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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: ROBOCOP
Joel Kinnaman strives to be a cyborg with soul in ROBOCOP. And so, shouldering our backpacks and steeling ourselves against the urge to look back, we leave the doldrums of the start-of-2014 release...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH
Vincent Price (right) and Jane Asher welcome uninvited guest John Westbrook to THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH. Nope, no big openings this weekend, and everybody is too busy talking Oscars right now (we’ll...
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Temple of Bad: KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR
It’s crime-fighting robot versus diarrhea monster in KARATE-ROBO ZABORGAR. Which one will win? And, more importantly, do you really want to know? Well, here’s a ticklish situation: Is KARATE-ROBO...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: DIVERGENT
Shailene Woodley has to confront the challenges of being DIVERGENT. In the future, humanity will achieve peace and prosperity by being divided into five factions. When you’re sixteen, you get tested to...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER
Chris Evans faces down foes that only a genetically-altered super soldier could vanquish in CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER. And so commences the Marvel Onslaught of 2014. Four movies, three...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: TRANSCENDENCE
It’s a brave but not especially bold new world faced by (clockwise from top) Johnny Depp, Rebecca Hall, Cillian Murphy, and Morgan Freeman in TRANSCENDENCE. It’s some kind of irony that the experience...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: THE QUIET ONES
Jared Harris (left) tries pulling the ol’ “Trust me, I’m a doctor,” bit on Olivia Cooke in THE QUIET ONES A professor and his students perform experiments on a young subject, trying to prove that the...
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The Cinefantastique Spotlight: THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2
Andrew Garfield (left) and Dane DeHaan are but two flies trapped in the tangled web that is THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2. To be perfectly blunt about it, big studio blockbuster releases typically don’t...
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Temple of Bad: ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS
Break out the nutcrackers, ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS means we feast tonight! I for one welcome our new crustacean overlords. Even if you’ve never seen ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS, you probably still...
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A TALKING CAT!?! – Temple of Bad
An all-star cast (we’re sure there are some stars in there somewhere) pretend to be impressed with a commonplace feline who couldn’t care less in A TALKING CAT!?! We have to be clear about this: There...
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INVASION OF THE STAR CREATURES – Temple of Bad
The good often travels along with the bad. The good in this case: Yours truly has made the move to the lovely city of Philadelphia, a process that led to the extended delay of this episode. The bad:...
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A TRIBUTE TO CHRISTOPHER LEE – The Cinefantastique Spotlight Podcast
No life is forever, not even that of the man who played immortal vampires, mouldering corpses, and psychotic satanists. Christopher Lee had so permanently placed his mark on the world of fantastic film...
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JOURNEY TO THE SEVENTH PLANET – Temple of Bad
You know, we’ve always considered as our prime mission an elevation of the level of discourse in movie podcasts. Much like Cahiers du Cinema, we seek to enshrine the world of film as a true art form,...
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THE BRAINIAC – Temple of Bad
(Sung to the tune of Maniac): A Satanist who can zip out of chains. He is suave, and he’s smart, and clumsy. He gropes all the chicks, and eats his victim’s brains, Everybody says he’s eeeee-vil. He...
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KING KONG (1976) – Temple of Bad
2016 marks the 40th anniversary of the film that changed the entertainment industry as we know it, the film the rewrote the rules on action entertainment, that dazzled audiences with its innovative...
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PATCH TOWN – Temple of Bad
Oh, sure, anybody can look at a ROBOT MONSTER, a BIRDEMIC, a XANADU and say, “Wow, that’s stinky.” It takes next-level insight to take on the likes of PATCH TOWN, an ambitious tale of a grown up...
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THE VAMPIRE’S COFFIN – Temple of Bad
Let’s not mince words about this: THE VAMPIRE’S COFFIN is a goofy movie, a Mexican horror-fest with rubber bats, balsa wood coffins, poorly choreographed fight scenes, and a “hero” (the star of THE...
View ArticleNew Term – Drop This into Your Erudite Film Conversations Today!
I’m not sure that this technique has an official term (if so, please alert me), but I’d like to put this on public record, just in case: CONSENSUS BY MONTAGE: When a filmmaker, primarily documentary,...
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