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- Created: 14 July 2020
- Published: 14 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
It begins, hilariously enough, with some fairly shitty-looking stock footage of glaciers sliding off into the sea. Big budget this Yeti flick is not. Relatively quickly, we are whisked away to a fishing trip that quickly gets ruined by a ...
Read more: Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century (1977) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 13 July 2020
- Published: 13 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“You’ll eat my dinner or one of you walks out of here with a bullet in his head.” John Garfield, one of the original rebels in film cinema, is absolutely on fire in He Ran All The Way and, sitting right next to him, is Shelley Winters, a true partner in crime, as ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume I: He Ran All the Way (1951) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 13 July 2020
- Published: 13 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
The “witness” in this film noir title is Barbara Stanwyck. The murderer is George Sanders. I’m not spoiling anything for those who have never seen Witness to Murder. In fact, we see the murder happen in the very first scene as Stanwyck as Cheryl Draper looks out her apartment ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume I: Witness to Murder (1954) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 13 July 2020
- Published: 13 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“No one would have believed, in the middle of the 20th century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by Intelligences greater than man's. Yet, across the gulf of space on the planet Mars, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded our Earth with envious eyes ...
Read more: The War of the Worlds: Criterion Collection (1953) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 12 July 2020
- Published: 12 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Never mess with another man's melons! Once that sick theme song from composer Charles Bernstein kicks in, you know that this film is going to be an epic showdown. It doesn't disappoint either. No clean window - be it in a car or a house - can stop him ...
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- Created: 09 July 2020
- Published: 09 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
The horror! The hilarity! The frauleins! Insanity follows in Horrors of Spider Island, a Z-grade schlockfest, from Germany! Released here in the United States as It's Hot in Paradise, with some cuts made so that all the girls keeping their clothes on, the horror film finally sees the light of day again ...
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- Created: 06 July 2020
- Published: 06 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
In the wake of composer Ennio Morricone’s passing, there are few things as beautiful and as moving as his score set to the playful opening of prolific movie mogul Dino De Laurentiis’ Orca: The Killer Whale! Sure, this is a JAWS rip-off, but watching those beautiful beasts hurl themselves out ...
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- Created: 03 July 2020
- Published: 03 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
The Dynamic Duo of silent AND sound comedy return! This release has been a long time coming, but finally - thanks to Jeff Joseph in conjunction with the UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Library of Congress - Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy have arrived on ...
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- Created: 02 July 2020
- Published: 02 July 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Calling all fans of 1970s cinema! Severin Films has got your ticket to ride with what has to be one of the strangest science fiction offerings, The Astrologer. Slow-moving and centered around a covert government agency which monitors astrological signs to see if a person is good or bad, this film will leave ...
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- Created: 29 June 2020
- Published: 29 June 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
You haven't seen anything until you witness a double amputee karate kick someone's ass straight into a pool. In slow motion, nonetheless. That's the exploitative territory we're headed into in tonight's viewing of Mr. No Legs. Get the beer ready! ...
