Sound of Metal - Movie Review
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- Published: 11 December 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Sound of Metal, the new film from first-time director Darius Marder opens with a loud, distorted cacophony of modulation, ringing, and unpleasant noise as a two-piece metal band thrashes about the stage at a concert ...
Paintball Massacre - Movie Review
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- Published: 08 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Why would anyone attend a high school reunion? Let the past be the past, you know. That’s the question posed by the bartender at the reunion which takes center stage in Paintball Massacre, a new horror film from Uncork’d Entertainment, which arms its participants with house-guns ...
Rest in Pieces (1987) - Blu-ray Review
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- Published: 07 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
They don’t make ‘em like this anymore! Spanish director José Ramón Larraz offered some exploitation masterpieces in his time behind the camera. From the SIN-sation that is Vampyres to the unnerving brilliance that is Black Candles, Larraz was known for his fiery persona ...
The New Mutants - 4K Blu-ray Review
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- Published: 09 December 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Well, this one had a pained and storied journey to the big screen. Filmed in 2017 after three years of developed, and falling prey to 20th Century Fox indecision, this Josh Boone directed X-Men spin-off production went through several re-workings before, during and after (in fact LONG after) ...
Eternal Code - Movie Review
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- Published: 04 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Science Fiction has a long history of being morality tales. These far-fetched stories have a lot to say and they carry conscious weight to them, no matter their medium. From the minutes ticking by in Fritz Lang’s Metropolis to the pages of H.G. Wells, there are a lot of future frustrations contained ...
King of the Mountain (1981) - Blu-ray Review
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- Published: 03 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Think you know street racing, son? If you haven’t seen Harry Hamlin (Clash of the Titans), Dennis Hopper (Blue Velvet), and Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams) go at it beneath the twinkling stars of Los Angeles, then you don’t know shit about driving fast on city streets. ...
Backwoods - Movie Review
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- Published: 03 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
And on the Twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me . . . a slasher for the #MeToo era! Backwoods begins by traveling along a winding and lonely dirt road. This eerie opening scene is reminiscent of a David Lynch creation: just the road and the ambiance of the moment. It fills our visual and auditory senses ...
The King of Staten Island (2020) - Blu-ray Review
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- Published: 10 July 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
There’s something about a Judd Apatow film that identifies itself almost immediately. Whether it’s gut-busting humor simply for the sake of making us laugh, or foul language and raunchiness with the sole intention of allowing us to be happy wallowing in our own consenting adulthood, his ...
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The Rental (2020) - Blu-ray Review
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- Published: 07 August 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
If you’ve not yet become totally comfortable with the whole AirBnB home-sharing thing yet, then stay away from The Rental. It’s the new film from first-time director Dave Franco (yes, that Dave Franco) and it plays off the distrust many have about staying in the home of a complete stranger. Think about ...
Beast Mode - Movie Review
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- Published: 01 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Sometimes future cult classics aren’t easy to spot. This is the case with Beast Mode, a film that is so on-the-nose when it comes to lampooning Hollyweird that its inspired cast, featuring C. Thomas Howl (The Amazing Spider-Man), Ray Wise (Twin Peaks, RoboCop), and Leslie Easterbrook (The Devil’s Rejects, Halloween), will ...
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