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David V. Picker on MUSTS, MAYBES, AND NEVERS: A BOOK ABOUT THE MOVIES
To list the films and filmmakers David V. Picker has been involved with in his careers as president of United Artists, Paramount, and Columbia borders on giving a comprehensive history of the medium in...
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The CFQ Interview: CHINA IL’s Brad Neely & Daniel Weidenfeld
Ronald Reagan is alive and disturbingly lucid in CHINA, IL. Continuing its mission of lowering the standards of higher education, Adult Swim’s CHINA, IL is presently offering up its second season every...
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The CFQ Interview: EAGLEHEART: PARADISE RISING’s Jason Woliner & Andrew Weinberg
Just a typical day at the office for Chris Elliott in EAGLEHEART: PARADISE RISING. These are dark days indeed for US Marshall Chris Monsanto (Chris Elliott). He’s devastated over the loss of his...
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Cinefantastique Capsule Review: PLUS ONE
Rhys Wakefield is beside himself in PLUS ONE. PLUS ONE (aka +1). Directed by Dennis Iliadis. IFC Midnight, 9/13, 97 mins. With: Ashley Hinshaw, Rhys Wakefield, Logan Miller. At the kind of teen party...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP...
Science! Peter Sellers plays an ex-Nazi witnessing his dreams coming true in DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB. It would be hard to overstate the excellence of DOCTOR...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: VAMPIRE ACADEMY
Zoey Deutch (left), Lucy Fry (center), and Sarah Hyland brave the perils of a very special high school in VAMPIRE ACADEMY. “They suck at school,” the posters for VAMPIRE ACADEMY proudly proclaim, and...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: ROBOCOP
Joel Kinnaman strives to be a cyborg with soul in ROBOCOP. And so, shouldering our backpacks and steeling ourselves against the urge to look back, we leave the doldrums of the start-of-2014 release...
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Temple of Bad: KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR
It’s crime-fighting robot versus diarrhea monster in KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR. Which one will win? And, more importantly, do you really want to know? Well, here’s a ticklish situation: Is KARATE-ROBO...
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Hour of the Wolf Movie Review: GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
(l to r) Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista and Chris Pratt tap their inner Han Solo in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. Welcome to August, the month when studios, having already fired off all their high-profile (not...
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Hour of the Wolf Movie Review: TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES
Megan Fox (back to camera) confronts one of the TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES. That’s Leonardo, if you care. We don’t. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES got nothing to worry about. TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA...
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Hour of the Wolf Movie Review: THE KING AND THE MOCKINGBIRD
An animated classic thirty years in the making gets its US debut in THE KING AND THE MOCKINGBIRD. If you’ve been going through the vast collection of films that have lapsed into the pubic domain — and...
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Hour of the Wolf Movie Review: INTO THE WOODS
Atmosphere doesn’t completely make up for a filmic outlook in INTO THE WOODS, but it helps lots. Loyalty. It’s a quality much to be desired, in how we treat our loved ones, the way we deal with our...
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Hour of the Wolf Movie Review: AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON
They’re there because they’re there because they’re there because they’re gonna kick butt. Marvel’s mightiest reassemble for AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON We’re back! D’ja miss us? There will be several...
View ArticleHour of the Wolf Catch-Up: PADDINGTON
CATCH-UP TUESDAY! Bringing you the Hour of the Wolf review segments that were not posted on their air dates. Remember Paddington, from this past January? Hey, that was a pretty good film, right? I...
View ArticleHour of the Wolf Catch-Up: REALITY
CATCH-UP THURSDAY! Bringing you the Hour of the Wolf review segments that were not posted on their air dates. From 4/16/15:It’s the movie about the dream about the film about the movie about the...
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Hour of the Wolf Movie Review: SELF/LESS & JELLYFISH EYES & A HARD DAY
This is a real “watch this, not that,” segment this time. Self/less was the “serious” opening last weekend — directed by overt stylist Tarsem Singh, starring Ryan Reynolds and Ben Kingsley — and the...
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APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD: You Can’t Steam-Clean Steampunk – Hour of...
Soooo much to cover in one, brief segment! First, I look at the French animated film APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD, and how it takes on the genre of steampunk in a way few steampunkers dare to...
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PATCH TOWN – Temple of Bad
Oh, sure, anybody can look at a ROBOT MONSTER, a BIRDEMIC, a XANADU and say, “Wow, that’s stinky.” It takes next-level insight to take on the likes of PATCH TOWN, an ambitious tale of a grown up...
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VIDEO: SCARED TO DEATH – Temple of Bad
In a startlingly bold experiment for ToB, we’ve decided to take the first twenty minutes of the classic(?) Bela Lugosi horror(?) film, SCARED TO DEATH, and treat it to a daringly new concept in film...
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