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Man With The Golden Gun

Man With The Golden Gun As the James Bond series got into its ninth entry, long gone was the Blofeld / SPECTRE continuing storyline, as each entry now became a “stand-alone” story, and greatly improved in the process. Roger Moore (in his second outing) continues to show the coolness and cockiness that made his Bond […]

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Manhunter

Manhunter (Director’s Cut) Michael Mann could possibly be the greatest director who ever lived who has only directed a relative handful of great films (and a few bad ones). This 1986 release, forever known as the “first” Hannibal Lecter movie (even though Lecter only gets about 10 minutes of screen time and is played by […]

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Maniac

Maniac There is no doubt that the current younger generation weaned on PG-13 horror movies featuring little girl ghosts popping up and scaring people to death will find it VERY hard to digest this 1980 entry from director William Lustig which features the most notable lead role from the late prolific character actor Joe Spinell […]

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Maniac Cop

Maniac Cop 80s Horror will probably always remain the best kind of horror, even down to the b-movies, mostly because the scripts were usually spot on and filled with original, unpredictable characters, plus the exposure these lower end movies got on late night pay cable (which is virtually unheard of today) guaranteed that they would […]

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Marc Pease Experience

Marc Pease Experience It’s remarkable sometimes how a big budget studio movie can be made featuring major stars, but yet mostly because the studio bosses realized what a stinker it is, winds up burying it in limited release before sending it directly onto DVD. Thus is the case with this production, shot on location here […]

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Marked For Death

Marked For Death Steven Seagal action films have always been renown for their utter simplicity perhaps because Seagal himself (while having always possessed tremendous screen presence) was so perceived as being limited in his acting abilities that many of his movies serve little purpose than to establish the bad guys and what makes them so […]

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Married To The Mob

Married To The Mob Jonathan Demme may (rightfully so) seem like a one-hit wonder to many people for making the unforgettable masterpiece Silence Of The Lambs, but a look at the rest of his resume reveals this earlier work from 1988, a fun Mafia spoof that ironically is only hampered by its director’s reluctance to […]

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Mars Attacks!

Mars Attacks! With its high-octane cast reduced to playing roles so paper thin that if you throw water on them they would dissolve, Tim Burton’s 1996 opus (released the same year as the superior Independence Day) gives us the rather demented premise of, what if aliens came to our planet and spurned the hopes of […]

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein The early 90s saw quite the revival in old school horror movie monsters being dredged back up by Hollywood for what was at the time fresh new versions of popular old stories and character types. We got to see Tom Cruise play a vampire (Lestat), Jack Nicholson play a werewolf (Wolf) and […]

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Masters Of The Universe

Masters Of The Universe No doubt about it: The Adventures Of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe EPITOMIZED The 1980s, starting off as a popular line of toys and action figures who always came with their own cheap little comic book (usually detailing the backstory of both the action figure character and their connection […]