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- Created: 15 April 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Episode 2 made a couple of firsts in Star Wars history. Firstly, it would be the first of them shot entirely digital. Secondly, and unfortunately, it would be the first of the episodes to debut with a now tarnished perception. The Phantom Menace had not gone down well with the critics and a great ...
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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 December 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
There’s a reason Cats had such a successful Broadway run as one of the longest-running musicals in history with over 7,000 performances spanning some 18 years. Many reasons, actually. The biggest being the brilliant songs and catchy tunes from Andrew Lloyd Webber. They are simply wonderful, and ...
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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: 13 April 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
This film would be the culmination for a generation of Star Wars fans, and we couldn’t have been better primed for it. We would wait three years to learn the answers to the most tantalizing cliffhangers ever conceived. Was Han Solo gone forever? Was Darth Vader lying to Luke? I can ...
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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: 27 December 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Raise your hand if the news of yet another adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved novel, Little Women coming to theaters on Christmas Day failed to jingle your bells. Okay, we can all put them down now. After all, with so many previous adaptations – including 1949’s version starring Elizabeth Taylor and ...
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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: 10 April 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
The greatest sequel ever made… There. Done… Oh, you want more? All right then. Star Wars changed cinema forever. Some say to its detriment. Its penetration into the world’s lexicon was all encompassing. It was in everyone’s vernacular after 1977, and made the left of field auteur George Lucas the ...
Read more: Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back - 4K Blu-ray Review
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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: 08 April 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Star Wars’ new caretakers, Disney, have gone to painstaking work to be able to release this series of films for the first time in 4K. After purchasing the franchise from George Lucas, acquiring 20th Century Fox, and continuing the Star Wars saga with (so far) 5 new ...
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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: 17 December 2019
- Written by Loron Hays
If one of the final moments of director J. J. Abrams’ Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker - two lightsabers sinking into the sands of Tattooine - hits you rather hollow, it is by the director’s choice. The Skywalker Saga is over with this film, but what’s shocking is that it really doesn’t feel ...
Read more: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - Blu-ray Review
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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: 06 December 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Filmmaker Sam Mendes gets down and personal with his new film, 1917 about two young British soldiers sent on an impossible mission to save hundreds of their fellow soldiers. Though largely fictionalized, his tale comes from an actual account told by his paternal grandfather who served in 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: 24 March 2020
- Written by Michelle Duy
There’s a shocking, telling moment late in the movie Harriet (2019). Referring to a group of escaped slaves, the villain Gideon (Joe Elwyn) calls them “three bucks and a female with foal.” Of course, he does much worse throughout the movie. But that ...
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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: 20 March 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
The latest iteration of Bob Clark’s ultra-gory yule tide slasher, Black Christmas, promises a modern take on the cult horror classic that stoked the fears of every sorority girl back in 1974 ...
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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 ...
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- Created: 24 February 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
I’ll start this review with a question. 4K has been out for a few years now, and although this reviewer has only recently dipped into this new resolution, I wonder why companies like Arrow are still going to the effort of releasing restored definitive and feature-laden movies from days gone by, at scanned ...
Read more: An American Werewolf in London (1981) - Blu-ray Review
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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: 22 November 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
There’s a key scene about halfway through A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood in which cynical journalist Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys), utters under his breath, "he's about the nicest person I've ever met.” Of course, Lloyd is talking about Fred Rogers, the host of ...
Read more: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 23 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Housesitter . . . The Night They Saved Siegfried’s Brain has an interesting history and it makes for a great lead. Originally filmed in Kalamazoo in 1987, this horror/comedy sat unfinished for over 30 years because no one wanted to deal with it. Now, thanks to Skywalker Sound and Paramount ...
Read more: Housesitter . . . The Night They Saved Siegfried's Brain (1987, 2020) - Movie Review
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- Created: 08 November 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Hollywood needs more war films. Despite the pig-headed durability of the world’s war machine providing an unending supply of source material, the genre has largely become abandoned with only the occasional passion project popping up from time to time around Veteran’s Day. For decades, the underserved ...
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- Created: 15 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Planet Drool, here we come . . . again! This is what happens when you go in expecting worse. You are constantly surprised. Max (Cayden Boyd) has had an incredible summer. He’s made new friends and is super stoked to tell all his friends at school about them. The problem is their ...
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- Created: 01 November 2019
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Interior: DARK, GIN-SOAKED MOVIE THEATER CAMERA - SLOW PAN LEFT TO RIGHT. It was a dark and stormy night. Flickering frames of light pierced the smoky darkness, casting shadows on the tattered silver screen. The projector’s jittery rays revealed the forlorn faces of a checked-out audience while the stormy night’s deafening ...
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- Created: 11 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Hi-yo, Silver . . . . Bullet, away! Arriving just in time for our quarantined Halloween is Curse of the Undead, an oft neglected B-grade horror/western about a vampiric gunfighter (played by Michael Pate, Hondo) and the trouble he kicks up when he arrives in a small town and falls for ...
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- Created: 04 November 2019
- Written by Christopher Symonds
There are few directors out there that have the distinction of making sequels to hit films that not only reach the quality of the original, but surpass it. James Cameron is one of them. He is an auteur that never rested on his laurels, always coming at things with a fresh take for a follow up and never settling for ...
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- Created: 08 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Dark Infinity and genre filmmaker Dustin Ferguson (who is comparable only to Roger Corman when it comes to impressive B-movie offerings) have yet another horror hit on their hands with the FIVE terrifying stories absolutely crawling and clawing their way through the innards of Tales for the Campfire 3 ...
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