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Sundance Film Festival 2012 Preview!

Posted 15 years ago

It’s that time again! Once again, I`m packing my bags, dusting off my passport (I`m Canadian) hopping a plane and heading off to Park City, Utah for that ten-day orgy of independent and world cinema known as the Sundance Film...

HORROR TEN SPOT: Best Found-Footage/Shockumentary Horror Films

Posted 15 years ago

Though taking a critical drubbing, William Brent Bell’s found-footage exorcism film THE DEVIL INSIDE culled an astounding $34.5 million in its first week domestic take. Craziness. What this proves, at least in part, is that the shaky-cam, “found-footage” technical subgenre...

The Ten Spot: The 10 Best Hiding Spots in Movies

Posted 15 years ago

To try and figure out how to approach this column I just imagined the entire film database playing a game of hide and go seek. Who would win? There’s a million different scenes/scenarios I could have used but this was...

Awfully Good: Breaker! Breaker!

Posted 15 years ago

Jason Our own departing Mike Sampson requested this gem and what better way to go out than on the muscular shoulders of Chuck Norris. Breaker! Breaker! (1977) Director: Don Hulette Stars: Chuck Norris, Terry O’Connor, Fists Is there a plot?...

2012 Summit Entertainment Movie Preview!

Posted 15 years ago

The 2012 movie studio previews are taking a little longer than usual to come in this year, but you already saw our WARNER BROS PREVIEW last week, so today comes the 2012 preview from the “studio that Twilight built”, featuring...

C’mon Hollywood: C’mon Oscars! Grow a pair!

Posted 15 years ago

Chris And so, Oscar time is once again on the approach. The Golden Globes are only a week and a half away, and already, the front-runners for the Oscar nominations seem locked and loaded. George Clooney (for THE DESCENDANTS), Jean...

Our Most Anticipated Films of 2012!

Posted 15 years ago

In preparation for writing this list, I looked back at last year’s list of the movies I was looking forward to in 2011. I’m a little embarrassed. Two of the films on that list – PAUL and YOUR HIGHNESS –...

Arrow in the Head’s 2012 Theatrical Genre Movie preview!

Posted 15 years ago

The 2011 movie season is now behind us. The New Year hangovers have subsided. Welcome to 2012 mothertruckers! Here’s a peak at the genre films that are in store for us in theaters this year. All I could think of...

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Awfully Good: No Retreat, No Surrender

Posted 15 years ago

Jason No Retreat, No Surrender (1986) Director: Corey Yuen Stars: Kurt McKinney, J.W. Fails, Jean-Claude Van Damme Is there a plot? After his dad runs away from the mob like a galloping sissy, a young aspiring martial artist is trained...

HORROR TEN SPOT: My Favorite Genre Hotties of 2011

Posted 15 years ago

As 2011 winds to a close, I know you’ve been inundated with all kinds of year-end lists and best-of compilations. Well, I suppose this one is not all that different. But instead of celebrating my favorite films of the year,...

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