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The Ghost Breakers (1940) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 17 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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It’s the simplest twist of fates as Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard return to do battle with the supernatural in The Ghost Breakers! Voodoo, ghosts, and island-bound zombies! Add in a criminally underrated performance from Willie Best and you have the makings of another REEL CLASSIC! ...

Infidel - Movie Review

Details: Published: 18 September 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Iranian-American filmmaker Cyrus Nowrasteh has made quite a name for himself around Hollywood with unflinching films that pull back the curtains on governmental corruption and institutionalized abuse. His target is never limited to the American government, however, and those ...

The Cat and the Canary (1939) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 15 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Swamp gators (with their mouths taped shut as evidenced by this crisp 4K handling!), dead lawyers, and mighty sums of money! Such frightful delights await those that can stay sane in the Norman clan. ...

Becky (2020) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 12 June 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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While browsing through your favorite streaming service last week, you probably flipped past the title card for the little-known Canadian thriller called Becky. Big mistake. Need convincing? It stars Kevin James as a swastika-tattooed neo-Nazi murderer. Yes, that Kevin James ...

Alien Addiction - Movie Review

Details: Published: 14 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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With squirrely attitudes at an all time HIGH, a new comedy serves up some seriously great bites of science fiction cheese and crackers as Waikato, New Zealand becomes the epicenter for alien invasions. Call off the military, though. All these aliens want to do is smoke some gooooood shit, pull an ...

Cary Grant Collection: Wedding Present (1936) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 13 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Sometimes the road to the altar - or in this case, the justice of the peace - is fraught with unexpected unexpected bumps along the way, like a fun media-frightened Archduke, saving a gangster from drowning, rescuing a missing cruise liner, and prank calling an insane asylum ...

Cary Grant Collection: Big Brown Eyes (1936) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 11 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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The Awful Truth might have been Cary Grant’s first SUCCESSFUL screwball comedy, but Big Brown Eyes - with its witty dialogue and snappy performances - is, for my money' worth, the FIRST screwball comedy that he starred in. Never heard of it? Change that. Quick ...

We Got a Monkey's Paw (short) - Movie Review

Details: Published: 10 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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Freakin’ hilarious, Horror Hounds and Gore-Gore Ghouls! We Got a Monkey’s Paw, co-written by Zack Ogle and Aaron Pagniano (who also directs this short), is a blissfully zany slice of horror comedy that fans of Evil Dead 2 and Holliston are going to go absolutely wild for when it debuts ...

Cary Grant Collection: Ladies Should Listen (1934) - Blu-ray Review

Details: Published: 09 September 2020; Written by Loron Hays

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“How could it be hot when it’s Chile?” Businessman Julian De Lussac (Cary Grant) is back in Paris and he doesn’t know what he’s doing. At all. Which makes this Grant-centered film, his 17th film, a fun jaunt down the romantic comedy aisle of a bygone era. Ladies Should Listen, only ...

#Alive - Movie Review

Details: Published: 11 September 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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So, you think you have it bad with mask mandates, social distancing, and quarantine-in-place orders? That’s nothing compared to what Joon-Woo (Ah-In Yoo) is going through in the new movie called #Alive that is making its American debut on Netflix this week ...