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A Night in Casablanca (1946) - Blu-ray Review

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

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The Marx Brothers are coming! The Marx Brothers are coming! Well, after a bit of exposition that is as Casablanca (and others like that film) get a big kiss-off thanks to the parody on display throughout the 86-minutes that make up A Night in Casablanca. This REEL CLASSIC might not be the ...

Paramount Presents: The Golden Child (1986) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 30 December 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...

Some Like It Hot: Criterion Collection (1959) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 29 December 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s hard to conceive in this era of remakes that some redos in the history of cinema go on to become classics in their own right. For genre fans, John Carpenter’s The Thing is often cited as a prime example. For comedy, however, Billy Wilder’s beloved cross-dressing romp, Some Like It ...

Climate of the Hunter - Movie Review

Details: Published: 28 December 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Wesley (Ben Hall) may or may not be a vampire. That’s only one of the most fascinating aspects about Climate of the Hunter, a horror film which will leave you wanting to see more from Oklahoma indie filmmaker Mickey Reece ...

The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone (1990, 2020) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 December 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Ladies and gentlemen, we finally have a fitting conclusion to The Godfather. It might have taken us some time to get there, but with the release of The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, that finale is upon us and what a much better film this cut is as it celebrates its 30th ...

Army of One - Movie Review

Details: Published: 22 December 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Sometimes the holiday season needs to end up on Santa’s naughty list. That’s one of the reasons Army of One, starring rising action star Ellen Hollman (The Matrix 4), as Brenner Baker works so well. While audiences cozy up by the fireplace, she’s out in the wild kicking all sorts of ass. Why? Because one ...

D.C. Cab (1983) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 21 December 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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“Fool! Your fare is the only thing stopping me from breaking your face!” Directed by Joel Schumacher (Lost Boys, Falling Down, 8MM, Batman & Robin), D.C. Cab is his blissfully unaware feature film which follows in the hilarious footprints of The Incredible Shrinking Woman, which ...

Infidel - Blu-ray Review

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

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Iranian-American filmmaker Cyrus Nowrasteh has made quite a name for himself around Hollywood with unflinching films that pull back the curtains on governmental corruption and institutionalized abuse. His target is never limited to the American government, however, and those ...

All About Eve: Criterion Collection (1950) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 17 December 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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"What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, All About Eve continues to shine bright thanks to the dazzling performance of Bette Davis as Margo Channing as she takes Anne Baxter as ...

Ammonite - Movie 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 ...