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Great Cinematic Comic Book Adaptations (Part 1)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cInu82fWFfQ Comic books are a wonderful medium where dreams, fears, fantasies and desires are brought to life through illustrations and words. From superhero adventures and nightmarish tales, to hardboiled crime stories and existential slices of life, comics have enjoyed a … Continue reading
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Castor’s Underrated Gems: The Stuff (1985)
As my colleague Robin has illustrated in the past, Larry Cohen is an auteur of bizarro, idiosyncratic cult cinema. The Stuff is a serrated satire on food marketing with the premise of a Roger Corman B-picture where a sentient, Fluff-like … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: 13-Year Old Steven Spielberg Directs “Escape to Nowhere”
There haven’t been any new updates from me in awhile because I’ve been quite busy enjoying the long Canada Day weekend. However, one person who probably didn’t enjoy this past weekend was Steven Spielberg, as his latest film, The BFG, … Continue reading
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Runstedler’s DVD Pick of the Month: The Salvation
While it doesn’t really offer the Western genre anything new, who really cares? Kristian Levring’s excellent revisionist Western The Salvation, starring Mads Mikkelsen, the always charming Eva Green, and Jeffrey Dean Morgan, is a great experience and full of surprises. It’s … Continue reading
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The Reviewinator: Independence Day – Resurgence (2016)
20 years is a long wait for a sequel, but not that long if you weren’t actually waiting for it. I think most people gave up interest in an Independence Day sequel after a few years. The first movie, after … Continue reading
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Shouts From the Back Row – Episode 258 – 2016 So Far and the Career of Anton Yelchin
2016 has been a hell of a year so far. When it comes to movies we’ve had big bombs, big surprises, and some seriously great films…but a dark cloud has hung over the world of popular culture, because we’ve had … Continue reading
Before They Were Stars: Anton Yelchin in “Along Came a Spider”
Later today, our newest episode of Shouts from the Back Row will be posted and we will be discussing the all-too-brief career of the late Anton Yelchin, who died tragically in a freak accident last weekend. Looking back at his … Continue reading
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Before They Were Stars: Linda Cardellini in Dee Snider’s “Strangeland”
Yes, that’s the same Dee Snider of Twisted Sister fame! Before Rob Zombie became the world’s most successful heavy metal star-turned-horror director, Dee Snider tried his hand at writing, producing and starring in his own horror film, Strangeland. Snider played … Continue reading
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The X-Men Movies Are Not Good
You know, there was a time where I’d argue with MovieBob about this, but after X-Men: Apocalypse failed to impress me on basically every level, I think he’s onto something. Is it time to retire this franchise?
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Before They Were Stars: 11-Year Old Jackie Earle Haley in “The Outside Man”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCbi6whsdIw The Outside Man is an offbeat 1972 French-made film which happens to be set in Los Angeles and stars noted French actor as Jean-Louis Trintignant as a hitman. At one point in the story, his character takes a mother … Continue reading
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