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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 ...

Tenet - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 04 September 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Gather ‘round all you puzzle lovers. Have I got a challenge for you! With twisty logic, time-altering physics, and an alternate existence that defies reality, the highly anticipated new thriller called Tenet is the mental challenge puzzle masters trained their entire lives for. For all ...

The Facility - Movie Review

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

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Sometimes it is best to leave the unknown alone . . . or the head-bandaged monsters will get ya! Written and directed by The Rizen’s Matt Mitchell, The Facility continues the story at the center of the aforementioned film and takes aim at those secret, occult experiments ...

The Mark of the Bell Witch - Movie Review

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

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Some people have grown up with the legend of the Bell Witch. I was a young boy in Kansas when I first heard this tale of supernatural folklore and, considering that it has its roots in a town of only 600 people, that fact is quite an achievement and it is due to its terrifying nature as first documented ...

Double Indemnity (1944) - Blu-ray Review

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

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Los Angeles after dark is always an exciting place. Whether it be out on the street or gazing out the window of your home, the air of unpredictability is always lurking about in the air. And it is that unpredictability which opens director Billy Wilder’s film noir classic, Double Indemnity as a ...

The Beastmaster: Limited Edition 4K UHD (1982) - Blu-ray Review

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

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Love it, hate it, or just leave this crazy fantasy flick alone, there’s no denying that The Beastmaster, directed by Phantasm’s Don Coscarelli, is a certified home-run when it comes to B-minded sword-and-sorcery romps. Magnificent muscles? Check. Nudity? Check. Magic? ...

She Mob/The Girl from Pussycat (1968) - Blu-ray Review

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

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Give me some blood! Whip him! She Mob begins with an absolute BANG. Forget what you’ve heard about this film being utterly unwatchable. It isn’t true. Sure, sure, the “adult” material goes on for far too long, but all of that simply adds to the weirdness ...

Black Pumpkin - Movie Review

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

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Get ready for Bloody Bobby! Beginning with a clip from Night of the living Dead playing in the background might be a good way to shoot yourself in the foot, but Black Pumpkin, even in its opening minutes, does two things correctly. First, within minutes, a welcome ...

Sound of Metal - Movie Review

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

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Sound of Metal, the new film from first-time director Darius Marder opens with a loud, distorted cacophony of modulation, ringing, and unpleasant noise as a two-piece metal band thrashes about the stage at a concert ...

Paintball Massacre - Movie Review

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

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Why would anyone attend a high school reunion? Let the past be the past, you know. That’s the question posed by the bartender at the reunion which takes center stage in Paintball Massacre, a new horror film from Uncork’d Entertainment, which arms its participants with house-guns ...