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- Created: 23 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Ladies and gentlemen, we finally have a fitting conclusion to The Godfather. It might have taken us some time to get there, but with the release of The Godfather, Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone, that finale is upon us and what a much better film this cut is as it celebrates its 30th ...
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- Created: 20 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
I don’t cry in movies. It’s just not my way. But I have to confess that twenty years ago, upon sitting down to watch Steven Speilberg’s World War II magnum opus, the recreation of the Normandy invasion put a lump in my throat and fogged my eyes with tears for its ...
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- Created: 21 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“Fool! Your fare is the only thing stopping me from breaking your face!” Directed by Joel Schumacher (Lost Boys, Falling Down, 8MM, Batman & Robin), D.C. Cab is his blissfully unaware feature film which follows in the hilarious footprints of The Incredible Shrinking Woman, which ...
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- Created: 25 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
The first time I heard the name Mike Mignola was after I received a set of his Topps comic adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. As a lifelong comic reader, I’m ashamed to say I’d missed his ...
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- Created: 13 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
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? ...
Read more: The Beastmaster: Limited Edition 4K UHD (1982) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 20 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Although this isn’t the first of Disney’s attempts to redo their animated back catalogue, I think it had the hardest job. The mastery of motion capture technology and the sophistication that computer generated animation has reached allows them to deliver ...
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- Created: 11 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
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 ...
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- Created: 20 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
For a very long time, I wished that First Blood had been a one and done deal. But it arrived in the 1982, and anything from the 80s onward that made the studios money would like get a sequel with a roman numeral next to it. The remainder of that decade saw ...
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- Created: 07 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
They don’t make ‘em like this anymore! Spanish director José Ramón Larraz offered some exploitation masterpieces in his time behind the camera. From the SIN-sation that is Vampyres to the unnerving brilliance that is Black Candles, Larraz was known for his fiery persona ...
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- Created: 20 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Pixar never cease to surprise me. On the sole summary of one of their stories, I almost never get a sense of just how much I may fall in love with whatever they’re dishing out. Toy Story, The Incredibles, Coco, you name it, I’ve underestimated their power to completely ...
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- Created: 03 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Think you know street racing, son? If you haven’t seen Harry Hamlin (Clash of the Titans), Dennis Hopper (Blue Velvet), and Dan Haggerty (Grizzly Adams) go at it beneath the twinkling stars of Los Angeles, then you don’t know shit about driving fast on city streets. ...
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- Created: 18 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Three years would pass before another go around with John Rambo and produce the most (at the time) violent action movie ever made. It marked a continued tonal shift of the character that had good intentions hidden in cartoonish, ham fisted ...
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- Created: 25 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“This . . . is the Inner Sanctum.” With that opening statement as a guiding force, Universal Pictures launched what would be an interesting venture alongside Simon & Schuster as they produced a series of B-grade horror films starring the one and only Lon Chaney, Jr. ...
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- Created: 16 August 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
One of the kids at the center of the new comedy Good Boys confidently tells his two best friends, “It’s a tampon. Girls shove it up their butts to stop babies from coming out.” The object in question is indeed a tampon, they got that part right. But, of ...
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- Created: 15 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
We aren’t in Las Vegas anymore, baby! Written, produced, and directed by Mr. Rear-Projection himself, Bert Gordon (King Dinosaur, Earth vs. the Spider, The Amazing Colossal Man, and Empire of the Ants), War of the Colossal Beast is the ...
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- Created: 18 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
If the last couple of years have taught us anything it should be never underestimate Sylvester Stallone. He was mocked at the beginning of his career and brought us Rocky. His popularity waned in the late 90’s and when word trickled down he was reviving not only his famous ...
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- Created: 14 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Fans of Paul Blaisdell’s creature work for films like The She-Creature, It Conquered The World, and Invasion of the Saucer Men are going to dig How to Make a Monster as his monster designs get some prime camera time when hung on the walls. Some audiences are going to see ...
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- Created: 23 August 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Featuring a special needs character in a film is always a risky proposition that has the potential to cross that fine line between exploitation and exposition. ...
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- Created: 13 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Beware the barn! Ah, f@#$ it. Enter at your own risk, fools. You’ve been warned. With the smells of rotted wood and autumn leaves hanging in the air, you know that it is time to celebrate serial killing season once more! Hell, we even have a Friday the 13th release for this horror flick ...
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- Created: 09 November 2019
- Written by Michelle Duy
When Una (Rooney Mara) was 13, her neighbor Ray molested her. They carried on a secret 3-month long relationship, at which point they planned to run away together. But then Ray (Ben Mendelsohn) disappeared. He wound up serving 4 years ...
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- Created: 12 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Alien invaders? Mind control via sharks? Underwater inner monologues? Treasure and babes in bikinis? Shark Encounters of the Close Kind has it all! It even has an abundant amount of gut busting laughs as this comedy takes nothing seriously - even the shark attacks! ...
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- Created: 13 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
‘It’s a mad house! A mad house!’ So it felt to me finding the entire Planet of the Apes cinematic journey in this new mammoth sized 50th anniversary set in the mail. I’ll try to keep the review succinct as there are 5 movies in the original series, the Tim Burton remake and the ...
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- Created: 07 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Shot in black-and-white on a shoestring budget of nickels and dimes, Lake Michigan Monster is - at once - alarmingly successful in its goal of sending-up the whole monster hunting motif in horror films as a wronged sea captain living in a lighthouse mounts a hilarious hunt involving a ...
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- Created: 09 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
We are so spoiled for choice in this day and age that sometimes brilliance and gold that should never be missed can get left in the wake of unending wave of stuff. In a world of remakes, amazing movie magic, remakes of Planet of the Apes are not as instantly well known as ...
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- Created: 03 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
From dry deserts to tropical islands, Tremors shows no signs of stopping anytime soon, but - if this is the end of the road for the franchise - it goes out on a hell of a high note thanks to Tremors: Shrieker Island ...
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- Created: 02 August 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Times were so much simpler when the Fast & Furious franchise first got underway back in 2001. The tragic events of 9/11 had not yet complicated our world, $150 million + movie budgets weren't commonplace, and VCR players were the much-coveted electronic ...
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- Created: 01 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Greetings, Starfighter! Arrow Video invited you to watch this 1984 science fiction classic in a way never before thought possible. With a newly restored 4k scan of the original negative and the 4.1 sound mix originally created for the 70mm release, The Last Starfighter returns to your living ...
Read more: The Last Starfighter: Arrow Video 4K Restoration (1984) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 06 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
With word trickling down a new Matrix entry is on the way that will include Neo (Keanu Reeves) and Trinity (Carrie Anne Moss), it feels timely to receive the 4K versions of the trilogy in the post to review. Let’s get to it. ...
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- Created: 24 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Watch polio get pulverized by a primate! When a circus burns down, a mustached Boris Karloff, as Dr. Bernard Adrian, finds himself battling a loose ape in his laboratory. What? What? What. You heard me. It’s one of the wildest scenes - and maybe the best scene ...
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- Created: 28 October 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
William H. Boney, for a 20 something misanthrope, made quite the imprint on the world. Whether it’s a sad indictment on our global culture that these types of people cement themselves into history or a tip of the cap to a now alien time and ...
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