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The Basement - Movie Review

DON'T GO DOWN THE BASEMENT!

White Boy Rick - Movie Review

It is sad, heartfelt, funny, entertaining, and as dangerous as a box of dynamite.

The Nun - Movie Review

For all of its faults, The Nun still gets my blessing."

Kin - Movie Review

A frustrating conglomeration of many genres

Ocean's 8 (2018) - Blu-ray Review

The con is back on!

Upgrade (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Plug in and get an upgrade. You won’t be sorry.

Deadpool 2 - Blu-ray Review

Now on sparkling blu-ray

Life of the Party - Blu-ray Review

Now on sparkling Blu-ray

New on Blu-ray

Watch George A. Romero's Fully Restored NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD on the Big Screen. Here's Where to Find It

Details: Published: 14 September 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Night of the Living Dead Restored Screening Just in time for Halloween, George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead is returning from the grave to haunt theaters once again. But this isn't the same version you've been watching at midnight screenings for the last 50 years.

The Basement (2018) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 14 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

"DON'T GO DOWN THE BASEMENT!" When it comes to horror, it’s a common phrase Usually, there are some dark and disturbing things that shouldn’t be uncovered down there. Yet, in The Basement, premiering on digital from Uncork’d Entertainment, that lowly place ...

White Boy Rick - Movie Review

Details: Published: 14 September 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Set in the bombed-out husk of 1980’s Detroit, White Boy Rick tells the rather incredible true story of Rick Wershe, Jr., a down-and-out kid who became the youngest ever FBI informant at the tender young age of 14 ...

Hereditary (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 13 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Hereditary is a movie about secrets and dysfunction as one family’s murky past becomes future tense. Borne from a tragedy, the film turns into unstoppable nightmare fairly quickly. The faint of heart will shield their eyes as shadows manifest into ghosts and ...

Netflix Debuts Poster and Trailer for Coen Brothers' THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS

Details: Published: 12 September 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Academy Award winners Joel and Ethan Coen certainly aren't new to Westerns. With True Grit and No Country For Old Men in their repertoire, the filmmakers have proven themselves as modern day masters of American Frontier storytelling ...

Celebrity Chefs Fight Crime in New SCOOBY-DOO AND THE GOURMET GHOST Animated Feature

Details: Published: 12 September 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Fire up the Mystery Machine! Warner Bros. is back in the Scooby-Doo game with a new movie from their animation arm called Scooby-Doo and the Gourmet Ghost. And it is now available on DVD and digital download. You can watch the trailer and an exclusive clip of the film below.

Ocean's 8 - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 07 June 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Because crime is a family affair. I’m not going to say that we needed an Ocean’s 11 spin-off. All I am going to say is that, as an avid fan of Steven Soderbergh’s style-centric comedic heist films starring George Clooney, Brad Pitt, and Matt Damon, I am just thrilled to see the franchise ...

The Nun (2018) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 10 September 2018; Written by Loron Hays

When it comes to matters of horror, religion will always be mined. Life and death and the quest for what’s on the other side, right? The Nun, the latest spinoff from The Conjuring series, has been spooking people with its trailers for quite some time. The film; however ...

Tag (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 15 June 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

You know you’ve just watched a bad movie when the post-credits video montage of the real characters who inspired the story is the best part of the entire ordeal. That’s exactly the case with Tag, a film inspired by the real-life story of a group of middle-aged men who’ve been playing an ...

Upgrade (2018) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 01 June 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

What if all this autonomous technology and cybernetic artificial intelligence stuff we’ve so ardently allowed to slowly creep into our lives suddenly went haywire and began crashing cars, recording our conversations, and sending our most private discussions to random people in ...