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josh long / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 21, 2021

Dune: Fine Grain, by Josh Long

It’d be an understatement to say that there’s a lot riding on Denis Villeneuve’s Dune. Frank Herbert’s 1965 novel is the best-selling science fiction novel of all time, with a massive fanbase and eighteen sequel/prequel novels. Previous adaptations have been...

movie meltdown / movies / podcast

September 30, 2021

Movie Meltdown: What a Day for the Dollman

This episode we head back out into the world as we visit the Lexington Comic & Toy Convention. And after looking at all the toys, we then sit down to discuss the Full Moon Feature Dollman directed by Albert Pyun and starring Tim...

movie meltdown / movies / podcast

May 28, 2021

Movie Meltdown: You’re Never Too Young to Die

I’m not sure if you’re ready for this one. (I don’t think we were.) This episode we discuss the 1986 classic(?) Never Too Young to Die starring John Stamos, Vanity and Gene Simmons. And before we ride off into the sunset in...

cast of cthulhu / james mccormick / jim rohner / movies

May 27, 2021

The Cast of Cthulhu: Lifeforce

We’re covering a weird, ambitious movie, so it’s only fitting that we’ve got a weird, ambitious episode. Jay Alary from Grumpire and Daily Grindhouse joins The Cast of Cthulhu to discuss Tobe Hooper’s Lifeforce, the first of a 3-picture deal and a weird, ambitious failure of a sci-fi...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 13, 2021

Riders of Justice: Last Train, by David Bax

Anders Thomas Jensen’s Riders of Justice opens with Christmas music in a way that you’d be forgiven for regarding with suspicion. Jensen made his name with 2003’s The Green Butchers, a cannibalism comedy that’s decent but also has a smarmy...

2021 / david bax / movies / TCM Fest / TCM Fest 2021

May 12, 2021

TCM Classic Film Festival 2021: Part Three, by David Bax

For a long time, I had very little interest in seeing Bullitt, a movie I snobbishly thought of as a Steve McQueen vanity project, something he reverse engineered from the idea for a car chase scene. I softened my stance...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 7, 2021

Above Suspicion: Impersonal Elegy, by David Bax

Look, I’ll confess. I didn’t see Hillbilly Elegy. I know, I know, it was nominated for a goddamn Oscar and everything but something told me maybe I ought to skip it. If that movie is even half as patronizing toward...

dayne linford / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 23, 2021

Assault on VA-33: Code Red White & Blue, by Dayne Linford

Americans are so besotted with the notion of our military righteousness that we’ve sat through innumerable terrible, ostensibly patriotic films for decades, stretching back in a long tradition almost as august as the military itself. We’ll endure the worst dialogue,...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 22, 2021

Mortal Kombat: Kill Screen, by David Bax

Of the many, many parts of Simon McQuoid’s Mortal Kombat that are awkward and clumsy, perhaps the worst are those times when the movie tries too hard to make sense. We start with a tragic prologue set 400 years in...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 14, 2021

Vanquish: Slowed Down Shoot ‘Em Up, by David Bax

Nearly six and a half minutes have passed in George Gallo’s Vanquish before the movie has actually begun in earnest. The ludicrously protracted opening title sequence seems like a blatant stab at dragging the film’s running time over the 90...

Tagged: action

Dune: Fine Grain, by Josh Long

Movie Meltdown: What a Day for the Dollman

Movie Meltdown: You’re Never Too Young to Die

The Cast of Cthulhu: Lifeforce

Riders of Justice: Last Train, by David Bax

TCM Classic Film Festival 2021: Part Three, by David Bax

Above Suspicion: Impersonal Elegy, by David Bax

Assault on VA-33: Code Red White & Blue, by Dayne Linford

Mortal Kombat: Kill Screen, by David Bax

Vanquish: Slowed Down Shoot ‘Em Up, by David Bax

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