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Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th Part 3 (in 3D)
So here we are, Friday the 13th Part 3…in 3D. And let’s be clear, the 3D gimmick is the driving force behind a lot of the decisions in...
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Feb 25, 2022
Movie Review - Spiral: From the Book of Saw
I have my brother to blame for my distaste for the Saw franchise. He’d been an aficionado of horror films for as long as I can remember...
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Feb 21, 2022
Samurai Saturday - Six-String Samurai
This one’s gonna be weird to write. I can’t even imagine how tough it would be had I not seen the movie before! Today, in this amalgam of...
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Feb 19, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th Part 2
Five years later… The boy was never found. Still, to play it safe, Camp Crystal Lake is off limits for Friday the 13th Part 2. This...
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Feb 18, 2022
Movies Against Whitey! Dolemite
It was interesting…I wasn’t really sure how to review Dolemite until I looked into trying to order it on Blu-ray from Amazon. In...
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Feb 16, 2022
Impulse Buy Theater - Killer Sofa
Seriously…like, what the hell is going on down under? Is it something in the water? The food? Just the culture? Because, whatever...
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Feb 14, 2022
Franchise Friday - Friday the 13th (1980)
“Anyone can die at any time.” Of the many ways one can describe the body count of a ‘drive-in movie’, that’s definitely one of the most...
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Feb 11, 2022
Thriller Thursday - Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City
Now this is what I’d wanted all along! But the weird thing is…well, wait a sec, let me find a better way to say this: critics definitely...
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Feb 10, 2022
Vampire Vednesday - Dracula (1979)
There are many reasons to get into horror films. Every horror fan will tell you a unique story as to how they came to embrace the genre....
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Feb 9, 2022
Movie Review - Mindwarp
With The Matrix Resurrections having come and gone from Theaters (mostly)…and maybe HBO Max briefly…we turn our attention to a pre-Matrix...
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Feb 7, 2022
Movies Against Whitey! Super Fly
I don’t want to say that I pick these films at random, but at the same time, I can honestly say that I didn’t plan this. But rather...
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Feb 6, 2022
Movies Against Whitey - Shaft (1971)
Maybe I’m just an east coast kind of guy. See, with Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song [SSBS], all the action happened on the west coast,...
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Feb 5, 2022
Movies Against Whitey! Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
Now this is how I wanted to start Black History Month. Welcome to the MAW – Movies Against Whitey! This segment won’t be confined to...
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Feb 4, 2022
Black History Month Review: We Need to Talk About Cosby
I didn’t want to start Black History Month like this. My plan was to sit down and have some fun watching some Blaxploitation films and...
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Feb 2, 2022
KaiJune - Raiga: God of the Monsters
Did you ever wonder what the results would be if your local PBS station put together its own kaiju movie? Yeah, me neither. And yet,...
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Jun 26, 2020
KaiJune - Reigo: King of the Sea Monsters
From the prince…the guardian…well…all the way down the totem pole. Now, I swore that I’d never review any kind of Asylum schlock on this...
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Jun 23, 2020
KaiJune - Gamera: The Giant Monster
You would think that with a look at Kaiju films that I’d start with the king, the biggest, the best… Nope. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I’ve...
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Jun 21, 2020
Lycanthropy April - The Unliving
It merits saying that many artistic icons, usually way back in the day of say Edgar Allen Poe but some instances pop up nowadays too, die...
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Apr 26, 2020
Lycanthropy April - Dog Soldiers
Night of the Living Dead with Werewolves. Sure, doing the usual “this mixed with that” Hollywood approach sounds like I’m doing this film...
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Apr 13, 2020
Lycanthropy April - The Beast and the Magic Sword
In going through my backlog of movies for review here on the site, it’s become pretty apparent that a lot of them can be broken down into...
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Apr 5, 2020
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