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#74: Prison (Renny Harlin, 1988)

Josh K. posted an article on - Nov 28, 2009, 12:57 pm
The makers of Prison came up with a solid idea. Let's combine the most entertaining cliches of the prison movie with the most entertaining cliches of the possessed/haunted house movie. Then let...
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#73: Pin (Sandor Stern, 1988)

Josh K. posted an article on - Nov 14, 2009, 12:23 pm
There is a long literary tradition of writers who are also doctors: William Carlos Williams, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Keats, Maugham, Schiller, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and on and on. This tradition doesn'...
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Happy Halloween!

Josh K. posted an article on - Oct 31, 2009, 6:21 pm

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#72: Paperhouse (Bernard Rose, 1988)

Josh K. posted an article on - Oct 23, 2009, 11:50 pm
I'm guessing it's hard to make any movie, even a piece of dogshit, but it's probably really, really, really hard to make a movie that succeeds as a horror film, a children's movie, a c...
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#71: The Other (Robert Mulligan, 1972)

Josh K. posted an article on - Oct 11, 2009, 7:34 pm
Director Robert Mulligan, who died last year at the age of 83, had a long and varied career, though he's still somewhat underrated. A master craftsman who applied his skill, good taste, and sharpl...
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#70: Opera (Dario Argento, 1987)

Josh K. posted an article on - Sep 26, 2009, 12:49 pm
I was a bit tepid about this movie the first time I saw it, but circumstances were different. I had recently seen two of Argento's best movies, The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and Suspiria, so O...
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My first angry comment! I'll treasure it forever!

Josh K. posted an article on - Sep 15, 2009, 8:17 pm
My day began with an anonymous email calling me a douchebag for expressing discomfort with a 40-minute rape scene in I Spit On Your Grave on this very blog and ended with me getting yelled at by a rud...
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#69: Open Your Eyes (Alejandro Amenabar, 1997)

Josh K. posted an article on - Sep 12, 2009, 1:08 pm
When a 35-year-old Tom Cruise saw the Spanish film Open Your Eyes, he looked at the main character - a womanizing, self-centered, spoiled 25-year-old man who inherited a chain restaurant fortune from ...
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#68: Nomads (John McTiernan, 1986)

Josh K. posted an article on - Aug 29, 2009, 1:50 pm
... parody Last Action Hero and the probably not underrated flop remake of Rollerball, as well as Medicine Man, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, The 13th Warrior, the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, a...
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#66: Night of the Creeps (Fred Dekker, 1986)

Josh K. posted an article on - Aug 1, 2009, 11:54 am
Following the excellent Night of the Comet comes another fantastic 1980s horror/sci-fi/comedy hybrid with the words "Night of the" in the title. I saw Night of the Creeps on the great Denver station K...
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#65: Night of the Comet (Thom Eberhardt, 1984)

Josh K. posted an article on - Jul 18, 2009, 1:06 pm
Many of my favorite films have something timeless about them. These artistic masterworks transcend their particular time and place and resonate as something essentially and permanently human. However,...
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