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In Laura Poitras’ gripping documentary Citizenfour, whistle-blower Edward Snowden, a former contractor with the National Security Agency who leaked classified documents on the agency’s top-secret surveillance programs, continually insists he’s not the story. But in ...
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- By Loron Hays
Holy crap. Holy crap. HOLY CRAP. That’s the only thing I could stammer after releasing my grip from the theater armrests upon the completion of writer/director Jennifer Kent’s chilling The Babadook. This intelligent horror film does more than make you jump out of your seat ...
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- By Loron Hays
Peter Jackson doesn’t exactly save the best in his misguided The Hobbit trilogy for the very last. Much of the final film – in fact, too much of it – is all Jackson's epilogue with no real Tolkien story to tell, setting up the exposition for The Lord of the Rings movies. Damn you, Shakespeare. ...
Read more: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
Director Tim Burton returns to the landscape of the unconventional biopic and combines the strength of Ed Wood with the emotion of Big Fish and Edward Scissorhands and introduces us to the storytelling world of Walter and Margaret Keane, a pair of social misfits who made ...
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- By Loron Hays
On Sunday, January 4th, PBS and Masterpiece debuted the newest season of the popular British show, Downton Abbey. For PBS that meant 10.1 million viewers joined their network as Season Five opened. For those in the dark on this insanely popular sumptuous costume ...
Read more: Downton Abbey: Seasons 1 – 4 Limited Edition - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
"You can't hypnotize me...I'm British!" Burned by Roger Ebert upon its original release but made popular by British audiences, At the Earth’s Core is a harmless rubber-suited monster party for children and B-movie lovers. Set below the earth’s crust, this is the second ...
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- By Loron Hays
If you are tired of Johnny Depp or think he’s “played out” then you should stop reading this review right now. In fact, don’t step foot anywhere near Mortdecai because you won’t be amused with anything you see. I’ll give you a minute to collect your things and vacate the premises. ...
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“I’ve never been an actual Luddite. I don’t hate technology. I just hate the religion around it.” – Terry Gilliam. Visoinary director (of the abstract dramedy) Terry Gilliam takes viewers back to the future with his latest offering of dystopian delicacies in The Zero ...
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Romance - past romance, present romance and the promise of future romance - is in the air for As the Abbey Turns! For a program that began its life intending to be merely a seven-part miniseries that ended on the brink of World War I (and which then won six Emmys), Julian Fellowes' ...
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From producer Guillermo del Toro and director Jorge Gutierrez comes The Book of Life, an animated comedy with a unique visual style. The film was (mostly) ignored upon its release last October. It is, in fact, one of the must enchanting and exciting visual surprises of ...
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Are you ready kids?! Stephen Hillenburg’s TV toon that’s all about nautical nonsense returns to the silver screen with The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. While the television show and its hour-long specials have moved on past the glories of the first three seasons ...
Read more: The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water - Blu-ray Review
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A soulless and very much psychotic totalitarian government gets a proper “F--- You” in Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. Named after a song from 1939 (“Aquarela do Brasil”) that’s often heard playing in the background or hummed by its lead character, Gilliam’s movie is possibly more ...
Read more: Brazil: Criterion Collection - The Director’s Cut (1985) - Blu-ray Review
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From the silent opening sequence to the arrival of Ndugu’s drawing at the very end, About Schmidt is a fantastic depiction of a lone man facing important choices at several of life’s crossroads all at the same time. It is a film that breaks a lot of the dramatic rules with comic aplomb ...
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Matthew Vaughn – the acclaimed director of Layer Cake, Stardust, Kick-Ass, and X-Men: First Class - returns to the comic book-minded genre with the wildly irreverent Kingsman: The Secret Service and kicks some serious cinematic ass in doing so. Loosely based on ...
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A child history buff. Six angry dwarfs spat out from one closet. One hell of an adventure. You guessed it. Time Bandits has returned. Writer/director Terry Gilliam’s classic fairy tale mixes science fiction with comedy and gives audiences a timeless movie full of historic ...
Read more: Time Bandits: Criterion Collection (1981) - Blu-ray Review
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- Focus - Blu-ray Review
- Cocoon (1985) - Blu-ray Review [U.K. Steelbook]
- Toy Soldiers (1991) - Blu-ray Review [The Cult Movie Collection]
- Miss Marple: Volume One (1984 - 1986) - Blu-ray Review
- It Follows - Blu-ray Review
- Don't Go In The Woods ... Alone! (1981) - Blu-ray Review
- Outlander: Season One, Volume 1 - Blu-ray Review
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- Colorado Street Suicide Bridge
- Death of a Princess - The Story of Grace Kelly's Fatal Car Crash
- Joaquin Phoenix 911 Call - River Phoenix - Viper Room
- Screen Legend Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79
- Suicide and the Hollywood Sign - The Girl Who Jumped from the Hollywood Sign
- The Amityville Horror House
- The Black Dahlia Murder - The Death of Elizabeth Short
- The Death of Actress Jane Russell
- The Death of Brandon Lee
- The Death of Chris Farley
- The Death of Dominique Dunne
- The Death of George Reeves - the Original Superman