DVD/Blu-ray Reviews

Details: Created: 27 October 2019; Published: 27 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Imagine if the original Alien had been shot for 3-D? That chest-busting scene would have really leaped right off of the screen. One has to think that producer and director Charles Band, in his pre-Full Moon days, had been thinking about that ...

Details: Created: 09 November 2019; Published: 09 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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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 ...

Details: Created: 02 August 2019; Published: 02 August 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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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 ...

Details: Created: 26 October 2019; Published: 26 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s time to go back. Clocking in at a breezy 109 minutes, The Wizard of Oz is one of the finest examples of fantasy escapism that we have in film history. Let that soak in for a minute. Perhaps things would have been different had WWII not been right around the corner, but fact is fact ...

Details: Created: 25 October 2019; Published: 25 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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The Firefly Clan is back! That’s right, they survived the shootout that marked the end of The Devil’s Rejects and, for the past decade, they have been rotting behind bars. Except, as the movie begins, there seems to be a change of direction in the condemning wind circulating ...

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Details: Created: 06 November 2019; Published: 06 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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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. ...

Details: Created: 20 October 2019; Published: 20 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Five movies and one devil to rule them all! The Omen Collection is finally available! Joke all you want to about how Hellish it is to raise a kid, but Producer Harvey Bernhard was clearly on to something rich when he decided to double-down on ...

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Details: Created: 28 October 2019; Published: 28 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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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 ...

Details: Created: 18 October 2019; Published: 18 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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In the middle of the 1960s, Toho’s special effects maestro, Eiji Tsuburaya, was on quite a roll. As Ultra Q finished, the Tokyo Broadcasting System wanted a new television series with him at the helm. But this time they wanted something in color; something ...

Details: Created: 30 October 2019; Published: 30 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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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 ...

Details: Created: 16 October 2019; Published: 16 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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28 episodes. 30 minutes. That’s all it took to change the world . . . or should that change be limited to just the airwaves? Because special effects director Eiji Tsuburaya definitely did that with Ultra Q, the black-and-white television series that gave us the first attempt ...

Details: Created: 29 October 2019; Published: 29 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Young Guns successfully entertained the 1988 box office to the tune of 45 million dollars. The film chose to focus on the revenge of Billy the Kid and the regulators on his employer’s killer and once Jack Palance caught one between the eyes ...

Details: Created: 13 October 2019; Published: 13 October 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Dudes named Diablo don’t ever die. And you probably shouldn’t fuck around with them either – especially when they, upon the eve of their death sentence being carried out, vow to return . . . to kill everyone who chooses Florida as their ...

Details: Created: 28 October 2019; Published: 28 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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In the late 70s and early 80s, the short form ‘mini-series’ was a chance for networks to stretch their muscles with event storytelling. Long before HBO and Netflix and Amazon showed that feature film budgets and top shelf talent could not only match the quality of storytelling in cinema, but best ...

Details: Created: 12 July 2019; Published: 12 July 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What could be worse than being in Florida with a Category 5 hurricane bearing down on the state? No, the answer is not “waking up to discover that you now live in Boca Raton.” The answer we’re looking for is to awaken from the nightmare of your neighborhood now ...