17th Jan2016

‘Misery Loves Comedy’ Review

by Catherina Gioino

In his directorial debut, Kevin Pollak signs on an impressive roster of actors, comedians, stand-ups, writers, and more, all to come together and answer one of the most dumbfounding questions known comedy lovers everywhere: do you truly have to be miserable in order to be funny? Actors from Sam Rockwell, Bobby Cannavale, Matthew Perry, Nick […]

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17th Jan2016

Tribeca Film Festival: ‘Hungry Hearts’ Review

by Catherina Gioino

Stars: Adam Driver, Alba Rohrwacher, Roberta Maxwell, Al Roffe, Geisha Otero, Jason Selvig, Jake Weber, David Aaron Baker, Natalie Gold, Victor Williams, Cristina J. Huie, Ginger Kearns, Katherine O’Sullivan, Toshiko Onizawa, Dennis Rees | Written and Directed by Saverio Costanzo What do you do when the love of your life is in the bathroom next […]

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17th Jan2016

‘The Adderall Diaries’ Review

by Catherina Gioino

Stars: Amber Heard, James Franco, Christian Slater, Ed Harris, Wilmer Valderrama, Cynthia Nixon, Jim Parrack, Timothée Chalamet, Danny Flaherty, Michael Cristofer, Tonya Glanz, Jessica Leccia, Gabriela Fresquez, Casper Andreas, Jimmy Gary Jr. | Written by Stephen Elliott, Pamela Romanowsky | Directed by Pamela Romanowsky Adderall: now coming to a college campus near you. Well besides […]

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14th Jan2016

‘Dragon Blade’ Review

by Richard Axtell

Stars: Jackie Chan, John Cusack, Adrien Brody, Si Won Choi, Peng Lin, Mika Wang, Yang Xiao, Taili Wang, Tin Chiu Hung, Shaofeng Feng, Sharni Vinson, Sung-jun Yoo | Written and Directed by Daniel Lee When corrupt Roman leader Tiberius arrives with a giant army to claim the Silk Road, Huo An teams up his army […]

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13th Jan2016

‘Guns For Hire’ Review

by Richard Axtell

Stars: Ever Carradine, Michele Hicks, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Ben Mendelsohn, Tony Shalhoub, Sarah Shahi, Orlando Jones, Ivana Milicevic, Brooke Adams, Raffaello Degruttola, Jamie Donnelly, Cullen Douglas | Written and Directed by Donna Robinson Beatle is a quirky loner who refuses to live by society’s rules. Her only human contact is with her psychiatrist and the […]

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13th Jan2016

‘Anesthesia’ Review

by Catherina Gioino

Stars: Tim Blake Nelson, Sam Waterston, Glenn Close, Gretchen Mol, Kristen Stewart, Corey Stoll, Mickey Summer | Written and Directed by Tim Blake Nelson We asked O Brother Where Art Thou?. We’ve seen him help dig Holes. We watched him hang with presidents in Lincoln, with superheroes in The Incredible Hulk and The Fantastic Four. […]

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12th Jan2016

‘Septic Man’ DVD Review

by Paul Metcalf

Stars: Jason David Brown, Julian Richings, Robert Maillet, Molly Dunsworth, Timothy Burd, Stephen McHattie, Nicole G. Leier  | Written by Tony Burgess | Directed by Jesse Thomas Cook Some films are just crap, but Septic Man is literally about it. In the first few minutes you may get to see a lot of human waste, but if truth […]

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12th Jan2016

Mondo Squallido – Ep. 71: The Taming of Rebecca (Phil Prince, 1982)

by Mondo Squallido

A roughie from the very early 80s, The Taming of Rebecca features veteran porn-star Sharon Mitchell as the titular Rebecca – who goes to a school for wayward girls to escape her abusive father, finds out her troubles are just starting…

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12th Jan2016

Mondo Squallido – Ep.70: Candy Goes to Hollywood (Gail Palmer, 1979)

by Mondo Squallido

In this sequel to The Erotic Adventures of Candy, buxom Candy (Carol Connors) arrives in Hollywood, searching for fame and fortune… After meeting lecherous agent Johnny Dooropener, young Candy gets to know the ins and outs of Hollywood in the most carnal of ways! Once again written and directed by Gail Palmer, Candy Goes to […]

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10th Jan2016

‘No Escape’ Blu-ray Review

by Mark Allen

Stars: Owen Wilson, Lake Bell, Pierce Brosnan, Thanawut Kasro, Chatchawai Kamonsakpitak | Written by John Erick Dowdle, Drew Dowdle | Directed by John Erick Dowdle No Escape starts out with Jack and Annie Dwyer (Wilson & Bell) and their two daughters emigrating to an unspecified Southeast Asian country for Wilson’s work. This work is somehow […]

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09th Jan2016

‘Anger of the Dead’ Review

by Richard Axtell

Stars: Aaron Stielstra, Michael Segal, Marius Bizau, Désirée Giorgetti, Claudio Camilli, David White, Ally McClelland, Roberta Sparta | Written and Directed by Francesco Picone In a world ravaged by a rabies virus that turns people into hungry cannibals, Alice, a pregnant survivor, along with two other men, struggles to reach an island unaffected by the […]

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08th Jan2016

‘Aimy in a Cage’ Review

by Paul Metcalf

Stars: Crispin Glover, Allisyn Ashley Arm, Terry Moore, Paz de la Huerta, Michael William Hunter, Theodore Bouloukos, Sara Murphy, Gabby Tary, Rick Montgomery Jr., Charles Everett Tacker, Maria Deasy | Written and Directed by Hooroo Jackson I like weird films, and because of this fact I tend to experience some truly strange and unique movies. […]

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07th Jan2016

‘Live-Evil’ Review

by Richard Axtell

Stars: Charlene Amoia, Vladimir Kulich, Tony Todd, Vincent M. Ward, J. Richey Nash, Russell A. Bryan, Carter, Ira David Wood III, Tamara Farias, Jackson Prather, Karen Wheeling Reynolds, Ed Ricker | Written and Directed by Ari Kirschenbaum Live-Evil. It’s Ghostbusters meets Dawn of the Dead caught in the Twilight Zone… When a small college town […]

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06th Jan2016

‘The House on Pine Street’ Review

by Richard Axtell

Stars: Emily Goss, Taylor Bottles, Cathy Barnett, Jim Korinke, Natalie Pellegrini, Tisha Swart-Entwistle, Keagon Ellison, Daniel Shirley, Robert Jones, Jeannie Blau | Written by Aaron Keeling, Austin Keeling, Natalie Jones | Directed by Aaron Keeling, Austin Keeling Seven months pregnant, Jennifer Branagan (Emily Goss) reluctantly returns to her hometown in Kansas after an unexpected mental […]

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05th Jan2016

‘The Diary Of A Teenage Girl’ VOD Review

by Stuart Wright

Stars: Bel Powley, Alexander Skarsgard, Kristen Wiig, Abby Wait, Miranda Bailey, Carson D. Mell, John Parsons, Madeleine Waters, Austin Lyon, Quinn Nagle | Written and Directed by Marielle Heller Adapted from American comic artist/novelist Phoebe Gloeckner’s edgy ‘graphic’ graphic novel of the same name, The Diary Of A Teenage Girl is a dark, often comedic, […]

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02nd Jan2016

‘Joe Dirt 2: Beautiful Loser’ VOD Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: David Spade, Brittany Daniel, Christopher Walken, Patrick Warburton, Mark McGrath, Dennis Miller, Toby Bronson, Ron Flagge, Rhonda Dents, Tracy Weisert, Natalia Cigliuti, Erica Ibsen | Written by Fred Wolf, David Spade | Directed by Fred Wolf The original Joe Dirt became something of a cult classic on DVD, even moreso in our household where […]

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02nd Jan2016

‘The Intern’ Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo, Anders Holm, JoJo Kushner, Andrew Rannells, Adam DeVine, Zack Pearlman, Jason Orley, Christina Scherer, Nat Wolff, Linda Lavin, Celia Weston, Steve Vinovich | Written and Directed by Nancy Myers 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker (De Niro) has discovered that retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Seizing […]

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30th Dec2015

‘Sinbad of the Seven Seas’ Blu-ray Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Lou Ferrigno, John Steiner, Roland Wybenga, Ennio Girolami, Hal Yamanouchi, Yehuda Efroni, Alessandra Martines, Teagan Clive, Leo Gullotta, Stefania Girolami Goodwin, Donald Hodson, Melonee Rodgers, Cork Hubbert, Romano Puppo, Attilio Cesare Lo Pinto | Written by Luigi Cozzi | Directed by Enzo G. Castellari Supposedly based on Edgar Allan Poe’s The Thousand and Second […]

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30th Dec2015

‘Rage of Honor’ Blu-ray Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Sho Kosugi, Lewis Van Bergen, Robin Evans, Gerry Gibson, Charles Lucia, Richard Wiley, Carlos Estrada, Ulises Dumont, Theodore McNabney, Alan Amiel, Armando Capo | Written by Robert Short, Wallace C. Bennett | Directed by Gordon Hessler As a kid who grew up in the video store there were a few staples in my cinematic […]

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30th Dec2015

‘The Transporter Refueled’ Blu-ray Review

by Phil Wheat

Stars: Ed Skrein, Loan Chabanol, Ray Stevenson, Gabriella Wright, Tatiana Pajkovic, Wenxia Yu, Radivoje Bukvic, Noémie Lenoir, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Lenn Kudrjawizki, Samir Guesmi, Anatole Taubman | Written by Adam Cooper, Bill Collage, Luc Besson | Directed by Camille Delamarre I not going to hide the fact I’m a huge Transporter fan, from the very first […]

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30th Dec2015

‘Hercules’ & ‘Hercules II’ Blu-ray Review

by Phil Wheat

Many would say that physical formats are dying out, people are moving from DVD to digital, leaving Blu-ray to disc afficionados and home theatre enthusiasts. Yet, unbelievably, there is an ever-growing – some might say rabid – fanbase for obscure and long-forgotten movies on the format, so much so that distribution labels new and old […]

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25th Dec2015

‘The Hateful Eight’ Review

by Gretchen Felker-Martin

Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Demian Bichir, Michael Madsen, James Parks, Lee Horsley, Zoe Bell, Walton Goggins, Bruce Dern | Written and Directed by Quentin Tarantino “You only need to hang mean bastards, but mean bastards you need to hang.” The Hateful Eight is, as its title suggests, a sort of inverted Magnificent Seven, its […]

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