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Movie Review – Mrs. Claus (2018)

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Mrs. Claus. 2018. Directed by Troy Escamilla. Starring Helene Udy, Brinke Stevens, Kaylee Williams, Ryan Poole, and Hailey Strader. SYNOPSIS: A group of college students attending a Christmas party at a sorority house that has a sinister past are stalked by a bloodthirsty killer disguised as Mrs. Claus. I’ll grant Wild Eye’s Mrs. Claus more […]

Movie Review – The Christmas Chronicles (2018)

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The Christmas Chronicles, 2018. Directed by Clay Kaytis. Starring Kurt Russell, Darby Camp, Judah Lewis, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Martin Roach, Lamorne Morris, and Oliver Hudson. SYNOPSIS: When a pair of siblings try to catch Santa Claus in the act on Christmas Eve, they inadvertently crash his sleigh and trigger a race against time to save Christmas. […]

Blu-ray Review – Orgies of Edo (1969)

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Orgies of Edo, 1969. Directed by Teruo Ishii. Starring Teruo Yoshida, Toyozô Yamamoto, Masumi Tachibana, Akira Ishihama, and Mitsuko Aoi. SYNOPSIS: Anthology featuring three stories revolving around the punishment and torture of women set during Japan’s Gentoku era. During the late ‘60/early ‘70s a sub-genre of Japanese cinema called pinky violence came to prominence, with […]

Movie Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, 2018. Directed by David Yates. Starring Eddie Redmayne, Katherine Waterston, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, Johnny Depp, Jude Law, Ezra Miller, Zoe Kravitz, William Nadylam, Callum Turner, Claudia Kim, Ingvar Sigurdsson, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson, David Sakurai, Brontis Jodorowsky, Kevin Guthrie, Victoria Yeates, Derek Riddell, Poppy Corby-Tuech, Cornell S. John, Alfie […]

Movie Review – Stan & Ollie (2018)

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Stan & Ollie, 2018. Directed by Jon S. Baird. Starring John C Reilly, Steve Coogan, Shirley Henderson, Danny Huston, Nina Arianda and Rufus Jones. SYNOPSIS: In the mid-1950s, and with their glittering Hollywood career behind them, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy embark on a farewell tour of the UK.  Everybody thinks they’ve retired, so the […]

Comic Book Review – Fantastic Four #3

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Allen Christian reviews Fantastic Four #3… “Truly awful.” Throughout my fandom of the Fantastic Four, having read the majority of the comics in existence with that name or logo somewhere on the cover, I have been disappointed numerous times. Good ideas squandered? Check. Those are legion. Wildly off-base characterization? I see you, Matt Fraction. Ideas […]

Movie Review – Snowflake (2017)

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Snowflake, 2017. Directed by Adolfo J. Kolmerer and William James. Starring Reza Brojerdi, Erkan Acar, Xenia Assenza, David Masterson, Alexander Schubert, Adrian Topol, Gedeon Burkhard, Eskindir Tesfay, Selem Tadese, Martin Goeres, and Judith Hoersch. SYNOPSIS: Hunting down the murderer of their families in an anarchic Berlin of the near future, the outlaws Tan and Javid […]

Comic Book Review – Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown!

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Red Stewart reviews Race For Your Life, Charlie Brown… One of the coolest things about the Peanuts animated specials was that Charles Schulz himself was heavily involved in their creation. In fact, he was so heavily involved that he made sure his animosity for the title “Peanuts” was heard, guaranteeing that every cartoon bore the name Charlie Brown […]