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I'm addicted to movies
What will the world look like in a year? What will my world look like? I honestly can’t answer those questions right now - there is just...
Robert Saucedo
Aug 19, 20208 min read
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HALLOWEEN III is the perfect gateway horror film for kids
Few horror movies that intentionally set out to become a franchise succeed in their objective. Rather than spawn a series of sequels,...
Robert Saucedo
Aug 16, 20206 min read
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The perfect Superman movie
For the last few months, I have been reading my way through the earliest appearances of Superman, in chronological order. These stories,...
Robert Saucedo
Aug 14, 20204 min read
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HEATHERS is big fun
I continue to use the quarantine to fill in some gaps in my movie watching. Tonight's film was HEATHERS (1988). Watching this film is...
Robert Saucedo
Aug 13, 20201 min read
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Somebody needs to make a movie about the making of GRIZZLY II
I can't believe I'm saying this but somebody needs to make a movie about the making of GRIZZLY II. There are few finer killer bear movies...
Robert Saucedo
Aug 13, 20202 min read
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The MCU needs its own MARVELS
Marvel Studios has released some of the biggest films of the last decade - both in terms of box office and cultural impact. Through a...
Robert Saucedo
Aug 11, 20206 min read
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Collecting is a curse
I think I've always been a collector. At least as far back as I can reliably remember. When I was a kid I'd collect books or comics or...
Robert Saucedo
Aug 6, 20206 min read
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The future of theatrical exhibition
Disney made a splash in the world of the theatrical exhibition yesterday by announcing they were sending MULAN to their Disney+ platform...
Robert Saucedo
Aug 5, 20204 min read
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SUPER MARIO BROS. is a good movie, dammit!
JURASSIC PARK landed in the middle of the summer of 1993 and, like a T-Rex doing a cannonball into a swimming pool, left a wake that...
Robert Saucedo
Aug 4, 20204 min read
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That time Marvel's TOMB OF DRACULA series was turned into an anime
Once upon a time, readers could buy comics with titles like TALES FROM THE CRYPT, VAULT OF HORROR and THE HAUNT OF FEAR. These lurid...
Robert Saucedo
Aug 3, 20205 min read
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END OF DAYS - The best New Year's Eve horror film, period
1999 was a scary time. There was uncertainty in the streets as people prepared for an impending Y2K bug that promised to wipe out the...
Robert Saucedo
Aug 2, 20203 min read
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STEP UP REVOLUTION - Just like THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, but better
STEP UP REVOLUTION shares a surprising number of themes and plot points with THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, Christopher Nolan’s Batman film. In...
Robert Saucedo
Jul 26, 20205 min read
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How is ARENA not a bigger cult film?
Produced and released at the tail end of Charles Band's Empire Pictures, ARENA is directed by Peter Manoogian (ELIMINATORS) and written...
Robert Saucedo
Jul 25, 20202 min read
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Cloak and Dagger and the perils of imaginary friends
In a lot of ways, loving a bad movie is a lot like having an imaginary friend. Fans of SURF NINJAS MUST DIE who attempt to describe the...
Robert Saucedo
Jul 24, 20203 min read
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Bad Moon - The best werewolf movie of the '90s
Werewolf movie fans are a jealous lot. While we sit and watch good to great films being made every year about vampires, ghosts, ghouls,...
Robert Saucedo
Jul 23, 20204 min read
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Teenage Seductress (1975) - Review
Terry Nelson arrives in Taos, New Mexico with an agenda - she's looking for author Preston King. She spends the first few hours in town...
Robert Saucedo
Jun 4, 20202 min read
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Ablaze (2000) - Movie Review
Here is how ABLAZE (2000) is described on the back of its DVD packaging: A deadly arsonist holds a city hostage. A routine investigation...
Robert Saucedo
Jun 3, 20203 min read
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