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- Created: 09 January 2022
- Published: 09 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
“The worm is the spice! The spice is the worm!” David Lynch’s Dune might not be the director’s favorite movie-making experience. It also might not be on any science fiction fan’s top 10 list (although it probably should be). Those sentences alone do not make Lynch’s attempt at bringing ...
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- Created: 10 November 2020
- Published: 10 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
A minister-turned-serial killer in one of the most beautiful films ever made by Hollywood? Sure. Why not? When the results of exaggerated set designs and a directing style reminiscent of early silent cinema are as good as they are in The Night of the Hunter, no one is going to complain ...
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- Created: 06 January 2022
- Published: 06 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
The man with the straw hat is back! And so are his ghoulish finds in the windy city of Chicago. Watergate era television doesn’t get much better than with Kolchak: The Night Stalker. And that, my friends, is a certified fact. It begins in a dingy motel room. A cassette player is on. A disheveled ...
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- Created: 21 January 2022
- Published: 21 January 2022
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Ghostface is back! Though it has been ten real-life years since we last saw the sad-faced masked murderer on the big screen, he’s still terrorizing the teens of the fictional town of Woodsboro where all the killing began some 25 years ago in 1996’s Scream ...
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- Created: 27 October 2020
- Published: 27 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Was he trying to kiss or kill her on that hilltop? The verdict is still out as Suspicion makes its debut on blu-ray thanks to the efforts of the Warner Archive Collection. Alfred Hitchcock’s adaptation of Francis Iles's novel Before the Fact - which is as dissimilar as they...
Read more: Suspicion: Warner Archive Collection (1941) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 16 November 2021
- Published: 16 November 2021
- Written by Christopher Symonds
1990’s Misery is one of the finest book to screen King adaptations of all time, in my humble opinion. While this new dearth of King adaptions continues unabated with varying degrees of success or abject failure (*cough: The Stand), no one has (as yet) touched it, or even broached remaking it ...
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- Created: 04 January 2022
- Published: 04 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
“Can you still do the things with your eyes? You’re not crazy if you can still do the thing with your eyes.” I will NEVER forget the first time I saw Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I wouldn’t go outside in the rain for weeks afterwards thanks to the opening few minutes of ...
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- Created: 21 October 2020
- Published: 21 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
You can’t say that Hitchcock didn’t warn audiences of Hitler. He made several films with Hitler’s world view overhanging the shadows in each frame. But, after a decade in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock took that warning to a new level and gave audiences the ultimate romance between a ...
Read more: Notorious: Criterion Collection (1946) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 24 December 2021
- Published: 24 December 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Folk Horror. The very combination of the words suggest a clash of ideologies and, true to its nature, this seems to be its roots. It is a concept of evil so entwined with the land that it is damn near impossible to ever tear its threads clean. The voices in the woods; the pagan ceremonies on the ...
Read more: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror - Box Set Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 18 February 2022
- Published: 18 February 2022
- Written by Frank Wilkins
So, you think you’re carrying some emotional baggage? Wait until you see the giant gorilla-proof hardside suitcase of emotional trauma Lulu, the retired military dog, and former Army Ranger Briggs (Channing Tatum) are toting around in the new road trip buddy film called Dog. Masking many ...
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- Created: 13 October 2020
- Published: 13 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“I know what happens in those mystery pictures! A guy walks over to a perfectly ordinary door he opens it up and - ZOWIE! - out falls a body right on its kisser!” And, of course, a body falls to the ground! When it comes to getting the tone of horror comedies right, you have to sometimes go ...
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- Created: 15 November 2021
- Published: 15 November 2021
- Written by Emily Strong
It’s quite hard to believe that the writer/director of such a modest, coming-of-age tale like Songs My Brothers Taught Me is the same person who just delivered us Marvel’s latest installment, Eternals. Though undoubtedly Chloé Zhao’s style is ingrained in the blockbuster, it is just a difficult task ...
Read more: Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 21 December 2021
- Published: 21 December 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Opening with a classic song from a bygone era is a bold move for this supernatural coming-of-age story about a bullied teen who takes matters into his own hands. Especially when that familiar chorus - as The Platters’ own Tony Williams soars vocally - kicks in and the audience witnesses ...
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- Created: 12 October 2020
- Published: 12 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Sandra! Junior? SANDRA! Junior? SAAAANNNNNDRA! Having successfully stolen the show in 1941’s One Night in the Tropics, the comedy duo of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello - who were big on radio but untested on film - were quickly signed by Universal Pictures ...
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- Created: 23 July 2021
- Published: 23 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
These are STILL not the ninjas you are looking for. Sure, they might go by the same names as those in the outstanding G.I. Joe universe, as developed by Marvel Comics from 1982 to 1994 in the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero comic series, but the film adaptations have yet to do Hasbro ...
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