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Same Boat - Movie Review

Details: Published: 30 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Bad for humanity or bad people. Is there a difference? Same Boat, opening with a hilarious assassination of the people who created reality television, doesn’t think so. In this time-traveling romantic comedy, there are always more people to kill and more bodies to stack. Welcome to the 28th ...

Tales from Six Feet Under - Movie Review

Details: Published: 30 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Weird as shit, but original. That line of dialogue from writer/director Nicholas Michael Jacobs’ latest film, Tales from Six Feet Under, is probably the best way to describe this 45-minute excursion into anthology horror. Both fun and frightful, this film brings the guts and the gusto when it comes ...

Revenge of the Cheerleaders (1976) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 29 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Cigarettes out and zippers up! Tarantino’s main influence for Death Proof arrives on blu-ray thanks to Code Red and, yes, it features full frontal nudity from The Hoff, a seriously sexy dance number in a soda shop, and a lot of high school teens giving their all for the school. ...

Record City (1977) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 28 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Talk about 1970s television star power! Everyone - from Kinky Friedman to Ruth Buzzi - is stocking the shelves at Record City. The familiar faces keep turning up in this store! ...

The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes (1955) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 27 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Tucked far enough away from civilization, the bleak desert that surrounds the ranch at the center of this independently made feature from 1955 makes for some unsettling moments. There’s nothing around the ranch except sand and mountains in the distance. Its remote location is already changing the ...

1917 - 4K Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 06 December 2019; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Filmmaker Sam Mendes gets down and personal with his new film, 1917 about two young British soldiers sent on an impossible mission to save hundreds of their fellow soldiers. Though largely fictionalized, his tale comes from an actual account told by his paternal grandfather who served in the ...

Rootwood - Movie Review

Details: Published: 25 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Something is seriously off with the forest at the center of this horror flick. Enter here if you dare. You won’t be the same IF you escape the deep shadows and tall, tall trees here ...

Gold Dust - Movie Review

Details: Published: 23 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Desert hi-jinks don’t get any livelier or funnier than they do in Gold Dust, a rich comedy about a rather bizarre set of occurrences happening to one team of treasure hunters in the American Southwest ...

Terror Train: Limited Edition (1980) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 23 March 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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No one screams like Jamie Lee Curtis. No one. Combine those ear-piercing screams with a creepy Groucho Marx mask, a young David Copperfield, a ghostly train ride, and you have sure fire success for a late October night full of terror and mystery. Rising above the typical ...

Harriet - DVD Review

Details: Published: 24 March 2020; Written by Michelle Duy

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There’s a shocking, telling moment late in the movie Harriet (2019). Referring to a group of escaped slaves, the villain Gideon (Joe Elwyn) calls them “three bucks and a female with foal.” Of course, he does much worse throughout the movie. But that ...