Posted in The Reel World by Brent Lorentson on October 7th, 2023
It’s October, so that means all the studios and streaming services are going to be unleashing some spooky new releases to please their viewers who are attempting to get into the Halloween spirit. This weekend Amazon Prime is releasing Totally Killer, a Blumhouse production that continues to ride the wave of 80s nostalgia with a […]
Posted in No Huddle Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 5th, 2023
“Here comes Gordy.” In the 1950’s Gordon McLendon owned a series of radio stations throughout Texas along with a string of drive-in movie locations. Those drive-ins needed films to draw crowds, and Gordy wasn’t happy with the cost of some of the distribution deals that came to him. So he decided to team up with […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on October 2nd, 2023
“Have you ever heard of exorcism? It’s a stylized ritual in which rabbis or priests try to drive out the so-called invading spirit. It’s pretty much discarded these days, except by the Catholics who keep it in the closet as a sort of embarrassment. It has worked, in fact, although not for the reason they […]
Posted in The Reel World by Michael Durr on September 30th, 2023
The first Paw Patrol movie opened up in August of 2021 during the pandemic era where barely anyone wanted to go anywhere that wasn’t a grocery store (because somehow that was safe). It still managed to pull in forty million domestic and another hundred million internationally. With the built in audience from the television series, […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on September 21st, 2023
“You mean to say you don’t miss this?” Season 20 brings us to several milestones in the NCIS run. It has now become the longest running procedural in CBS history. It lags behind only the Law & Order franchise in sheer number of episodes. This season gets us to and beyond the 450th. This is […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on September 19th, 2023
“Space … the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission, to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no one has gone before.” Nearly 20 years after the original Star Trek left the network airwaves, Gene Roddenberry set out to discover whether […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Michael Durr on September 2nd, 2023
I probably could be called a lot of things, some kind and some not so kind. But the one thing that probably most people would say about me is that I’m loyal. Loyal to my job, loyal to my wife, loyal to my son. However, in my life, I have certainly felt the pain of […]
Posted in No Huddle by Brent Lorentson on September 2nd, 2023
Steve McQueen is one of those actors who will always be an icon of the silver screen and an actor who just personifies cool. The Getaway (1972) is easily my favorite film of McQueen’s. He has several other films one could argue that are “better”, but for me it will always be the Sam Peckinpah […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Michael Durr on August 29th, 2023
Typically, I avoid World War II period films like the plague. I literally see the word Nazi or German occupation and usually find a reason not to see the movie. I have nothing against the pictures; the problem is that so many of these films are surrounded in clichés that it feels like an old […]
Posted in No Huddle by Brent Lorentson on August 25th, 2023
Fritz Lang is an iconic Hollywood director who was successful in the silent era and was able to transition and be successful into the “talkie” era. His work in Germany is what he is most known for, Metropolis (1927) and M (1931) but in 1934 he fled Nazi Germany, even after being offered to be […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on August 24th, 2023
Anna May Wong might be one of Hollywood’s biggest stars that most film fans have never heard of. Thanks to KL Studio Classics, you now have the opportunity to get to know the actress a little better and sample three of her films. For those of you who take the time to add this to […]
Posted in The Reel World by Gino Sassani on August 19th, 2023
“Batman’s a fascist!” Let’s address the elephant in the room, shall we? Hello there, big guy. How ya doing? There now let’s continue. I have to tell you it was hard to get motivated to watch Blue Beetle. I didn’t want to like it, and I wanted to try to watch it without letting myself […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on August 18th, 2023
“It’s always open season on princesses.” Roman Holiday is one of those classic films that had an extremely hard time getting made. Frank Capra had the rights to the story for several years. Most of what he had was based on a screenplay by Dalton Trumbo, but that was extremely problematic, as Trumbo was one […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Jeremy Butler on August 18th, 2023
“Most ghost stories have some basis in truth.” Essentially an amalgamation of tropes from previous beloved horror films. Like if you took those films and put them into a blender. There are elements of Candyman; I don’t just mean because of Tony Todd’s involvement. Additionally, there were elements of Halloween, with an uncompromising killer wielding […]
Posted in The Reel World by Brent Lorentson on August 11th, 2023
“Where the hell did you come from?” When you consider just how many films have been made about Bram Stoker’s novel “Dracula”, I’m surprised it has taken this long to get a film like The Last Voyage of the Demeter. I’m not a huge fan of the novel, but the chapter that centers around Dracula’s […]
Posted in No Huddle by Jeremy Butler on August 11th, 2023
“Never accept death when suffering is owed.” So I think it safe to say that when it comes to the Fast and Furious franchise, it is no longer about cars or street racing any more. In the beginning it felt like we were getting a window into a secret underground world that spanned multiple continents. […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on August 11th, 2023
“In the 1940’s, a new genre – film noir – emerged from the world of hard-boiled pulp magazines, paperback thrillers, and sensational crime movies. These films, tough and unsentimental, depicted a black and white universe at once brutal, erotic, and morally ambiguous.” Film Noir officially started in the 40’s, but the movement was well underway […]
Posted in No Huddle by Gino Sassani on August 4th, 2023
“I cannot – yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do “must” and “cannot” meet? Yet I must – but I cannot!” Often it seems some films were made to collect a mantle-full of awards. For some it’s the Oscars they covet. For others it might be a […]
Posted in No Huddle by Brent Lorentson on August 3rd, 2023
In 2017 What the Waters Left Behind made some waves as a horror film that came out of Argentina. It was shot on a pretty low budget, but it seems it was successful enough to warrant a sequel. I actually stumbled across What the Waters Left Behind on a streaming service one late night when […]
Posted in The Reel World by Brent Lorentson on July 21st, 2023
“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” It is hard to ignore the hype around the film Oppenheimer. Any time a Christopher Nolan film has come out, it has become a pretty big deal for cinema fans, whether it was for his The Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar, Inception, or Tenet, his films carry […]
Posted in No Huddle by Jeremy Butler on July 12th, 2023
I was expecting a stereotypical action movie chock full of cheesy one-liners. Not quite what I got. There were one or two cheesy one-liners, such as “cleanup on aisle 3.” However, for the most part, I’d say Stone Cold holds its own in the entertainment category. Serving as the acting debut for former NFL linebacker […]
Posted in No Huddle by Jeremy Butler on July 8th, 2023
“Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!” That is all that was heard when George Foreman won his first heavyweight championship. He entered that match an underdog despite his superior size and reach, and he shocked the world when he knocked the then-undefeated Frazier down six times on his way to TKO victory. However, that is […]
Posted in The Reel World by Gino Sassani on June 29th, 2023
“I miss the desert. I miss the sea. I miss waking up every morning wondering what wonderful adventure the new day will bring to us.” Who said Nazis aren’t a lot of fun? Hogan’s Heroes turned them into comic foils. When it comes to Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones, it seems there’s no one we […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Brent Lorentson on June 29th, 2023
Back in 2013 the remake for Evil Dead came out. I enjoyed the film, but it just didn’t feel right not having Bruce Campbell on the screen fighting off the deadites in that crazy cabin in the middle of the woods. But I could still appreciate the gore, and I felt the filmmakers did a […]
Posted in Disc Reviews by Gino Sassani on June 29th, 2023
“All right, men, now here’s the play we’re gonna use. I don’t think the guards know this formation. It’s called ‘incidental punishment after the ball is blown dead.’ Remember, any man you tackle gets an elbow, knee, or kick in the mouth.” In 1972 Albert S. Ruddy made motion picture history. He went from the […]
