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- Created: 18 September 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Sometimes it takes meeting the wrong person to finally get to the right person. That’s one of the territories in Holiday, an often overlooked romantic comedy from 1938 which deals with clashing values and what it means to truly live as pie-in-the-sky dreamers mix drinks with the aristocrats ...
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- Created: 02 July 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
In case you missed the now (in)famous twitter thread from back in 2015 written by then mostly unknown waitress/stripper A’Ziah-Monae “Zola” King – who now acts as the film’s producer, you can get yourself caught up on one of the most bizarre weekend road trip stories since the Hoover family ...
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- Created: 20 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“Kiss me, Tyler!” Alright, alright, so Girls School Screamers might be on the rather cheap end of Z-grade budget horror, but from the very beginning (in which a ghost in a wedding with worms and maggots dangling from her face scares a little boy so badly he runs from the house), to its ...
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- Created: 17 September 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
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! ...
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- Created: 11 June 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Crazy Rich Asians director Jon M. Chu teams up with Tony-Award winning playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda to bring this year’s most electrifying film to theaters and HBO Max. In the Heights is a beautifully orchestrated celebration of diversity, heritage, and the Latin culture that just might be ...
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- Created: 20 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Black magic! Like in Marilyn's books! This demon wants a lifeless body to control! Through the Fire begins with a flat tire. We have a glorious wide shot in which a white car comes to a stop against a night full of stars. That single shot is pretty awe-inspiring. Unfortunately, the rest of the movie is ...
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- Created: 15 September 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
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. ...
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- Created: 25 June 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
What I wouldn’t give to have been a fly on the wall during what was certainly the most bizarre elevator pitch in the history of elevator pitches for Luca, the latest churn from Pixar’s ever-productive mill of animated greats. It probably didn’t, but I like to imagine it went something like this ...
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- Created: 18 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Once Upon a Time there lived a young woman named Wanda (Kathy Ireland. You know the name. Look up the number!) and she really wanted to change in order to please her surfer boyfriend. She can change! She wants to change! ...
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- Created: 10 July 2021
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Some 27 years after it’s release, one might be forgiven for forgetting what a game changer Jan de Bont’s Speed was. No scratch that, you should remember! Back in the early 90s, the big muscles, full testosterone action picks from Sly, Arnie, Segal, Van Damme and the like were started ...
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- Created: 14 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
It’s time once again to hop in the WAY BACK MACHINE and go . . . way back to another age of Hollywood HIGHS and HORROR! Pre-Code Hollywood fascinates me. There are a lot of grand and wonderful films reflecting the true culture of the time period from 1930 – 1934. Man, it must ...
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- Created: 05 July 2021
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Remember that episode of The Big Bang Theory? You know, the one where Sheldon shares his love of Raiders of the Lost Ark with Amy, and after watching it, she blows his mind by attesting that the plot would have been exactly the same without it’s protagonist. I, like Sheldon, was ...
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- Created: 12 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
A cure for a virus has some serious consequences, especially when Dead Space is involved! It’s big and its bad attitude gives it the upper hand in this . . . remake of a rip-off?! Yup. There is an interesting cut which happens early in Fred Gallo’s Dead Space, a remake of Roger Corman’s ...
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- Created: 09 April 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
With nothing more than the well-being of our fellow man at stake, can humans be trusted to do the right thing to ensure the proliferation of the species? Or are we genetically programmed to revert to primitive nature? ...
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- Created: 10 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
There is an easy but irreverent joke in the title of Elvira’s Haunted Hills. Figure it out and actually laugh out loud and you will easily enjoy this throwback trope-utilizing flick. Oh, it’s corny lowbrow horror escapism, complete with secret passageways and family curses, but fans of Elvira aren’t ...
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- Created: 11 April 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Oof! The struggle is real! Wonder Woman 1984, directed by Patty Jenkins, should have been a lot of things as it embraces the technicolor, cocaine-fueled era of BIG HAIR and even BIGGER SHOULDER PADS, but it’s not and its nearly ...
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- Created: 08 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“Stop filling your head with all that useless trivia!” Fade to Black lives on the fringes of cinema fanaticism. This slasher celebrates the gray areas in life, where fantasy and reality come crashing together, as one young cinephile takes matters into his own hands and takes down all ...
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- Created: 05 March 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
It often takes an earth-shattering moment to remind us that sometimes, it is friendship – not biological family – that gets us through some of life’s most challenging times. That’s the big take-away in Our Friend, which tells the devastating true story of the Teague family and how their lives were suddenly ...
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- Created: 07 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Children shouldn’t play with spears. End of story. There’s something EVIL bubbling just under the soil on this cursed farmland in Texas. What it is though isn’t exactly too thrilled that this family has arrived. Just witness the burning of the wooden oil pump as a young boy ...
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- Created: 08 April 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...
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- Created: 06 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Death by trouser snake! With a ripe sense of eeriness kicking about its engines, The Lamp (aka The Outing) begins deep in the past as a daughter watches her mother hopelessly die at the hands of a murderous Jinn. We are in Galveston, Texas circa 1893 to be precise ...
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- Created: 22 March 2021
- Written by Michelle Duy
From the producer of Get Out and Us, Antebellum (2020) is hard to watch as it depicts the realities of slavery. Everything from branding a human being to committing rape and murder is vividly portrayed. Thankfully, some scenes take place in the present day which give the viewer a much ...
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- Created: 05 October 2021
- Written by Emily Strong
“That’s the one thing I’ve learned about clients. Dead ones don’t pay their bills.” Famed scientist and cheesemaker John Hay Forrest has died driving off of a cliff. It seems to be suicide, but the daughter of the noted man, Juliet Forrest (Rachael Ward) suspects something else: murder ...
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- Created: 24 March 2021
- Written by Michelle Duy
The low-budget Christian drama Dispatched is like a movie version of a street preacher. You may have been just going about your daily business, but it grabs you by the shirt collar. It gets right up in your face and declares God’s love for you. This blunt approach to evangelism is not for everybody ...
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- Created: 01 October 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Ending up in a ditch with a flat tire and no spare is just the beginning of Sue Ellen, Patty, Cindy and Rose’s problems in the regional thriller Shallow Grave ...
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- Created: 28 February 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The new comedy starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson called The Hustle is an almost identical remake of the 1988 classic comedy Dirty Rotten Scoundrels which starred Michael Caine and Steve Martin - itself a remake of Marlon Brando’s Bedtime Story. I say “almost” because ...
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- Created: 30 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
You can slice 'em and dice 'em any which way you want to, but they simply don't make movies like this anymore! No budget? No problem, when done correctly! Just ask Deke Slater, the man thought responsible for the killings at Tall Grass Country Club ...
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- Created: 18 December 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
It’s foolish to expect a movie about fossil hunting to be an exciting action banger. But Lord Have Mercy, is Ammonite about as slow as one would expect a movie about fossil hunting to be! To be fair, Ammonite isn’t about fossil hunting, nor does being slow necessarily make it a bad film. It isn’t. But like ...
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- Created: 28 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“I’m the master of the ghost ship!” Come for the zombie in the Nazi uniform killing random people and stay for the nonstop hilarity as director Bernard Launois gives audiences a wild tasting slice of French horror pie in Devil Story, his first and last horror film. This is a Z-grade movie where ...
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- Created: 28 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The umbrellas. The Flowers. And Mother’s collapse. Every year, it is the same thing. Welcome to the cruel and keyed-in paranoia of Dementia 13. If the headaches brought about by this dysfunctional family don’t get you, the axe murderer just might ...
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