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Friday, 19 October 2012 08:35
Loron Hays
Directors Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman (Catfish) are back in the paranormal saddle again. They deserve much better material. Straining the found footage concept in an effort to top themselves, Paranormal Activity 4 quickly falls apart as our fear of the ...
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Saturday, 02 February 2013 13:40
Loron Hays

Yippee ki yay, double-dipper! It’s Die Hard’s 25th anniversary celebration but you won’t find much of a party going on here. The disappointing collection from 20th Century Fox is essentially the same transfers we’ve seen before, making this only a stop-gap release until ...
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Friday, 01 February 2013 12:39
Loron Hays
It’s been heralded as a minor classic. It’s also the first movie to showcase zombies – whether the walking dead or just poisoned. Let’s be honest, though. It’s far beyond the appropriate time to recognize Victor Halperin’s White Zombie as a masterpiece of horror. ...
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Wednesday, 30 January 2013 11:20
Loron Hays
Well, at least it tries to do something different with the whole superhero genre. Imagine if DC’s Justice League or Marvel’s The Avengers were fractured and driven apart by one of their villains for all eternity. Imagine if that villain was Jigsaw from the SAW series ...
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Wednesday, 19 September 2012 10:22
Loron Hays
For most of his career in film writer/director David Ayer has earned a living telling the violent stories of police officers on call. From films like Training Day to Street Kings, Ayer’s playground is the hard-hitting streets of Los Angeles. He knows this territory well and ...
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Sunday, 27 January 2013 12:22
Loron Hays
Searching for Sugar Man clocks in a swift 85 minutes but the true story it tells – about an unknown folk-rock artist from Detroit, Michigan who doesn’t even know he’s bigger than Elvis in South Africa – is one you will never forget. Rodriguez is his name ...
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Saturday, 26 January 2013 14:54
Loron Hays
Bursting with the same joy captured inside Domenico Modugno’s recording of Volare, To Rome with Love continues Woody Allen’s successful European vacation. The comedy is just shy of the usual laughter and a definite step down from his most successful film ...
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Saturday, 26 January 2013 14:52
Loron Hays
“Gross,” my wife said to me while studying the artwork on Olive Films Blu-ray release of Paramount’s Ticks, a low-budget creature feature from 1993. It was followed by, “what the hell is wrong with you?” Ticks, to be sure, is my cup of malt-o-meal comfort ...
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Monday, 21 January 2013 11:52
Loron Hays
Sweat. Dust. Violence. And beer. These are the outback facts of life in Ted Kotcheff’s hard-hitting Wake in Fright. An Australian film long thought lost due to the ravages of time, Wake in Fright stands proudly alongside Mad Max and Picnic at Hanging Rock as high ....
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Sunday, 20 January 2013 20:18
Loron Hays
With inspired gonzo guffaws and slapdash guerrilla filmmaking stylings, Sleepers is the funniest Woody Allen film to appear before his artistic vision made him a household name. Allen, a longtime fan of silent clowns like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton, throws ...
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Thursday, 04 October 2012 10:09
Loron Hays
With all the fabulous charm of old school Burton, Frankenweenie arrives in theaters just in time to wag its electrified tail (or tale as the case may be) for all the costumed kiddies and adults this Halloween season. It’s a fully charged black-and-white romp about a ...
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Saturday, 19 January 2013 10:13
Loron Hays
The family tree gets a bit uprooted in the fantastic Hannah and Her Sisters. Set between two family thanksgivings, this 1986 offering from writer/director Woody Allen is rich in storytelling flow – as the characters take turn narrating the events – and ...
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Saturday, 19 January 2013 08:00
Loron Hays
Quite simply, Two-Lane Blacktop is the purest road movie to ever exist. Revisiting Monte Hellman’s classic is not unlike listening to remastered Jimi Hendrix on 180 gram vinyl; a mood-altering earnest trip through the countercultural consciousness complete ...
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Monday, 14 January 2013 21:31
Loron Hays
I’m not trying to be funny here, but how many of you heard about The Jazz Singer before you actually saw it? It turns out the revolution was televised (in a roundabout manner of speaking). Moving pictures were meant to have sound and, in 1927, the technology ...
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Sunday, 13 January 2013 17:04
Loron Hays
If you missed the lackluster Stolen in its initial 14 day theatrical run, well, I don’t blame you. Easy to watch when the brain is switched off, the film is largely a sloppy affair that can’t decide on a silly or sadistic tone. While not a complete loss thanks to the scenery chewed by everyone BUT...
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Sunday, 13 January 2013 11:57
Loron Hays
House at the End of the Street (otherwise known as 101 Generic Minutes) is a bad career location for Jennifer Lawrence. She’s too talented of an actress to get caught up in a supposed suburban horror film that is neither scary nor any good. A haunted house ...
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Sunday, 13 January 2013 10:29
Loron Hays
While far from perfect, Brian Cunningham and Matt Niehoff’s Overtime isn’t the total loss that it easily could have been. You’ve got a low-budget film starring former WWE superstar Al Snow and a cast of other unknowns battling an alien-virus that turns people into ...
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Thursday, 10 January 2013 19:19
Loron Hays
This movie – no, this phenomenon – will change your life. Permanently. Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, having already earned freakish line-quoting followers in Los Angeles and New York through its communal (and sold out) midnight showings, is now High Definition ...
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