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- By Michelle Duy
I know someone who refuses to watch any movie more than once. After my second viewing of Inherit the Wind (1960), I think she might have the right idea. The first time I watched this classic, the performances of Spencer Tracy, Gene Kelly and Fredric March really impressed ...
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- By Loron Hays
God bless Burgess Meredith. I mean really. God bless him. Whether cantankerous, goofy, or playing a booklover facing a world without people and spectacles, his performances dramatically elevates the material. Here, in Michael Winner’s atmospheric The Sentinel, his ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Writer/director Nancy Meyers (The Parent Trap, Something’s Gotta Give) takes on the American generation gap and mixes in clichéd beats of gender role reversal in her latest called The Intern, a film which would come and go without much notice were it not for the surprising chemistry ...
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- By Loron Hays
When Olive Films announced that they would be releasing Republic's The Invisible Monster, a 12-part serial from 1950, on blu-ray my excitement shot through the roof. Audiences (myself included) would finally be able to see the the Phantom Ruler in all his HD glory ...
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- By Loron Hays
John Carpenter’s Christine is a masterpiece. There. I said it. There’s simply no other way to put it. Criminally underrated by damn near every critic, its release this week on blu – thanks to Sony Entertainment – offers me the opportunity to argue for its reconsideration as ...
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- By Loron Hays
Writer/director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel I & II, and Aftershock) might just need to be crowned the new King of Putrid. A self-confessed connoisseur of gore and Grindhouse alum, Roth’s work in the genre is living proof that the exploitation flick is not forgotten and definitely ...
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- By Loron Hays
Wow. To think it was just earlier this week that I wrote about how gruesome Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno is and why that graphic repugnance is much needed in our uber-safeguarded world. Following in step with that line of thought comes director Denis Villeneuve ...
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- By Loron Hays
Director Eli Roth (Cabin Fever, Hostel, The Green Inferno) turns his back on gore with his take on Peter Traynor’s 1977 exploitation movie Death Game. Knock Knock is, at once, a much better film than its predecessor and, as far as home-invasion flicks go, a much more ...
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- By Loron Hays
Dan Curtis is a relative god among men when it comes to producing and directing American horror television programs. From creating Dark Shadows to bringing life into investigative reporter Carl Kolchak in The Night Stalker, Curtis is often cited as the primary source of ...
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- By Loron Hays
There is a moment in Insidious’ latest chapter that makes it all worthwhile. Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye) is tiptoeing through the nooks and crannies of her own house following the oily footprints of a demon hell-bent in possessing the living. The suspense is palpable, as she seems ...
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- By Loron Hays
People are still talking about Hammer Films and for good reason. We are referring to, after all, a bedrock of lavish horror films that have withstood time and changing tastes. Uniquely antiquated in style and very, very British, this independent production company originally ...
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- By Loron Hays
Writer/director Guillermo del Toro returns to the gothic and raids it like an undiscovered goldmine in his latest film, Crimson PeakBe warned, though.This is not the horror film you are expecting as the trailers are a bit misleading. This is horror by way of serious-minded novelists like ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
There’s a lot to like in Steven Spielberg’s Cold War-era spy thriller Bridge of Spies: reliving memories of those old “duck and cover” educational films; fedora-clad G-men tracking shadowy figures who dart in and out of New York subway cars; clandestine prisoner swaps between ...
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- By Loron Hays
Hilariously off-putting in its documenting of an anti-liberal, pro-Bush time period in American history, 2004’s Team America arrives on blu-ray this week from Warner Bros thanks to a newly minted distribution deal with Paramount. While the film’s creators have gone on the ...
Read more: Team America: World Police (2004) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Loron Hays
There is an opportunity lost within The Last Witch Hunter, an opportunity to be much bigger in scope than it actually comes across as being. You may enjoy the fantasy flick but you’ll have to sit through a lot of the humdrum before getting there. This is slight entertainment ...
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