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You Can’t Do That On Television (1979-1990): Gone But Not Forgotten

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Chris Everyone always associates the kids’ TV channel Nickelodeon with slime, but do you know how the association began? In fact, slime was a trademark of their first big hit show, You Can’t Do That On Television, a low-budget Canadian...

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Angel Heart (1987) – WTF Happened to This Horror Movie?

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Cody A new episode of our video series WTF Happened to This Horror Movie? has arrived online, and in this one we’re taking a look back at the 1987 film Angel Heart (watch it HERE), starring Mickey Rourke, Robert De...

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Total Recall (1990) vs Total Recall (2012): Original vs Remake

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Chris In 1990, Arnold Schwarzenegger took a hyper-violent hallucinatory head trip to Mars with the sci-fi action blockbuster Total Recall, directed by Paul Verhoeven. It became an instant classic, and one of Arnie’s biggest hits. More than two decades later,...

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Casting Marvel’s X-Men for the MCU

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The introduction of mutants to the Marvel Cinematic Universe is just around the corner, so it’s time to start casting the X-Men for the MCU. Now that Disney firmly owns 20th Century Fox – including their longstanding stranglehold over the...

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Awesome Art We’ve Found Around The Net: Citizen Kane, Ex Machina, The Mummy, Underworld

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Theodore Some cliche somewhere said that ‘a picture is worth a thousand words.’ This has proven to be the case for me and especially when it comes to fan art. I have always sought out great fan art and have...

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WTF Happened to Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World (2010)?

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Chris Scott Pilgrim vs the World was supposed to be a mega-hit. Director Edgar Wright’s adaptation of the cult graphic novel series by Bryan Lee O’Malley the film starred the up-and-coming (at the time) Michael Cera as the titular character....

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Skunk Ape Safari Part 2 – Cryptid Campfire Video Podcast

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Cody Last week, we shared an episode of the Cryptid Campfire video podcast in which the hosts started a conversation about Sasquatch’s smelly cousin, The Skunk Ape. That was just the first half of the conversation, and now the Skunk Ape...

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Trick or Treat (1986) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

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Cody The 1980s. MTV ruled the airwaves, bringing a steady stream of music into the homes of impressionable young viewers, and a lot of parents were freaking out. Satanic panic was at its peak, with some fearing that the so-called...

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Time Bandits (1981) Revisited – Fantasy Movie Review

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Chris Fantasy can be an escape for many of us when it comes to the movies.  It’s a genre that’s wide open to all sorts of ideas and imagination.  That’s really what the genre is all about actually, imagination and...

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Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

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Cody Director Joe Dante’s 1984 film Gremlins (watch it HERE) was one of the most popular movies of the ’80s and remains a beloved classic to this day. But six years later, Dante was given full rein to make Gremlins...

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