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The Cat and the Canary (1939) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 15 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Swamp gators (with their mouths taped shut as evidenced by this crisp 4K handling!), dead lawyers, and mighty sums of money! Such frightful delights await those that can stay sane in the Norman clan. ...

Alien Addiction - Movie Review

Details: Published: 14 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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With squirrely attitudes at an all time HIGH, a new comedy serves up some seriously great bites of science fiction cheese and crackers as Waikato, New Zealand becomes the epicenter for alien invasions. Call off the military, though. All these aliens want to do is smoke some gooooood shit, pull an ...

Cary Grant Collection: Wedding Present (1936) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 13 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Sometimes the road to the altar - or in this case, the justice of the peace - is fraught with unexpected unexpected bumps along the way, like a fun media-frightened Archduke, saving a gangster from drowning, rescuing a missing cruise liner, and prank calling an insane asylum ...

Cary Grant Collection: Big Brown Eyes (1936) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 11 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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The Awful Truth might have been Cary Grant’s first SUCCESSFUL screwball comedy, but Big Brown Eyes - with its witty dialogue and snappy performances - is, for my money' worth, the FIRST screwball comedy that he starred in. Never heard of it? Change that. Quick ...

We Got a Monkey's Paw (short) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 10 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Freakin’ hilarious, Horror Hounds and Gore-Gore Ghouls! We Got a Monkey’s Paw, co-written by Zack Ogle and Aaron Pagniano (who also directs this short), is a blissfully zany slice of horror comedy that fans of Evil Dead 2 and Holliston are going to go absolutely wild for when it debuts ...

Cary Grant Collection: Ladies Should Listen (1934) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 09 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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“How could it be hot when it’s Chile?” Businessman Julian De Lussac (Cary Grant) is back in Paris and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. At all. Which makes this Grant-centered film, his 17th film, a fun jaunt down the romantic comedy aisle of a bygone era. Ladies Should Listen, only ...

#Alive - Movie Review

Details: Published: 11 September 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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So, you think you have it bad with mask mandates, social distancing, and quarantine-in-place orders? That’s nothing compared to what Joon-Woo (Ah-In Yoo) is going through in the new movie called #Alive that is making its American debut on Netflix this week ...

The First Trailer for Denis Villeneuve's DUNE Is Here - Watch

Details: Published: 09 September 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Warner Bros. just dropped the first trailer for Denis Villeneuve's vision for his adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel Dune. And boy, is it a doozy! The film is slated to hit theaters (and only theaters) this holiday season on December 18 ...

The Last Laugh - Movie Review

Details: Published: 08 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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The stage. When you are a comedian, it can be a damn lonely place to be. Especially when crickets are the only thing heard from out in the void. The spotlight isn’t all it is cracked up to be. Ghost lights be damned. But in The Last Laugh - from The October People ...

Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 06 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Cinephile Kiddies and Cretins, come gather round and let me tell you a story about two bumbling reporters who, on an assignment to Dracula’s home turf, uncover the continuing reign of a bi-polar mad scientist who experiments on people, turning them into crotch-grabbing swamp monsters ...