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Zack Snyder’s Watchmen: revisiting the controversial adaptation

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Chris Dark and dystopic superhero films have come and gone throughout the years–some with more edge, like Logan, and some with a little more humor, like Super. Yet they all owe a little bit to the famous graphic novel which...

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John Carpenter’s Vampires (1998) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

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Cody A new episode of our The Black Sheep video series was just released through the JoBlo Horror Originals YouTube channel, and with this one we’re looking back at director John Carpenter‘s 1998 film Vampires (watch it HERE). A movie...

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Planes, Trains and Automobiles: John Hughes Revisited

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Steve Pack your bags, hold onto your designer shower curtain rings, and don’t forget your passport because we’re about to travel back to 1987 for a look back on John Hughes‘ Planes, Trains and Automobiles. This legendary and heartfelt comedy stars...

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WTF Happened to Pitch Black?

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Chris Back in 2000, Vin Diesel was mostly unknown. Sure, he had an excellent role in Saving Private Ryan as the kindhearted but doomed soldier pinned down by sniper fire, but otherwise, he was pretty obscure. That changed when Pitch...

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Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) – Awfully Good Horror Movies

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Cody It’s time for a new episode of the Awfully Good Horror Movies video series, and with this one we’re looking back at the 1985 horror comedy Transylvania 6-5000 (watch it HERE). To find out why we consider Transylvania 6-5000...

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Legend: Tom Cruise’s epic fantasy revisited

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Chris 1986 was a big year for Tom Cruise, with Tony Scott’s Top Gun cementing his status as the era’s biggest star. Yet, earlier that year, Universal released a delayed Tom Cruise epic that actually carried a heftier price tag...

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Fade to Black (1980) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

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Cody It’s time for a new episode of the Best Horror Movie You Never Saw video series, and in this one we’re looking back at a movie that originally reached theatres just in time for Halloween in 1980. That movie...

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Ford v Ferrari: WTF Really Happened to this Movie?

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Chris Ford v Ferrari was a surprise hit in the fall of 2019. At the time, many assumed that big-budget, adult-skewing dramas were bound to underperform, but James Mangold’s film rode a way of outstanding reviews and good buzz to...

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Scream 2 original script – WTF Happened to This Unmade Horror Movie

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Cody Released just before Christmas 1996, the Wes Craven slasher Scream was a surprisingly big hit, and Dimension Films wanted to cash in on it right away. They rushed a sequel into production for a December 1997 release, with Craven...

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Casino Royale (2006) vs. Skyfall (2012) – Face Off

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Cody Now that Daniel Craig’s rough and rugged 007 has — SPOILER ALERT! — been blown to smithereens by his own rockets, attention has turned to see how EON Productions and Sony can reinvent the character again, and more importantly,...

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