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Details: Created: 11 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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The Awful Truth might have been Cary Grant’s first SUCCESSFUL screwball comedy, but Big Brown Eyes - with its witty dialogue and snappy performances - is, for my money' worth, the FIRST screwball comedy that he starred in. Never heard of it? Change that. Quick ...

Details: Created: 09 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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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 ...

Details: Created: 09 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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“How could it be hot when it’s Chile?” Businessman Julian De Lussac (Cary Grant) is back in Paris and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. At all. Which makes this Grant-centered film, his 17th film, a fun jaunt down the romantic comedy aisle of a bygone era. Ladies Should Listen, only ...

Details: Created: 02 August 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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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 ...

Details: Created: 06 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Cinephile Kiddies and Cretins, come gather round and let me tell you a story about two bumbling reporters who, on an assignment to Dracula’s home turf, uncover the continuing reign of a bi-polar mad scientist who experiments on people, turning them into crotch-grabbing swamp monsters ...

Details: Created: 06 November 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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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. ...

Details: Created: 01 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Emperor Ming the Merciless (a very FUN Max von Sydow) of the planet Mongo is bored. In the famous opening of Flash Gordon, he admits of his boredom and decides to play with Earth and causes widespread destruction . . . like floods, heavy winds, and a hellish barrage of flaming meteors ...

Details: Created: 28 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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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 ...

Details: Created: 26 August 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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And with Pitch Black, Vin Diesel arrives! “They say most of your brain shuts down in cryo-sleep. All but the primitive side, the animal side. No wonder I'm still awake.” That opening line of voice-over narration is our first introduction to criminal Richard B. Riddick ...

Details: Created: 30 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Sylvester Stallone was infamously underrated and dismissed until he stormed the box office and got an Oscar nomination for Rocky. By 1982 he’d attained enough box office clout to name his next project and what he decided to do was First Blood, an adaptation of a novel by David Morell that had been in ...

Details: Created: 28 August 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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AS I have previously stated, Pre-Code Hollywood fascinates me. There are a lot of grand and wonderful films reflecting the true culture of the time period from 1930 – 1934. Man, it must have been a wild time. These films, featuring strong sexual innuendos, different races mingling ...

Details: Created: 29 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Young Guns successfully entertained the 1988 box office to the tune of 45 million dollars. The film chose to focus on the revenge of Billy the Kid and the regulators on his employer’s killer and once Jack Palance caught one between the eyes ...

Details: Created: 24 August 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Suspense! Action! And GIANT telepathic crabs! What more could you ask for in a B-movie?!?! Absolutely nothing and that’s why Attack of the Crab Monsters, now on blu-ray with a brand-new 2K transfer thanks to Shout! Factory, continues to rule when it comes to non-stop Z-grade motion ...

Details: Created: 28 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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In the late 70s and early 80s, the short form ‘mini-series’ was a chance for networks to stretch their muscles with event storytelling. Long before HBO and Netflix and Amazon showed that feature film budgets and top shelf talent could not only match the quality of storytelling in cinema, but best ...

Details: Created: 22 August 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Shout Factory is back at it with their HUGE collection of Roger Corman titles and, while these limited releases are only available through their store (www.shoutfactory.com), the titles are definitely worth owning, making these releases a lot like crate-digging for jazz records. Fans obsess about them and for ...

Details: Created: 12 July 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What could be worse than being in Florida with a Category 5 hurricane bearing down on the state? No, the answer is not “waking up to discover that you now live in Boca Raton.” The answer we’re looking for is to awaken from the nightmare of your neighborhood now ...

Details: Created: 21 August 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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In what might be one of the most exploitative openings in Hammer’s 1970 era, we see a grave robber (Doctor Who's Patrick Troughton) struggle mightily with a corpse in a grave and, after a police officer falls in the now-empty grave, we see a jar of gooey, squishy eyeballs (looking very ...

Details: Created: 16 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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This low budget ($300,000 USD) slasher film, made by a recent (in the 70s) USC graduate, would spawn countless sequels and give its backers some serious profits, the world horror auteur John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis. Those things make the love for this ...

Details: Created: 20 August 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Big gun! Number one! Maybe it’s the heavy biker boots announcing his thunderous arrival to all lawbreakers in a post-global warming world. Maybe it’s the dark, circle-framed sunglasses through which he sees all varieties of criminal behavior in ...

Details: Created: 19 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Stanley Kubrick was a director of unparalleled technical mastery in his time. There isn’t a film fan, or filmmaker out there that hasn’t delved deep into the many works he produced over three decades before his untimely death. His subject matters were always ...

Details: Created: 15 August 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Poor Ben (John-Paul Howard). No one believes him. No one. And he is seeing, as he has come in for the summer to work at his Dad’s marina, a lot of strange shit that defies easy explanation. Unfortunately, no one believes in witches anymore ...

Details: Created: 17 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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This reviewer is a little slow to update to new technologies. When it came time to replace some of my old equipment, I dove deep into the pros and cons of the next (and many say last) generation of home movies: 4K. The pros and cons of yet another format are involved and not a blanket statement. For example ...

Details: Created: 11 August 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Eight discs, six stories, and 650 minutes of classic science fiction. That’s what fans get with the BBC’s latest Doctor Who release which features the fourteenth season of classic Doctor Who, constituting the third trip around the sun for Tom Baker in the titular role as everyone’s favorite ...

Details: Created: 16 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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One look at Spielberg’s filmography and it’s hard to imagine the man has ever set a foot wrong. But alas, just before the 1980s dawned, he took a misstep with the (at the time) expensive comedy 1941. Not to rest on his laurels, he doubled down in 81 and 82 and introduced the ...

Details: Created: 04 August 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Because, sometimes, even babies need the support of the police! Pushing a hard-hitting social commentary, Abandoned - with a colorful set of character names - takes aim at selling unwanted babies as the City of Angels becomes ground zero for black ...

Details: Created: 16 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Back in the early Noughties, Joss Whedon was synonymous with punchy genre series that, more often than not, dealt with strong female protagonists and thrilling plots. As if cursed by his own success, Whedon tried to branch out from vampires and slayers to the sci-fi with the ...

Details: Created: 05 August 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Arthur Kriticos' dream house - full of shatterproof glass cages and sliding steel panels - has arrived. . . but it’s a damn nightmare! Critically hammered and only very loosely based on William Castle’s original film, THIRT3EN Ghosts gets a second chance to make a lasting reflection in the glassy Halls of Horror thanks ...

Details: Created: 16 October 2019; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Very early in the history of film different filmmakers sought to tell the story of the world’s infamous vampire. Bram Stoker’s most famous creation has influenced popular culture, in all its’ incarnations, since it appeared in 1897 - some might argue to the point of oversaturation. In the ...

Details: Created: 04 August 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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The most successful 3D film of the 1950s has finally arrived on Blu-ray. André de Toth’s House of Wax brought Warner Bros a lot of fortune and fame during its original run in 1953 but the film is also known for something else: the rebirth of Vincent Price ...

Details: Created: 21 June 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Bad news: Toy Story 4 is Pixar’s biggest money grab to date. Good news: This is Pixar, so it never feels like one. It is not a stretch to say that the company couldn’t make a bad movie if it tried. After all, none of its films ...

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