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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  ...

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For as long as studios have been cranking out horror films, there has been a reliance on its bankable formula.  Sex, violence, and the final girl archetype have filled the pages and the screens of these flicks for decades now.  From Laurie Strode to Nancy Thompson and Kristy  ...

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“He’s dead.  Send the money.”  With that sentence, one agent named Rosa (Jimena Gala) shows the audience of High Octane’s Impossible Mission just how skilled she is at making deadly poisons.  There’s just one problem.  She is tired; emotionally drained from all the killing  ...

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Indie horror films are, thankfully, on the rise and when they are of this quality, well, they can be damn remarkable with both their chills and spills.  Room for Rent is a thriller from Arizona-based filmmaker Tommy Stovall that works on many levels, putting sort of Air B&B spin  ...

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The American Frontier.  Having lived in the Midwest for most of my life, I can tell you that there are parts of it that – stretching on and on for what seems like endless miles – feel haunting and foreboding.  Especially at night.  Here, under nights with a sliver of the  ...

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Finally, a reintroduction to the mythos of the mummy with cheeky humor and excessive gore! Beginning with a quote from Kanye West, “Nothing in life is promised except death”, Mummy Reborn has quite the ...

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I don’t know about you and your family, but I can tell you that, when I go on vacation, the first place my child checks out is the pool.  I haven’t even parked the damn car and his ass is out the car door, shredding clothes, and running toward the pool.  He cannonballs into the ...

Read more: Drowning Echo (2019) - Movie Review

Make no bones about it, Triple Threat is named after the unforgettable TITANIC team-up of martial arts maestros Iko Uwais (The Raid movies), Tiger Chen (Man of Tai Chi) and Tony Jaa (the Ong Bak trilogy) as they join forces, after kicking each other’s ass, in one movie ...

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To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie.  It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen.  Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right  ...

Read more: Pet Graveyard (2019) - Movie Review

Now, Gore-gore Hounds and Blistering Boils, I don’t know about you but when I take a bath – especially when my friend has been splattered on the ground and run over raw by a car – that last thing I want, naked and soaked in the bubbles of a warm bath, are long, thin, boney  ...

Read more: American Poltergeist: The Curse of Lilith Ratchet (2019) - Movie Review