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- Created: 21 October 2020
- Published: 21 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
You can’t say that Hitchcock didn’t warn audiences of Hitler. He made several films with Hitler’s world view overhanging the shadows in each frame. But, after a decade in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock took that warning to a new level and gave audiences the ultimate romance between a ...
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- Created: 23 September 2021
- Published: 23 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before!“ There was a time when those words - no, that entire opening ...
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- Created: 18 September 2020
- Published: 18 September 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Iranian-American filmmaker Cyrus Nowrasteh has made quite a name for himself around Hollywood with unflinching films that pull back the curtains on governmental corruption and institutionalized abuse. His target is never limited to the American government, however, and those ...
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- Created: 13 October 2020
- Published: 13 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
“I know what happens in those mystery pictures! A guy walks over to a perfectly ordinary door he opens it up and - ZOWIE! - out falls a body right on its kisser!” And, of course, a body falls to the ground! When it comes to getting the tone of horror comedies right, you have to sometimes go ...
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- Created: 20 September 2021
- Published: 20 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Zombies! Werewolves! Atomic Mutation! Intergalactic Giant Avians! This is how you do it, kids. Get yourself $100,000, come up with an attention-grabbing title for a movie, throw a monster in it, write the script on the quick, give yourself 6-days to shoot the movie (with an editor on the set so ...
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- Created: 04 September 2020
- Published: 04 September 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
Gather ‘round all you puzzle lovers. Have I got a challenge for you! With twisty logic, time-altering physics, and an alternate existence that defies reality, the highly anticipated new thriller called Tenet is the mental challenge puzzle masters trained their entire lives for. For all ...
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- Created: 12 October 2020
- Published: 12 October 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
Sandra! Junior? SANDRA! Junior? SAAAANNNNNDRA! Having successfully stolen the show in 1941’s One Night in the Tropics, the comedy duo of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello - who were big on radio but untested on film - were quickly signed by Universal Pictures ...
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- Created: 03 September 2021
- Published: 03 September 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
As if we needed another reason NOT to drive through the desolate region of America’s Southwest! The Brotherhood of Satan reminds us of all that could (and probably will go wrong) with an idea like that. Come across a car full of dead people? Just keep driving faster! No one is going to be helping ...
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- Created: 21 September 2020
- Published: 21 September 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
THE POST SAVES EARL WILLIAMS! Hear all about it in His Girl Friday, now available on blu-ray thanks to the Criterion Collection. Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell with standout performances from ...
Read more: His Girl Friday: Criterion Collection (1940) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 09 December 2020
- Published: 09 December 2020
- Written by Christopher Symonds
Well, this one had a pained and storied journey to the big screen. Filmed in 2017 after three years of developed, and falling prey to 20th Century Fox indecision, this Josh Boone directed X-Men spin-off production went through several re-workings before, during and after (in fact LONG after) ...
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- Created: 28 August 2021
- Published: 28 August 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
“I hate boats. I am not getting on any boats.” One Crazy Summer, for me, is a certified blast from beginning to end. It’s massively underrated and deserves to be applauded on its own merits instead of being compared to its cinematic (and probably more traditional) ...
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- Created: 10 July 2020
- Published: 10 July 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
There’s something about a Judd Apatow film that identifies itself almost immediately. Whether it’s gut-busting humor simply for the sake of making us laugh, or foul language and raunchiness with the sole intention of allowing us to be happy wallowing in our own consenting adulthood, his ...
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- Created: 19 September 2020
- Published: 19 September 2020
- Written by Loron Hays
If you ever get a hankering for some solid improvisational comedic skills on display throughout a major motion picture, look no further then director Leo McCarey’s slapstick comedy, The Awful Truth. It might have been his first film for Columbia Pictures, but that didn’t stop McCarey from ...
Read more: The Awful Truth: Criterion Collection (1937) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 29 August 2021
- Published: 29 August 2021
- Written by Loron Hays
Endlessly quotable and highly entertaining, a comedy classic has returned to us! A rags to riches story disguised as a romantic comedy? Who doesn’t love that idea?! No one. It was all the rage in the 1980s, which is why Overboard - a romantic comedy which breezes through some pretty ...
Read more: Overboard: 2K Restoration (1987) - Blu-ray Review
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- Created: 07 August 2020
- Published: 07 August 2020
- Written by Frank Wilkins
If you’ve not yet become totally comfortable with the whole AirBnB home-sharing thing yet, then stay away from The Rental. It’s the new film from first-time director Dave Franco (yes, that Dave Franco) and it plays off the distrust many have about staying in the home of a complete stranger. Think about ...
