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The Apartment 4K Restoration (1960) - 4K UHD Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 13 April 2022; Written by Emily Strong

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“Why do people have to love people, anyway?” By the time the 1960’s rolled around in America, the infamous Production Code that was implemented in the 1930’s was clearly losing its grip in Hollywood. The years of filmmakers sliding in double-meaning lines of dialogue and skirting ...

Room 203 - Movie Review

Details: Published: 11 April 2022; Written by Loron Hays

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The chills and spills begin with an ominous hole in the wall. It is a hole which cannot be filled; many have tried but all have failed. This cavity - much like a rotten tooth - cannot be filled . . . at least not for long. And one poor dude is about to find out the hard way when he and his girlfriend plan ...

Everything Everywhere All at Once - Movie Review

Details: Published: 11 April 2022; Written by Emily Strong

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In a world where perhaps none of the studio giants would even consider touching a project that absolutely overflows with elaborate originality and craziness, A24, once again, delivers. This time they bring us Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert’s (collectively known as Daniels) mind-bending ...

Super Fly: Warner Archive Collection (1972) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 07 April 2022; Written by Loron Hays

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Can we talk about Super Fly’s opening for a minute? Street shot and completely on the - pardon the pun - fly, this engaging opening is one hell of a way to open Super Fly, the late Gordon Parks, Jr. (Three the Hard Way, Aaron Loves Angela) film. Right away, we are caught up in the ...

All The Old Knives - Movie Review

Details: Published: 08 April 2022; Written by Loron Hays

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Sometimes one special dinner can loosen what’s been crossed and knotted between two people as the air is cleared. Sometimes. But, in THIS tale of espionage, there’s a whole lot of dead bodies tangled up in this candlelit dinner by the sea. Things are bound to get messy on this dining ...

Reign of Chaos - Movie Review

Details: Published: 06 April 2022; Written by Loron Hays

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Proportion Productions and low-budget British filmmaking in general continues to get its groove on with the release of Reign of Chaos, a sleek-looking dive into a future governed by a type of madness which turns humans into flesh-eating psychos ...

X - Movie Review

Details: Published: 08 April 2022; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Intelligent horror. Yes, such a thing actually exists. Granted, that’s not always what the hordes of hungry horror fans looking to fulfill their bloodlust want from the genre, but for those who like their spilled blood and severed body parts served with a touch a class, do I have a film for you! ...

Scream (2022) - 4K UHD Review

Details: Published: 21 January 2022; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Ghostface is back! Though it has been ten real-life years since we last saw the sad-faced masked murderer on the big screen, he’s still terrorizing the teens of the fictional town of Woodsboro where all the killing began some 25 years ago in 1996’s Scream ...

Phantom of the Mall: Eric’s Revenge (1989) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 03 April 2022; Written by Loron Hays

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Hey, BU-DDY. Eric is out for blood. And, really, who can blame him?! Disfigured when some greedy commercial real estate developers set fire to his house in order to build a mall over it, Erik now hides himself in the air ducts and the subterranean passageways, cutting anyone who dares cross ...

The Sword and The Sorcerer - 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Collector’s Edition (1982) - Review

Details: Published: 03 April 2022; Written by Loron Hays

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“Is your sword for hire? I would pay anything for it. What is wrong? Is your sword too small. . . “ Go BOLD or GO HOME, right? Surely, that must have been behind this sword and sorcery romp as a bad king dares to raise a demon from the depths of Hell in order to conquer even more land for ...