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January 5, 2024

BUTCHER’S CROSSING [Blu-Ray Review]: Cage On The Range

Topping off what has probably been his most character-driven performance in the recent Dream Scenario, Nicolas Cage returns to his thespian form in Butcher's Crossing, a small-stakes, epic-scale Western directed by Gabe Polsky (Red Penguins; The Motel Life), and adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name written by John Edward Williams. Buoyed by …

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October 23, 2023

THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE DEMETER [Blu-Ray Review] – All Aboard For Ultraviolence.

Just in time for spooky season, director André Øvredal's latest film, The Last Voyage Of The Demeter, has hit blu-ray and streaming. I was lucky enough to receive an early copy for review, and was surprised at how lean and unforgiving this film is. It fits right in the mood of the spirit of the …

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August 3, 2023August 3, 2023

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART 1 [Film Review] – Uncharted Territory

If someone back in 1996 had told 10-year-old me that Tom Cruise's Mission: Impossible would not only spawn six sequels, but that they'd get better and better with each installment, I would have told you to shut your filthy little mouth. You whore. But here we are, over 25 years after Cruise's Ethan Hunt dangled …

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July 25, 2023July 25, 2023

ASTEROID CITY [Film Review] – Eyes Up, Junior Stargazers.

It's been some years since I took the time to go to a theater specifically to catch a Wes Anderson movie. Hell, the last one I saw was Isle Of Dogs, which triple-downed on the whimsy, and was a fun little experiment in style, at least, if not very much by way of substance. Now …

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July 11, 2023

RENFIELD [Film Review]: Sink Your Teeth Into This.

Jumping the gun on spooky season by...oh, only about half a year...director Chris McKay has gifted us masses with a bloody, hilarious, action-packed movie that has just as many laughs as it does gallons of blood. Having missed the Q&A session earlier in the week, I made my way to Lower Manhattan's ever-reliable Alamo Drafthouse …

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July 11, 2023

EVIL DEAD RISE [Film Review] – Mommy’s With The Maggots Now.

Nearly forty years after Sam Raimi unleashed his classic, splat-tacular cabin-in-the-woods horror film, The Evil Dead, to an unsuspecting audience, director Lee Cronin steps behind the camera to resurrect the deadites and bring the skin-etched Necronomicon screaming into the 2020s. With a change in setting, an inversion of sorts in characters, a few legitimate surprises, …

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