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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

The Blood Spattered Bride (1972) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 24 December 2017; Written by Loron Hays

There’s really nothing I can do to save you from yourself if the first five minutes of director Vicente Aranda’s The Blood Spattered Bride does absolutely nothing for you. Tarantino has alluded to its mesmerizing effectiveness, going so far as to name one of his chapters in ...

Zeder (1983) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 17 February 2018; Written by Loron Hays

A shell of a building. An empty room. And a line of monitors all tuned in to the same dead channel: a close-up of a corpse. It is the face of Don Luigi Costa, a religious man who gave up his vows after his horrible diagnosis. How bizarre! How eerie! How utterly unusual! What ...

Chaos/Don't Look in the Basement (2005, 1973) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 16 February 2018; Written by Loron Hays

Code Red does fans of the Drive-In a very cool favor with the release of the Chaos and Don’t Look in the Basement double feature. While Don’t Look in the Basement has been released on Blu-ray previously, never before has the cult classic been presented in a twofer ...

Leatherface: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre III (1990) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 15 February 2018; Written by Loron Hays

While it is way too slick in comparison to the first two Texas Chainsaw Massacre films, New Line Cinema’s rebranding of the series – as confusing as that opening scrawl is – remains of interest because, originally set to be released as the 1980s came to a close, this film would ...

Night of the Living Dead: Criterion Collection (1968) - Blu-ray Review

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

The Dead live ... again! There’s no denying that Criterion’s handling of writer/director George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead just might be the most important blu-ray release of the year ...

Drag Me to Hell: Collector's Edition (2018) - Blu-ray Review

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

When this film was originally released NINE YEARS AGO, we really wanted writer/director Sam Raimi to be back in the business of scaring the pants off of us and making us howl with laughter. We got exactly what we wanted with Drag Me to Hell even if Raimi remained relatively ...

The Scruffy Puppy of the 70s is Back in the New Trailer for Netflix's BENJI

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

Netflix follows its short teaser that debuted earlier this month with the full trailer for the reboot of Benji, the popular Joe Camp written and directed film of the '70s that launched Benji-mania into American consciousness and carved a place for scruffy little puppies into the hearts of ...

Watch the Frightening New Trailer for the John Krakinski-Directed A QUIET PLACE

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

Paramount Pictures followed last November's short teaser with a spot during the Super Bowl, and now they intend to scare our pants off with the first full feature trailer for A Quiet Place ... just in time for Valentine's Day.

Hughes Nation: A Love Letter

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

john hughs Dear Mr. John Hughes,

This love letter is long overdue. I know that now. But something, not even on the news of your death in 2009, would let me compose it until now. I guess I needed time. Or maturation. Something you were always against, I’m sure. I look at the arc of your movies, starting with the success of your one-two punch of Vacation and Mr. Mom and ending...

Play Misty for Me (1971) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 12 February 2018; Written by Christopher Symonds

The obsessed fan/love interest movie is a well-trodden one nowadays, with some truly stellar entries in the sub-genre (Misery, Fatal Attraction) and some truly awful ones; but one, to my surprise, that is rarely brought up is one of the earliest on this subject ...