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 [...]
Dec 6
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Release Date: June 25, 1953 Running Time: 66 minutes In the 1950s, a classic era of film reared its head within the science fiction genre. Some of the movies made in this time were hokey, utilizing poor special effects and sometimes even worse acting, but there were others that rose to the top. The original [...]
Dec 3
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Release Date: April 8, 1970 Running Time: 100 minutes Computers fill almost every aspect of life nowadays. Walking down the street, folks have little white ear buds stuck into their ears with the cords trailing into iPods. That woman sitting at the next table in the coffee shop lovingly stares into the glare of her [...]
Nov 30
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Release date: December 16, 1983 Runtime: 95 minutes We humans mess around with things and forces we don’t understand all the time. We linger where we might not belong and poke things that were better left undisturbed. Don’t touch that. Don’t go there. Don’t say those words in front of a mirror. Better not even [...]
Nov 27
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Release Date: March 6, 2009 Run Time: 95 minutes . Editor’s Note: Every so often, a couple of our writers will decide they want to review the same movie at the same time. When this happens, we combine the two reviews into one mega-review, and offer you the two potentially-differing opinions as a “Factor/CounterFactor” special [...]
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