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The Challenge: Why This Lost ’80s Action Banger Is The Best Movie You Never Saw

Posted 5 months ago

A forgotten early ’80s action gem, The Challenge (1982) stars Scott Glenn and Toshiro Mifune in a gritty, Japan-set martial-arts thriller from director John Frankenheimer.

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The Ben Affleck Christmas actioner, Reindeer Games, will get a new 4K Blu-ray release just after the holidays

Posted 1 year ago

The movie that hoped to be a new Die Hard-esque Christmas action hit gets a new physical media release from Kino Lorber.

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The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) Revisited – Horror Movie Review

Posted 2 years ago

The Black Sheep series looks back at the 1996 version of The Island of Dr. Moreau, the result of a very troubled production

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Ronin: Celebrate Robert De Niro’s 80th birthday with a classic!

Posted 3 years ago

Chris Robert De Niro is 80 years old, and what better way to celebrate his birthday than with a look back at one of his most underrated classics: Ronin. John Frankenheimer’s career seemed to reach its nadir when he directed...

The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996) – WTF Happened to This Horror Movie?!

Posted 5 years ago

A new episode of our video series WTF Happened to this Horror Movie?! has been released – check it out in the embed above! – and this time we're digging into one of the most fascinating "doomed productions" ever, the...

Moreau: H.G. Wells classic to become series from Gunpowder & Sky

Posted 5 years ago

I hope you're up for taking an island vacation in the near future because Gunpowder & Sky's sci-fi label, DUST, just announced that they're developing Moreau, a twisted TV series that puts a modern spin on the classic novel, The...

Michael Lonsdale, Moonraker villain Hugo Drax, passes away at 89

Posted 6 years ago

Paris-born actor Michael Lonsdale, who starred as the villain Hugo Drax in the James Bond film Moonraker and appeared in a variety of foreign-language features has passed away at 89. Word of his death was shared by his agent, Olivier Loiseau, who...

Awfully Good: The Island of Dr. Moreau

Posted 6 years ago

I was tempted to do a column on the historic badness of CATS, but I feel enough has been written about that abomination. Instead, let’s look at another cinematic disaster featuring terrifying animal-human hybrids…   The Island of Dr. Moreau...

Fired Island of Dr. Moreau director might get a chance to direct a reboot

Posted 9 years ago

1996's would-be blockbuster ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU is notorious as one of the most troubled productions in history. The first director, Richard Stanley, was fired just a few days into production (after over four years in pre-production) and replaced by...

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