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DVD Review – Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)

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Diamonds for Breakfast, 1968. Directed by Christopher Morahan. Starring Marcello Mastroianni, Rita Tushingham, Elaine Taylor, Margaret Blye, Francesca Tu, and The Karlins. SYNOPSIS: In order to steal back his family’s diamonds, Nicky puts together a team of female thieves guaranteed to run circles around museum security (his diamonds are on exhibit). Whether it’s really likely […]

DVD Review – Thelma Todd & Zasu Pitts: The Hal Roach Collection 1931-33

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Thelma Todd & Zasu Pitts: The Hal Roach Collection 1931-33 Directed by Hal Roach, Marshall Neilan, George Marshall, Gus Meins, and others. Starring Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts. SYNOPSIS: Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts are a comedy duo in these seventeen, pre-code shorts from Hal Roach. A little over two years ago Turner Classic Movies […]

Movie Review – Mermaid’s Song (2015)

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Mermaid’s Song, 2015. Directed by Nicholas Humphries. Starring Iwan Rheon, Katelyn Mager, and Brendan Taylor. SYNOPSIS: When Serena decides to give up her life as a mermaid to live on the land, her daughter, Charlotte, is given a choice: continue to live as a human or return to the sea and restore the balance. Originally […]

Arrow Video FrightFest Review – The Golem (2018)

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The Golem, 2018. Directed by Doron and Yoav Paz. Starring Hani Furstenberg, Ishai Golan, Lenny Ravich, Brynie Furstenberg, and Alexey Tritenko. SYNOPSIS: A woman creates a golem to defend her town but when her attachment to it grows, so does her unwillingness to destroy it. Every golem story needs a character who thinks they can evade […]

Comic Book Review – Fearscape #1

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews Fearscape #1… There are unreliable narrators and there’s Henry Henry. The name of Fearscape’s self-professed tragic hero isn’t a typo but it could be a lie, and that’s what makes writer, Ryan O’Sullivan, and illustrator, Andrea Mutti’s, new series so beguiling. Form matters. In fact, the opening page is all about how […]

DVD Review – A Bill of Divorcement (1932)

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A Bill of Divorcement, 1932. Directed by George Cukor. Starring John Barrymore, Katherine Hepburn, and Billie Burke. SYNOPSIS: After regaining his sanity and escaping an asylum to be with her, Hilary returns home Christmas day to learn that his wife has divorced him. It’s Christmas Eve at the Fairfield home and love is in the […]

Movie Review – The Sigma Kids (2018)

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Sigma Kids, 2018. Directed by Anthony Crupi. Featuring Patti Brett, Marla Kanevsky, Carlos Alomar, and David Bowie. SYNOPSIS: A documentary about David Bowie’s time in Philadelphia and the fans who waited for him outside Sigma Sound Studios. Young Americans wasn’t the first album David Bowie recorded after breaking with the Spiders from Mars (that was […]

Marvel’s The Gifted Season 1 Episodes 12 & 13 Review – ‘eXtraction/X-roads’

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Rachel Bellwoar reviews the two-hour season finale of Marvel’s The Gifted… If TV shows were poker games, The Gifted just went all in for their two-hour season finale. A kidnapping became an assassination over the course of two hours. The Mutant Underground’s headquarters got leveled in two hours and, in that disorienting moment of picking up […]

Movie Review – Blame (2017)

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Blame, 2017. Written and Directed by Quinn Shephard. Starring Quinn Shephard, Chris Messina, Nadia Alexander, and Tate Donovan. SYNOPSIS: Tensions rise when a substitute teacher changes the class play to The Crucible. Early in Blame we meet Abigail (Quinn Shephard), combing her hair in a mirror, the back of her head blocking us from seeing her […]