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Details: Created: 21 July 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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He’s really being the monster today! Why can’t he be more like his brother? With those two sentences, audiences are immediately thrust into the chaos that is 2005’s House of Wax. That opening, in which two bent out of shape parents struggle with their wild twin sons ...

Details: Created: 28 February 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Though more than eighty years have passed since Claude Rains donned the dark sunglasses, smoking jacket, and yards of ACE bandages in 1933’s The Invisible Man, the character still holds a firm place in the pantheon of Universal’s classic movie monsters. That’s not only a testament to the legacy of the studio’s monster ...

Details: Created: 22 July 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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I’m tweakin’ dude! One of my favorite B-grade flicks from Cinemax’s yesteryear is now on blu-ray! The Wraith has arrived! Complete with a crazy ass performance from Clint Howard (AND HIS HAIR) and Ozzy Osbourne’s “Secret Loser” (from The Ultimate Sin) blasting at the start of the first ...

Details: Created: 01 June 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

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Films of the ilk of last year’s Ad Astra are always a quandary for me to write about. With the output of most of Hollywood’s efforts being what some might sarcastically call formulaic and digestible, it is both a blessing and a curse when something is offered to buck the trend. James Gray’s science ...

Details: Created: 14 July 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Can I have my light back, Reggie? With guns blazing and fierce energy kicking about in its insides Walter Hill’s 48 Hrs. is a violent and truly funny action comedy. When it was originally release, it was the movie which rocketed Eddie Murphy to stardom thanks to his performance on ...

Details: Created: 22 June 2020; Written by Christopher Symonds

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With streaming now taking the lion’s share of the average household’s attention, it is getting harder and harder for the studios to entice us for yet another dip at their titles; especially when a great many of them are but a single click away on our smart TVs. It is wildly believed that physical home media ...

Details: Created: 15 July 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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The Iceman cometh! Yeah, so Another 48 Hrs. might not be the film fans wanted at the time of its release, but it still EXPLODES with action scenes that sees bodies flying all sorts of places as they are shot by a crazy biker gang. And that’s ...

Details: Created: 06 March 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What's the first question everyone asks whenever you’ve just watched a new Pixar film? “Where does it rank?” Of course, they’re asking where it fits within the hierarchy of Pixar films. And let’s face it, even a bad Pixar film tops most cinema fare these days, so when we say that Onward ranks ...

Details: Created: 13 July 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Talk about a CLOWN DAY AFTERNOON! Coming straight at you from the weird and wacky center of 1990s Forgotten Gems aisle comes Bill Murray, Geena Davis, Randy Quaid, and Jason Robards in Quick Change, a comedic heist film in which Murray appears ...

Details: Created: 22 May 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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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 ...

Details: Created: 01 April 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Now THIS is how you do it! The title says it all. Godzilla in one corner of the ring. King Kong in the other. And one HELL of a battle in the space between these two titans. And, within seconds of it opening, we get the added bonus of this series FULLY embracing its science fiction leanings with two ...

Details: Created: 15 May 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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When Harley Quinn has a bad day, it’s a good day for the rest of us. And Birds of Prey and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn is the proof. The very bad, rotten day had by Harley (Margot Robbie, I, Tonya), is told in side-splitting detail in the 24-hour comical frenzy ...

Details: Created: 22 June 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Anyone have some change? Frank and Josie are back! I am not sure if it is the whole Generation X side of me, but Career Opportunities - which is essentially The Breakfast Club set inside Home Alone - was my jam back in high school. There’s a part of me that still ...

Details: Created: 31 January 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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Who wasn't frightened as a child by the horrifically grim childhood fairy tale about an evil witch who bakes pastries to lure children into her home so she can cook and eat the youngsters for dinner? It’s a wonder any of us made it out of childhood without totally losing all of our marbles ...

Details: Created: 16 June 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Oscar Winners Martin Landau and José Ferrar in a monster movie with grand laughs? Sign me up! A very nude girl paints her toes in her bedroom. It is night and she’s clueless as to what foul beast is lurking just outside her house. It is a slug-like monster the size of a bear and ...

Details: Created: 22 January 2021; Written by Frank Wilkins

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There’s very little that Tom Hanks hasn’t done. From enduring the discomfort of support brassieres in TV’s Bosom Buddies, to foiling pirates on the high seas in Captain Phillips, America’s favorite actor has just about done it all. The guy even battled his way through Covid-19 with the grace of ...

Details: Created: 15 June 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Genevieve is completely CRACKERS and I love it! Nicholas Michael Jacobs, independent film director of Night, Urban Fears, and Tales from Six Feet Under, is back with his latest horror/comedy, Genevieve. This time out his take on the whole Annabelle doll haunting series of flicks gets served ...

Details: Created: 17 January 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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What does a filmmaker do when attempting to revive a franchise that has lain dormant for more than a decade? In the case of Bad Boys For Life, directors Adil and Bilall do what most other filmmakers have done: they adapt the story to fit a new cultural landscape, they riff ...

Details: Created: 09 June 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Recycled! Repurposed! These riot girls RULE the battleground known as the GridIron! Opening with a very brief scene involving the collection of freshly sawed off limbs and then a much longer all girl punk rock band beatdown, Spare Parts welcomes us all back to the bloody arena of ...

Details: Created: 03 January 2020; Written by Frank Wilkins

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At one point in Just Mercy, the new film from director, co-writer Destin Daniel Cretton (The Glass Castle), the film’s main character Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) points out that “the opposite of poverty isn’t wealth, it’s justice.” Those words set the tone for the tangle of legal and ...

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