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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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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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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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Being the second holiday-themed adventure for the Toy Story gang, one could easily expect the celebrated spirit of movie one, two, and three to be a bit diminished. That is, thankfully, not the case with The Toy Story That Time Forgot, last year’s offering on ABC to kickoff ...
Read more: The Toy Story That Time Forgot (2014) - Blu-ray Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
As if he were preaching to the choir with his latest film, director David Gordon Green tells us in Our Brand is Crisis that politics is a dirty business. And with a timely subject matter so ripe for sleazy material, the opportunities with which to entertain us are seemingly endless ...
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Warner Home Video outdoes itself this Halloween season with the release of a 4-film Special Effects Collection on blu-ray. The set includes Mighty Joe Young (1949), Son of Kong (1933), Them! (1954), and The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953); all of which are new ...
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It is upon us. For, thankfully, a fourth time, Daniel Craig returns as James Bond and delivers yet another quality entry in his stint as the super spy bulldog with a taste for drink and dames.This time though, Skyfall’s director Sam Mendes - who also returns for a ...
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Visual artist Corin Hardy’s directorial debut is, indeed, something to see. Opening this weekend here in Kansas City, the horror film grabs viewers with its sheer intensity and atmospheric effects. It’s a hard one to immediately shake off which is why my rating easily gets rounded ...
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Rated R due to the amount of bloodshed and on-screen violence, director Peter Jackson returns one final time (maybe) to the fields of Middle-Earth and delivers The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Extended Edition. Available this week, the new cut features 20 minutes of unseen moments. ...
Read more: The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies - Extended Edition Blu-ray Review
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- By Frank Wilkins
There are few things more unforgettable and terrifying in the cinematic annuals than Emil Jannings as Mephisto in F. W. Murnau's Faust. Who? That's your first response. I know, I know. Unfortunately, when it comes to horror, the entire silent era of filmmaking gets overlooked ...
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After the success of Rocky Balboa (both critically and commercially), if you’d have asked me should the character of Rocky return for yet another installment I would have said “no” and quite emphatically. In fact, to my friends and family and any stranger who dared ...
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Adding to the supernatural splendor of Ghost Story are the matte paintings of Albert Whitlock and Syd Dutton. They add so much life to this frightening tale that it’s rather shocking to discover that the majority of them were edited out. Recognizing it as a forgotten art form ...
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Ho ho ho! Merry friggin’ Christmas! Have you been naughty or nice this year? Fuhget about Sandy Claws, it is Krampus who really wants to know. Writer/director/producer Michael Dougherty (Trick 'r Treat) returns to cinemas to spread the Christmas cheer and jeer in a ...
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Morbidly Hollywood
- 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