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- Created: 18 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Once Upon a Time there lived a young woman named Wanda (Kathy Ireland. You know the name. Look up the number!) and she really wanted to change in order to please her surfer boyfriend. She can change! She wants to change! ...
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- Created: 13 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
A psychological thriller in which Boris Karloff does NOT play a creature of the night? Say it ain’t so?! But it’s true. Isle of the Dead, produced by the legendary Val Lewton, concerns itself with that which haunts Greek nightmares: the Vrykolakas and this female vampire is certainly NOT ...
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- Created: 25 June 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Climb in and enjoy the ride, suckas! There’s no need for roads where this franchise is headed! Space awaits! Yes, this is where F9 heads and you will love the sheer ridiculousness of it all as the 9th film in the series gets both the FAST and the FURIOUS back on track, avoiding the Moonraker-sized ...
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- Created: 14 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
It’s time once again to hop in the WAY BACK MACHINE and go . . . way back to another age of Hollywood HIGHS and HORROR! 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 ...
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- Created: 05 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Madness. Mayhem. And, of course, MURDER. This is what follows the anti-archetype characters of M. It is a thriller that is meant to unsettle the viewer with its hunt for a serial killer, making it an unforgettable REEL CLASSIC ...
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- Created: 02 July 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
In case you missed the now (in)famous twitter thread from back in 2015 written by then mostly unknown waitress/stripper A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King – who now acts as the film’s producer, you can get yourself caught up on one of the most bizarre weekend road trip stories since the Hoover family ...
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- Created: 12 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
A cure for a virus has some serious consequences, especially when Dead Space is involved! It’s big and its bad attitude gives it the upper hand in this . . . remake of a rip-off?! Yup. There is an interesting cut which happens early in Fred Gallo’s Dead Space, a remake of Roger Corman’s ...
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- Created: 07 March 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
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 ...
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- Created: 11 June 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu teams up with Tony-Award winning playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda to bring this year’s most electrifying film to theaters and HBO Max. In the Heights is a beautifully orchestrated celebration of diversity, heritage, and the Latin culture that just might be ...
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- Created: 10 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
There is an easy but irreverent joke in the title of Elvira’s Haunted Hills. Figure it out and actually laugh out loud and you will easily enjoy this throwback trope-utilizing flick. Oh, it’s corny lowbrow horror escapism, complete with secret passageways and family curses, but fans of Elvira aren’t ...
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- Created: 13 February 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Suspicions! Accusations! It’s all on the screen in this minor film noir classic. The Suspect arrives on blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber and I, as a fan of Laughton’s performances, couldn’t be happier ...
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- Created: 25 June 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
What I wouldn’t give to have been a fly on the wall during what was certainly the most bizarre elevator pitch in the history of elevator pitches for Luca, the latest churn from Pixar’s ever-productive mill of animated greats. It probably didn’t, but I like to imagine it went something like this ...
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- Created: 08 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“Stop filling your head with all that useless trivia!” Fade to Black lives on the fringes of cinema fanaticism. This slasher celebrates the gray areas in life, where fantasy and reality come crashing together, as one young cinephile takes matters into his own hands and takes down all ...
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- Created: 30 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
One wouldn’t normally equate Cary Grant with a family movie about adoption and the drama which lies therein, but perhaps that’s why Room for One More (also known as The Easy Way) lingers with viewers. Grant, playing one half of The Roses, never gets time alone as his house is filled ...
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- Created: 10 July 2021
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Some 27 years after it’s release, one might be forgiven for forgetting what a game changer Jan de Bont’s Speed was. No scratch that, you should remember! Back in the early 90s, the big muscles, full testosterone action picks from Sly, Arnie, Segal, Van Damme and the like were started ...
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- Created: 07 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Children shouldn’t play with spears. End of story. There’s something EVIL bubbling just under the soil on this cursed farmland in Texas. What it is though isn’t exactly too thrilled that this family has arrived. Just witness the burning of the wooden oil pump as a young boy ...
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- Created: 10 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“She’s afraid of the big bad wolf. Tra la la la laaaaaa.” It Happened One Night remains a phenomenal romantic comedy. After all these years, this pre-code American film - which was made when being a reporter was idolized and the screwball comedy was only just hitting its stride - still hits all the perfect notes as ...
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- Created: 05 July 2021
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Remember that episode of The Big Bang Theory? You know, the one where Sheldon shares his love of Raiders of the Lost Ark with Amy, and after watching it, she blows his mind by attesting that the plot would have been exactly the same without it’s protagonist. I, like Sheldon, was ...
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- Created: 06 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Death by trouser snake! With a ripe sense of eeriness kicking about its engines, The Lamp (aka The Outing) begins deep in the past as a daughter watches her mother hopelessly die at the hands of a murderous Jinn. We are in Galveston, Texas circa 1893 to be precise ...
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- Created: 03 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The Marx Brothers are coming! The Marx Brothers are coming! Well, after a bit of exposition that is as Casablanca (and others like that film) get a big kiss-off thanks to the parody on display throughout the 86-minutes that make up A Night in Casablanca. This REEL CLASSIC might not be the ...
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- Created: 09 April 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
With nothing more than the well-being of our fellow man at stake, can humans be trusted to do the right thing to ensure the proliferation of the species? Or are we genetically programmed to revert to primitive nature? ...
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- Created: 05 October 2021
- Written by Emily Strong
“That’s the one thing I’ve learned about clients. Dead ones don’t pay their bills.” Famed scientist and cheesemaker John Hay Forrest has died driving off of a cliff. It seems to be suicide, but the daughter of the noted man, Juliet Forrest (Rachael Ward) suspects something else: murder ...
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- Created: 29 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
It’s hard to conceive in this era of remakes that some redos in the history of cinema go on to become classics in their own right. For genre fans, John Carpenter’s The Thing is often cited as a prime example. For comedy, however, Billy Wilder’s beloved cross-dressing romp, Some Like It ...
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- Created: 11 April 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Oof! The struggle is real! Wonder Woman 1984, directed by Patty Jenkins, should have been a lot of things as it embraces the technicolor, cocaine-fueled era of BIG HAIR and even BIGGER SHOULDER PADS, but it’s not and its nearly ...
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- Created: 01 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Ending up in a ditch with a flat tire and no spare is just the beginning of Sue Ellen, Patty, Cindy and Rose’s problems in the regional thriller Shallow Grave ...
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- Created: 17 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
"What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, All About Eve continues to shine bright thanks to the dazzling performance of Bette Davis as Margo Channing as she takes Anne Baxter as ...
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- Created: 08 April 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
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 ...
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- Created: 30 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
You can slice 'em and dice 'em any which way you want to, but they simply don't make movies like this anymore! No budget? No problem, when done correctly! Just ask Deke Slater, the man thought responsible for the killings at Tall Grass Country Club ...
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- Created: 13 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Los Angeles after dark is always an exciting place. Whether it be out on the street or gazing out the window of your home, the air of unpredictability is always lurking about in the air. And it is that unpredictability which opens director Billy Wilder’s film noir classic, Double Indemnity as a ...
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- Created: 05 March 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
It often takes an earth-shattering moment to remind us that sometimes, it is friendship – not biological family – that gets us through some of life’s most challenging times. That’s the big take-away in Our Friend, which tells the devastating true story of the Teague family and how their lives were suddenly ...
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