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Directed and produced by musician James William Guercio based on a story by Robert Boris and Rupert Hitzig, 1973's Electra Glide In Blue is an interesting movie, almost a love letter to the films of John Ford dressed up as a cop film, although by cop film standards this movie is anything but typical.

The movie revolves around a motorcycle patrolman named John Wintergreen (Robert Blake), a short but tough cop who works the streets of his Arizona town busting people for speeding and what not. John served his country in Vietnam and is fast approaching his fortieth birthday. He's and honest man and good at his job but he dreams of bigger things: he wants to be a homicide detective. As that opportunity doesn't seem to be about to fall into his lap any time soon, when he and his partner, Zipper (Billy Green Bush), find an elderly man dead in his shack seemingly at his ...Read the entire review

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A Peter Fonda double feature? That's right! Shout! Factory did it on DVD and now they're doing it on Blu-ray too. Throw in some Warren Oates, dirt bikes, Satanists, Susan George, a giant RV and some muscle cars and you're in for what Shout! Factory aptly describes as an Action-Packed Double Feature! Here's how and why

Dirty Mary Crazy Larry:

Peter Fonda (of Easy Rider) plays a race car driver named Larry who has seen better days. His career isn't what it used to be and maybe it's time he started looking at other options to pay the bills from here on out. Larry and his buddy/mechanic Deke (Adam Rourke of The Stuntman) decide that the best way to get rich quick and move on to greener pastures is to rob a grocery store and out run the police through California to financial freedom in Mexico! Unfortunately, Larry deci...Read the entire review

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Scorpion Releasing, as part of their Katarina's Nightmare Theater line, release a double feature of Australian cult/thriller movies

The Dreaming:

Directed by Mario Andreacchio and released theatrically in 1988, The Dreaming was originally put out on DVD years back by Elite Entertainment and now it lives again. This is an odd one. Four hundred years ago, a group of whale fisherman lands ashore the sandy beaches of Australia and lay waste to a few aboriginal types. Skip to the present day, well 1988 at least, an Australian archeologist named Professor Bernard Thornton (Arthur Dignam) out on an expedition opens up a tomb and unleashes the spirits of the now long dead fisherman who quickly possess her body.

When a few of the artifacts from the tomb find their way into a local museum, distant relatives of the aboriginal people killed at the begi...Read the entire review

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The late Delmer Daves is likely best known for his classic western 3:10 To Yuma but his 1956 picture Jubal is also noteworthy and well worth seeking out for fans of classic American western films.

The film tells the story of Shep Horgan (Ernest Borgnine), a prominent and well to do rancher who heads out through the mountains on horseback on day only to run into Jubal Troop (Glenn Ford), a cowboy who, when he meets him, in pretty rough shape and he's lost his horse. Shep takes pity on Jubal and brings him back to his home where May (Valerie French), his beautiful wife, cooks them up a hot meal. After a good night's rest, Shep talks to Jubal about coming onboard to work at his ranch, much to the dismay of Pinky (Rod Steiger), a rancher who has been working for Shep for some time. Jubal accepts the offers and soon enough, he and Shep have become fast friends ...Read the entire review

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Very much a product of its time, Fritz Lang's Cloak And Dagger begins with an opening scene in which a small group of European resistance fighters are shoot down in cold blood by Nazi's. From there, the action shifts to an American university where we're introduced to a physicist named Alvah Jesper (Gary Cooper). Here he meets up with an old friend of his who now works for The Office Of Strategic Services. They're intercepting Nazi transmissions from Europe but can't crack the code they're being transmitted in on their own - they're hoping that he'll be able to help them, because they know that the Germans have come very close to perfecting their atomic weapons experiments.

Jesper is understandably apprehensive at first, but given that his friend already knows he's been secretly working for the government on The Manhattan Project as it is, he figures he really do...Read the entire review

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Arnold Schwarzenegger's return to R-rated action movie stardom, his first starring role since his foray into politics, didn't exactly set the box office on fire but 2013's The Last Stand, directed by Korean filmmaker Je-woon Kim (the man behind the excellent I Saw The Devil), was a ridiculously entertaining movie. With the home video release now upon us, hopefully the picture will find the audience it deserved. If those involved with the picture aren't reinventing the action movie or in any way attempting to turn the genre on its head, they've nevertheless turned in a rock solid slice of over the top ultraviolent entertainment, the kind that made Schwarzenegger a star in the first place.

The story isn't complicated, but it is effective. When the movie begins, we see a cop at a speed trap with his radar gun out enjoying a donut. Something cruises past him s...Read the entire review

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Directed by John Flynn in 1977, Rolling Thunder, for whatever reason, never really got the respect it deserved. When you figure it was originally written by Paul Schrader, the man who wrote Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, and that it was one of Oscar winning actor Tommy Lee Jones' first major film roles, you'd think more people would be aware of it. It was given a VHS release but languished without a domestic DVD until about two years ago in 2011 when MGM issued it as part of their MOD (manufactured on demand) DVD-R program. It finally hit Blu-ray in the UK in early 2012 but there was no news of a domestic Blu-ray issue until Shout! Factory recently stepped up to the plate.

The film, set in 1973, introduces us to Major Charlie Rane (William Devane), a Vietnam veteran who has returned home to a town in Texas after spending months in a grueling prisoner ...Read the entire review

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Quentin Tarantino's short lived foray into the world of DVD releasing may not have lasted too long but while it was still alive, Rolling Thunder Pictures did manage to put out some pretty cool releases. Three of those releases - The Mighty Peking Man, Detroit 9000 and Switchblade Sisters are now collected for reissue on this new single disc release from Lionsgate under the title Quentin Tarantino's Rolling Thunder Pictures Triple Feature. Here's what you'll find on this DVD...

The Mighty Peking Man:

This 1977 Shaw Brothers production, also known as Goliathon, introduces us to a young man named Johnny (Danny Lee). When he finds out that his lady friend has been making the rounds with other guys, he decides to accompany an entrepreneurial type named Lu Tiem (Feng Ku) to India. Their plan is to find The Mighty Peking Man, a ...Read the entire review

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The plot of The Burning isn't all that original. Nor are the performances particularly amazing. The direction is mediocre and the sets are unoriginal - while the filmmakers claim they had the idea before Sean Cunningham made Friday The 13th, the film still feels like a rip-off. So why does this little slice and dice opus from 1981 hold such a special place in the hearts of so many genre fans?

The story begins when Cropsy (Lou David), the janitor at a summer camp that oddly resembles Camp Crystal Lake, is severely burned by some of the campers when their prank goes horribly wrong (on a trivial note, those who pay close attention will notice that the stuntman on fire in this scene is noticeably wearing a big helmet). The janitor eventually receives a whole lot of treatment at the hospital and is released back into the general population, but he's scarred for...Read the entire review

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Mark Robson was a talented director with an interesting, albeit varied, filmography to his name. He made suspense titles like The Ghost Ship, drama like Peyton Place and even corny misfires like The Valley Of The Dolls - and then there's his 1949 Republic production, Champion. Widely regarded, and rightfully so, as the one of the films that made a then young Kirk Douglas a box office star, it's a tense film noir that mixes up drama, suspense and romance and places it around the most dramatic of sports - competitive boxing.

When the movie begins, Michael "Midge" Kelly (Kirk Douglas) and his crippled brother Connie (Arthur Kennedy) are on a trip, heading west in a box car in search of a better life. On their way, they're run off the train into a ditch and with no other choice, they have to hitchhike their way back to civilization. They're picke...Read the entire review

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Astron-6, the same people who brought your Father's Day, return to their retro inspired B-movie pastiche style with Dark Sky Films' release of their 2011 feature, Manborg. A ridiculous mix of action and science fiction inspired by films like Robocop and Terminator (or more specifically, the low budget knock offs they inspired!) but made with less than the catering budget of blockbusters like those aforementioned films, this is just over an hour's worth of crazed cinematic mayhem done right.

When the movie begins in an undetermined future, we learn that a portal to Hell has opened up and an army of demons, led by Count Draculon (Adam Brooks), have emerged to take over the Earth and lay waste to all of mankind. A soldier (Matthew Kennedy) serves alongside his brother and a few other resistance fighters but is shot down in the line of duty. A scien...Read the entire review

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Philip Brophy's Body Melt was originally released on DVD by Vanguard back in 2003. Long out of print and tough to find, the movie lives again thanks to this new re-release by Scorpion Releasing who have added the title to their Katarina's Nightmare Theater line. For those who haven't seen the movie, the easiest comparison to make is probably to Peter "King Of The Hobbits" Jackson's lawnmower/zombie opus, Braindead (or Dead Alive if you prefer) as the two films do share some similar ideas and neither are afraid to go for the gross out.

After a brief clip of an overly toned woman shooting up with some green Re-Animator style fluid, we cut to a malformed man at a convenience store trying to get some detergent. He leaves, Palmolive in hand, and as he's driving away, chugs down the soapy suds as his neck bleeds and his face basically starts to melt. ...Read the entire review

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Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1965, The Inhumans proved popular enough as supporting characters in the pages of The Fantastic Four that they were spun off into their own series in 1975. Though that series lasted on twelve issues, they were brought back under the Marvel Knights banner for another twelve issue series in the late nineties. These twelve issues were written by Paul Jenkins and illustrated by Jae Lee. A four issue storyline followed in 2000 and then another short run in 2004. As part of their Marvel Knights line of DVD motion comics, Shout! Factory brings the Jenkins/Lee run to life and it actually works quite well.

The series starts by introducing us to the key characters, a race of 'genetic freaks' who live their lives away from mainstream society on an island of their own named Attilan. By choice, the people of Attilan keep to themsel...Read the entire review

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Directed by John Auer for Republic Pictures in 1953, The City That Never Sleeps takes place not in New York City as you'd probably guess, but on the seedy side of Chicago, Illinois. Advertised with a salacious one sheet showing dancing girls, a passionate kiss, a murder scene, a sneaky cop and a fight on an aboveground subway line, it's a fast paced movie with a great cast that tells a solid, suspenseful story with a few fun twists.

The central part of the storyline revolves around a man named Johnny Kelly (Gig Young), a cop who is really having some serious difficulty dealing with the stress of his job. Johnny's pretty much ready to throw in the towel and return his badge, and if that weren't enough he's unhappy with his marriage to Kathy (Paula Raymond). In fact, Johnny would love nothing more than to take off with a foxy burlesque dancer named Sally Connors (M...Read the entire review

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Directed by Hungarian filmmaker Benedek Fliegauf in 2010, Womb (his first English language feature, also known in the UK as Clone) begins in a small town along the sea where we meet a nine year old girl named Rebecca (Ruby O. Fee) who is there visiting her grandfather for a little while. Soon after arriving, she meets and becomes very close with a ten year old boy named Tommy (Tristan Christopher). When Rebecca's mother accepts a job in Japan and whisks her off with her, their relationship is cut short but twelve years later, an adult Rebecca (Eva Green) heads back to that same town and manages to track down Tommy (Matt Smith) in hopes of starting over. They fall in love fast and hard and things are going great until Tommy is killed a car accident.

Distraught and broken hearted, Rebecca soon decides that there is a way to bring him back to her and so she m...Read the entire review

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Directed by Ken Burns, Sarah Burns and David McMahon for PBS, the two hour 2012 documentary The Central Park Five is a harrowing piece that documents a travesty of justice that took place in the racially tense New York City of the late eighties. The movie begins by setting the stage and giving us a glimpse, by way of some carefully chosen archival footage, of just how bad racial tension was getting in New York City around this time. The police were claiming to be doing all that they could do but crime under Mayor David Dinkins was on the rise to the point where muggings were an everyday occurrence and the city was seeing an average of six murders a day. Compare this to the New York City of today and it almost seems like a different planet but the facts don't lie and the footage speaks for itself.

Then, one fateful night on April 9, 1989, a white female jogger wen...Read the entire review

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A BBC production broadcast in four parts, this 1986 version of Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland begins with the author himself (played by David Leonard) telling Alice and her sister a story. As he does, we learn how Alice (Kate Dorning) spotted a White Rabbit (Jonathan Cecil) and chased him, at which point she fell down a large hole and landed in a strange world. The first thing she notices is the size of her body compared to everything around her, but she's still determined to explore the garden. From there she meets up with some of the animals and has a picnic, and eventually she gets to meet the White Rabbit who refers to her as Mary Ann. To complete the task he assigns her she has to first get free from the house she's trapped in and then have the Caterpillar (Roy Macready) help her get to the proper size for her surroundings.

As she continues to explore t...Read the entire review

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A 1973 made for TV version of Lewis Carroll's beloved book of the same name, Alice Through The Looking Glass stars Sarah Sutton as the titular Alice, a girl deep in conversation with her cats when we first meet her. Shortly after, she takes a curious interest in the large mirror situated in the house, and after a bit of poking around decides that this isn't any ordinary mirror but instead a portal that leads to a far more unusual version of the world she knows.

Being a brave and curious type, Alice decides to enter the portal and arrives on the other side where things are about to get... strange, beginning with her introduction to a strange person referring to herself as Tiger Lily (June Watson). As she explores, she realizes that everything seems to be centered around a huge, life sized game of chess made up of living pieces, and ruled over by The Red Queen (Jud...Read the entire review

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Directed by Jean Rollin in 1978, The Grapes Of Death is an interesting mix of Night Of The Living Dead and I Drink Your Blood, a horror movie with an environmental twist and a uniquely French tone. The picture begins with an opening scene in which a few men in rural France are dealing with some pesticides in use all around the grape fields of this particular area, known for its wineries.

From here we cut to a train where two pretty young women are travelling - Elizabeth (Marie-Georges Pascal) and her friend (Evelyne Thomas). When Elizabeth's friend leaves their car for a minute, a strange man comes in and sits in the seat opposite. Here we see something happen to him; his face is changing and starting to show signs of decomposition, almost like he's starting to rot. Understandably freaked out by this, Elisabeth runs from the car and he gives chase. A...Read the entire review

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Kind of a British hybrid consisting of elements from the original Godzilla (or, if you will, Gojira) with a little bit of King Kong thrown into the mix for good measure, 1961's Gorgo was directed by Eugene Lourie who had previously helmed The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms in 1953 and The Giant Behemoth in 1959. Produced by the UK's King Brothers, the film was distributed theatrically by MGM and while it lacks the 'classic' status of some of the better made monster movies that came before it and so obviously inspired it in the first place, it's still a really entertaining way to kill a brisk seventy minutes with some fun, family friendly entertainment.

A mysterious undersea explosion off the coast of Ireland finds two fisherman, Joe Ryan (William Travers) and Sam Slade (William Sylvester) rocks the me's boat and finds them stranded ...Read the entire review

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Loosely based on the works (and less loosely on the life) of infamous author William S. Burroughs, David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch is the perfect cinematic blend of art house, crime noir, horror and surrealism. Seeing as how Naked Lunch (the novel) is a totally free form work that really hasn't got much of an actual narrative, Cronenberg made the artistic decision to base his film of the same name on parts of the titular novel and the rest on actual events from Burroughs' life. He also liberally mixes in doses of aspects from his other books (it's not hard to see parts of both Junkie and Exterminator in the film) - so it's not quite a literal adaptation of a book that was once described as unfilmable, but it's damn good nonetheless.

A perfectly cast Peter Weller (probably best known as Robocop) plays William Lee (a pseudonym that Burrou...Read the entire review

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Directed by Peter Chan in 2011, Dragon (retitled for release in North America by the Weinsteins for some reason, the original title was Wu-Xia) stars Donnie Yen as a man named Liu Jin-xi. He's lived in the same small town for about ten years now, having married a local single mother named Ayu (Tang Wei) and set up shop in town making paper. Together he and his wife are raising two kids and they seem to lead a quiet, idyllic life together. This changes when, seemingly completely by chance, Jin-xi stops a pair of bandits who attempt to rob a store. When he kills them in the ensuing brawl, he's looked upon by the townsfolk as a hero but Detective Xu Baijiu (Takeshi Kaneshiro) wonders if what seems to have been nothing more than luck on the part of Jin-xi might actually be an indicator that he's not who he says he is.

Ever suspicious, Baijiu starts to obsess o...Read the entire review

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Siu-Tung Ching 2011 martial arts fantasy film The Emperor And The White Snake (which has been retitled The Sorcerer And The White Snake for its North American release for whatever reason) begins by introducing us to Bai Suzhen (Eva Huang), a 'white snake demon' who meets a man while travelling atop a mountain. This man is Xu Xian (Raymond Lam), a specialist in the healing properties of herbs, and she is quite obviously intrigued by him. Complicating matters, however, is the presence of the 'green snake demon' Qingqing (Charlene Choi) who attempts to kill Xian. Suzhen saves his life and quickly falls in love with him, at which point she takes on a human form. When she does, they get married, though a Buddhist monk who moonlights as a demon hunter named Fahai (Jet Li) is not particularly impressed with their union. He and his assistant, Neng Ren (Wen Zhang), have ...Read the entire review

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An unusual film noir from director Edward G. Ulmer made in 1948, Ruthless introduces us to a wealthy man named Horace Woodruff Vendig (Zachary Scott). On the outside at least, Horace would seem to have everything that he could ask for - he's fabulously wealthy and has everything that goes along with a life of privilege, he's also well regarded by many for his efforts as a philanthropist. His past, however, tells a different story. We learn through a flashback sequence that young Horace (Bob Anderson) and two friends, Vic (Arthur Stone) and Martha Burnside (Ann Carter), were out for a paddle in a canoe one day. With both boys intent on winning Martha's heart, a skirmish ensues and the canoe tips. Martha falls in and almost drowns but Horace is able to save her in time but when he gets home his mother slaps him for ruining his suit, unable or more likely unwilling to let...Read the entire review

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A fairly obscure film directed by the great Samuel Fulller in 1957, China Gate is interesting not only because it features a legitimately unusual cast but because it's one of the first Hollywood productions to deal with the Vietnam War. The film follows a woman nicknamed Lucky Legs (Angie Dickinson), a woman of European and Chinese descent who runs an opium den. Legs has got a good little business going, she also serves up booze and, for the right price to the right customer, women as well. She's got a kid (Warren Hsieh) who, early in the film, tries to save his puppy from a Saigon local who wants to steal it and cook it up. There's a food shortage going on and that dog is looking mighty tasty. This sets the type of mood, atmosphere and political tone for pretty much the rest of the movie.

Soon enough, Legs is approached by one Colonel De Sars (Maurice Marsac) wh...Read the entire review

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Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen, 1963's McLintock! (you've got to have that exclamation point there for maximum impact) stars John Wayne as George Washington McLintock, a man who has made a fortune raising cattle and an influential player on the local scene. George is quite excited about the impending arrival of his daughter Becky (Stefanie Powers) who has spent the last couple of years studying aboard. Complicating things for George is the not insignificant matter of Katherine McLintock (Maureen O'Hara), the wife he's been living apart from for some time now. When she moves back into the picture, he's understandably surprised though her intent to take Becky back home to the city with her obviously ruffles his feathers.

So the two women in George's live are more or less in line to cause him all manner of problem, but they're not alone in that. While George has the...Read the entire review

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Anthony Baxter's 2011 documentary You've Been Trumped bills itself on the packaging as a 'David and Goliath tale' and that's a pretty apt comparison. Essentially what this movie covers is a series of events that began in 2006 when Trump decided that since he's filthy rich, he should be able to do whatever he wants. In this particular instance, what he wanted to do was buy up some land in Aberdeen, Scotland and build a fancy golf course. This sounds reasonable enough. Trump is, after all, a real estate and development mogul and as frequently insane and irrational as he can be, there's no denying that the man has a serious knack for such opportunities.

Unfortunately for Trump but fortunately for the rest of us, the good people of the area in question weren't really interested in having Trump come in and bulldoze their homes, many of which have been in their respect...Read the entire review

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When John Auer's 1954 film Hell's Half Acre begins, we're transported to a post World War II Hawaii where we meet a man named Chet Chester (Wendell Corey). Though he used to be a criminal, Chet has since mellowed out and become a respectable, legitimate member of society since opening his nightclub, one of the hottest spots around - he's even written a popular song. He and his girlfriend, Sally (Nancy Gates), are enjoying the evening's entertainment one night when one of his old criminal acquaintances shows up with blackmail on his mind. Sally learns of this man's plan and before you know it, he's dead at her hand. When the cops show up, however, Chet tells them that he did it and they lock him up for murder.

Meanwhile, back on the American mainland, a widow named Donna Williams (Evelyn Keyes) has lost her husband in the war. When she hears some music by Chet on ...Read the entire review

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Picking up where Rhino left off, Shout! Factory unleashes another four titles from their ongoing Mystery Science Theater boxed set line. For the few out there unaware of who or what the Mystery Science Theater thing is all about, basically, it was a long running show in which a recurring cast of characters - a space castaway and his robot pals - were forced to watch bad movies while doing time on a satellite. This simple premise basically allowed Joel Hodgsen or Mike Nelson (depending on how early or recent the episode in question may be), Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett (who have recently teamed up to pick up where they left off with their Rifftrax project) to crack wise about 'bad' movies. The series was on the air from 1988 through 1999 and it still has a loyal cult following to this day while it's various participants have gone on to other, similar projects like Cinematic ...Read the entire review

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When this early Doctor Who serial from 1964 begins, the TARDIS materializes and out comes the Doctor (William Hartnell), his granddaughter Susan (Carole Ann Ford), and their schoolteacher companions Ian (William Russell) and Barbara (Jacqueline Hill). As they wander about, they realize that the TARDIS has materialized inside a massive tomb in Mexico during the reign of the Aztecs - which explains why when Barbara walks through a trap door and comes face to face with some Aztecs, that they presume her to be their goddess, Yutaxa. Rather than try to dissuade the Aztecs from believing her to be something she obviously is not, Barbara instead opts to go along with it and let them believe her to be a goddess in hopes that she'll be able to convince the Aztecs to put an end to their practice of human sacrifice, among other traditions she finds distasteful and which she also...Read the entire review

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Directed by Rick Alverson in 2012, The Comedy features Tim Heidecker as a thirty-five year old hipster/slacker type named Swanson. It opens with a scene where he and his friends are drunk and naked and spitting their drinks out of their mouths and just generally making a mess of things. It's here that viewers should realize that The Comedy is not really a comedy at all. When next we meet Swanson, he's sitting in a room with his terminally ill father. As he sips his whiskey he insults the intern dealing with more unpleasant side of home care - he insults him, noting that he's being paid to deal with his father's bowel movements and that he probably doesn't always get everything out from under his nails when he washes his hands and what if he picked something out of his teeth that day? He'd get it in his mouth. This scene sets the stage for what's to come and pret...Read the entire review

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Written and directed by the Coen Brothers shortly before they'd go on to mass critical acclaim with 1996's Fargo, 1994's The Hudsucker Proxy is an amusing parable about the pitfalls of greed set in the New York City of old, the Manhattan of the 1950's, a very different time for the city. The story begins when a man named Waring Hudsucker (Charles Durning), the man in charge of the massive powerhouse of industry that is Hudsucker Industries takes his own life. This leaves Sidney Mussberger (Paul Newman) and everyone else on the board of directors in a bit of a bind but they soon see a devious way to profit from Waring's demise. Their scheme? To hire a buffoon to replace Waring, the theory being that they'll bring in someone so completely incompetent that the company's stock will surely tumble, allowing them to buy up as much of it as they want at ridiculously low...Read the entire review

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Directed by Eduardo Rodriguez off of a script by Robert Rodriguez, Curandero: Dawn Of The Demon debuted at a festival screening or two way back in 2005 where it was picked up and then promptly shelved by Miramax. It didn't make the rounds theatrically nor did it come out on DVD... it just sat there in the vaults for almost ten years possibly because of some of the problems that Miramax found themselves in. Lionsgate has stepped up to the plate, however, and now the movie is out on DVD for those who are curious about it.

So as to the story itself? Set in modern day Mexico City, the movie introduces us to a man named Carlos (Carlos Gallardo), the son of a spiritual healer who was, until he passed away, very popular with the locals. He's approached by Magdelena (Gizeht Galate), a federal agent investigating a series of incidents that have taken place in the underwor...Read the entire review

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Directed in England by Johannes Roberts, 2013's Storage 24 isn't really a movie that's likely to win any awards for originality, but it is a fun monster movie set in, as the title implies, a giant storage facility. When the movie begins, folks all over the place are going about their daily business as folks all over the place are apt to do. This seemingly average day becomes decidedly unusual when a military plane carrying an undisclosed cargo explodes over top of London. Some of the debris has scattered around the area, specifically a metal container covered in some sort of icky residue.

So now, basically stuck, we meet a few characters, all of whom center around a massive self storage building. A newly single guy named Charlie (Noel Clarke) and his friend Mark (Colin O'Donoghue) head over there look for the girl who dumped him, Shelly (Antonia Campbell-Hughes)....Read the entire review

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The second full serial to feature Tom Baker in the lead, the four part storyline Doctor Who: The Ark In Space was originally aired in late January through mid-February in 1975. Directed by Rodney Bennett and written by Robert Holmes, the story begins when the TARDIS materializes inside a large space station. When the doors open, out walk the Doctor (Baker) and his companions, Sarah Jane Smith (Elisabeth Sladen) and Harry Sullivan (Ian Sullivan). They explore the facility and before you know it, against the Doctor's orders Harry has pushed a button, a door closes locking Sarah in a room, and she's soon without oxygen. This is fixed quickly enough but they soon realize that the auto-guard programmed to protect the place has a pretty itchy trigger finger.

Once the Doctor and Harry neutralize the defenses they're able to further explore the place and soon realize th...Read the entire review