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Badass B-movies

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

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First, there was It Came From Outer Space and then there was The Creature from the Black Lagoon. Both of those films – and the success they shared – led to Universal’s B-movie dominance in the 1950s and, no matter how minor of it a flick it was, we have a curio ...

Details: Created: 26 February 2019; Published: 26 February 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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A single tear is all it takes for this dude to land all the ladies. His name is Cry-Baby and this is his story . . . with guitars! The motorcycles! The music! The Squares! The Drapes! And all the raging hormones! It’s 1954 again in Roger Waters’ classic teenage musical, Cry-Baby. It has been ...

Details: Created: 24 February 2019; Published: 24 February 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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If you thought that the opening battle in Saving Private Ryan was intense, you haven’t seen anything yet. Overlord takes that PTSD-causing opening to task with a sequence in the skies above Germany as American paratroopers are absolutely gutted right before our ...

Details: Created: 23 February 2019; Published: 23 February 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminaaaaaaate! Guess who is back?!?!?! The Eleventh Season of the rebooted Doctor Who has had its fair share of criticisms, beginning with the fact that the beloved Doctor has regenerated into a female. Truthfully, actress Jodie Whittaker is ...

Details: Created: 22 February 2019; Published: 22 February 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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The opening moments of Barb Wire, a critically panned film that is based on the Dark Horse comic book series, is thankfully filled with a whole lot of Pamela Anderson. She is on stage, dancing, and being sprayed with champagne from a hose. The scene, especially Anderson in ...

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

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Using oversized Invasion of the Saucer Men Halloween masks and silver sweat suits for the look of its alien invaders, Revenge of the Spacemen is a cheaply-made homage to 1950s rock and schlock that plays for solely laughs. The film is cheesy, occasionally funny, and ...

Details: Created: 20 February 2019; Published: 20 February 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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The Return of the Vampire, now on blu-ray thanks to Shout! Factory, is the film with which Columbia Pictures flies the B-movie, with director Lew Landers (The Raven) at the helm, to new heights courtesy of the German Luftwaffe aircraft in this unofficial (but, probably, yes) sequel ...

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

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This is why, no matter how bad the traffic jam is, you STAY THE COURSE. You want to get to the boxing match? Keep your ass in line. One wrong turn later and your entire life could be rendered null and void thanks to a dangerous neighborhood and a stray bullet. ...

Details: Created: 17 February 2019; Published: 17 February 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Poison Ivy. The itch you shouldn’t scratch. But we did, didn’t we?! And we got a collection of movies that helped former child stars strip out of their past image and into something new and racy and all kinds of shocking! That is what the 1990s brought those of us raised ...

Details: Created: 14 February 2019; Published: 14 February 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Does this mean that you WON'T be my valentine? With those words, one scorned nerd has his revenge on a group of pretty little liars. Valentine, directed by Jamie Blanks, is immediately better than most of the teen slasher flicks of the late ‘90s and early 2000s. It just doesn’t ...