Tag: Fantasy
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Exploiting Wonderland – Films With Friends Collection Part 08: “Oops! I Did It Again”.
Evil Dead Rise (2023) Evil Dead Rise is a supernatural horror film from writer director Lee Cronin and is the fifth film in the Evil Dead franchise. It is not a reboot or remake, but a standalone entry in the same ‘universe’ as previous films. Rob Tapert returns as producer and Sam Raimi and Bruce…
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Tis The Season 2023 Collection Part 2: Jingle These Bells.
Friends “The One Where Rachel Quits” I like to do some Christmas episodes of tv shows in these reviews around this time of year, and with the recent passing of Matthew Perry, I had to do a Friends episode. But which one, there are ten. So I randomly generated a number and it came up…
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Tis The Season – Christmas 2023 Part 1: In the Beginning There Was this Reindeer…
Everyone has their favourite films to watch over the Christmas season. Feel-good classics, Rom-Coms, an action classic or two, a gore filled horror, or something truly bizarre. So, to start, here are my current 12 favourite Christmas Movies. 12. Gremlins (1984) Joe Dante’s comedy introduced us to the Mogwai, Gizmo, the Gremlins, and the three…
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Films With Friends Collection Part 7: Whose Laughing Now?
Barbie (2023) Yes! This overweight bearded human went to see the Barbie movie. And I loved it. Directed by Greta Gerwing, and co-written by her and Noah Baumbach, this film is based on the long-time cultural phenomenon by Mattel. Margot Robbie is our central “Stereotypical’ Barbie. She resides in Barbieland, a matriarchal society where women…
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Lost in the 90s – Warrior Women Edition.
While big studios where um-ing and ah-ing about strong female characters leading a major film (because studios heads where and remain out of touch) the smaller studios and independent producers where still trying anything and everything they could to make an impact. Most of the time, that was in the lucrative Straight-to-video market. Here the…
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Warlock No More: Goodbye Julian Sands.
Today, with a heavy heart and the eyes of a clairvoyant guiding the way, I have to mention the passing of an actor whose work I have loved and admired for a long while, Julian Sands. Sands got a career boost in two critically acclaimed films in the 80s, the war drama The Killing Fields…
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Films With Friends Collection 6: Citizens on Patrol
Body Parts (1991) This horror sci-fi film was co-written and directed by Eric Red, the man who wrote the now cult classic Near Dark, The Hitcher and Blue Steel. And if you have ever seen any of those flicks, you would be impressed. Trust me. Jeffy Fahey is Bill Chrushank, a psychologist working with convicted…
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Lost in the 90s Part 1: Such Sights.
Lost in the 90s: Collection 01 In the 1990s, I hit the video store multiple times a week. It was my church, and the films that lay dormant in its hollowed isles, where my religion. I watched everything that caught my eye, and I watched so many films that will forever live in my head.…
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Re-Watch 4: Once More With Feeling.
Number One With A Bullet (1987) In the 80s, with films like 48 Hours and Running Scared, the buddy cop genre was starting to take off. Before Lethal Weapon would define the genre, Cannon films made their own. But unfortunately, it was Number One With a Bullet. It features two cops with conflicting personalities (shock!).…
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Re-Watch Collection: With a Vengeance.
Visiting Hours (1982) Visiting Hours is a Canadian psychological thriller directed by Jean-Claude Lord, that also sits comfortably in the slasher genre of horror films. It’s a film that I’ve only seen once before, and I remember not liking it. Well, I can confirm, my younger self was wrong. Deborah Ballin (Lee Grant) is a…
Exploiting Wonderland 