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Details: Created: 18 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Sometimes it takes meeting the wrong person to finally get to the right person. That’s one of the territories in Holiday, an often overlooked romantic comedy from 1938 which deals with clashing values and what it means to truly live as pie-in-the-sky dreamers mix drinks with the aristocrats ...

Details: Created: 31 January 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Recharged! Rebooted! And reunited with the children of the world! Gamera, after a fifteen year hiatus returns thanks to the films which make up Gamera: The Heisei Era. All FOUR films in this set from Arrow Video make for a hell of a good time with solid special effects and a ...

Details: Created: 22 June 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

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With streaming now taking the lion’s share of the average household’s attention, it is getting harder and harder for the studios to entice us for yet another dip at their titles; especially when a great many of them are but a single click away on our smart TVs. It is wildly believed that physical home media ...

Details: Created: 17 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s the simplest twist of fates as Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard return to do battle with the supernatural in The Ghost Breakers! Voodoo, ghosts, and island-bound zombies! Add in a criminally underrated performance from Willie Best and you have the makings of another REEL CLASSIC! ...

Details: Created: 27 January 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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The Friend of All Children has arrived! Otherwise known as the Guardian of the Universe, Gamera is what happens when you imagine a turtle flying alongside your plane on a hot summer day. Debuting as an aggressive bipedal monster capable of flying the not so friendly skies, this massive turtle calmed ...

Details: Created: 01 June 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Films of the ilk of last year’s Ad Astra are always a quandary for me to write about. With the output of most of Hollywood’s efforts being what some might sarcastically call formulaic and digestible, it is both a blessing and a curse when something is offered to buck the trend. James Gray’s science ...

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

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Swamp gators (with their mouths taped shut as evidenced by this crisp 4K handling!), dead lawyers, and mighty sums of money! Such frightful delights await those that can stay sane in the Norman clan. ...

Details: Created: 26 January 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Do not fear, Max Cloud is here! Side-scrolling gamers and Scott Adkins (Ip Man 4: The Finale, Doctor Strange, Accident Man, and The Expendables 2) fans might be interested in checking out The Intergalactic Adventures of Max Cloud, but EVERYONE should be warned that ...

Details: Created: 28 February 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Though more than eighty years have passed since Claude Rains donned the dark sunglasses, smoking jacket, and yards of ACE bandages in 1933’s The Invisible Man, the character still holds a firm place in the pantheon of Universal’s classic movie monsters. That’s not only a testament to the legacy of the studio’s monster ...

Details: Created: 23 January 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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“Wayne! Coffee break!” Everything about Giant from the Unknown leads me to believe that it might be one of the films that influenced David Lynch to do what he does with film. You've got buckets of hot coffee, a lizard in a rock, hallowed out lodges, crazy creatures walking out from thick ...

Details: Created: 06 March 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What's the first question everyone asks whenever you’ve just watched a new Pixar film? “Where does it rank?” Of course, they’re asking where it fits within the hierarchy of Pixar films. And let’s face it, even a bad Pixar film tops most cinema fare these days, so when we say that Onward ranks ...

Details: Created: 19 January 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Craving a howling good time at home? The Wolf of Snow Hollow, with its offbeat humor and characters, is your meal ticket for small town terror . . . you just have to be willing to follow the breadcrumbs ...

Details: Created: 22 May 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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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 ...

Details: Created: 16 January 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s time to unfocus your eyes! Forgive. Forget. And deal a mighty ass-whooping out to all those who would seek to do you harm! Blind Fury is back, baby! ...

Details: Created: 15 May 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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When Harley Quinn has a bad day, it’s a good day for the rest of us. And Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is the proof. The very bad, rotten day had by Harley (Margot Robbie, I, Tonya), is told in side-splitting detail in the 24-hour comical frenzy ...

Details: Created: 18 January 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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When worms attack! Welcome back to Perfection, Nevada! There’s not a lot to do or see here in the desert sands. But none of it prevents the few who do live here from being super paranoid. There is something out there in the swirling sands and acrid heat. Which is why ...

Details: Created: 31 January 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Who wasn't frightened as a child by the horrifically grim childhood fairy tale about an evil witch who bakes pastries to lure children into her home so she can cook and eat the youngsters for dinner? It’s a wonder any of us made it out of childhood without totally losing all of our marbles ...

Details: Created: 12 January 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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My daddy was a bank robber! I’ve said it before and I will continue to say it again and again and again: Liam Neeson is "The January Man". Ever since the success of Taken, he’s been in just about every January-released action flick that you can imagine becoming cinema's own Winter ...

Details: Created: 07 January 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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This Italian-Spanish co-production is a shoddy-looking horror film. Know that first. Panic, also known as Bakterion) is also quite interesting in its own way, weaving a tale about scientists who create something they cannot even hope to control through failed bacteria experiments, as it has more ...

Details: Created: 22 January 2021; Written by Frank Wilkins

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There’s very little that Tom Hanks hasn’t done. From enduring the discomfort of support brassieres in TV’s Bosom Buddies, to foiling pirates on the high seas in Captain Phillips, America’s favorite actor has just about done it all. The guy even battled his way through Covid-19 with the grace of ...

Details: Created: 17 January 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What does a filmmaker do when attempting to revive a franchise that has lain dormant for more than a decade? In the case of Bad Boys For Life, directors Adil and Bilall do what most other filmmakers have done: they adapt the story to fit a new cultural landscape, they riff ...

Details: Created: 30 December 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 24 January 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Where have you been, Guy Ritchie? We’ve missed your language, your punch, your sleight of hand, and that self-referential swagger that defined your early days as a filmmaker. We got hardly any of that as you set out for more commercial ventures like Swept Away, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., ...

Details: Created: 23 December 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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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 ...

Details: Created: 03 January 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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At one point in Just Mercy, the new film from director, co-writer Destin Daniel Cretton (The Glass Castle), the film’s main character Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) points out that “the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, it’s justice.” Those words set the tone for the tangle of legal and ...

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