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Spread your beautiful wings and fly away! Or, at the very least, make a run for it at the zoo while the orderlies aren’t looking. Brothers and sisters of the Cinematic Cult, The Fifth Floor has arrived on blu-ray courtesy of...
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Lunatic on campus! It’s for a confessional, kiddos. I think Scream is overrated. Blasphemous, I know, but there it is: the ugly truth I keep hidden from public eye. Having said that, let me also say that if it wasn’t for Scream then ...
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This mysterious place is, of course, the home of Lucas (Caleb McLaughlin), Will (Noah Schnapp), Mike (Finn Wolfhard), and Dustin (Gaten Matarazzo) or, as we like to call them: Scooby and the Gang. But which one is Scooby? And what members are the ...
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Michael J. Fox. Kiefer Sutherland. Phoebe Cates. Donald Fagen. That’s right, Donald Fagen of Steely Dan fame. Alongside Dianne Wiest and Jason Robards, they are all assembled under the roof of one movie: Director James Bridges’ Bright Lights, ...
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The mirrored image of the two children putting lipstick on immediately creates a stellar atmosphere of distrust. Coupled with Howard Shore’s eerie soundtrack and, yes, this thriller gets off on the right foot. ...
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You can tell EXACTLY what kind of bonkers film this is going to be by the wacky opening credits as a blonde, eager to strip for writer/director Edward D. Wood, Jr’s 16mm camera, takes her lipstick and starts coloring her nipples with it. Her ass follows. Soon her hairy ...
Read more: Ed Wood's Take It Out In Trade (1970) - Blu-ray Review
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A baptism of blood. For about the first 20 minutes of The Satanic Rites of Dracula, we are witness to the sacrifice of a nubile young lady. She topless and it is shown – which is apparently a first for mainstream cinema. A chicken is killed. Blood is spilled on the ...
Read more: The Satanic Rites of Dracula (1973) - Blu-ray Review
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Cat people! Trees that kill! Fauna that feels! Butterflies that bite! And monsters galore! The Blood Island Collection has arrived with matinee mania most foul . . . and TASTELESS! ...
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A shell of a building. An empty room. And a line of monitors all tuned in to the same dead channel: a close-up of a corpse. It is the face of Don Luigi Costa, a religious man who gave up his vows after his horrible diagnosis. How bizarre! How eerie! How utterly unusual! What ...
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I hate cats. I have an old joke that I use in the classroom. First day stuff, so students know where I stand on the issue of those nasty fur balls. It goes like this: “Rough start to the day. I ran over a cat on the way to work. (Pause.) Yeah, I had to cross two lanes of traffic ...
Read more: Stephen King's Sleepwalkers (1992) - Blu-ray Review
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Riot-grrls unite! Few things are more punk rock than this movie. The minute Lori Petty (A League of Their Own) as Rebecca Buck AKA Tank Girl, a member of the resistance group deadset on outmaneuvering the greed of the Water & Power (W&P) corporation, gets ...
Read more: Tank Girl: Collector's Edition (1995) - Blu-ray Review
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Demi Moore is apparently the world’s LAST best hope at surviving the end of days. At least, according to screenwriters W. W. Wicket and George Kaplan, Abby - the character she portrays (and she is quite good here) - possesses the only womb that can deliver the child ...
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Think Tron was the first to use computer graphics to create characters with? If you do, then Looker, now available on blu-ray thanks to the Archive Collection from Warner Bros, has the education you need. Released on the eve of Halloween in 1981, Looker might not have ...
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It’s a damn funny thing what earthquakes can unleash. I remember feeling the ones here in Kansas that all the fracking in Oklahoma caused. There was a shift in my mood. I was on edge, just waiting for something else to happen. Things were weird for about 30 minutes ...
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ONCE UPON A TIME there was a spoiled snob of a young man named Nathaniel Mayweather (Chris Elliott). He wasn’t the nicest or the brightest of boys at school, but he got by well enough. At least no adult, tired of his mouth, had killed him yet. ...
Read more: Cabin Boy: Special Edition (1994) - Blu-ray Review
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