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Details: Created: 26 September 2020; Published: 26 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Arriving just in time for a quarantined Halloween, Spooky House has re-opened its doors for all the kiddos to delight in! While not my favorite Halloween film, this quirky comedy does have some laugh out loud moments thanks to a skeleton on a toilet and his magazine reading material ...

Details: Created: 22 September 2020; Published: 22 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Infidelity made private investigator and war veteran Jake Gittes (Jack Nicholson) the man he is today. We know this having seen the excellent Chinatown, but admits as much in the opening line of The Two Jakes, the 1990 Nicholson-directed sequel to that 1974 film, now on blu-ray ...

Details: Created: 20 September 2020; Published: 20 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Release the blood parasites! One of the images that has long haunted my dreams and nightmares is that of a shirtless man bent over a nude woman’s body - which is placed on a desk in an office - as he opens up her stomach, pours acid into her open chest cavity and then, taking the same instrument ...

Details: Created: 20 September 2020; Published: 20 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Family cult classics? Sure! Little Monsters is back in action because knowing that urine and apple juice are interchangeable is something one needs to know early on in life! ...

Details: Created: 13 September 2020; Published: 13 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Sometimes the road to the altar - or in this case, the justice of the peace - is fraught with unexpected unexpected bumps along the way, like a fun media-frightened Archduke, saving a gangster from drowning, rescuing a missing cruise liner, and prank calling an insane asylum ...

Details: Created: 11 September 2020; Published: 11 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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The Awful Truth might have been Cary Grant’s first SUCCESSFUL screwball comedy, but Big Brown Eyes - with its witty dialogue and snappy performances - is, for my money' worth, the FIRST screwball comedy that he starred in. Never heard of it? Change that. Quick ...

Details: Created: 09 September 2020; Published: 09 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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“How could it be hot when it’s Chile?” Businessman Julian De Lussac (Cary Grant) is back in Paris and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. At all. Which makes this Grant-centered film, his 17th film, a fun jaunt down the romantic comedy aisle of a bygone era. Ladies Should Listen, only ...

Details: Created: 06 September 2020; Published: 06 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Cinephile Kiddies and Cretins, come gather round and let me tell you a story about two bumbling reporters who, on an assignment to Dracula’s home turf, uncover the continuing reign of a bi-polar mad scientist who experiments on people, turning them into crotch-grabbing swamp monsters ...

Details: Created: 01 September 2020; Published: 01 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Emperor Ming the Merciless (a very FUN Max von Sydow) of the planet Mongo is bored. In the famous opening of Flash Gordon, he admits of his boredom and decides to play with Earth and causes widespread destruction . . . like floods, heavy winds, and a hellish barrage of flaming meteors ...

Details: Created: 28 August 2020; Published: 28 August 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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AS I have previously stated, Pre-Code Hollywood fascinates me. There are a lot of grand and wonderful films reflecting the true culture of the time period from 1930 – 1934. Man, it must have been a wild time. These films, featuring strong sexual innuendos, different races mingling ...