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· by Thomas Stockel · Dec 14, 2020

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 1 of 6)

Prior to the 1980s, fantasy films were never a huge genre; if you look back at releases during the ’70s you had maybe one true fantasy film a year, be it animated flicks like The Lord of the Rings,…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Nov 12, 2020

Movie Duel: The Illusionist vs. The Prestige

Our latest installment of Movie Duels takes us back to the hoary years of 2006, when we got two movies about stage magicians in the late nineteenth slash early twentieth centuries. Now, it’s no surprise why magic shows were popular…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Nov 4, 2020

Sir Sean Connery’s best (non-James Bond) work

This Halloween brought the sad news of the passing of cinema great Sir Sean Connery. As has been thoroughly documented over the decades, Sir Sean was best known for being cinema’s first—and, for many, best—James Bond. It was also well-known…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Nov 2, 2020

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 6 of 6)

Last time: Sador arrived and ran headlong into stiff opposition, losing fighters and many soldiers on the surface of Akir. But the good guys suffered losses as well, with many farmers turned fighters dying along with Gelt and possibly the…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Oct 26, 2020

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 5 of 6)

Last time: Sador’s sentries upon Akir they preyed and were themselves waylaid. Our heroes prepared for Sador’s raid by constructing moat and stockade, all the while a harmonica was played. Then St. Exim at Sador threw shade! But was her…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Oct 19, 2020

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 4 of 6)

Last time: Shad and Nan found new recruits: an assassin for hire, a collective consciousness that was bored, and a reptilian space whaler with a grudge. Oh, and Sybil Danning. Speaking of which… Gelt (Robert Vaughn, in case you forgot…

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· by Steven Birkner · Oct 14, 2020

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, ranked

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theatrical film series, like most long running film series, has its ups and downs and its periods of dormancy as well. In looking over all of the six, it’s easy for me to determine which…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Oct 12, 2020

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 3 of 6)

Last time: Shad avoided a frog march to the wedding altar and made two new friends, and Sador nuked a planet… pretty much because he could. We cut to Nanelia, who had been heading to the Lambda sector. She’s flying…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Oct 5, 2020

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 2 of 6)

Last time: Sador of the Malmori showed up in his hammer (time!) ship to threaten the Akira and their peaceful way of life. With him coming back in seven days, it’s up to wide-eyed farm boy Shad to take…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Sep 30, 2020

Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe films (part 2 of 2)

Read part one of this list. Roger Corman kept his Edgar Allan Poe series going strong with four additional films in the series. The Raven (1963) The fifth entry in the series took on a more flamboyant, lighthearted tone. The…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Sep 28, 2020

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 1 of 6)

To say Star Wars was a gamechanger is putting it lightly. While science fiction as a genre had been represented in some way, shape, or form in cinema since its inception, it seemed once George Lucas and Gary Kurtz’s masterpiece…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Sep 16, 2020

Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe films (part 1 of 2)

Roger Corman has always been regarded as the filmmaker who, if he didn’t invent the B-movie, certainly perfected it. During the course of his decades-spanning career, Corman has produced, directed, written, and acted in numerous films across multiple genres. He…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Aug 31, 2020

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 6 of 6)

Last time: Jehnna retrieved the horn, which turned out to be in possession of another faction of Dagoth worshipers. Bombaata escaped with the princess and the horn, leaving the others in the dust with the knowledge that when Taramis gets…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Aug 24, 2020

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 5 of 6)

Last time: Bombaata’s boys blew it when they tried to kidnap the princess, Conan got his drink on, the gang found a dungeon to plunder, and against all odds Tracey Walter made me like Malak. Let’s see if my hatred…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Aug 19, 2020

Hit or Bomb? Late-August/September 2020 movie predictions

Hello, movie predictions, my old friend. The last time we did this, in the bygone days of March 2020, we were looking forward to movies like The Hunt and The Quiet Place Part II and wondering how Mulan would do…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Aug 17, 2020

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 4 of 6)

Last time: Conan fought a dude wearing an ugly rubber mask and smashed a bunch of mirrors to defeat him. He turned back into Thoth Amon and he chose wizardcide rather than be captured. The princess retrieved the hot rock…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Aug 10, 2020

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 3 of 6)

Last time: Conan and company began their quest, picking up new members Zula (okay, I’m calling Grace Jones by her character name now) and Mako (still calling him Mako). But the team hit a snag when the sorcerer Thoth Amon…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Aug 3, 2020

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 2 of 6)

Last time: Conan and (sigh) Malak, professional thieves, were tracked down by Queen Taramis, who had a job for the former and pretty much pretended the other didn’t exist. If Conan undertakes the quest to bring her niece…

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· by Thomas Stockel · Jul 27, 2020

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 1 of 6)

It’s safe to say that Conan the Barbarian was and is one of my favorite movies from my youth. Arnold seemed like a larger than life demi-god with that inhuman physique of his, the action was the most violent I…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jul 16, 2020

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

A sheriff in a small town pulls up to a diner and finds several bloodied and battered men sprawled across the grass out front. Entering the diner, he learns their assailant Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise) is sitting calmly at the…

Category: Movies

The Beastmaster (1982), a recap (part 1 of 6)

Movie Duel: The Illusionist vs. The Prestige

Sir Sean Connery’s best (non-James Bond) work

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 6 of 6)

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 5 of 6)

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 4 of 6)

The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movies, ranked

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 3 of 6)

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 2 of 6)

Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe films (part 2 of 2)

Battle Beyond the Stars (1980), a recap (part 1 of 6)

Roger Corman’s Edgar Allan Poe films (part 1 of 2)

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 6 of 6)

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 5 of 6)

Hit or Bomb? Late-August/September 2020 movie predictions

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 4 of 6)

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 3 of 6)

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 2 of 6)

Conan the Destroyer (1984), a recap (part 1 of 6)

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back (2016)

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