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- By Loron Hays
“Very good. You know your alphabet.” Life in the big apple can be so . . . draining. Literally. For the lawyer at the center of this black comedy, it begins with a bat flying around in his apartment and it ends with him discovering his own arousal while in mortal danger with the same damn rodent. ...
Read more: Vampire’s Kiss - MVD Rewind Collection (1989) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
Since Marvel, DC, Godzilla, Conjuring, Spider-Man, and others have their own cinematic universes these days, it should be no surprise that even the Screenlife genre of filmmaking is now gaining its own universe of sorts. It’s where all of a film’s events are shown on the screen of a computer ...
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- By Loron Hays
Director Jack Arnold was Universal’s go-to guy when they wanted a quick hit. He proved himself mightily as he churned out classics like It Came from Outer Space (1953), Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954), Revenge of the Creature (1955), Tarantula (1955), and The Incredible Shrinking ...
Read more: Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema, Volume V: Outside the Law (1956) - Blu-ray Review
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Shaft in 4K?! With a new digital restoration, too? Can you dig it? Funked up by Isaac Hayes’ incredible score and theme, Richard Roundtree is back in action as Harlem P.I. John Shaft in this signature blaxploitation offering from director Gordon Parks (Shaft, Shaft’s Big Score). The character's ...
Read more: Shaft: The Criterion Collection (1971) - 4K UHD 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 Loron Hays
Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan was, at one time, a place of filth and absolute poverty. Back then, it was known as one of the roughest neighborhoods in Manhattan; a better place to be from than to be in. Bordered by the Hudson River on the west, Eighth Avenue on the east, 59th Street on the ...
Read more: Angels with Dirty Faces: Warner Archive Collection (1938) - Blu-ray Review
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“Hands off, or your hand is ham and I’m the slicer!” Filipino filmmaker Eddie Romero might be dead, but his movies - being cheapo depot horror offerings, exploitative skin flicks, and action vehicles, live on. Such is the case with Savage Sisters, an exploitation flick in title alone, which he directed in 1974, but ...
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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 Loron Hays
Think it’s just the rainy day blues that has this mind reader down in the dumps? Think again. Based on a Cornell Woolrich novel, Night Has A Thousand Eyes might be classic B-movie material (due to its supernatural sources), but the film is both poetic and engaging as one mind reader ...
Read more: Night Has A Thousand Eyes (1948) - Blu-ray Review
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Attention all shoppers! It’s going to be a crappy day when Sewer Gators is released! You mark your calendars now! June 3rd can’t get here fast enough. Don’t believe me? Go here and wait for the Sewer Gators to appear themselves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xahw04ZDgTM or ...
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- By Emily Strong
“Jaaaaaaaaaammmmmeeeessss!” We’re only about one month into 2023 and there is already a film to come out that has left me completely and utterly stunned. It shocks you; it makes you squirm, and it hypnotizes you with its unnerving atmosphere and startling images. Brandon ...
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- By Emily Strong
“Immoral women shouldn't work in banks, you know. They might corrupt the young dollar bills.” Small towns can be so wonderful, can’t they? Everybody knows one another so well. It can be like having one giant family with the sense of comfort and love gushing from the community. Well, why ...
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The zombie apocalypse is among us. You can either die easy or die fighting! Opening with the famous OUR FEATURE PRESENTATION, scratchy sound and all, and the panther ...
Read more: Hell Of The Screaming Undead (2021) - Movie Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
Those troubled by the increasingly predominant role technology has begun to play in the rearing of today’s children should probably stay far, far away from M3GAN. On the other hand, those who want a front row seat to witness how those perceived dangers might actually play themselves ...
Read more: M3GAN (2023) - Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Code Review - Unrated Edition
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- By Loron Hays
Sometimes the good country air can be harmful to your health. Such is the frightening territory of this atmospheric thriller which sees a small-town recluse turn murderer. The woman projects nothing but EVIL while, at the same time, being nothing but pleasant in conversation. She’s a ...
Read more: The Spider Woman Strikes Back (1946) - Blu-ray Review
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Flesh Crawls! Blood Curdles! Phibes Lives again! Cat Women of the Moon? Check. Plan 9 From Outer Space? Double check. Both are films you have to bear witness to in order to believe. Barbarella? Oh, it’s a cosmic trip for sure. But, thanks to the mighty chops of Vincent Price and ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
Back in the early nineties, Kevin Costner was at the zenith of his cinematic reach. With the likes of Bull Durham, The Untouchables and his Oscar-winning Dances with Wolves under his belt already, the man could (and did) write his own ticket. In these happy times, a star with that pedigree ...
Read more: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) - 4K UHD Limited Edition Review
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- By Emily Strong
“The mob doesn’t think. It has a mind of its own.” In 1933, some loud-mouthed man with a tiny mustache and a weird haircut rose to power in the country of Germany. His name, I believe, was Adolf Hitler. You may have heard of him, no? Well, he established a dictatorship to replace ...
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“Screw the heat. We don’t stop for nobody!” Wine. Women. Whiskey. And weed. Sounds like a good time, right? It isn't. Angels Hard As They Come, a biker exploitation classic with original music by Carp, should know. Things don't go as planned. ...
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And now, thanks to the fine folks over at Paramount, we finally get the 4K transfer of Quentin Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction, a masterwork of filmmaking ...
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“You stinkin’ rat!” For crime flicks, High Sierra, directed by Raoul Walsh, is indeed a watershed moment as the gangster pictures of the 1930s gave way to the fatalism found in Film Noir, which would dominate the 1940s. Making spectacular use of its locations ...
Read more: High Sierra: Criterion Collection (1941) - Blu-ray Review
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Top secret genetic engineering gone wrong! This is what you get in this b-grade sequel (or is it a remake?) to the Corey Haim-led Watchers, a film no one remembers for good reason. With a bit more gore and a change in scenery, this creature feature pumps up the volume on its lifeless . ...
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- By Emily Strong
On again, off again. In love, out of love. Going back to school, starting a new job. Everything is fluid and everything is changing in the whimsical and lustful drama from French director Jacques Audiard. Capturing the residential district of Les Olympiades in beautiful black and white photography ...
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Metallic hands and dark glasses! There can be only one Dr. Gogol! Maybe it is the warning that is issued as the film begins in total blackness or maybe it is the way that Peter Lorre is lit and filmed throughout this horror film, but Mad Love absolutely works its twisted ways in a modern viewing and ...
Read more: Mad Love: Warner Archive Collection (1935) - Blu-ray Review
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“Are you gonna bark all day, little doggie? Or are you gonna bite?” If one needed to sum up who Quentin Tarantino was in one word, I think the best one would be “pioneer.” He ushered in a new wave of film that is replicated over and over again, ad nauseum, until the entire pool is over saturated with ...
Read more: Reservoir Dogs (1992) - 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital Review
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Dag Bandy means business! Opening with a wild party in which stoned bikers try to bed a bunch of women, Bury Me An Angel pulls a quick double-cross on its audience as the party ends when someone’s head gets blown clean ...
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Lon Chaney as Quasimodo. Need I say anymore? I don’t really think so, but I’ll flex. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a certified REEL CLASSIC of silent, cinematic horror and it begins right there with Chaney’s performance as the deaf, half-blind, hunchbacked bell-ringer of the famous Cathedral of ...
Read more: The Hunchback of Notre Dame: 4K Restoration (1923) - Blu-ray Review
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“Dead or alive, you are coming with me.” When I first heard those words coming out from the lips of RoboCop (Peter Weller), I was hooked. Instantly. There was no looking back for this fat kid: RoboCop, making its debut in 1987, would be my summertime jam. The film might have been a surprise hit ...
Read more: RoboCop - 4K Ultra HD Limited Edition (1987) - 4K UHD Review
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- By Loron Hays
Shot on video and completely off its futureshock rocker, Todd Sheets’ Moonchild, in which a werewolf super soldier joins forces with an army of dim-witted kung-fu warriors in the search for his messiah-like son, just won’t stay dead and buried! ...
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- By Emily Strong
It’s Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn. Are you sold on it yet? No? Alright, let’s talk: When you think about Tracey-Hepburn films, Frank Capra’s 1948 State of the Union is certainly not as revered or remembered in the way that Woman of the Year, Adam’s Rib, or even Guess Who’s ...
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- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- 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
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman