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Bad Movie – Bad Review: Hustler Squad
The Facts Format: DVD (Modern Entertainment) Running Time: 98 minutes Year of release: 1976 Director: Cesar ‘Chat’ Gallardo Production Studio: Crown International Pictures Just breathe. I can do this. I feel an urge to begin this review with warnings written … Continue reading
The Reviewinator: Patriots Day (2016)
The Boston Marathon bombing was a tragic act of terrorism that shook the world. The harrowing five-day nightmare was watched by millions, either by seeing it on the news or by following it on social media. Updates were frequent and … Continue reading
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Shouts From the Back Row – Episode 275 – Looking Forward to 2017
A brand new year of movies has arrived, and it’s rife with possibilities! And…sequels. On this episode, Gill, Robin, and TK list their most anticipated movies of 2017, predict the movie that they think will be 2017’s worst, and hope … Continue reading
Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: Hard Boiled
Yippee ki yay! ‘Tis the season for Die Hard, folks. But what’s ‘better than a dozen Die Hards’? Well, it’s John Woo’s 1992 film Hard Boiled (not a film about eggs), and this is saying a lot because the original Die Hard is one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged action, Chow Yun-Fat, Dirty Harry, gun fu, Hong Kong, john woo
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The Reviewinator: Rogue One – A Star Wars Story (2016)
8 movies in, not including Episode VIII (or is it 10 movies in, if you include the Ewok movies?), and we get the first non-episodic Star Wars movie, taking place between Episodes III & IV. While some may think of it as Episode 3.5, it’s more … Continue reading
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Shouts From the Back Row – Episode 273 – The Christmas Movies We’d Never Seen
The holidays are here again, and what better way to celebrate than with some Christmas movies? On this episode, Gill, Robin, and TK have all decided to fill in the holes in their Christmas movie viewing libraries by each watching … Continue reading
Bad Movie – Bad Review: Arthur’s Quest
The Facts Format: DVD (Distributor: Prism Leasure) Running Time: 92 minutes Year of release: 1999 Director: Neil Mandt Production Studio: Crystal Sky Communications Much like the old saying about bringing knives to gun fights, when preparing to sit down to … Continue reading
Castor’s Underrated Gems: Raising Cain (1992)
This review is based on the newly assembled director’s cut of Brian DePalma’s black sheep Raising Cain. In full disclosure, I haven’t completely seen the studio-tampered theatrical cut so my only opinion is predicated on this version. In symmetry with … Continue reading
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Tagged brian depalma, john lithgow, raising cain
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Commedia Dell’Arte Deuce
Bad Santa 2 recently invaded the cineplex recently and rightfully so, it tanked and perhaps sullied the coal-black memories of its funnier 2003 ancestor. Many rationales can be attributed to its downfall: the widening gap between films, the behind-the-scenes change of … Continue reading
Shouts From the Back Row – Episode 271 – The Actors We Hate
Sometimes you just hate an actor, am I right? Certain performances, and indeed actors themselves, can just get under your skin and annoy you to no end. So on this episode of the podcast, Gill, Robin, and TK rant about … Continue reading