Original Release Date: October 13, 1993 (USA) Running Time: 88 minutes (theatrical) / 105 minutes (director’s cut) Editor’s Note: This film, due to distribution by multiple production companies in different countries, has multiple versions available that different audiences have seen. The original theatrical cut was trimmed significantly by the production company, coming in at under [...]
May 16
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Release Date: February 27, 1998 Run Time: 100 minutes Just what makes a human “human?” That is the question that is posed by the film Dark City. Writer and director Alex Proya, who also directed The Crow and I, Robot, brings us a visually-stunning film set in a noir landscape coupled with elements of mystery, [...]
May 10
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Release Date: May 2, 1961 Run Time: 54 minutes The science fiction films of the 1950s and 1960s played into society’s fears at the time, either with musings toward the Cold War or delving into the new territory of atomic energy. The latter of those – atomic energy – proved very fruitful in the eyes [...]
May 2
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Original Release Date: December 14, 1984 Run time: 115 minutes The invitation comes in the mail. The envelope from which you pull it has gold confetti and has some kind of a light, perfumed aroma emanating from it. The invitation itself is made of the finest paper and, if you didn’t know better, you could swear [...]
Jan 27
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Original Release Date: February 7, 1967 (USA) Run Time: 48 minutes With the specter of nuclear warfare firmly in our cultural rear-view mirror, it might be tempting to view 1965’s The War Game as a quaint reminder of a long-lost horrible chapter in civilization’s history. After all, several generations have grown up in this country [...]
Jan 11
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Release Date: June 1977 Running Time: 92 minutes The hard thing about writing a review for a movie called Satan’s Cheerleaders is that the title pretty much is the movie’s own review. If a movie with that lurid of a title is something that appeals to you, you’re probably going to like it quite a [...]
Jan 8
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Release Date: November 2, 1990 Run Time: 113 min. A Jacob’s Ladder is most commonly known as a ladder that descends from the heavens, as seen in the biblical Jacob’s dream. In Jacob’s Ladder, writer Bruce Joel Rubin uses the imagery and meaning behind the phenomena to present a film not only about the Vietnam [...]
Jan 6
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Release Date: December 1955 Run Time: 80 minutes The 1950s was a banner decade for B-movie creature features, and many of the best of those sprouted from the appearance of a new form of power – nuclear energy. Scores of movies centered on mutations caused by too much radiation flooded the movie theaters, providing the [...]
Dec 17
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Released: November 21, 1984 Runtime: 124 minutes There is something timeless about the Superman movies that starred Christopher Reeve. To this day, I can watch them and still appreciate them for an entertaining performance. It was more than just his handsome face – Reeve had that “Clark Kent” believable charisma down solid and was able [...]
Dec 14
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Original Release Date: October 25, 2005 Run Time: 78 minutes The winter holidays are hard enough for horror fans, with all that peace and joy floating around like so much sugar plum fairy dust. It is the time for pretentious award-winning films, usually heartwarming dramas about dysfunctional families or extraordinary animals. Ugh. Surely there must [...]
Dec 9
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Original Release Date: June 23, 2010 Run Time: 94 minutes In case it isn’t obvious from my other reviews, my personal DVD collection, my Twitter feed, my browser history, or nearly everything else in my life, I’m a bit of a huge nerd. And while I’ve recently come to appreciate a good horror flick, sometimes [...]
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