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Psychosis by Cavalera Conspiracy
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Brutal & Back to the Roots! Bow your heads down to the Cavalera brothers! Breath in, breath...
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Max's Kansas City: Art Glamour, Rock and Roll
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At no other time in history has there been a more exciting collision of art, music, and fashion than...
Last Laugh in Vegas
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Some of the most famous names from comedy, music and variety from the 60s, 70s and 80s are to be...
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The Immortalists
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A dazzling family love story reminiscent of Everything I Never Told You from a novelist heralded by...
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The Plot and the Pendulum
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Halloween is approaching in Briar Creek, and things get spooky when a skeleton is found and...
LeftSideCut (3778 KP) rated The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2 (1986) in Movies
Jun 19, 2022
I have a huge amount of respect for TTCM2, mainly for how different it is to its predecessor, which of course happens to be one of the most respected horrors of all time. Tobe Hoopers return is a welcome one, and his desire to not repeat his original masterpiece is a smart move. It results in a slice of 80s horror that is flamboyantly ridiculous, which still manages to keep its identity intact underneath it all. There's a lot less subtlety this time around - the brooding and implied violence we have seen before is replaced with more gore and Dennis Hopper dual wielding chainsaws with a third strapped to his back. It's weirdly great. The gore is significantly upped, and Leatherface is a little more cartoony. We're also introduced to Bill Moseley as Chop-Top, a fan favourite character who is a little too slapstick for my taste, but I can't fault Moseley for 100% commiting to the bit. Caroline Williams is a delight as this entries badass final girl as well.
TTCM2 is flawed for sure, but it doesn't fall into the rinse and repeat trap that so many sequels do, and it's easy to see why it has a strong following.
TTCM2 is flawed for sure, but it doesn't fall into the rinse and repeat trap that so many sequels do, and it's easy to see why it has a strong following.
Kevin Phillipson (10017 KP) rated Girls Nite Out (1983) in Movies
May 18, 2022
Watched last night first time never heard of the movie until few months back when it was announced coming out on blu ray in the UK so I thought let's see if its any good. This movie was made during the 80s fad for slasher movies trying to make there own version of Halloween or Friday the 13th its not perfect by any means you've got usual type of characters who are mainly there to die at the hands of the killer one of them was in the second Friday the 13th movie. And there's the costume the killer wears the collage mascot with claws not very frightening when u see it overall decent horror movie but not perfect. I give the film a 7 but overall I give the blu ray version a nine among things arrow films have done fantastic job of restoring the movie there are some scenes in the film that couldn't be restored but overall good job and then there's the extras firstctheres a Commentary by two film critics and then there's the best part is the interviews with the ladies who play the the would be victims or final girls as they share there memories of the film overall good package highly recommend đź‘Ť
Kelli Curran (5 KP) rated Encino Man (1992) in Movies
Jun 9, 2018
Buried 'treasure'. (2 more)
Pauly Shore singing 'shoofly don't bother me.'
RAD MOBILE!!!
Why can't all cavemen look like that?
Contains spoilers, click to show
I saw this movie for the first time when I was about ten years old. I was really into dinosaurs at the time and the idea of digging up a caveman in my backyard thrilled me about as much as finding One Eyed Willie. There is something innocently fun about movies made in the 80s and as silly as the plotline for this one is, the movie is still my absolute favorite.
Two nerdy, loner, high school seniors decide to dig a pool in one of their backyards in hopes of throwing a big party after prom and landing the most popular girl in school. What they didn't expect was to come across a caveman frozen inside a solid mass of ice who they thaw out using space heaters in their garage. After coming home to find their house trashed, they come face to face with a very not dead 1,000,000 year old man ... Or teenager. Makeover montage ensues, giving us the newly minted (not so missing) 'Link'. Boys take Link to school, Link wins over everyone, boys remain unpopular.
This movie is worth watching at least once just to see Pauly wheeze the juice and Brendan dance around like a crazy person.
Two nerdy, loner, high school seniors decide to dig a pool in one of their backyards in hopes of throwing a big party after prom and landing the most popular girl in school. What they didn't expect was to come across a caveman frozen inside a solid mass of ice who they thaw out using space heaters in their garage. After coming home to find their house trashed, they come face to face with a very not dead 1,000,000 year old man ... Or teenager. Makeover montage ensues, giving us the newly minted (not so missing) 'Link'. Boys take Link to school, Link wins over everyone, boys remain unpopular.
This movie is worth watching at least once just to see Pauly wheeze the juice and Brendan dance around like a crazy person.
David McK (3372 KP) rated The City of Shifting Waters (Valérian and Laureline, #1) in Books
Jan 28, 2019
Like many others, I'm sure, I first only heard of Valerian as a result of the absolutely-bonkers 2017 movie 'Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets'.
Reading the interviews with the stars that came out at around about that time, I learnt that Valerian was actually a French comic, and that it had influenced elements of the really-rather-fun Bruce Willis flick 'The Fifth Element'. I caught Valerian when it showed up on Netflix and, while it was OK, it wasn't really anything special.
When I saw this comic given away as a freebie on Comixology, I thought I would give it a try: I don't know what I was expecting (something closer to the movie?), but this most definitely wasn't it!
This is set largely in the (then) future of the mid-80s, where the world is in ruins and New York is about to be swallowed by the ocean. Valerian and Laureline are both time-travelers, who must travel back to this period of their history: a period in which little is known about, a sort-of second Dark Ages.
This comic does show it's age, particularly in it's treatment of Laureline (who doesn't seem to really do all that much) and in Sun Rae: truth be told, it just never really gripped me at all.
Reading the interviews with the stars that came out at around about that time, I learnt that Valerian was actually a French comic, and that it had influenced elements of the really-rather-fun Bruce Willis flick 'The Fifth Element'. I caught Valerian when it showed up on Netflix and, while it was OK, it wasn't really anything special.
When I saw this comic given away as a freebie on Comixology, I thought I would give it a try: I don't know what I was expecting (something closer to the movie?), but this most definitely wasn't it!
This is set largely in the (then) future of the mid-80s, where the world is in ruins and New York is about to be swallowed by the ocean. Valerian and Laureline are both time-travelers, who must travel back to this period of their history: a period in which little is known about, a sort-of second Dark Ages.
This comic does show it's age, particularly in it's treatment of Laureline (who doesn't seem to really do all that much) and in Sun Rae: truth be told, it just never really gripped me at all.
Eleanor (1463 KP) rated Pieces Of Her in Books
Aug 11, 2019
Frustratingly useless lead drags down an interesting thriller
You can always rely on Slaughter to produce a well written book and this is no exception. Unfortunately, she decided to write a totally useless main character whose inability to do anything useful dragged the story down for me.
Andrea (Andy) is a 31 year old still leaving at home and seemingly unable to have a meaningful relationship with anyone. On a trip to the mall, with her seemingly ordinary mum Laura, her world is turned upside down when a violent attack throws her mum into the spotlight. It soon becomes clear that Laura has been hiding a secret past from Andy.
It’s all quite dramatic and I was certainly curious to learn more of Laura’s past it was just a shame that we had to go along with the wet behind the ears Andy to find it out. Most parts from Andy’s perspective left me wanting to shout “get on with it” and despite this perhaps realistic reaction to very unusual circumstances it was just frustrating to read. Other parts of the book were set back in the 80s and were more enjoyable to read.
The story as a whole was interesting if a tad to far fetched given how naive Andy is it didn’t even need to be that off the wall for her to be totally thrown for a loop.
Andrea (Andy) is a 31 year old still leaving at home and seemingly unable to have a meaningful relationship with anyone. On a trip to the mall, with her seemingly ordinary mum Laura, her world is turned upside down when a violent attack throws her mum into the spotlight. It soon becomes clear that Laura has been hiding a secret past from Andy.
It’s all quite dramatic and I was certainly curious to learn more of Laura’s past it was just a shame that we had to go along with the wet behind the ears Andy to find it out. Most parts from Andy’s perspective left me wanting to shout “get on with it” and despite this perhaps realistic reaction to very unusual circumstances it was just frustrating to read. Other parts of the book were set back in the 80s and were more enjoyable to read.
The story as a whole was interesting if a tad to far fetched given how naive Andy is it didn’t even need to be that off the wall for her to be totally thrown for a loop.