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Jurassic Thunder - Movie Review

Details: Published: 28 February 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Prep. Load. Send ‘em out! Jurassic Thunder, an outrageous horror comedy with tons of CGI-styled gore, wastes little time in getting to the reason why you’d dare watch this goofy flick. That's a good thing, too. Immediately hilarious and over-the-top with its gore, this is great Friday night ...

The Invisible Man (2020) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 28 February 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Though more than eighty years have passed since Claude Rains donned the dark sunglasses, smoking jacket, and yards of ACE bandages in 1933’s The Invisible Man, the character still holds a firm place in the pantheon of Universal’s classic movie monsters. That’s not only a testament to the legacy of the studio’s monster ...

Deadly Manor (1990) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 26 February 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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This house is EVIL! At least, that’s the opinion of Helen (Claudia Franjul), one teenager in this group, when confronted with the option to stay the night in an abandoned mansion deep in the woods. She’s not sticking around to find out what ...

Flesh Eating Mothers (1988) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 26 February 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Answering Roger Waters' questions in Pink Floyd's "Mother" comes Flesh-Eating Mothers, an over-the-top horror-comedy that encourages the local police department to shoot all mothers on the spot. Do not EVEN try to bring them in alive! ...

Get Ready to Rumble With New Trailer for Animated RUMBLE

Details: Published: 26 February 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Paramount just released the poster and trailer for its next foray into the animation realm, a film called Rumble which takes place in a world where people and monsters live side-by-side. In the trailer we meet a young teenager who is training an underdog monster with hopes of overthrowing the current champion to...

Hudson Hawk: Retro VHS Packaging (1991) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 24 February 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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All Eddie “The Hawk” Hawkins wants, upon his release from prison, is a cappuccino. What he gets instead is an unplanned - via coffin-sized suitcase - Looney Tunes-inspired trip to Italy to steal some of DaVinci’s most prized artifacts. ...

An American Werewolf in London (1981) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 24 February 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

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I’ll start this review with a question. 4K has been out for a few years now, and although this reviewer has only recently dipped into this new resolution, I wonder why companies like Arrow are still going to the effort of releasing restored definitive and feature-laden movies from days gone by, at scanned ...

My Bloody Valentine: Collector's Edition (1980)

Details: Published: 21 February 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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If stripteases in mining gear, hearts boiling alongside hot dogs, or dead women tumbling around in dryers aren’t your cup of tea then, well, I do believe there might be something wrong with you. My Bloody Valentine, being made in the wake of John Carpenter's Halloween EXPLOSION, is Canuxploitation at its finest and its furious and this ...

The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind - Movie Review

Details: Published: 21 February 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...

Grand Isle (2019) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 19 February 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...