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- Published: 22 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Hollywood used to make fun movies like this one all of the time. They stopped when the 1990s ran up on us. Hitting my stride in the 1980s as a fat kid with a bag of popcorn in one hand and a sack of gummy bears in the other, my days were filled with Monster Squad memories ...
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- Published: 26 October 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
There’s no grand message in Mid90s, the heartfelt new film written and directed by actor Jonah Hill who takes his first turn at bat behind the camera. And there’s really not much of a story either. This sincere little coming of age film is perfectly content to simply sit back and ...
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- Published: 21 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Because sometimes the act of revenge is stronger medicine than actually doing it. Sometimes. The 16mm footage. The dialogue cards. The city atmospheres. Everything about Nurse Jill, including its smaller than small ...
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- Published: 07 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Once again, I do NOT get the critical backlash against this Amblin-esque tale of a boy and his dog. A-X-L rocks. I mean, for those teens out there that are forever the outcast or picked on by the assholes of the world out there then this movie ...
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- Published: 20 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
The wink and the nod begins with the opening sideways shot as a cop car arrives on the scene. Swiftly, the camera corrects itself and a barrage of cops, all apparently having the worst night of their lives, arrives. The camera glides over the response to the hostage scene that is ...
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- Published: 14 September 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Set in the bombed-out husk of 1980’s Detroit, White Boy Rick tells the rather incredible true story of Rick Wershe, Jr., a down-and-out kid who became the youngest ever FBI informant at the tender young age of 14 ...
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- Published: 19 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
You will NEVER forget the first seen ashen-faced zombie (Ben Harris) in this movie. I promise you. That cackle! That expression! It is a scene, in which the zombie chucks a woman’s body over a ledge, that will linger with you thanks to the crazed look glued on the face of ...
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- Published: 05 October 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Nothing in Bad Times at the El Royale is as it seems. Not the story, not the characters, not even the hotel itself as it sits astraddle the Nevada-California state line and wears the duality of its colliding worlds of past and present as a cherished badge of honor. ...
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- Published: 19 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Kitty’s back on the cell block! Woot! Woot! Let the sweat-dripping orgies begin! Violence in a Women’s Prison, originally released in 1982, is a damn ugly exploitation flick. Even when you lower the bar when it comes to Women in Prison flicks, this ...
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- Published: 01 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Nancy Drew knows too much. There is an elegance to the mystery that surrounds A Simple Favor. It is made so much richer thanks to the performance from Anna Kendrick who, once again, nails her character with her quirky energy and down to earth nature. With ...
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- Published: 18 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Hat pins through the heart! She definitely IS a maniac. The massive worldwide success of Flashdance has repercussions, Ladies and Gents, even when it comes to the Italian giallo. A musical murder mystery tour with T&A? Sign me up, man. Just don’t ask ...
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- Published: 03 October 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
Charles Bronson is back! Our fearless avenging angel has taken to the streets once again to kick a whole lot of criminal ass. Thank GOD. I already feel safe knowing that his 32-caliber nickel Colt revolver is blazing out of its 4-inch barrel again ...
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- Published: 17 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
"If you weren't immortal, you'd kill yourself!" Welcome back to the house where only The Twilight Zone is on the television set. It is as creaky place where even the décor blows dust in your face. It doesn’t matter the hour; doesn’t matter the day, The Twilight Zone remains ...
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- Published: 23 December 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
“Wow. I have a parasite,” says Eddie to the clerk. He just ATE a man threatening her with a gun. She's speechless. What better words could there be to describe Eddie Brock’s transformative condition? “I am NOT a parasite,” roars the raging monster within him. We hear ...
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- Published: 16 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Werewolf nuns, Imogen Annesley’s marsupial “pouch” right up in your face, and Tasmanian tigers. That’s what is tucked inside this hairy mess of a werewolf film. With a clever and humorous nod to cheesy B-movies, the third film in The Howling franchise was for many ...
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- Published: 10 December 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
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 ...
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- Published: 15 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Sometimes it takes Time itself to catch up with a movie. This is the case with director Ivan Nagy’s Skinner. Hailing from the beginning of the 1990s and twisted as hell, this film is responsible for many a late night in my younger and wilder days. This is an odd tale of serial killing ...
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- Published: 27 July 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
If there’s anything to be said about the Mission: Impossible franchise it is that it lives up to its name by continuing to defy the odds with its little game of self oneupmanship – each new installment seemingly doing the impossible by keeping the franchise alive, viable, and ...
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- Published: 13 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Toning down the pornography and turning up the violence, Joel Schumacher’s 8mm remains a disturbing look at the uglier side of the pornography business. The film stars Nicolas Cage as private detective Tom Welles and Joaquin Phoenix as an adult video clerk ...
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- Published: 10 September 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
When it comes to matters of horror, religion will always be mined. Life and death and the quest for what’s on the other side, right? The Nun, the latest spinoff from The Conjuring series, has been spooking people with its trailers for quite some time. The film; however ...
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- Published: 13 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
There is a sudden peace next to the river here. Amidst all the brown colors in this barren jungle of mud, this one moment of fertile green breaks through: a native woman cradles her newly born baby. A man and a woman, seconds earlier, were racing for their lives and now ...
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- Published: 06 July 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
In the post-Thanos world of the MCU, it’s nice to be welcomed into the comforting arms of a film we can simply sit back and enjoy. And that’s certainly the case with Ant-Man and the Wasp, a fast-paced, funny, superhero romp that is light on emotion and heavy on humor ...
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- Published: 12 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
. . . in which the Greeks go giallo. . . Greek filmmaker Nico Mastorakis (The Zero Boys, Hired to Kill, Island of Death) is widely known for his affinity and his production of B-grade films. Blind Date, in which actor Joseph Bottoms, playing ex-pat ...
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- Published: 31 August 2018
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Born from the pages of a short story, bottle fed on the milk of science fiction, raised on a road trip, and nurtured in the loving bosom of family drama, the new movie Kin is a curious but frustrating conglomeration of many genres. Certainly an ambitious undertaking from filmmaking ...
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- Published: 11 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Sometimes a movie is so insanely cool that there can be no stopping its ascension through the gates of classic cinema. Let the Corpses Tan (Laissez bronzer les cadavres) is one of those movies. From the beautiful Mediterranean summer that hugs this modern day ...
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- Published: 09 August 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
The end of the summer season is upon us, Moviegoers. What better way to celebrate the last hurrah of silliness then with a mega-sized shark causing all sorts of chaos at the cinema? True, The Meg – about a 75-foot-long prehistoric shark known as the Megalodon ...
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- Published: 10 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Los Angeles. Sometime in the not too distant future. This is where we start in writer/director Albert Pyun’s Nemesis, a film that – thanks to a heavy spray of bullets and swagger – puts the PUNK in cyberpunk. Alex Raine (Olivier Gruner) is an assassin for the LAPD. His job? ...
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- Published: 31 October 2018
- Written by Michelle Duy
When successful New York photographer Ronit (Rachel Weisz) finds out that her rabbi father died, she flies home to London and stays with her married friends, Dovid (Alessandro Nivola) and Esti (Rachel McAdams). The rest of the Orthodox Jewish community is ...
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- Published: 09 January 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
Produced for television by Aaron Spelling, The House That Would Not Die is a one-time ABC Movie of the Week atmospheric creeper that, thanks to some old-fashioned style melodrama, doesn’t always work when it comes to its cast. The premise; however, is a solid ...
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- Published: 13 July 2018
- Written by Loron Hays
Amputees attack! If you are reading this then you are probably wondering if Dwayne Johnson’s new action flick is as yet another brainless actioneer. Skyscraper is EXACTLY that. Dumb. Stupid. Shameless. The movie, defying gravity and logic time and ...
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