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The Kidnapping of the President. Pretty shitty movie from 1980 starring William Shatner and Hal Holbrook...Just a silly storyline that doesn't amount to anything...Lots of dumb plot holes...

Deathrow Gameshow. The second feature on the disc that includes the movie above. This is horrible. Obviously the filmmaker responsible thought he was making a very clever comedy...Unfortunately, he was wrong. This is just a shitty movie. Has the odd interesting idea, and maybe a better filmmaker could've made more of the material, but this one is just bad. Like, offensively bad. Like, you want to find the filmmaker and punch him in the face for making it. That's how bad this one is. Atrocious. Don't watch this. It'll be a waste of 90 minutes or so. I wish I could go back in time and never had watched this...Or have my brain zapped and the memory of this movie erased...It's that bad...And I love the odd "so bad it's good movie", but this is NOT that...

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Watched Supernova (2005 miniseries) this evening.

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Watched Final Days of Planet Earth this evening.

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Def-Con 4: Defense Control. Part of double-feature DVD with Hell Comes to Frogtown (haven't watched that one yet), this was surprisingly decent. Maury Chaykin was good in this...Has it's corny moments, but overall it was an okay way to spend 90 minutes...

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Forever Mine. Fantastic Paul Schrader movie. Can't believe I put off watching this for years. I thought it would be a cheesy romance movie but it's was more than that. Just fantastic. Ray Liotta, Gretchen Mol, and Joseph Fiennes are all great in this...Highly recommended...And the DVD actually looks pretty decent, all things considered...Although I'd love to see a Blu-Ray upgrade released by some company like Kino Lorber...Wow...Just a solid, solid movie...

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Watched Virus this evening.

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Watched Epoch this evening.

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Watched The Rock (Criterion Collection) this evening, followed by an episode of The 100 (S1): His Sister's Keeper.

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The Fan. Excellent and underrated movie by Tony Scott starring Robert De Niro and Wesley Snipes (also has a neat little early role for Benicio Del Toro)...I love this movie. De Niro plays the obsessive fan and Snipes plays the All-Star baseball player playing for the San Francisco Giants. Great soundtrack (lots of Rolling Stones songs) and lots of great shots of San Fran. The only downside is that the DVD is only full-screen. I really wish someone would release this on Blu-Ray, as I've never been able to see the widescreen version. One of my favorite Tony Scott movies, right up there with True Romance and Crimson Tide...

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Watched Crimson Peak this evening, followed by 2 episodes of The 100 (S1): Contents Under Pressure and Day Trip.

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Surf Ninjas (1993)

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Boss. Don't want to spell out the full title, as it's offensive, but it's a blaxploitation movie written by and starring Fred Williamson. First off, the DVD looks awful (I think it's a Kit-Parker/VCI release). Looks like a VHS. Williamson, as usual, is awesome, but overall the movie is pretty weak. I especially didn't care for his sidekick, who I believe I saw in a couple other movies with Williamson. I love Fred Williamson, but this was a let-down...I originally learned of this movie from one of the 42nd Street Forever DVDs that consisted of nothing but movie trailers...If you've seen the trailer, you've basically seen the movie...If you want to see a kick-ass grindhouse movie starring Williamson, check out the original Inglorious Bastards...That was a good movie...(I also love Williamson's small part in From Dusk Till Dawn...I'd love to see Tarantino use him in another movie...

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Damn, I haven't seen that in years and years. I loved that movie when I was a kid...Would love to see a Blu-Ray release...

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Watched 10,000 BC this evening, followed by an episode of The 100 (S1): Unity Day.

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Watched Race to Witch Mountain this evening, followed by an episode of The 100 (S1): I Am Become Death.

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Watched Star Trek (2009, from the 2-Disc Digital Copy Special Edition) this evening.

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Watched the Star Trek: Into Darkness DVD from my BD/DVD combo this evening because the volume!

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Watched Frogs this evening, followed by the 1st episode of First Wave (S1): Subject 117.

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Watched the Star Trek Beyond DVD from my BD/DVD steelbook combo this evening because the volume! Followed it with an episode of First Wave (S1): Hypnotic.

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The new n. Gorgeous! One of my all-time favorite horror movies. The documentary about the true story was interesting too.

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Watched The Seeker this evening, followed by 2 episodes of First Wave (S1): Elixir and Speaking in Tongues.

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One of my all-time favorite horror movies. It's very nice on BR though the "vaseline on the lens" effect throughout the movie is sort of irritating. The special features were just meh. 3 interviews with very old people who were involved, one of whom, the chauffeur, rambled on nearly incoherently. I would have preferred to see a short doc about the movie with some film critics or more BTS footage or something. Overall quite a good BR though.

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I'd never seen this before. HUGELY IMPRESSED. It reminded me of a Hitchcock film but I loved the bright candy colors and the over the top gorgeous women and stage dressing. The BR presentation was amazing. Highly recommend!

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Blood and BlacK Lace made me want to watch a lot more giallos. Most of them I haven't seen. So I found some lists on the web of recommended giallos. I loved this one. The mystery is set in a rural village, which I guess is unusual for giallos, which usually take place in cities. I loved the rural setting and the backwards community which enacts revenge in this film. The mystery revolves around a child killer. There's a lot of misogyny in the film, but it's more showing the villager's misogyny than the filmmakers. At least that's my read. There's an attacked in a cemetery which is super powerful and the ending scene where the killer buys it is just crazy. My husband and I were laughing but at the same times it's just super gross. Recommended!

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My husband and I watched all 3 films in the trilogy this week. I loved the first film. Great 70's horror that is sort of cheesy now but I happen to love that. They kept the baby hidden through most of it and it works. Terrific performances and it feels like a bigger budget film that it it.
It Lives Again (#2) was pretty bad. The lead actors are much weaker and the plot is basically a repeat. I'd give it a 4/10.
It's Alive 3 was better than #2 but not as good as #1. The best thing about it was Michael Moriarty and Karen Black. But they show the "grown babies" much more and the effects are so bad. Plot was just OK.

Overall, worth a watch. I'll be selling my set since I don't feel like I'll watch it again.

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Watched Chronicle this evening, followed by an episode of First Wave (S1): Joshua.

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3 Ninjas (1992)

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:thmbsdwn: :thmbsdwn: Painfully low-budget, with too much dialogue and very little action. Its lone saving grace is that it was short.

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Watched Thank You For Smoking this evening, followed by 2 episodes of First Wave (S1): Marker 262 and Motel California.

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Watched Tremors 5: Bloodlines this evening, followed by an episode of First Wave (S1): Undesirables.

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Watched Cronos (from the 10th Anniversary Special Edition) this evening, followed by 2 episodes of First Wave (S1): Second Wave and Blind Witness.

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Wheels Of Terror aka The Misfits Brigade - a somewhat disjointed movie about the nazis using criminals for missions for their military. David Carradine plays a good Bad guy and Olivier reed has a real short part. its worth a view 3/5

Mandela The Long Walk To Freedom - I'm a big fan of biographical movies and I admit I didnt know much about Mandela at all. Idris Elba was great playing him and it was really well made. 5/5

The Greatest Showman - I've always been a big fan of PT Barnum and his life, have several books on him and documentarys. While its a good movie full of fun songs and visuals. It didnt depict how he really was, he was supposed to be a mean and conniving man would do anything for a buck. They kinda touch on it but nothing like he was supossed to be. but I didnt enjoy it 3/5

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Watched Paranormal Activity this evening, followed by 2 episodes of First Wave (S1): Deluge and Melody.

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Stripes the extended cut, I stayed away from this for years because the premise doesn't sound like my kind of thing but I enjoyed it 3/5

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12 Years A Slave, really good movie. i like alot of the cast in it so that made it great. 5/5

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The Death of Stalin. Probably the most disappointing movie I've watch in the past couple of years. I loved In The Loop, and I love the first four seasons of Veep (once Iannucci left and David Mandel took over, it got increasingly weak; I really hated the last season and don't hold up much hope for the final season). I barely laughed at all while watching this, and yet I'm a giant Steve Buscemi fan. Don't understand why this has attained such positive reviews.

Red Riding 1974. Pretty solid beginning to the trilogy, about a series of child murders in Britain in the '70s. Andrew Garfield is quite good in this, as is Sean Bean. Very atmospheric...Nevertheless, the follow-ups were much better...

Red Riding 1980. Paddy Considine is great in this, which is probably the best of the trilogy. This one delves into the Yorkshire Ripper, who murdered over a dozen women in the '70s and '80s. Really great, but tragic story...The ending is a killer...

Red Riding 1983. Great ending to the series. I can't remember the name of the main actor (who plays a "solicitor", which I think is some sort of lawyer in British-parlance")...Still a tragic ending but it's well worth seeing...

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 4: Initiation. Pretty awful horror movie starring Clint Howard. Just beyond bad. I like the first three parts of the series, but this was just brutal, and it barely has anything to do with Christmas. And the DVD image looks horrible...

Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 5: The Toy Maker. Wow, Mickey Rooney is one of the stars in this one, despite being one of the most vocal critics of the first movie, claiming it sent a horrible message to kids (even though the movie was obviously rated-R and not intended for kids). His issue was that the original commercials had images of an axe-wielding Santa Claus, and he assumed that would corrupt children. Anyway, there's nothing good about this movie, and the image is just as bad as the previous movie.

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It's Alive 2: It Lives Again. Not a very strong movie. While I'm not even really a fan of the first movie, this one is probably on par with that. Both movies are "okay", I guess, but nothing special. I'll watch the third one eventually...But I'm not in the mood right now...I did like Frederic Forrest in this, for what its worth...

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Watched Adventures in Babysitting (crazy, entertaining movie!) this evening, followed by 2 episodes of The 100 (S2): Long Into an Abyss and Spacewalker.