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End of Days

Schwarzenegger vs. Satan The apocalypse has been the general theme running through genre films in 1999, so why shouldn’t larger than life Arnold Schwarzenegger get in on the action? And what better foe should he take on in his first … Continue reading

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Phantom of the Opera DVD

Argento conducts the cellar dweller Like Moses, a babe is left in a basket to float down a river — but instead of being found by the wife of Pharaoh in the bullrushes to be raised a prince of Egypt, … Continue reading

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Peter Pan DVD

Girls will be boys Unfortunately, as with most of children’s literature at this point, many people today believe Peter Pan to be a creation of the Walt Disney Company. This video release of the original 1924 film, from an original … Continue reading

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Ice from the Sun VHS

Fresh Blood from the Heartland A 1998 horror fantasy, shot in Missouri by writer/director/editor Eric Stanze. Allison (Ramona Midgett) commits suicide, but instead of escaping whatever her problems are (apparently the inability to eat her breakfast), she finds herself standing … Continue reading

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Maniac / Narcotic DVD

Esper classic double feature This pair of exploitation roadshow features from producer/director Dwain Esper happily makes their DVD debut in a definitive deluxe double feature from Kino on Video. Esper was one of the notorious “40 Thieves”, a group of … Continue reading

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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

Don’t shoot me! Good thing they tacked on that subtitle, or else I would’ve been looking for the bicycle through the whole picture. Here’s the ex-husband-and-wife team of Luc Besson and Milla Jovovich (The Fifth Element) with their latest epic, … Continue reading

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Being John Malkovich

Pull the string! This is a wonderfully weird fantasy from the mind of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman and Beastie Boys video director Spike Jonze. John Cusack (Grosse Pointe Blank) stars as Craig Schwartz, a nebish puppeteer who takes a filing job … Continue reading

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House on Haunted Hill

Boo and Boo again – Castle lives! While earlier this year Jan DeBont’s remake of The Haunting failed because it lacked the emotional connection to hold it’s marvelous f/x together, William Malone’s update of the 1958 William Castle camp classic succeeds … Continue reading

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Django/Django Strikes Again DVD

Disc of Spaghetti For most Americans, the Spaghetti Western began and ended with Sergio Leone, especially his films with Clint Eastwood. While those films are deservedly recognized as classics, they’re only a handful among hundreds of European oaters that came … Continue reading

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American Movie DVD

American Nightmare One factor of the huge success of The Blair Witch Project is that it’s rendered suspect any entertaining documentary for some people. Leaving the theater after AM, I actually heard people questioning whether it was “real” or not … Continue reading

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