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- By Loron Hays
Yo! Creed II, after a three year wait, has arrived and fans of Creed and the ongoing Rocky series will certainly be pleased with the final product. Its physical brutality is matched with each and every emotion presented on the screen. You will pump your fists and get teary ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
This country’s opioid crisis is hitting Hollywood in a big way of late as a couple of new films dealing with opioid addiction have released in cinemas recently. It is sad – and a bit ironic – that a devastating societal meltdown has become such lucrative fodder for the industry’s ...
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- By Loron Hays
To this day, there remains something insanely special about director Brian De Palma’s Carrie. It is based on the once-discarded novel by Stephen King, but was painstakingly adapted for the screen by Lawrence D. Cohen. Cohen got everything about King’s first novel right ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Long thought untouchable for theatrical adaptation due to its tenuous structure and ethereal nature, author James Baldwin’s novel If Beale Street Could Talk gets the big screen treatment from Moonlight writer/director Barry Jenkins. And what a perfect combination ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
There is something very honorable in modesty and not needing to always take credit for the joy one gives to those we love. The gallantry of self-sacrifice and doing for others quite often speaks for itself and doesn’t need the “hey, look at me” arrogance so prevalent in today’s ...
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- By Loron Hays
“Wow. I have a parasite,” says Eddie to the clerk. He just ATE a man threatening her with a gun. She's speechless. What better words could there be to describe Eddie Brock’s transformative condition? “I am NOT a parasite,” roars the raging monster within him. We hear ...
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The greatest thing that ever happened to the Transformers movie franchise was Michael Bay’s departure. Fact. Let the reboot begin! Bumblebee has arrived and it, operating as a prequel (or as like to consider it: THE ONLY TRANSFORMERS LIVE-ACTION FILM), ushers in a ...
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Nancy Drew knows too much. There is an elegance to the mystery that surrounds A Simple Favor. It is made so much richer thanks to the performance from Anna Kendrick who, once again, nails her character with her quirky energy and down to earth nature. With ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Fortunately, the Tide Pods Challenge went untouched by Hollywood. The same can’t be said about the escape room craze however, as Sony’s latest, called Escape Room is a clever little high-concept psychological horror film that plays off the raging escape room phenomenon ...
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- By Loron Hays
Once again, I do NOT get the critical backlash against this Amblin-esque tale of a boy and his dog. A-X-L rocks. I mean, for those teens out there that are forever the outcast or picked on by the assholes of the world out there then this movie ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
The Upside is a remake of the 2011 French film called The Intouchables which was about the real life story of a wealthy quadriplegic and the man hired to take care of him. Despite its lazy storytelling and corny sentimentality, that film went on to bring in ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
With his latest film called Glass, filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, has actually managed to pull the rug out from under us yet again with one of his biggest and most amazing twists to date. I’m not kidding here, folks. This one is a doozy. ...
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M. Night Shyamalan is responsible for one of the most brilliant supernatural thrillers, and one of the most impressive cinematic twists in film history: The Sixth Sense. That film established him as a wunderkind filmmaker and immediately ...
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- By Loron Hays
Hollywood used to make fun movies like this one all of the time. They stopped when the 1990s ran up on us. Hitting my stride in the 1980s as a fat kid with a bag of popcorn in one hand and a sack of gummy bears in the other, my days were filled with Monster Squad memories ...
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Slaughterhouse. Four Eyes. Know those names. Clocking in at 86-minutes of sweat- inducing space madness, Crossbreed will straight up kick your ass. No, it isn’t another exercise craze with fancy names for pull-ups and squat thrusts. Crossbreed, directed by Brandon ...
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There is a darkness beneath the sky here. Two figures are sleeping next to a campfire. One snores and the other, with his mouth open, finds himself prey to something far more than loud noises. A spider. After sneaking up his body, this big bodied arachnoid falls into the sleeping ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
Beware! The Baby Mask Killer is back. If 2017’s surprise time-loop slasher Happy Death Day was rightfully called a mash-up of Groundhog Day and Scream, then its follow-up, Happy Death Day 2U can be called a strange combination of Weird Science, The Butterfly Effect ...
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Fighting With My Family is the heartwarming new comedy based on the incredible true story of one of WWE’s biggest female wrestling superstars, Paige. Wait! This isn’t a wrestling movie. And before you click away to dismiss the film as a ridiculously silly, amped-up, ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
So here we are, staring down the tail end of the MCU’s Phase 3, with only Avengers: End Game remaining. Marvel had already triumphantly pumped us for the inevitable finale, but in an interesting move, they have made the penultimate film in Phase 3 a somewhat new ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
If you like Tyler Perry’s Madea movies, then more power to you. Go see his latest, A Madea Family Funeral. It is not the best in the series, but neither is it the worst. If you’ve never seen a Madea movie, prepare yourself for a disjointed comedic romp packed with cringe-worthy ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
This film has been a revelation for this reviewer. I am always banging on about product coming out of Hollywood being just remakes and sequels these days. I pine and whine about the fact that they just don’t take risks anymore. This film has proved to me I am part of the problem ...
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- By Loron Hays
The American Ministry of Magic just got stronger. It had to, of course. The dark magic of Gellert Grindelwald (a fantastically evil Johnny Depp) is that powerful. Opening with a flying stagecoach sequence, complete with winged horses and a sky-high jailbreak sequence ...
Read more: Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald (2018) - Blu-ray Review
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Like the trojan horse at the heart of its central allusion, Captive State isn’t what it initially appears to be. Perhaps due to its dour subject matter, its refusal to kowtow to mass appeal, or maybe even because Focus Features didn’t truly know what to do with it, the film is ...
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Part home invasion thriller, part horror, and part social commentary, the only thing more impressive than the number of genre elements at play in Jordan Peele’s newest film, Us, is the total body count. Well, that and the incredible attention to detail the filmmaker pays to every ...
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In order to fully appreciate just how CRAZY Aquaman is, I suggest you being four or five beers deep. Seriously. DC needs James Wan. The proof is just how enjoyably bonkers Aquaman is, which Wan directed. Finally free from the brooding destruction of Zach Snyder’s spin on ...
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- By Christopher Symonds
2017’s IT adaptation has heralded somewhat of a renaissance of Stephen King based films. The deftly adapted retelling of King’s doorstop novel from the Eighties raked in over 700 million worldwide, so it was no surprise to hear that further re-adaptations were quickly put ...
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The DCEU, if it is even called that anymore, has been making significant strides with its output in the last couple of years—and amazingly WITHOUT its two heavy hitters. Wonder Woman and Aquaman have both made commercial and critical strides that the last few entries involving ...
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- By Frank Wilkins
The new film starring Sam Rockwell and Taraji P. Henson called The Best of Enemies is about finding common ground and learning to overcome our differences. Certainly a noble idea that could serve us all quite well in these divisive and contentious times. It's just too bad the ...
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As a huge fan of Guillermo Del Toro’s 2004 original adaptation of Mike Mignola’s Hellboy, I was disappointed that he didn’t get to round out his trilogy in this universe. But, as with most things that make a buck these days, it was inevitable that someone would take up ...
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- By Loron Hays
Face it, you didn’t go see this film when it was released. The advertisements didn’t sell it well enough, did they? Well, this box office bomb is actually pretty damn good. It might be, for a kid’s movie, too long, but The Kid Who Would Be King has a great message and an even ...
Read more: The Kid Who Would Be King (2018) - Blu-ray Review
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- 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