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Evelyn Jackson
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What do mutant snakes, diamond smugglers, and bikini-clad undercover agents have in common? Find out in Hard Ticket to Hawaii.
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Patrick Karl Curley
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From pulp paperback mystery/thrillers to 70s cinema classics, witness the rise of the great giallo.
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If you’re looking for an underrated horror movie to watch this Halloween season and don’t know where to start, check out one of these titles.
When Corky and Violet fell in love, they never thought they’d tackle the mob. Will their hairbrained scheme succeed? Bound is a 90s classic.
I grew up watching movies any way I could find them—during the VHS boom on as well as on TV. There used to be so many movies on TV. And […]
In 1993, Paul Verhoeven and Joe Eszterhas were not friends. While their 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct, had been a modest success, the director and writer clashed before filming had […]
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By 1971, American revisionist westerns and their Italian equivalents had pushed the boundaries of cinematic violence and nihilism to previously unheard of limits. Anyone looking to market their movie as […]
This article includes major spoilers for The Hunt. There is something important going on at the center of The Hunt. You probably noticed it, even though it’s not really highlighted […]
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With the forty-fourth Scooby-Doo feature film, SCOOB!, now available on demand, and so many of us finding ourselves with so much time on our hands these days, I figured what […]
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There was a time not long ago when Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS and its sequels enjoyed a sizable cult following among hardcore fans of sicko sexploitation. But their […]