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Godzilla (1954)

Bikini spawns monster  Guest Review by Mike Flores Let me begin by saying if you saw the 1956 American version of Godzilla with Raymond Burr, you have not seen Godzilla. Not by a long shot. Reflecting the U.S. superiority of … Continue reading

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Kill Bill Vol. 2

QT and UT are back for More Revenge  Imagine a friend invites you to hear his or her band play. You haven’t heard them play before, so you’re not sure what to expect, but from you’re friend’s music collection you … Continue reading

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Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Remake/Re-animate When I went to see Tom Savini’s 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead, I tried to do so without a chip on my shoulder, and I came away without being disappointed by what is a reasonably entertaining … Continue reading

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Dawn of the Dead DVD

Zombies in HD The back package copy on Anchor Bay’s new edition of Dawn of the Dead describes the new commentrak recorded for it “startling”, but what’s truly startling is their new High Definition transfer of the film itself. I’ve … Continue reading

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Crimson Pig

Plane Crazy Porky Japan’s anime master Hayoa Miyazaki loves airplanes, especially vintage aircraft. He showed this inclination in his earlier features Laputa and Kiki’s Delivery Service, but her he let’s his obsession take center stage.

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Kill Bill Vol. 1

QT is back for Revenge Quentin Tarantino’s fourth film as writer/director finds him in familiar territory – that is, familiar territory for fans of psychotronic film. A glorious homage to all the exploitation flicks that have inspired him throughout his … Continue reading

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The Screaming Skull DVD

Drive-In Discs, Vol. 1 (Part 2) Continued from previous post… The second feature, The Screaming Skull, is a ’50s horror update of Gaslight. It has it’s suspenseful moments, but also quite a few silly ones, but moves along quickly enough … Continue reading

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Attack of the Giant Leeches DVD

Drive-In Discs, Vol. 1 (Part 1) It’s a shame that most kids born today will never know the joy of a visit to a drive-in theater. During the Baby Boom years of the 1950s and ’60s, there was an “ozoner” … Continue reading

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Gladiator DVD

Bread and circuses 2000 The plot of the film is pretty much wrapped up in DreamWorks’ “General… slave… gladiator…” taglines, and can roughly be divided into these three acts. In the first, we’re introduced to Roman General Maximus (Russell Crowe), … Continue reading

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Giant Gila Monster DVD

Continued from the Wasp Woman post… In the second movie, Giant Gila Monster, the dour narrator barely draws a breath after describing “the enormity of the West… bleak and desolate” than some typical necking ‘50s teens get their car swatted … Continue reading

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