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The Blood Stream mines the Internet for horror gold so you don’t have to, delivering streamable horror titles never before featured on Dread Central. Occasionally I’ll dredge up something good, maybe even great. To find those gems, I’ll have to sift through a lot of breathtakingly bad cinema. Enjoy!

Beneath Loch Ness has all the trappings of a Syfy original movie, though as far as I can tell that’s not how it came into existence. It has a plot built from half-assed homage and blatant rip-offs, obviously fake “location” settings, a Princess Bride synth score, and a list of B-movie has-beens longer than Nessie’s tail.

The framework here is basically a knock off of Jaws (of course it is), complete with a dopey local official who opposes preventing further deaths because it’s tourist season. The big difference is in this one, the incident that...

It’s been 25 years since the critically-acclaimed Vietnam war drama China Beach aired. In honor of this milestone, The Paley Center for Media hosted a reunion of the show’s stars and creator, “Reflections: China Beach 25 Years Later.” The event coincided with the upcoming release of Season 1 on dvd, available September 30th. For the first time, people will be able to purchase individual seasons and a new generation can fall in love with straight-laced nurse Colleen McMurphy (Dana Delany), saucy entrepreneur/prostitute K.C. (Marg Helgenberger), the roguish Dr. Richard (Robert Picardo), and the ultra charming Cpl. Boonie Lanier (Brian Wimmer). theTVaddict talked to stars Helgenberger, Picardo, and Wimmer, as well as Chloe Webb and Troy Evans about their feelings on coming back together to celebrate the show’s anniversary.

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Harold And Maude (Criterion) Hal Ashby’s masterpiece of black humor centers on a wealthy young man (Bud Cort) who’s obsessed with death and the septuagenarian (Ruth Gordon) with whom he finds true love. As unabashedly romantic as it is quirky, with Cat Stevens supplying one of the great film scores of all-time. Fine support from Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, and Ellen Geer. Fine screenplay by Colin Higgins. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Commentary by Hal Ashby biographer Nick Dawson, producer Charles Mulvehill; Illustrated audio excerpts from seminars by Ashby and Higgins; Interview with Cat Stevens. Widescreen. Dolby 2.0 stereo.

In Darkness (Sony) Agnieszka Holland’s Ww II epic tells the true story of a sewer worker and petty thief in Nazi-occupied Poland who single-handedly helped hide a group of Jews in the city’s labyrinthine sewer system for the duration of the war.

While many know me for my Heathers obsession, few know how it came to be -- that it wasn't just my blind following of all things Christian Slater. I was led to the darkly comic and wonderful movie by a short pre-film trailer on another vhs -- Under the Boardwalk. Ever see it?

It was a wonderfully terrible and immensely lovable (to me) film that means all things summer and youthful to my reminiscing heart. It's the story of two rival surfers, and how the artsy sister of the one (Danielle von Zerneck as Allie) falls for his super-cute rival (Richard Joseph Paul). Brian Wimmer played a fellow surfer dude, and there was a silly side story with Keith Coogan as the straight-laced cousin who comes to visit and falls for Gitch, Roxana Zal's "half girl, half bitch." I had enough sense to know it wasn't a great movie,...

Over 130 stars have weighed in on the SAG strike authorization, coming out firmly against. Citing the economy, the A-listers “strongly” urged SAG members not to authorize a strike, and instead “take the high road … unite with our brothers and sisters in the entertainment community and … three years down the line … make a great deal” when all the union contracts expire roughly simultaneously.

Finally, we’re hearing from the A-listers, and it may be enough to pull SAG back from the brink. Meanwhile SAG Board members in NY and Chicago came out against the authorization over the weekend.

In addition, SAG President Alan Rosenberg was forced to cancel the emergency in-person National Board meeting he had scheduled for this Friday, after SAG activists pointed out in the strongest terms that Rosenberg had no right under the SAG constitution or state law to require that the meeting be in person, rather than by videoconference.