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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! ...
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- Created: 18 November 2019
- Published: 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: 29 June 2020
- Published: 29 June 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
The Cameraman is the film in which Buster Keaton’s character (accidentally double exposing some pretty hilarious images over each other) discovers the avant-garde on accident. All joking aside, this comedic masterpiece from the silent era - with one scene hilariously depicting Keaton ...
Read more: The Cameraman: Criterion Collection (1929) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 16 August 2019
- Published: 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: 27 June 2020
- Published: 27 June 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
And just like that, a drive-in classic comes to blu-ray! Thanks to Dark Force Entertainment, Teenage Hitchhikers arrives with a brand new HD Master from the original camera negative with hours of scene by scene color corrections. Time to get those thumbs out and ready for the winding ...
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- Created: 18 November 2019
- Published: 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: 24 June 2020
- Published: 24 June 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Produced and expertly directed by Sean S. Cunningham and written by Victor Miller, Friday the 13th, being the first independent movie to get distributed by a major studio, never seems to get the credit it deserves. We take it for granted with much of the discussion revolving around which ...
Read more: Friday the 13th: 40th Anniversary Limited Edition SteelBook (1980) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 23 August 2019
- Published: 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: 21 June 2020
- Published: 21 June 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Believe it or not, the meta-munching kills of Babyface (Raicho Vasilev) are back! Completely ignored by damn near everyone at the time of its release, The Hills Run Red brought the “babyface” mask to horror enthusiasts a decade before Happy Death Day and Happy Death Day 2 U and ...
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- Created: 09 November 2019
- Published: 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: 17 June 2020
- Published: 17 June 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Kiddos, when it comes to making movies, films RARELY get this ambitious. Primal Scream is what happens when Dashiell Hammett and Arthur C. Clarke get together, smoke a little weed, and decide to make a movie. Outside of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, there is simply nothing ...
Read more: Primal Scream AKA Hellfire (1987) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 13 November 2019
- Published: 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: 18 June 2020
- Published: 18 June 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Men and women in ape suits? Yes, please! The Universal Horror Collection returns with even more mad scientists, crazed apes, and wild women! Woot, woot! I’ve been excited for this release since it was originally announced and, with a few short months of waiting ...
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- Created: 09 November 2019
- Published: 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: 17 June 2020
- Published: 17 June 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“Sometimes the only way I know you’re still alive is when I hear ya flush the toilet!” Don’t adjust your television set! The little blue streak shooting across a rather bland-looking photo of the galaxy as the title card for THE GIANT SPIDER INVASION appears means that aliens have arrived in ...
Read more: The Giant Spider Invasion (1975) - Blu-ray Review
