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Remo Williams: The Beginning and End of a Franchise

Mar 13, 2017 Patrick King 0

Contributor Patrick King believes Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins…falls short of everything it sets out to accomplish. Released in 1985, smack in the middle of the 80’s action boom, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins…(1985) released […]

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A Strange Need For Speed: Bullet Train

Feb 24, 2017 Patrick King 0

Bullet Train is a 1975 Japanese disaster film written and directed by Jun’ya Satô and co-written by Ryûnosuke Ono. At 152 minutes, it’s a bit of a slog, which is strange for a film that’s […]

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Down to The Last Detail

Feb 16, 2017 Sean Barron 0

by Sean Barron We’ll start with describing The Last Detail in one sentence because apparently I suck at writing loglines and I intend to practice and make myself not suck at it: Two Navy Men who “got a […]

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Another Batch of…Body Snatchers!

Feb 2, 2017 Patrick King 0

Body Snatchers, Abel Ferrara’s 1993 adaptation of Jack Finney’s 1955 novel, is the third of four (so far) versions of the story and I’d venture to say the second best after the original. With a […]

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Warner Archive Hollywood Legends of Horror: Six Weirdo Pre-Code Horrors

Jan 25, 2017 Patrick King 0

It took me a second to figure out the connecting threads between the movies in the Hollywood Legends of Horror collection, recently released through Warner Archive, and it’s kind of cool. They’re all pre-code low budget […]

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Have Stroller, Will Travel: Criterion Collection’s Lone Wolf and Cub

Jan 24, 2017 Wade Sheeler 0

A lone samurai, heavy but forbidding, pushes a wobbly cart down a dusty road. He approaches a vendor, rolling his wares past, who tips his hat. He spies, inside the Samurai’s cart, an infant boy. […]

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