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- By Christopher Symonds
There is nothing more alluring to me for a night at the movies than a good old-fashioned man versus beast tale. My favourite film has always been Spielberg’s Jaws and forever will be. Even the most ill-advised and derivative of this sub-genre usually end up an easy watch for me. So long ...
Read more: The Ghost and the Darkness (1996) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
When a film, not particularly well-liked at the time by critics, goes on to earn back four times its budget, there had to be something to it. Road House is the go-to for many Gen-Xers (myself included) for a bit of dumb fun. It’s ridiculous, set-your-brain-to-neutral, action fare; the kind made for (and seemingly ...
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- By Emily Strong
With a deadline looming over the troubled sailors, Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail makes the film’s numbered days last as long as possible with its simple plot and generous humanity. Starring Jack Nicholson as the rough and rugged Billy “Badass” Buddusky, Otis Young as the sensible and strict ...
Read more: The Last Detail (1973) - 4K UHD Collector's Edition Review
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- By Christopher Symonds
At the turn of last century the superhero genre was on the cusp of a major elevation in output. Despite Batman and Robin crashing and burning that franchise, films like Blade, X-Men and Spider-man were all in various stages of production and would go on to embolden the now saturated superhero ...
Read more: Mystery Men (1999) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
With everything on point in this action comedy, Bullet Train arrives on your screens exactly on time! Be prepared for a wee bit of the ultraviolence and a whole lot of neon-soaked hilarity as director David Leitch (John Wick, Atomic Blonde, Hobbs & Shaw) puts five assassins on a fast moving train with ...
Read more: Bullet Train (2022) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital HD Review
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- By Emily Strong
“I like to remember things my own way.” When Fred Madison (Bill Pullman), a saxophone player based in Los Angeles, speaks these words to detectives in the beginning of Lost Highway, Lynch, I feel, gives the audience a big clue as to what this neo-noir’s story is about. And for those who’ve ...
Read more: Lost Highway (1997) - Digipack 4K UHD + Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Ah, the Cold War. Good times. Good times. And, with Red Dawn leading the way, it produced a great many war-themed movies during the 1980s all with Russia on its mind. One of those, albeit more teenage-driven than Rambo II, is now appearing on 4K Ultra HD. WarGames remains ...
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- By Emily Strong
“Some things there’s no moving on from.” The concept of The Banshees of Inisherin is something so simple. Yet from it there spouts a well of introspective and evocative questions that perhaps every human somehow faces in their own lifetime. After we take in the gorgeous view of the coast of an Irish ...
Read more: The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Emily Strong
How does one cure a drought-ridden town in the middle of Kansas? Well, you call the handsome and charming rainmaker of course! And maybe he can bring more than just a little rain to this Midwest rural town…if you know what I mean ...
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- By Emily Strong
“I’ve written myself into my screenplay.” Leave to Charlie Kaufman (with the help of “Donald Kaufman”) to pen one of the most neurotic and meta stories ever that also manages to be mind-blowingly innovative, hilarious, exciting, relatable, and somehow even a bit sad. Yes, any and all of his other ...
Read more: Adaptation (2002) - 4K Ultra HD + Digital HD Review
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- By Emily Strong
The unsettling and hazy atmosphere in the pristinely crafted Cure is heavy and hypnotic, and it is only ever broken by bursts of raw emotion or the bluntly-shown murders. Blending the noir with soft mystical elements, writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa brings a strong originality ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Set in the bombed-out husk of 1980’s Detroit, White Boy Rick tells the rather incredible true story of Rick Wershe, Jr., a down-and-out kid who became the youngest ever FBI informant at the tender young age of 14 ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Rated: R for strong sexuality and nudity, language and some disturbing content.
Runtime: 130 mins.
Director: Todd Field
Writer: Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
Tagline: Little Children
Cast: Kate Winslett; Jackie Earle Haley; Patrick Wilson....complete cast
Genre: Drama
Memorable Quote: "You know what else you should do? Nail his penis above the entrance to the elementary school. That'd really teach him a lesson. "
Theatrical Release Date: November 3, 2006
DVD Release Date: May 1, 2007
Distributor: New Line Cinema
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- By Frank Wilkins
There’s a reason Cats had such a successful Broadway run as one of the longest-running musicals in history with over 7,000 performances spanning some 18 years. Many reasons, actually. The biggest being the brilliant songs and catchy tunes from Andrew Lloyd Webber. They are simply wonderful, and ...
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- By Loron Hays
Expectations are at an all time high for Director Christopher Nolan. Coming off of the one-two pop culture punch that was The Dark Knight followed by Inception, it might be a little unreal of audiences to expect another shock or surprise from him. In only the ...
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- By Loron Hays
As smooth (like butter) as David Tennat’s tight leather pants, director Craig Gillespie’s remake of Fright Night is an equally revealing look at the how, the why and the when of remake necessities ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
RRated: R for strong brutal bloody violence and terror throughout, sexual content, graphic nudity and language.
Runtime: 120 mins.
Director: Rob Zombie
Writer: Rob Zombie
Cast: Malcolm McDowell; Brad Dourif' Tyler Mane ... complete cast
Tagline: Evil Has A Destiny.
Genre: Horror
Memorable Quote: "He has come back for his baby sister. " ... more quotes
Release Date: August 31, 2007
DVD Release Date: December 18, 2007
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- By Loron Hays
Ten films. 15 discs. It previously seemed impossible. Considering the myriad of copyright owners, the directors involved, and all the producers in the franchise’s checkered and somewhat spotty past, a definitive Halloween collection seemed as far-fetched of an idea as ...
Read more: Halloween: The Complete Collection (Deluxe Edition)
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- By Loron Hays
“They’re here.” Living in suburbia is HELL in and of itself. There, I said it. It doesn’t help matters at all to learn that your house - no matter how American it may seem - is built on top of a cemetery in which only the headstones were removed ...
Read more: Poltergeist (1982) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital HD Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
The Men Who Stare at Goats has two things going for it right from the get-go. First, its title is so deliciously irresistible it grabs immediate attention. Not quite as boiled-down and succinct as Snakes on a Plane, but definitely more clever. Secondly, we're captivated by an opening title-card ...
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- By Loron Hays
There's a poetic moment one of many impactful minutes - in Up in the Air when George Clooney's character, Ryan Bingham, finds himself standing nervously outside of his girl's front door and his warm emotions always coolly checked and packed tightly in his luggage become transparently excited...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Considering that first-time director Tony Gilroy, whose previous writing credits include the Bourne trilogy, also penned the lawyer-cum-Lucifer thriller, The Devil's Advocate, it doesn't exactly take a rocket scientist to discern where the legal profession falls on his hierarchy of moral fitness. (Or ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
There's a bitter irony casting a pall over one of this year's smartest and most entertaining films. Not one that's likely to ruin the experience of watching Charlie Wilson's War however. In fact, our knowledge of Afghanistan's role in the events of 9/11, coupled with the way director Mike Nichols and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin handle their ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
Rated: R for strong vampire violence and gore, language, sexuality and some drug use.
Runtime: 94 mins.
Director: P.J. Pesce
Writer: Janice Fischer & James Jeremias
Cast: Gabrielle Rose; Tad Hilgenbrink; Corey Feldman.
Tagline: Never grow old. Never die. Never know fear again.
Genre: Comedy | Horror | Thriller
Memorable Quote: "I'm Edgar Frog, surfboard shaper and vampire hunter. "
Release Date: July 29, 2008
DVD Release Date: July 29, 2008
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- By Christopher Symonds
MPAA Rating: R for strong bloody violence, sexuality/nudity, language and some drug content.
Director: Dario Piana
Writer: Evan Charnov, Hans Rodionoff
Cast: Corey Feldman; Tanit Phoenix; Casey B. Dolan
Genre: Horror
Memorable Movie Quote: "A father can't murder his own children. That would be in bad taste."
Release Date: No theatrical release.
Blu-ray Release Date: October 12, 2010.
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- By Loron Hays
MPAA Rating: Not rated by the MPAA.
Runtime: 138 mins.
Director: Federico Fellini.
Writer: Federico Fellini
Cast: Marcello Mastroianni; Claudia Cardinale; Anouk Aimee
Tagline: A picture that goes beyond what men think about - because no man ever thought about it in quite this way!
Genre: Foreign
Memorable Quote: "All the confusion of my life... has been a reflection of myself! Myself as I am, not as I'd like to be."
Release Date: June 25, 1963 (USA)
Blu-ray Release Date: January 12, 2010
Distributor: Criterion Collection, The
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- By Loron Hays
There’s a locker room scene between Christian Bale and Mark Wahlberg – about two-thirds of the way through the film – that best defines the unbalanced problems with David O. Russell’s The Fighter. Here you have the dynamic acting chops of Bale going...
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- By Loron Hays
In Charlie Chaplin’s two-role classic, The Great Dictator, we get his final salute to the silent films of his youthful exploits and the first words ever spoken by The Tramp. It’s a haunting film; one that mocks Hitler and dictators in general (before it was en vogue to do so...
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- By Loron Hays
With faces frozen in horror, Death’s carriage arrives for the terrible soul of David Holm. A reckless sinner, fouled with drink and consumption, and responsible for a great many grievances and other human suffering is Holm and it seems Death, that strict master, is ...
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- By Loron Hays
When the Golden Age of Horror goes off the deep end with all its pre-Hollywood Production Code perversions, the result is a long out of print masterpiece of makeup and maniacal terror. Island of Lost Souls, from 1932, is proudly released in all its unedited ...
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- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne