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Rambo: Last Blood Review – Bled Dry

Jason Gorber — Fri, 20 Sep 2019 17:00:12 +0000

The last scenes in Rambo: Last Blood, the fifth and supposedly final film in Sylvester Stallone’s signature action series, are a montage of clips from 1982’s First Blood all the way to some from the film we just sat through. This recap is a convenient reminder that the first film was a probing, philosophically rich...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of September 1st, 2019 – Time to Hit the Books Again

Josh Zyber — Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:00:47 +0000

Summer may not officially end for a couple more weeks according to the calendar, but the week after Labor Day marks the start of the school season for most American kids. For our purposes here, it also means that more summer movie leftovers make their way to home video. New Releases (Blu-ray) Men in Black:...

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Blu-ray Highlights: Week of November 11th, 2018 – There’s Always a Bigger Fish

Josh Zyber — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 13:00:18 +0000

Between Blu-ray and Ultra HD, a deep selection of nearly a hundred movie and TV titles hit disc this week. That’s a lot to go through, so let’s dive right in. New Releases (Blu-ray) The Meg – Jason Statham fights a giant shark in a monster flick promoted by the studio as a spiritual successor...

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Weekend Roundtable: Erased from Canon

Josh Zyber — Fri, 19 Oct 2018 17:00:33 +0000

If the new Halloween can ignore and contradict all of the other Halloween sequels that came after the original movie, what will be the next franchise sequel to erase prior entries from canon? Jason Gorber For a film that could somehow provide an exceptional follow-up, ignoring what came after the first and plowing forward with...

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SteelBook Alert: Your Worst Nightmare

Josh Zyber — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 12:00:11 +0000

The troubling trend of ugly SteelBook cover art has perhaps hit its unfortunate zenith as the Rambo franchise (at least some of it) makes its debut in 4k Ultra HD. I certainly hope I never see SteelBook art uglier than these! They look like a grade school art project gone terribly wrong. As John Rambo...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movies of 1982 (Not ‘Blade Runner’)

Josh Zyber — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 19:00:47 +0000

Even beyond ‘Blade Runner’, 1982 was a pretty momentous year for movies, especially (but not exclusively) for sci-fi movies. With the new sequel bringing Ridley Scott’s dystopian classic some fresh attention, this week’s Roundtable looks at other important films released that year. As a refresher, Wikipedia has a list of movies released in 1982. Shannon...

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Videogame Releases: Week of April 27th, 2014

Brian Hoss — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 13:00:30 +0000

Your friendly neighborhood movie tie-in is just one of several videogame releases this week. Of even more interest is a stunner from Ubisoft. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (PS4, 360, PS3, Wii U, PC, 3DS) Long before the ‘Batman: Arkham’ franchise took the Caped Crusader to an open-world design, Spider-Man games had repeatedly allowed players to...

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Full Metal Jackets: O Canada!

Josh Zyber — Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:00:38 +0000

Normally our quiet neighbor to the north, Canada hit international news headlines (not to mention both ‘The Daily Show’ and ‘The Colbert Report’) over the past week with breaking details of the balls-out insane crack-smoking Toronto mayor scandal. I certainly don’t have anything that can top that. However, more to our interests here, Amazon Canada...

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Weekend Roundtable: Favorite Movie & TV Toys

Josh Zyber — Fri, 13 Sep 2013 19:00:04 +0000

Yes, I know, it’s Friday the 13th today, but we’ve done other Roundtables on horror movie topics in the past. Let’s try to think out of the box this week. With the upcoming ‘Alien’ retro action figures in mind, now seems like a good time to stroll down memory lane and remember other toys we’ve...

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Weekend Roundtable: One Sequel Too Many

Josh Zyber — Fri, 24 May 2013 19:00:53 +0000

This week, a third ‘Hangover’ movie and a sixth ‘Fast & Furious’ grace cinema screens. Why? Seriously, why must every remotely popular movie be turned into a never-ending franchise of sequels, prequels, remakes and reboots, each new entry inferior to the last? Is there no originality left in Hollywood? (That’s a rhetorical question. Of course...

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“Super Cutz: The 100 Best Kills” Review

Brian Hoss — Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:00:31 +0000

Recently, I attended “Super Cutz: The 100 Best Kills” at the Alamo Drathouse, which contained way more than a hundred onscreen deaths from a gamut of movies, many obscure but some mainstream. Read on to see how the event measured up. First, let me offer the Drafthouse’s description of the two-hour feature: Join us as...

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One from the Vault: ‘Hot Shots! Part Deux’

Wayne Rowe — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:00:48 +0000

With Jim Abrahams and an all-star cast, how could you go wrong? In this week’s dig through the Netflix Vault, we wonder why only ‘Hot Shots! Part Deux’ is streaming in HD, but not its slightly funnier prequel. Here comes some prime pre-crazy Charlie Sheen. ‘Hot Shots! Part Deux’ follows the continuing adventures of Topper...

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