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Deadpool 2 - Movie Review

Absolutely spectacular sequel

Solo: A Star Wars Story - Movie Review

Have no fear, this far, far away galaxy is still in great shape.

Life of the Party - Movie Review

Feels as though it has taken the entire semester off.

Dead List - Movie Review

neither frightening enough nor funny enough

Black Panther - Blu-ray Review

Now on sparkling blu-ray

12 Strong - Blu-ray Review

A solid entry in the genre.

Proud Mary - Blu-ray Review

Bang. Bang. Shoot. Shoot. With results this forgettable, who really cares?

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - Blu-ray Review

Everything works

New on Blu-ray

Spasms (1983) - Blu-ray Review

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

Sending a scared coed flying through a bathroom door, the scaly giant-sized son of a bitch at the center of this monster flick really has it in for girls in shower stalls. Honestly, with crisp POV shots and attacking camera movements that show piercing bites on naked legs, the ...

See Jude Law as a Young Albus Dumbledore in the First Trailer for FANTASTIC BEASTS: THE CRIMES OF GRINDELWALD

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

With a mere flick of its magical wand, Warner Bros. just released the first theatrical trailer for J. K. Rowling's Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald. Of course, the film is the highly-anticipated follow-up to 2016's Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them and the second of five new adventures in ...

Gregorio Franco’s The Dark Beyond: A HEAVY METAL-Minded Masterpiece of Synthesized Terror

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

Gregorio Franco Cover Art

There is a darkness to this place. A Hellhole that infects everyone. It spreads like cancer, covering everything in a sticky stain of venom ... with just a hint of nihilism.

Look closely and you will see a small child, its sex is indeterminable, but its fear is not. The child shivers. It is up against a cold steel wall. This strange place is not unlike a cage. A silent scream is frozen in its expression and its eyes.

The Undertaker (1988) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 12 March 2018; Written by Loron Hays

It begins with a flat tire. A woman alone. She’s stranded on a lonesome highway. There’s a biker approaching and, after a lift into the woods, his demands are more than she’s prepared to give. He won’t be the end of her, though. What follows is a desperate run for freedom ...

Thor: Ragnarok - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 26 October 2017; Written by Christopher Symonds

Some seventeen films into the MCU, one marvels (see what we did there?) at the sheer volume and consistency of their output in the last decade. There isn’t a single entry in this shared universe that this reviewer hasn’t liked. They’re not all home runs, and, if I think of my ...

The Grinch Gets Animated in the New Trailer for THE GRINCH

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

This holiday season we will all be visited again by that "bad banana with a greasy black peel" when Illumination and Universal Studios will bring us yet one more iteration of the beloved holiday classic, The Grinch. The film will represent the eighth fully animated feature by the studios that...

Demonoid (1980) - Blu-ray Review

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

“Cut off my hand or you die!” screams one affected member of this cast when faced with the consequences of the devil’s left hand. It is only one line of dialogue out of any other such scripted nonsense that receives a loud guffaw from the audience. This b-grade flick, full of firewalking ...

The Love Butcher (1975) - Blu-ray Review

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

I never would have thought that talking to a wig could be so damn enthralling. It turns out, in this heavily misogynistic film that got considerably lighter in tone once cinematographer Don Jones was tasked to salvage the original director’s bizarre work, that wigs – no matter ...

Gringo - Movie Review

Details: Published: 09 March 2018; Written by Frank Wilkins

Gringo stars Thandie Newton, David Oyelowo, Joel Edgerton, Sharlto Copley, Charlize Theron, Amanda Seyfried, and many others. Very rarely does such a star-studded cast come together in a single film. Even more rarely does such a star-studded cast fail so miserably to breathe ...

The Cat o' Nine Tails: Limited Edition (1971) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 08 March 2018; Written by Loron Hays

It is, of course, the thriller in which Karl Malden (On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Pollyanna, and One-Eyed Jacks) goes for the giallo. That’s right, even the former spokesman of American Express Travelers Checks sought solace in writer/director Dario Argento’s ...