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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Oct 30, 2019

Hit or Bomb? November 2019 movie predictions

It’s almost November, that time of year reserved for films that are a bit too small-scale to qualify as summer blockbusters, but not good enough for the big holiday and awards season. Here to judge the box office potential of…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Sep 4, 2019

Hit or Bomb? September 2019 movie predictions

September is typically when the prime moviegoing audience is too busy heading back to school to head to the theater, and the studios schedule their major releases accordingly. This year, it’s all about a killer klown… and not much else.…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Apr 3, 2019

Hit or Bomb? April 2019 movie predictions

So, anybody heard anything good about any upcoming movies lately? The word on the street is that there’s some kind of superhero thing coming out at the end of this month. Ah, who are we kidding? The next Avengers movie…

Movie Review / Movies / Text

· by Rob Kirchgassner · Apr 2, 2019

Pet Sematary (1989)

Because a new film version of Stephen King’s classic 1983 book Pet Sematary is due in cinemas in a few days, I decided to take a look at the film version, which hit theaters in 1989. There were already numerous…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Aug 31, 2017

Hit or Bomb? September 2017 movie predictions

September’s here and school is back in session, meaning it’s the time of the year that the studios usually reserve for more mature, adult-oriented films. Which sounds great in theory after a summer full of comic book movies and CGI…

Movie Review / Movies / Text

· by Thomas Ricard · Aug 23, 2017

Movies that Predicted Trump: The Running Man (1987)

The year is 2017 and everything has pretty much gone down the crapper: the world economy is in tatters, food and oil are in ever-decreasing supply, and the United States of America, once a shining beacon of freedom to the…

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· by Rick Lewis · Aug 3, 2017

Why calling the Dark Tower movie a “sequel” to the books is meaningless (and brilliant)

Fear not. All of this “sequel” hype has nothing to do with you or your movie-watching experience.

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jul 31, 2017

Hit or Bomb? August 2017 movie predictions

August is upon us, which means it’s time to find out which movies had the great misfortune of being dumped in a month where the prime moviegoing audience is preoccupied with vacations and going back to school. But could there…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Jul 10, 2017

Stephen King's It (1990)

With a new cinematic version of Stephen King’s 1986 novel It due to hit theaters in September, I thought I’d take a look at the previous adaptation of that classic novel: a miniseries which aired on ABC in the fall…

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· by Marion Stein · Feb 20, 2017

Castle Rock: Stephen King and JJ Abrams team up for scary new Hulu series

Castle Rock, Steven King’s fictional any-small town in Maine, which has more crazy supernatural events than Jessica Fletcher’s Cabot Cove has murders, will soon be coming to your digital screen as a Hulu series. How soon? Unfortunately, that’s still top…

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· by Tyler Peterson · Jan 3, 2017

Movies that Predicted Trump: The Dead Zone (1983)

Even if I could joke, the chilling Cold War nuclear specter evoked by The Dead Zone has put me off it for now. I find it hard to be jocular while thinking about the fact that in several weeks, an irascible simpleton will have control over the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet.

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· by David Rose · Dec 13, 2016

VIDEO: Stephen King's It (1990)

Thirty years ago, horror master Stephen King created one of pop culture’s scariest clowns in his terrifying 1986 novel It, and in this episode, David revisits the original 1990 made-for-TV miniseries that has since become a cult classic, and briefly discusses the development of the brand new remake coming in 2017.