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Details: Created: 15 May 2020; Published: 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: 15 June 2021; Published: 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: 31 January 2020; Published: 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: 09 June 2021; Published: 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: 22 January 2021; Published: 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: 08 June 2021; Published: 08 June 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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In which Joe Dante, the director of Piranha, The Howling, Gremlins, The Burbs, Matinee, Innerspace, and other cult classics, turns toys into objects of delightful HORROR! It’s as if The Puppetmaster and Toy Story met in a dark alley and had a quickie, giving birth to this cult classic 9 months ...

Details: Created: 17 January 2020; Published: 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: 01 June 2021; Published: 01 June 2021; Written by Loron Hays

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Freedom! Adventure! Flying like Peter Pan across . . . a circuit board?! Damn straight! Forget about Neverland, folks! Back when Explorers was originally made, it was the digital age that we were venturing into and, with an opening flying montage as Ethan Hawke bursts through heavy ...

Details: Created: 03 January 2020; Published: 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 ...