Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne), the disfigured ...
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- By Loron Hays
Houses made of candy and witches that eat babies await you in writer-director Tommy Wirkola’s Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters; a re-imagining of the classic children’s tale. Of course, with amped up violence and super terrific scares galore, the tale – especially ...
Read more: Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (Unrated Cut) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
“Use my body.” With that enticing command, Tobe Hooper’s science fiction bonanza, Lifeforce, (s)explodes onto the screen with an interesting premise involving Haley’s comet and a smokin’ hot chick who walks around the ENTIRE movie without any clothes on. That’s not ...
Read more: Lifeforce: Collector's Edition (1985) - Blu-ray Review
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