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[Newt Cox Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Newt Cox]

Talk Radio

Saw this back in the late 80s then just forgot about it. Found the DVD cheap. Damn this is good. Talk Radio host in Dallas is about to go national. And it just keeps ramping up until that ending.

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Call Me (Sollace Mitchell, 1988). Obscene phone call thriller with 80s Manhattan slick & gritty vibe. Not as dirty as it wants to be, but not bad. Patricia Charbonneau, Stephen McHattie, Steve Buscemi, Patti D'Arbanville. Ephemera that doesn't seem to have had a physical release; glad it's hit tubi & itunes.

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Harry in Your Pocket (Bruce Geller, 1973). James Coburn, Walter Pidgeon, Trish Van Devere, Michael Sarrazin. Need more pickpocket gang movies. A+

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Call Me (Sollace Mitchell, 1988). Obscene phone call thriller with 80s Manhattan slick & gritty vibe. Not as dirty as it wants to be, but not bad. Patricia Charbonneau, Stephen McHattie, Steve Buscemi, Patti D'Arbanville. Ephemera that doesn't seem to have had a physical release; glad it's hit tubi & itunes.

Thanks for the heads up. I really like Patricia Charbonneau and the fact that she's the lead here is very intriguing. I rented it on YouTube and will be watching soon.

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The Giant Behemoth: This is a 50's monster movie I've seen a good number of times, as I had it on video for a while. This time, I listened to the audio commentary, which was by visual effects artists Dennis Muren and Phil Tippett. Not the best commentary, I have to say, as the two of them were clearly only interested in the visual effects, and were just marking time until we finally get to the Behemoth, which doesn't really happen until the third act. They were also wrong about a number of things, which makes me wish they'd gotten a film historian like Tom Weaver or someone who could tell us about the actors and the production to do the commentary. I say Weaver specifically because, before I got this Blu-Ray, I had The Giant Behemoth in a DVD set with Attack of the 50-Foot Woman and Queen of Outer Space, and Weaver did commentaries for both of those movies and they flat-out suck, whereas The Giant Behemoth is okay, if nothing else.

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Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. I saw this back when it was in theaters and had a lot of fun with it. I recently got the Blu-Ray so I could watch it with my dad and he had a good time with it as well. The extras on the Blu-Ray, despite being fairly numerous, are the usual fluff with recent releases but I didn't expect much else.

Konga: This is another one I've seen a fair number of times before. It's definitely schlock but entertaining, with Michael Gough absolutely chewing the scenery. Ironically, the climax, where Konga grows to giant size and "rampages" through London is probably the weakest aspect, as there's hardly any excitement to it and the special effects are really bad. Also, this Kino Lorber Blu-Ray has nothing to it, save for a trailer and radio spot. You would hope they would at least have a commentary.

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Deadpool and Wolverine-Theater

She wanted to go see it,the plan was it would still be playing on her next day off and goto the big theater near her. Drop 30 bucks for 2 tickets then another 30 for snacks.

Learned that maybe an hour East then south of me is a tiny ass indie theater. 2 screening roooms each holds 80 tops. Only get big stuff. But has Tuesdays are 5 for a ticket and 5 gets ya a small popcorn and small drink.

Ended up being 4 of us going. 20 for tickets 20 for snacks and the sound was good picture was decent.

The movie...fucking good. I know I missed piles of easter eggs. Knew going in that a Rob Liefeld joke is made. Then was the only one out of the 20 of us in there to get it.

Was lost on some stuff,still haven't bothered watching most of the Marvel Disney+ stuff.

Odd in comics never gave a shit about Deadpool. But the films he works for me.

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I Saw the TV Glow - This is a very strange new drama with an interesting LGBTQ theme. It's about a couple of lonely kids in the late '90s who become obsessed with a BUFFY-like horror show and the effect it has on their lives. It's absolutely not for everyone, but if you get into it, it's a rewarding watch. It's obviously very personal, quite depressing and serious, a bit pretentious, but it has a wonderful surreal atmosphere (it reminded me of the fairly recent KNIFE+HEART) and what is surely one of my favourite horror segments of the year. The horror elements are subtle, but this one sequence is really creepy; once you see Mr. Melancholy, you'll never forget him. Cool new original film.

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It! The Terror from Beyond Space: Another movie that I've seen numerous times, I must say that this new Blu-Ray from Kino Lorber really does it justice. The movie not only looks good in HD, but it has three audio commentaries (I listened to the one by Tom Weaver) and a featurette about the movie and its lasting legacy that's 44 minutes long. Definitely worth it if you're a fan.

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It! The Terror from Beyond Space: Another movie that I've seen numerous times, I must say that this new Blu-Ray from Kino Lorber really does it justice. The movie not only looks good in HD, but it has three audio commentaries (I listened to the one by Tom Weaver) and a featurette about the movie and its lasting legacy that's 44 minutes long. Definitely worth it if you're a fan.

Love this one, definitely the movie equivalent of comfort food. I have the old Olive disc, I don't suppose you know if this a new transfer or not? I probably wouldn't upgrade just to get the extras, but if it's a shiny new transfer I might.

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The Iron Claw

No theater near me was showing it. Hit VOD and good film but I wonder how this plays to someone that doesn't know the story. So much is left out. Not just removing one of the brothers from the story. But more like stuff like Kerry losing his foot in a motorcycle accident. Or plenty of other stuff.

Any of yall seen this and dont already know the story,how did it work for you?

I finally saw this last night and enjoyed it. I too felt that you'd really need to know the story before hand to follow along. I thought the first hour zipped by, then the pace slowed in the second half, but the 2 hour-plus run time felt appropriate.

I actually would've liked this to be a mini-series that could've delved deeper into the business end of their wrestling promotion and maybe featured more side characters like Gary Hart, Gino Hernandez, the Freebirds, etc. For example, what was the conversation like when Kerry left for the WWF? Or what were some of the crazy cocaine antics Missy Hyatt got into? I'd love to see a dramatic presentation of the rise and fall of WCCW over the course of however many years it was around.

All in all a very sad story though. I wonder what a psychologist would say about the family dynamics in the Van Erich household?

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Shazam Fury of the Gods-DVD

She wanted a comic movie tonight we hadnt seen. "Pick a Marvel Movie Newt"

so Captain Marvel 2 it is.

Not bad. A step below the first one. Worth the 5 bucks the dvd cost us.

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I finally saw this last night and enjoyed it. I too felt that you'd really need to know the story before hand to follow along. I thought the first hour zipped by, then the pace slowed in the second half, but the 2 hour-plus run time felt appropriate.

I actually would've liked this to be a mini-series that could've delved deeper into the business end of their wrestling promotion and maybe featured more side characters like Gary Hart, Gino Hernandez, the Freebirds, etc. For example, what was the conversation like when Kerry left for the WWF? Or what were some of the crazy cocaine antics Missy Hyatt got into? I'd love to see a dramatic presentation of the rise and fall of WCCW over the course of however many years it was around.

All in all a very sad story though. I wonder what a psychologist would say about the family dynamics in the Van Erich household?

By the time Kerry left for WWF, WCCW was pretty much a walking corpse of a promotion. All the other big names had died or left for what would become WCW, ticket sales were dead even in Dallas, and the world had left the Von Erich's behind.

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Love this one, definitely the movie equivalent of comfort food. I have the old Olive disc, I don't suppose you know if this a new transfer or not? I probably wouldn't upgrade just to get the extras, but if it's a shiny new transfer I might.

I didn't have that Olive Films release, so this was the first time I saw this movie in HD. However, on Kino Lorber's website, it says it's a new HD master from a 2K scan, so I guess it is an upgrade.

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The Land Unknown Kino Lorber Blu-Ray. Yet another movie I've seen before (I'm going through my upgrades of stuff I've had and seen before first), this is definitely not one of the best dinosaur movies ever made, as the human characters are quite bland and the Tyrannosaurus Rex, which is a man in a suit, is particularly bad. However, I listened to Tom Weaver's audio commentary, which, as usual, was interesting but not one of his best. Also, I'm beginning to think that Weaver is an old fuddy-duddy who can't enjoy anything newer than the 60's. In his audio commentary for It! The Terror from Beyond Space, which is often compared to Alien, he called that movie overlong and said it bored him to tears (I'll admit, I'm not the biggest fan of the original Alien, but I don't think I've ever heard anyone bury it like that before), and while talking about this movie, he basically dumped on the Jurassic Park movies, saying that CGI dinosaurs make his eyelids heavy. It's the generation gap, I guess, but I'm still kind of like, "Christ, dude."