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- Created: 31 January 2020
- Published: 31 January 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
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 ...
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- Created: 09 June 2021
- Published: 09 June 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Recycled! Repurposed! These riot girls RULE the battleground known as the GridIron! Opening with a very brief scene involving the collection of freshly sawed off limbs and then a much longer all girl punk rock band beatdown, Spare Parts welcomes us all back to the bloody arena of ...
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- Created: 22 January 2021
- Published: 22 January 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
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 ...
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- Created: 08 June 2021
- Published: 08 June 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
In which Joe Dante, the director of Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, The Burbs, Matinee, Innerspace, and other cult classics, turns toys into objects of delightful HORROR! It’s as if The Puppetmaster and Toy Story met in a dark alley and had a quickie, giving birth to this cult classic 9 months ...
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- Created: 17 January 2020
- Published: 17 January 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
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 ...
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- Created: 01 June 2021
- Published: 01 June 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Freedom! Adventure! Flying like Peter Pan across . . . a circuit board?! Damn straight! Forget about Neverland, folks! Back when Explorers was originally made, it was the digital age that we were venturing into and, with an opening flying montage as Ethan Hawke bursts through heavy ...
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- Created: 03 January 2020
- Published: 03 January 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
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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- Created: 26 May 2021
- Published: 26 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Guns! Sin! And bathtub gin! In this women-centered d♀uble feature from Shout! Factory, Crazy Mama takes a commanding lead for Producer Roger Corman as Academy Award winner Cloris Leachman pulls off yet another crazy character with that of Melba Stokes as she and her crazy family embark on a road trip like ...
Read more: Crazy Mama/The Lady in Red D♀uble Feature (1975, 1979) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 24 January 2020
- Published: 24 January 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
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., ...
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- Created: 27 May 2021
- Published: 27 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
It might be intense and rather somber, but there’s no mistaking the meaning behind Revenge of the Bushido Blade! Someone is out for BLOOD! Presented for the first time in a brilliant and shockingly glossy 4K remaster, Revenge of the Bushido Blade (aka The Last Reunion or ...
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- Created: 17 April 2020
- Published: 17 April 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
2005 saw the end of the prequel trilogy, and what a job it had before it to finally deliver what we’d been promised since the trilogy was announced: the descent of Anakin Skywalker to the dark side and the rise of Darth Vader ...
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- Created: 25 May 2021
- Published: 25 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Boobs! Bullets! Bawdy Babes! What’s not to love about Angie Dickinson in Big Bad Mama?! Nothing! Absolutely nothing! And producer Roger Corman knows it which is why Big Bad Mama is a curvaceous cult classic. The sequel made in 1987? Well, not so much, but - hey- (going ...
Read more: Big Bad Mama/Big Bad Mama II: Big Bad Double Feature (1974, 1987) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 15 April 2020
- Published: 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: 20 May 2021
- Published: 20 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Because the “good old boy” way of doing things needs to get steamrolled by a 1942 M4 Sherman tank from time to time! There are a few valuable lessons to be learned from this sometimes witty Smokey and the Bandit wannabe title ...
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- Created: 20 December 2019
- Published: 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 ...
