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Booksmart (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 24 May 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Whether for good or bad, we were all labeled in high school. And whether we liked it or not, one of the most awkward times of our lives undoubtedly became the indelible forehead stamp that each of us has tried to erase ever since ...

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You: The Complete Series - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 04 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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IT. HAS. ARRIVED. Fred Jones. Daphne Blake. Velma Dinkley. Shaggy Rogers. And a Great Dane named Scooby-Doo. That’s right, kiddos, the Mystery Machine has pulled up in all-new (AND BOLD) colors! The details! The animation! And all the fun-loving, free-wheeling, sandwich-gobbling spirit ...

Clownado - Movie Review

Details: Published: 02 September 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s over the BIG TOP fun when Big Ronnie (John O’Hara) and his Circus of A Thousand Wonders arrives in your town! Your ass better hightail it for the hills! Clownado, written and directed by Todd Sheets (Dreaming Purple Neon, Bonehill Road), knows exactly ...

Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 31 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Hell Comes to Frogtown and only "Rowdy" Roddy Piper as Sam Hell can save the day. I don’t know whose idea it was – cinematographer/director Donald G. Jackson or writer/producer Randall Frakes or, hell, the B-film minded souls over at Roger Corman’s New World Pictures – but strapping a bomb onto Piper’s ...

The Farewell - Movie Review

Details: Published: 30 August 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What a beautiful tapestry we weave when the threads of inclusion and diversity are laced into the fabric of an industry. Such is the case with a Hollywood currently at the forefront of the inclusion and representation movement. Lots of work still needs to be done, but ...

What We Left Behind: Looking Back on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (2019)

Details: Published: 27 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Dark. Intense. Edgy. Consistently bold. Endlessly imaginative. And, of late, experiencing a bit of a renaissance in popularity, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine is now – on the eve of its 25th Anniversary – being celebrated with its own documentary. What We Leave Behind: Looking Back On Star Trek: Deep ...

Gwen - Movie Review

Details: Published: 28 August 2019; Written by Loron Hays

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Arthouse films have a lot to offer fans of the horror genre. Gwen, operating as a feminist folk tale, is yet another example of that statement. ...

The Secret Life of Pets 2 - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 07 June 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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One of the toughest challenges faced by screenwriters when developing a sequel – especially to a wildly popular animated film – is how to best capture the same spirit and vibe of the original while also taking the story and characters we love to new ...

Our Most Wanted on Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD This Week - August 27, 2019

Details: Published: 26 August 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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And another friendly hi-def hello to our fellow blu-ray geeks. Welcome to the weekly look at our most wanted titles coming to blu-ray and/or 4K Ultra HD for the week of August 27, 2019.

It's About to Get Twisted in First Trailer for CLOWNADO

Details: Published: 26 August 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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The Joke's on you when Clownado blows in this September! This is no circus for those afflicted with Coulrophobia. Wild Eye Releasing has just put out the trailer for its new film called Clownado, that ...