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- Created: 27 March 2022
- Published: 27 March 2022
- Written by Emily Strong
I think that everyone knows that those early teen years were…confusing…to say the least. Everyone has had their own traumatizing experiences from that time (whether you choose to remember them or not). However, there is a sense of comfort knowing that we all went through it and ...
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- Created: 13 February 2021
- Published: 13 February 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Suspicions! Accusations! It’s all on the screen in this minor film noir classic. The Suspect arrives on blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber and I, as a fan of Laughton’s performances, couldn’t be happier ...
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- Created: 07 December 2021
- Published: 07 December 2021
- Written by Christopher Symonds
This low budget ($300,000 USD) slasher film, made by a USC graduate in the late 70s, would spawn countless sequels and give its backers some serious profits, the world horror auteur John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis. Those things make the love for this simple tale worth it alone. It’s cementing ...
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- Created: 18 February 2022
- Published: 18 February 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
“You made two mistakes. One was getting up and the other was making fun of Shirley Temple.” Directed by David Berlatsky and starring Gary Conway as a decorated World War II veteran who returns home to try to save his farm from being taken over by the bank, The Farmer, a ...
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- Created: 30 January 2021
- Published: 30 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
One wouldn’t normally equate Cary Grant with a family movie about adoption and the drama which lies therein, but perhaps that’s why Room for One More (also known as The Easy Way) lingers with viewers. Grant, playing one half of The Roses, never gets time alone as his house is filled ...
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- Created: 07 December 2021
- Published: 07 December 2021
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Only three years after Halloween swept the world up in the antics of Michael Myers, John Carpenter reluctantly returned to write the follow up, after pressure from Akkad and especially producer Irwin Yablans. Halloween 2 would be financed, written, filmed and released in 1981. They didn’t mess ...
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- Created: 03 February 2022
- Published: 03 February 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
"The motion picture that follows is a fable. In it there are many nudists but only one monster. In life, it is generally the other way around." Brain dead dialogue? Plenty of female flesh? Monster madness? Where do I sign up?! AGFA and Something Weird, those cool-headed ...
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- Created: 10 January 2021
- Published: 10 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“She’s afraid of the big bad wolf. Tra la la la laaaaaa.” It Happened One Night remains a phenomenal romantic comedy. After all these years, this pre-code American film - which was made when being a reporter was idolized and the screwball comedy was only just hitting its stride - still hits all the perfect notes as ...
Read more: It Happened One Night: Criterion Collection (1934) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 27 August 2021
- Published: 27 August 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Candyman. Do you dare say it? We’re coming up on 30 years since the hook-handed killer – known affectionately as the Candyman – haunted the honeycombed halls of the Cabrini-Green housing project in 1992’s Candyman. And now he’s back to paint those same corridors red in a ...
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- Created: 27 January 2022
- Published: 27 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
Fishing with grandpa was never as wild and as out there as in this slasher satire! That’s right, Gorehounds and Guppy Heads, Blood Hook is back to get you in the mood for some more summertime hijinks . . . and this time all the muskie madness and mutilations are completely uncensored! Whoop ...
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- Created: 03 January 2021
- Published: 03 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The Marx Brothers are coming! The Marx Brothers are coming! Well, after a bit of exposition that is as Casablanca (and others like that film) get a big kiss-off thanks to the parody on display throughout the 86-minutes that make up A Night in Casablanca. This REEL CLASSIC might not be the ...
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- Created: 11 July 2021
- Published: 11 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Marvel does Bourne! With plenty of globe-hopping and mouth-dropping action sequences, Black Widow finally arrives in theaters after an over yearlong delay due to Covid-19 and reminds us of why we absolutely love the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its many characters. With heart ...
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- Created: 19 January 2022
- Published: 19 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
007 who? The Man From Hong Kong has all that you crave! Operating as if Inspector Fang Sing Leng (Jimmy Wang Yu) was the one and only James Bond, The Man From Hong Kong blows its action sky high and delivers a spirited action-adventure flick that could only come out of the pages of ...
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- Created: 29 December 2020
- Published: 29 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
It’s hard to conceive in this era of remakes that some redos in the history of cinema go on to become classics in their own right. For genre fans, John Carpenter’s The Thing is often cited as a prime example. For comedy, however, Billy Wilder’s beloved cross-dressing romp, Some Like It ...
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- Created: 30 July 2021
- Published: 30 July 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
What are you willing to sacrifice to protect your family? Would you give up your freedom? Are you prepared to unequivocally accept the consequences of your singular actions? Does your answer change if you are in a foreign country? ...