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September 12, 2018

THE PREDATOR [Film Review]: Trophy Hunting for Trash.

The Predator is borderline horrendous and you should be mad about it. Ignore the AVP films since they’re basically two violent excursions into rocket propelled and orifice swelling cases of diarrhea that shat their way down into the sewer and were flushed into non-existence, but the Predator franchise is basically three films; Predator, Predator 2, …

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February 23, 2018February 23, 2018

MUTE [Review]: Sex Robots and Sea Horses.

I wrote an article ages ago, sometime after Moon in 2009 and Source Code in 2011 but long before the 2016 release of Warcraft, which teased writer and director Duncan Jones' vision for Mute. At the time, all we had was a handful of concept art and some story ideas. Jones had envisioned making Mute …

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December 23, 2017

BRIGHT [Review]: The Dark Lord is in Another Castle.

On Netflix today is Bright, the most expensive Netflix original film to date with a $90 million budget and a fantasy action crime film written by Max Landis (American Ultra, Victor Frankenstein) and directed by David Ayer (Suicide Squad, End of Watch) with the potential to become a massive franchise; the sequel was greenlit before …

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September 13, 2016August 31, 2019

SULLY [Review]: Duck, Duck.. Geese.

Based on Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger’s autobiography Highest Duty, Sully is the true story of how US Airways pilots Sullenberger (portrayed by Tom Hanks in the film) and First Officer Jeffery Skiles (played by The Dark Knight's "Two Face", Aaron Eckhart) landed US Airways Flight 1549 on January 15, 2009 in the numbing waters of the …

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July 11, 2016

MEN & CHICKEN / THE NEON DEMON / SWISS ARMY MAN / THE PURGE – ELECTION YEAR / MIKE and DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES [Reviews]: Fistful of Films!

You requested it. You begged for it. You got it. Thanks to our newest parishioner to enter the pearly nerd gates of the Clergy of Cool -- professional Rotten Tomatoer, Chris "Holy Spirit" Sawin -- GHG has itself a new feature around here. Welcome Fistful of Films, the monthly/bi-monthly spotlight of the most overlooked, on-the-line-of-being-cult-geek …

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May 29, 2015

SAN ANDREAS [Review]: The Rock’s Fault (line).

Every summer needs a big, ridiculous and expensive disaster movie and this summers answer to that is director Brad Peyton’s giant California wrecking earthquake movie, San Andreas... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23VflsU3kZE Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson (Furious 7) has made it clear that he is never going to stop going after your box office dollars, and he is having …

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