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- Created: 07 December 2021
- Written by Christopher Symonds
This low budget ($300,000 USD) slasher film, made by a USC graduate in the late 70s, would spawn countless sequels and give its backers some serious profits, the world horror auteur John Carpenter and Jamie Lee Curtis. Those things make the love for this simple tale worth it alone. It’s cementing ...
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- Created: 19 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
007 who? The Man From Hong Kong has all that you crave! Operating as if Inspector Fang Sing Leng (Jimmy Wang Yu) was the one and only James Bond, The Man From Hong Kong blows its action sky high and delivers a spirited action-adventure flick that could only come out of the pages of ...
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- Created: 05 May 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Madness. Mayhem. And, of course, MURDER. This is what follows the anti-archetype characters of M. It is a thriller that is meant to unsettle the viewer with its hunt for a serial killer, making it an unforgettable REEL CLASSIC ...
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- Created: 07 December 2021
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Only three years after Halloween swept the world up in the antics of Michael Myers, John Carpenter reluctantly returned to write the follow up, after pressure from Akkad and especially producer Irwin Yablans. Halloween 2 would be financed, written, filmed and released in 1981. They didn’t mess ...
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- Created: 18 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
Independent films don’t get any more baadasssss than with Melvin Van Peebles at the helm. Recognize that right now and we can remain on speaking terms. The collective black consciousness is alive and well in his filmography and, thankfully, his independent output left a lasting mark on pop ...
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- Created: 07 March 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: 27 August 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Candyman. Do you dare say it? We’re coming up on 30 years since the hook-handed killer – known affectionately as the Candyman – haunted the honeycombed halls of the Cabrini-Green housing project in 1992’s Candyman. And now he’s back to paint those same corridors red in a ...
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- Created: 18 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
“Doctor! Doctor! She’s . . . dead.” A horror triple feature from the vaults of the American Genre Film Archive (AGFA)? Yes, please! Call it the return of the Drive-In schlock. Hell, call it whatever you want. I call these films - Help Me . . . I’m Possessed, Carnival of Blood, and Night of the ...
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- Created: 13 February 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Suspicions! Accusations! It’s all on the screen in this minor film noir classic. The Suspect arrives on blu-ray thanks to Kino Lorber and I, as a fan of Laughton’s performances, couldn’t be happier ...
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- Created: 11 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Marvel does Bourne! With plenty of globe-hopping and mouth-dropping action sequences, Black Widow finally arrives in theaters after an over yearlong delay due to Covid-19 and reminds us of why we absolutely love the Marvel Cinematic Universe and its many characters. With heart ...
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- Created: 13 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
Make no mistake about it. Jack Frost 2: Revenge Of The Mutant Killer Snowman is not a great movie. It might not even be that necessary considering the first one was all bark and little bite, but as we are talking about a psychotic (and in this one, resurrected) snowman who kills for jollies, I guess ...
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- Created: 30 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
One wouldn’t normally equate Cary Grant with a family movie about adoption and the drama which lies therein, but perhaps that’s why Room for One More (also known as The Easy Way) lingers with viewers. Grant, playing one half of The Roses, never gets time alone as his house is filled ...
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- Created: 30 July 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
What are you willing to sacrifice to protect your family? Would you give up your freedom? Are you prepared to unequivocally accept the consequences of your singular actions? Does your answer change if you are in a foreign country? ...
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- Created: 16 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
This set from Arrow Video is arguably their best release yet. It is indeed a labor of love as the company has carefully curated and gorgeously presented a selection of all-time Shaw Brothers classics in this box set. You read that correctly. From King Boxer to Mighty Peking Man and everything ...
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- Created: 10 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“She’s afraid of the big bad wolf. Tra la la la laaaaaa.” It Happened One Night remains a phenomenal romantic comedy. After all these years, this pre-code American film - which was made when being a reporter was idolized and the screwball comedy was only just hitting its stride - still hits all the perfect notes as ...
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- Created: 17 December 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
In today’s world of divisiveness and animosity fueled by the 24 hour news cycle that mines its content from our dissimilarities and opposing views, we could all be better served by appreciating and accepting the connections that allow us to understand one another. That’s the central ...
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- Created: 13 January 2022
- 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: 03 January 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
The Marx Brothers are coming! The Marx Brothers are coming! Well, after a bit of exposition that is as Casablanca (and others like that film) get a big kiss-off thanks to the parody on display throughout the 86-minutes that make up A Night in Casablanca. This REEL CLASSIC might not be the ...
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- Created: 31 July 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Not much has changed since 1955 when the Jungle River Cruise ride was introduced. The romance of the swashbuckling adventure yarn returns courtesy of the chemistry between Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in Jungle Cruise. Is it perfect? Nope. But watching them come together in ...
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- Created: 09 January 2022
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“The worm is the spice! The spice is the worm!” David Lynch’s Dune might not be the director’s favorite movie-making experience. It also might not be on any science fiction fan’s top 10 list (although it probably should be). Those sentences alone do not make Lynch’s attempt at bringing ...
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- Created: 29 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
It’s hard to conceive in this era of remakes that some redos in the history of cinema go on to become classics in their own right. For genre fans, John Carpenter’s The Thing is often cited as a prime example. For comedy, however, Billy Wilder’s beloved cross-dressing romp, Some Like It ...
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- Created: 17 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Testicles. Who needs ‘em? While watching Prisoners of the Ghostland, it's best to - like the logic it usually requires to follow a normal film from beginning to its everlovin’ end - throw them both out the window. Got your attention? Good. Love it or leave it, Prisoners of the Ghostland is ...
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- Created: 06 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
The man with the straw hat is back! And so are his ghoulish finds in the windy city of Chicago. Watergate era television doesn’t get much better than with Kolchak: The Night Stalker. And that, my friends, is a certified fact. It begins in a dingy motel room. A cassette player is on. A disheveled ...
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- Created: 17 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
"What a story! Everything but the bloodhounds snappin' at her rear end." Written and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, and produced by Darryl F. Zanuck, All About Eve continues to shine bright thanks to the dazzling performance of Bette Davis as Margo Channing as she takes Anne Baxter as ...
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- Created: 24 July 2021
- Written by Emily Strong
“You want your supply? I need my pig.” In his feature film debut, Pig, writer/director Michael Sarnoski does not give us a revenge-seeking, blood-soaked, over-acting Nicholas Cage that mows down an array of adversaries who stand in the way between him ...
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- Created: 04 January 2022
- Written by Loron Hays
“Can you still do the things with your eyes? You’re not crazy if you can still do the thing with your eyes.” I will NEVER forget the first time I saw Philip Kaufman’s Invasion of the Body Snatchers. I wouldn’t go outside in the rain for weeks afterwards thanks to the opening few minutes of ...
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- Created: 13 December 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Los Angeles after dark is always an exciting place. Whether it be out on the street or gazing out the window of your home, the air of unpredictability is always lurking about in the air. And it is that unpredictability which opens director Billy Wilder’s film noir classic, Double Indemnity as a ...
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- Created: 19 November 2021
- Written by Frank Wilkins
A small little underdog of a movie: it’s hard to believe but that’s exactly what Silence of the Lambs was. It was a film nobody wanted to make. Gene Hackman, who had paid for half the rights, bowed out, claiming it was too violent; Michelle Pfeiffer rejected the soon to be Oscar-winning role for the ...
Read more: The Silence of the Lambs - 4K UHD Review (Kino Lorber)
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- Created: 24 December 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Folk Horror. The very combination of the words suggest a clash of ideologies and, true to its nature, this seems to be its roots. It is a concept of evil so entwined with the land that it is damn near impossible to ever tear its threads clean. The voices in the woods; the pagan ceremonies on the ...
Read more: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium of Folk Horror - Box Set Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 23 November 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“Did you bring me here by force?” And INTRODUCING Audrey Hepburn. That’s right, the screen legend begins here with Roman Holiday, a quintessential romantic comedy, which was shot on location in Rome . . . even though Paramount wanted it filmed on their studio ...
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