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Psych-Out

Psych-Out As the opening moments of this film unspooled, showing San Francisco in the height of the hippie era of the 60s, a small part of me wondered aloud “Why can’t it be like this again?”. Indeed, in our modern age which has proven the liberal agenda to be just as vicious and judgmental as […]

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Public Enemies

Public Enemies A couple things that can be said right now about Michael Mann’s 2009 disaster: The art direction and production design, right down to the costumes, are immaculate and look great, and the film features both an evocative opening scene showing John Dillinger escaping from prison complemented by an appearance from character acting legend […]

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Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction Labeled by many as the Greatest Movie Of The 90s (it’s not, even by Tarantino’s standards) and as one of the Greatest Movies Of All Time that quickly took its place among respectable best film lists almost immediately. But a closer look indicates that the film (while still great) gets its classic status […]

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Pumpkinhead

Pumpkinhead Released in 1988 and garnering quite a bit of attention as the directorial debut of movie FX Legend Stan Winston, this is a horror / monster movie that seems to spin off of old folk tales as its inspiration, and it does succeed in a couple of aspects, namely in its atmosphere and the […]

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Punisher

Punisher (2004) Comic book movies sometimes have a weird line to walk, as even though comics themselves are a limited, one dimensional art form, when a movie adaptation is made of one, more often than not studios pay far too much heed to the vocal minority of comic book fans who practically masturbate to their […]

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Puppetmaster

Puppetmaster Is Charles Band the worst horror filmmaker of all time? In many ways, that would appear to be the case, as even though his films sometimes have intriguing concepts, the overall execution always shows him to have an almost infantile predilection for heavy doses of cheese and corn into the finished product, with little […]

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Puppetmaster 2

Puppetmaster 2 When setting out to make a horror film, when you know you haven’t the talent and ability to make it good and scary, the best advice is to chuck all pretense to the wind and focus on making a goofy piece of shit instead. Thus is the case with this 1991 sequel, a […]

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Puppetmaster 3: Toulon’s Revenge

Puppetmaster 3: Toulon’s Revenge After the second chapter of this belated saga, Producer Charles Band and Full Moon Entertainment had literally written themselves into a corner as far as continuing the franchise, so they came up with this: a REBOOT of the entire series starting with this prequel that tells the story of Puppetmaster Andre […]

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Purple Rain

Purple Rain Movies that more or less amount to being a rock star’s vanity project can sometimes be a mixed bag, based in many ways upon the star’s acting ability, the strength of the script and most importantly the quality of the music itself as featured in said movie. Elvis Presley was truly The King […]

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Quadrophenia

Quadrophenia Based off The Who’s OTHER rock opera from the early 70s, director Franc Roddam helmed this 1979 release with an overall story made up entirely from whole cloth yet still retaining the spirit of the original album. Music fans should be aware of two things going in: the film is NOT wall to wall […]