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The Hunt (2020) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 13 March 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What if they made a movie and nobody came? That was the fear when the horror satire The Hunt was scheduled for release last fall before being delayed by a series of unfortunate events. First, it was the El Paso and Dayton mass shootings. Then a tweet about the film from our ...

Parasite (2019) - Blu-ray Review

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

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Seven films into his career and Bong Joon Ho continues to impress audiences with dark and thoughtful material. This time, with Parasite, he delivers a film that is so topical and so well made that even Hollywood had to stop and take notice. Parasite is THAT memorable. ...

The Alpha Test - Movie Review

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

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Clowntergeist’s Aaron Mirtes delivers yet another KILLER treat with the release of The Alpha Test. Startling and timely, this ode to artificial intelligence gone AWOL will leave you as cold as the hardware in the Alpha Home Assistant’s murderous touch. Seriously. This flick, full of gore and malice ...

The Wonderful Worlds of Ray Harryhausen Volume One: 1955 - 1960: It Came From Beneath the Sea, 20 Million Miles To Earth, The 3 Worlds of Gulliver - Blu-ray Review

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

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Ray Harryhausen and his stop-motion work is legendary. While his stuff is slow to trickle out on blu-ray, the high-def picture and the clarity the format provides is always insightful into his creative processes. The latest round of his work comes from Indicator, a UK company that offers their ...

Color Out of Space (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 07 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Ladies and Gentlemen, Richard Stanley is back! I have just been introduced to my new go-to movie. Color Out of Space is right up there with Mandy when it comes to imaginative tales of terror. The mixture of CGI and practical effects in this science fiction horror narrative is downright disturbing ...

Onward (2020) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 06 March 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What's the first question everyone asks whenever you’ve just watched a new Pixar film? “Where does it rank?” Of course, they’re asking where it fits within the hierarchy of Pixar films. And let’s face it, even a bad Pixar film tops most cinema fare these days, so when we say that Onward ranks ...

Brewster's Millions: Collector's Edition (1985) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 05 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Brewster’s Millions remains a screwball comedy that simply knocks it out of the park. Home runs don’t get much wilder than this ...

Meet the Wooden Devil in New Trailer for ROOTWOOD

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

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Ever since bursting on the scene with her role as shy camper Angela in the now-cult classic horror film Sleepaway Camp, Scream Queen Felissa Rose has feasted on a steady diet of horror roles that bring her total to more than 100 film credits. ...

Spookies (1986) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 03 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Spookies, originally directed by Brenden Faulkner and Thomas Doran and then later, inserting additional footage, by Eugenie Joseph, is back to party once again! This cult classic - disappearing after a limited theatrical release, was revived on VHS and, eventually, became a standard broadcast ...

A Wakefield Project - Movie Review

Details: Published: 03 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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A house of horrors, a bloody spectacle, and a day of solar flares. What do they all have in common? Well, for starters, they provide some intense scares in this independent feature from High Octane Pictures. I mean, when you have an entire town holding their smartphones up in the air, desperate ...