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Blu-ray Review: Criterions for Sale

Bob Cashill November 14, 2012

1 Min Read

Half off at Barnes & Noble. Get your Godzilla on. (For the kids, Brave.)

Blu-ray Reviews, Film

The Popdose Interview: Andy Summers

Bob Cashill November 9, 2012

1 Min Read

The Police’s guitarist walks the beat with an autobiographical documentary.

Music, Popdose Interviews

The 31 Days of Halloween, Days 23-24: Splinter & The Host

Drew October 24, 2012

1 Min Read

Yesterday, we discussed — among other films — Frank Darabont’s The Mist, which examined what happens when groups of people in extreme danger start to turn on each other. One of today’s films, Toby Wilkins’ Splinter, ta…

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The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 19: Sleepaway Camp

Drew October 19, 2012

1 Min Read

We discussed, way back on day 4 of this shindig, the intangible sense of pleasure a cheesy ’80s horror movie has to offer; while that entry, Night of the Demons , makes its mark with irrepressible atmosphere and delightfully low-rent ’…

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The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 17: Black Sabbath

Drew October 17, 2012

1 Min Read

There’s something about a horror anthology that has always sucked me in. I remember distinctly my fourth-grade teacher reading aloud Alvin Schwartz’s immortal compendium of terrifying tales, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. It was a m…

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The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 15: Deep Red

Drew October 15, 2012

1 Min Read

Regardless of what legendary giallo pioneer Dario Argento’s finest film is — I wager that most would say Suspiria, but Inferno gets a lot of love too — it’s hard to deny that his lurid, grotesque murder mystery Deep Red is am…

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The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 12: The Orphanage

Drew October 12, 2012

1 Min Read

We hear a lot about being haunted around Halloween. It’s a word often used to reference ghosts, and what they do when they’re stuck between planes of existence; it’s also how certain movies make us feel, especially when their spect…

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The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 10: When a Stranger Calls // Amusement

Drew October 10, 2012

1 Min Read

It often seems as though each modern horror movie can at least muster up one virtuoso sequence, something better than the sum of its parts. Alexandre Aja’s Mirrors is often staid and unremarkable, but there’s a moment in there where Amy …

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The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 8: Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon

Drew October 8, 2012

1 Min Read

As with a full-fledged horror movie, a horror-based comedy doesn’t quite need to reinvent the wheel. It merely needs to appeal to horror nerds and comedy fans alike — a shockingly delicate balancing act to maintain. Look at perhaps the m…

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The 31 Days of Halloween, Days 6 & 7: Night of the Living Dead // Dawn of the Dead

Drew October 7, 2012

1 Min Read

First things first: I apologize deeply to the ten or so horror-starved souls out there who went unfulfilled yesterday. It won’t happen again, and today, we have a delightful Halloween twofer for you to make up for it. Zombies are fashionable. …

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00Single Review: Adele, “Skyfall”

Bob Cashill October 5, 2012

2 Min Read

She’s rolling in the deep with 007.

Music, Single Reviews

The 31 Days of Halloween, Day 2: The Night of the Hunter

Drew October 2, 2012

1 Min Read

For the second of Popblerd’s 31 Days of Halloween, we look at Charles Laughton’s “Night of the Hunter”, a Gothic, deep-south potboiler starring Robert Mitchum.

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