Saturday, July 19, 2025

George Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD (1985)

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"Bang! Yore dead!" Released on this day--19 July--in 1985, George Romero's DAY OF THE DEAD , the 3rd installment in the direc...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

Conjuring THE VAMPIRE'S GHOST (1945)

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For a brief period in the mid-1940s, Republic Pictures--then a Poverty Row studio that became best known for its top-shelf cliffhanger seri...
Sunday, June 1, 2025

Resurrecting HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN 1997

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In 1997, NBC aired a mini-series remake of Universal's 1944 HOUSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. It's little-remembered today, never seems to get ...
Friday, May 30, 2025

Bracing & Embracing EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE (1995)

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Unleashed upon the world on this date in 1995, Anne Goursaud's erotic Gothic tale EMBRACE OF THE VAMPIRE. After growing up in public ov...
Monday, September 23, 2024

Putting Right "The BLADE RUNNER Scene Everyone Gets Wrong"

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Over at " Eyebrow Cinema ," a Youtube channel I've sometimes watched, I came across a new essay by Daniel Simpson, its proprie...
Saturday, June 29, 2024

HORIZON: A Critical Saga of American Criticism, Chapter 1

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The first chapter of Kevin Costner's HORIZON: AN AMERICAN SAGA, which opened yesterday, has taken a real critical drubbing , but having ...
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Wednesday, April 24, 2024

Comic Book Movies & What Ails 'Em 3: Better, Not Bigger

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This past August marked the 25th anniversary of the release of Stephen Norrington's BLADE.  Starring Wesley Snipes as the titular vampi...