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It’s time for a new episode of the Real Slashers video series, and with this one we’re taking another look at one of my personal favorites, director Scott Spiegel’s 1989 film Intruder (pick up a copy of the unrated Blu-ray Here). I previously covered this movie with an episode of Best Horror Movie You Never Saw and Emilie Black wrote about it for Wtf Happened to This Horror Movie. Now it’s Tyler Nichols’ turn to dig into it, and you can find out what he had to say about Intruder by watching the video embedded above.

Scripted by Spiegel (who wrote Evil Dead II with Sam Raimi) from a story he crafted with producer Lawrence Bender, Intruder has the following synopsis: It’s 10 pm and the employees of Michigan’s Walnut Lake Supermarket are in for a really bad night. The place is shutting its doors for good,...

A 4K Steelbook! Haven’t seen this show lately, and discovered that it holds up remarkably well. Mr. Qt’s sophomore outing made an indelible mark on American movies — the darling of hipster crime filmmaking dazzled viewers with showcase set-piece scenes, entertainingly profane dialogue and ultra-hip inside-out time-shuffling narrative tricks. Add to that genuine star turns, especially Uma Thurman and John Travolta’s iconic dance scene. It’s old-fashioned movie-going in an avant-garde pattern, with raw violence and even rougher language. The stars include Samuel L. Jackson, Harvy Keitel, Ving Rhames, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer and Bruce Willis.

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1994 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 154 min. / Street Date December 6, 2022 / Available from Amazon / 30.99

Starring: Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Frank Whaley, Bruce Willis, Ving Rhames, Rosanna Arquette, Eric Stoltz, Uma Thurman, Steve Buscemi, Emil Sitka, Christopher Walken, Maria de Medeiros,...

Chicago – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on Wbgr-fm on February 25th, 2021, reviewing the 1970 film “Watermelon Man,” currently streaming on Amazon Prime Video.

Rating: 4.0/5.0

An historic black cinematic curiosity from 1970, “Watermelon Man” features an almost forgotten stand up comic and actor from the 1960s named Godfrey Cambridge. Cambridge portrays Jeff, who begins the movie as a white man, and the one morning wakes up and he’s a black man. This transition is at first frightening for him, but after going through the stages of denial, anger, depression, etc., he accepts the man he his by making it personal. With Oscar-winner Estelle Parsons as Jeff’s wife.

“Watermelon Man” is is streaming on Amazon Prime Video. Featuring Godfrey Cambridge, Estelle Parsons, Howard Kaine, Kay Kimberly and Emil Sitka Written by Herman Raucher. Directed by Melvin Van Peebles. Rated “R”

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The new Three Stooges movie that opened this weekend was in the works for the better part of a decade, and went through many casting changes. What’s more, it wasn’t the first time someone thought of reviving the Stooges on the big screen with new actors taking the place of the original comics. (I’m not even thinking about the time when Moe and Larry were still alive and planned to recruit longtime supporting player Emil Sitka as their “third stooge.”) In going through my files I came upon this 1984 press release from Columbia Pictures, longtime home of the comedy trio, proudly announcing the launch of a James Bond parody intended to feature the Stooges. This...

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