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Only now does it occur to me... VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN
Only now does it occur to me... that Eddie Murphy was such a student of Jean-Claude Van Damme.Look no further than this bit from the agonizing, Wes Craven-helmed, Eddie Murphy produced-written-starred...
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Only now does it occur to me... PARADISE ALLEY
Only now does it occur to me... that OVER THE TOP was not Stallone's first run-in with the glamorous world of arm-wrestling.In PARADISE ALLEY, his directorial debut (it's a post-WWII, poverty-row,...
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Only now does it occur to me... THE BAND WAGON
Only now does it occur to me... that Fred Astaire/Cyd Charisse/Vincente Minnelli vehicle THE BAND WAGON– one of the last great Technicolor musicals from Hollywood's golden era– could easily be...
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Film Review: KING SOLOMON'S MINES (1985, J. Lee Thompson)
Stars: 2.5 of 5.Running Time: 100 minutes.Tag-line: "The Adventure of a Lifetime"Notable Cast or Crew: Starring Richard Chamberlain (SHOGUN, THE MUSIC LOVERS), Sharon Stone (BASIC INSTINCT, SLIVER),...
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Only now does it occur to me... COMPANY OF KILLERS
Only now does it occur to me... that while COMPANY OF KILLERS is a fairly dull, run-of-the-mill 70s TV police procedural, amid depressed Ray Milland,I feel your pain, Raya sleepy Fritz Weaver,I know...
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Television Review: CHRISTMAS AT PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE (1988, Wayne Orr & Paul...
Stars: 5 of 5.Running Time: 49 minutes.Tag-line: None.Notable Cast or Crew: Paul Reubens (PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER), Annette Funicello (BABES IN TOYLAND, BEACH PARTY), Frankie...
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Book Review: SPLINTER OF THE MIND'S EYE (1978, Alan Dean Foster)
Stars: 3 of 5.Length: 199 pages.Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine, NY.Tag-line: "Stranded on a jungle planet, Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia found themselves desperately racing Imperial stormtroopers...
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Film Review: LICENCE TO KILL (1989, John Glen)
Stars: 3.8 of 5.Running Time: 133 minutes.Tag-line: "His bad side is a dangerous place to be."Notable Cast or Crew: Timothy Dalton (THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS, HOT FUZZ), Carey Lowell (DOWN TWISTED,...
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Only now does it occur to me... BOOMERANG
Only now does it occur to me... that when I just wrote about Grace Jones' ridiculous arrival via crate in the CHRISTMAS AT PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE SPECIAL, that it was, in fact, a common mode of transport....
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Only now does it occur to me... CIRCLE OF IRON
Only now does it occur to me... um... where to begin? At the beginning, the middle, or the end? Truly they are all the same, because the beginning is the middle as well as the end, and of course...
View ArticleJunta Juleil's Updated, Browsable List of Reviews– January 2015
#3 MEN AND A BABY (1987, Leonard Nimoy)THE 3 MUSKETEERS (1973, Richard Lester)3 WOMEN (1977, Robert Altman) THE 5TH ELEMENT (1997, Luc Besson)7 DAYS IN MAY (1964, John Frankenheimer)THE 10TH KINGDOM...
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Only now does it occur to me... BRAIN DEAD
Only now does it occur to me... that these two titans of cinema– those battling Bills, the two Williams most likely to be mixed up by children– actually starred in a movie together. Yep, I'm talkin'...
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Only now does it occur to me... DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING
Only now does it occur to me... what's up with Lucio Fulci and ducks?Early Fulci effort DON'T TORTURE A DUCKLING (known in the United Kingdom as "DON'T TORTURE DONALD DUCK") involves child murders and...
View ArticleOnly now does it occur to me... GODZILLA VS. MEGALON
Only now does it occur to me... that the clear highlight of GODZILLA VS. MEGALON, and perhaps human civilization to this point, is the moment when anthropomorphic, steel-masked robot Jet Jaguar holds...
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Only now does it occur to me... DOWN PERISCOPE
Only now does it occur to me... that DOWN PERISCOPE may possess the lowest ratio of "overall quality in comparison to amount of Great character actors" from any comparable film.I think most of us think...
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Music Review: LOST THEMES (2015, John Carpenter)
Stars: 5 of 5.Publisher: Sacred Bones Records.Runtime: Forty-seven minutes, fifty-three seconds.Personnel: John Carpenter, Cody Carpenter, Daniel Davies.John Carpenter: the heir to Howard Hawks, an...
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Only now does it occur to me... THE THIEF OF BAGDAD
Only now does it occur to me... that while Raoul Walsh's THE THIEF OF BAGDAD is commonly and accurately posited as the great-granddaddy of the modern action-adventure genre, rarely mentioned is its...
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"Mortimer's Sanctuary, and What He Found There" in Spark: A Creative Anthology
My latest short story (an urban fantasy, from the perspective of a cockroach) may be found in Volume VI of Spark: A Creative Anthology. It is available for purchase, here and here, in print and e-book...
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Only now does it occur to me... X-MEN: FIRST CLASS
Only now does it occur to me... that X-MEN: FIRST CLASS casts a few unexpected, terrific actors in its thankless bit parts (obviously, I'm not talking about lead villain Nazi-mutant Kevin Bacon, though...
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Only now does it occur to me... VAMPIRE IN BROOKLYN
Only now does it occur to me... that Eddie Murphy was such a student of Jean-Claude Van Damme.Look no further than this bit from the agonizing, Wes Craven-helmed, Eddie Murphy produced-written-starred...
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