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- Created: 17 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“I’ve never bagged a babe.” With those words and damn near perfect timing, Anthony Michael Hall created one of the most memorable teenage characters in film history. Sixteen Candles might be Molly Ringwald’s first movie (for that matter, it was also John Hughes’ first film as writer and ...
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- Created: 25 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
The first time I heard the name Mike Mignola was after I received a set of his Topps comic adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. As a lifelong comic reader, I’m ashamed to say I’d missed his ...
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- Created: 14 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Turns out that the fucking hills, blistering hot in the sinking desert of the southwest, STILL have eyes. They just don’t have Michael Berryman wandering across them anymore, but - like most genre flicks made in the 1990s - they do have rampaging genetic experiments stomping ...
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- Created: 20 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Although this isn’t the first of Disney’s attempts to redo their animated back catalogue, I think it had the hardest job. The mastery of motion capture technology and the sophistication that computer generated animation has reached allows them to deliver ...
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- Created: 11 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Same shit. Same soldiers. Different kind of war. Splatterhouse horror flicks don’t get any throwback worthier than with VFW! The gloves are coming off in this instant cult classic ...
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- Created: 20 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Pixar never cease to surprise me. On the sole summary of one of their stories, I almost never get a sense of just how much I may fall in love with whatever they’re dishing out. Toy Story, The Incredibles, Coco, you name it, I’ve underestimated their power to completely ...
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- Created: 09 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“Is Los Angeles specific enough?” There’s no stopping Jimmy Woods (Luke Evans). The kid, carrying his yellow lunch box, is on a mission. He’s going to California on foot and as the Bodeans’ “You Don’t Get Much” is played, we see him standing tall against an intense sun. Whatever his reason to be ...
Read more: The Wizard: Collector's Edition (1989) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 20 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
For a very long time, I wished that First Blood had been a one and done deal. But it arrived in the 1982, and anything from the 80s onward that made the studios money would like get a sequel with a roman numeral next to it. The remainder of that decade saw ...
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- Created: 05 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Munster, Go Home! is finally available! There’s something strange in the neighborhood and it’s NOT taking place at 1313 Mockingbird Lane this time. In fact, it’s happening far, far away from the macabre weirdness that is usually happening within the Mockingbird ...
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- Created: 18 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Three years would pass before another go around with John Rambo and produce the most (at the time) violent action movie ever made. It marked a continued tonal shift of the character that had good intentions hidden in cartoonish, ham fisted ...
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- Created: 05 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Schlocky science fiction gets gutted in writer/director Fred Olen Ray’s Deep Space! Now on blu-ray thanks to Scorpion Releasing, this campy cult classic sees Charles Napier, the steely-eyed character actor who formed a career out of playing pissed-off military figures, as a Los Angeles ...
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- Created: 16 August 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
One of the kids at the center of the new comedy Good Boys confidently tells his two best friends, “It’s a tampon. Girls shove it up their butts to stop babies from coming out.” The object in question is indeed a tampon, they got that part right. But, of ...
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- Created: 02 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Because the gangster of love don’t need no fried chicken! Starring Snoop Dogg and Pam Grier, director Ernest Dickerson’s Bones is an incredibly tight updated take on blaxploitation flicks by way of horror. The mashing of genres works to create a film that has gone on to earn a sizable cult following ...
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- Created: 18 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
If the last couple of years have taught us anything it should be never underestimate Sylvester Stallone. He was mocked at the beginning of his career and brought us Rocky. His popularity waned in the late 90’s and when word trickled down he was reviving not only his famous ...
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- Created: 01 April 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
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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- Created: 23 August 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Featuring a special needs character in a film is always a risky proposition that has the potential to cross that fine line between exploitation and exposition. ...
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- Created: 31 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Because who doesn’t like a practical joke?! “On a clear day you can see the Kennedys.” That line of dialogue is one of the many clever lines in this cult classic from 1986. April Fool’s Day, directed by Fred Walton and written by Danilo Bach, is an undeniable masterpiece of mood and mayhem ...
Read more: April Fool's Day: Collector's Edition (1986) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 09 November 2019
- Written by Michelle Duy
When Una (Rooney Mara) was 13, her neighbor Ray molested her. They carried on a secret 3-month long relationship, at which point they planned to run away together. But then Ray (Ben Mendelsohn) disappeared. He wound up serving 4 years ...
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- Created: 29 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Cigarettes out and zippers up! Tarantino’s main influence for Death Proof arrives on blu-ray thanks to Code Red and, yes, it features full frontal nudity from The Hoff, a seriously sexy dance number in a soda shop, and a lot of high school teens giving their all for the school. ...
Read more: Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 13 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
‘It’s a mad house! A mad house!’ So it felt to me finding the entire Planet of the Apes cinematic journey in this new mammoth sized 50th anniversary set in the mail. I’ll try to keep the review succinct as there are 5 movies in the original series, the Tim Burton remake and the ...
Read more: 50 Years of Planet of the Apes: 9-Movie Collection - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 28 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Talk about 1970s television star power! Everyone - from Kinky Friedman to Ruth Buzzi - is stocking the shelves at Record City. The familiar faces keep turning up in this store! ...
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- Created: 09 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
We are so spoiled for choice in this day and age that sometimes brilliance and gold that should never be missed can get left in the wake of unending wave of stuff. In a world of remakes, amazing movie magic, remakes of Planet of the Apes are not as instantly well known as ...
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- Created: 27 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Tucked far enough away from civilization, the bleak desert that surrounds the ranch at the center of this independently made feature from 1955 makes for some unsettling moments. There’s nothing around the ranch except sand and mountains in the distance. Its remote location is already changing the ...
Read more: The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes (1955) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 02 August 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Times were so much simpler when the Fast & Furious franchise first got underway back in 2001. The tragic events of 9/11 had not yet complicated our world, $150 million + movie budgets weren't commonplace, and VCR players were the much-coveted electronic ...
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- Created: 23 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
No one screams like Jamie Lee Curtis. No one. Combine those ear-piercing screams with a creepy Groucho Marx mask, a young David Copperfield, a ghostly train ride, and you have sure fire success for a late October night full of terror and mystery. Rising above the typical ...
Read more: Terror Train: Limited Edition (1980) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 06 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
With word trickling down a new Matrix entry is on the way that will include Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie Anne Moss), it feels timely to receive the 4K versions of the trilogy in the post to review. Let’s get to it. ...
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- Created: 19 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
It doesn’t take Night Key very long to kick into high gear. Boris Karloff, starring as an inventor of a bank alarm who gets pissed that he’s not getting the money or the credit for his invention, finds himself in over his head with a group of gangsters who want to get rich quick. With nowhere to turn to ...
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- Created: 28 October 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
William H. Boney, for a 20 something misanthrope, made quite the imprint on the world. Whether it’s a sad indictment on our global culture that these types of people cement themselves into history or a tip of the cap to a now alien time and ...
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- Created: 16 March 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
What happens when like-minded British and Hong Kong film producers get together to make a cheapo-depot sex film? They ride the success of Alien, amp up the sex, and make one of the strangest exploitation films of the early 1980s. Inseminoid is a horror film like few others. Thanks to ...
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- Created: 30 October 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Sylvester Stallone was infamously underrated and dismissed until he stormed the box office and got an Oscar nomination for Rocky. By 1982 he’d attained enough box office clout to name his next project and what he decided to do was First Blood, an adaptation of a novel by David Morell that had been in ...
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