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Masterpiece: All Creatures Great & Small (2020) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 10 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Calling all vets! There is a heartwarming calm at the center of All Creatures Great & Small, a family drama that is more about optimism than anything else. It is a calm that is hard to explain in these trying times yet it exists and flourishes with each and every episode as lush, rolling...

Baby Done - Movie Review

Details: Published: 12 February 2021; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Whether it’s the hard-life consequences of a drunken one-night stand in Apatow’s raunch-com Knocked Up, or following the hilarious exploits of an independent-minded teenager forced to confront the realities of motherhood in Reitman’s Juno, there’s always plenty of cinematic comedy ...

Ammonite - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 18 December 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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It’s foolish to expect a movie about fossil hunting to be an exciting action banger. But Lord Have Mercy, is Ammonite about as slow as one would expect a movie about fossil hunting to be! To be fair, Ammonite isn’t about fossil hunting, nor does being slow necessarily make it a bad film. It isn’t. But like ...

Necropath - Movie Review

Details: Published: 09 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Atmosphere is everything when it comes to horror and that's why Necropath reigns supreme! Opening a horror film with oral sex in a car is always a good way to grab the viewer’s attention. The moans of pleasure ...

Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Name NOMADLAND Best Picture of 2020

Details: Published: 10 February 2021; Written by Frank Wilkins

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The Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Association voted the road drama NOMADLAND as the best film of 2020, according to the results of its 27th annual critics’ poll released today. Following is a complete list of award winners, with choices listed ...

Silent Madness 3D (1984) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 07 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Death by carpenter’s gun! Paddling in the boiling room! Hot water scalding! Sorority girls get their comeuppance when a paranoid killer is accidentally released from a small asylum which is apparently also run by a lunatic in Silent Madness. Time to get your 3D groove back on when you pop ...

Fatman (2020) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 06 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Ho-Ho-Holy shit! Santa smokes! He carries a flask with him! He cusses like mothertruckin’ sailor, too! And, when the shit hits the fan, he jumps into action in a snowy shootout with a hitman that a child has hired to kill the jolliest man alive. This is the wild territory of Fatman. ...

Sky Sharks (2020) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 06 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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“Watch. Her entire body is going to get zombiefied . . . including her anus.” A weird sentence to come out of the mouth of my wife as she sits next to me watching Sky Sharks, a German produced but English-friendly splatter and trashfest with tons of gratuitous nudity, but there it was, a nude ...

The Dig - Movie Review

Details: Published: 05 February 2021; Written by Frank Wilkins

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In the British period drama, The Dig, director Simon Stone (The Daughter) uses a real life historic archaeological dig to explore themes of time, mortality, our connection to the past, and the impact each of us has on the future. With the aid of Mike Eley’s spectacular cinematography, which leverages ...

Rattlers 2 - Movie Review

Details: Published: 03 February 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Coming at you in sneaky Snake-Vision! Directed by the hardest working man making movies today, award-winning filmmaker Dustin Ferguson (aka "Dark Infinity") is back with his latest release. That’s right, the director of Celluloid Slaughter, 5G Zombies, Angry Asian Murder Hornets, The ...