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Event Horizon (1997) – Review

July 14, 2019October 7, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1997, Barclay Wright, Event Horizon, Holley Chant, Jack Noseworthy, Jason Isaacs, Joely Richardson, Kathleen Quinlan, Laurence Fishburne, Noah Huntley, Paul W. S. Anderson, Peter Marinker, Richard T. Jones, Robert Jezek, Sam Neill, Sean Pertwee

Laurence Fishburne receives top billing but the real star of Event Horizon is the wonderful production design. This is a

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Adventures of Aladdin (2019) – Review

May 19, 2019May 19, 2020 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2019, Adam Holick, Adventures of Aladdin, Glen Campbell, Havon Baraka, Tionne Williams

Disney’s potential blockbuster live-action adaption of Aladdin is coming to theaters in the upcoming weeks so that must mean there

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Aquaman (2018) – Review

April 3, 2019January 25, 2021 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2019, Amber Heard, Aquaman, dolph lundgren, James Wan, Jason Momoa, nicole kidman, Patrick Wilson, Willem Dafoe, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II

After a succession of underwhelming films, Wonder Woman being the lone bright spot, DC and Warner Bros have finally produced

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Wing Commander (1999) – Review

March 15, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1999, Chris Roberts, Freddie Prinze, Jr., Jürgen Prochnow, Matthew Lillard, Saffron Burrows, Tchéky Karyo, Wing Commander

Wing Commander hit the big screen a few weeks before The Matrix arrived and changed sci-fi films for the next

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The Fifth Element (1997) – Review

March 7, 2019April 29, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1997, bruce willis, Chris Tucker, Gary Oldman, ian holm, luc besson, milla jovovich, The Fifth Element

The Fifth Element is Luc Besson’s grand operatic cinema experience. It’s a decidedly oddball mixture of science fiction and romance

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Drive Angry (2011) – Review

March 5, 2019April 29, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2011, Amber Heard, Billy Burke, Drive Angry, Nicolas Cage, Patrick Lussier, William Fichtner

Drive Angry comes closer to capturing the 1970s grindhouse vibe than either Robert Rodriquez or Quentin Tarantino were able to

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The Wolverine (2013) – Review

March 1, 2019March 24, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2013, Famke Janssen, Hiroyuki Sanada, hugh jackman, The Wolverine, Will Yun Lee

James Mangold brings his first-class skills to the superhero genre with outstanding results in a morose, exciting, and gorgeously designed

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Highlander 2: The Quickening (1991) – Review

February 28, 2019March 24, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1991, Christopher Lambert, Highlander 2: The Quickening, John C. McGinley, Michael Ironside, russell mulcahy, Sean Connery, Virginia Madsen

Highlander 2 is one of cinema’s most lamented projects gone awry. The first film was a modest hit at the

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Virus (1999) – Review

January 14, 2019January 11, 2019 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1999, Donald Sutherland, jamie lee curtis, Joanna Pacula, John Bruno, Marshall Bell, Virus, william baldwin

Virus is so similar to 1998’s Deep Rising that it’s no surprise Walmart sells the DVD as a combo disc

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Ready Player One (2018) – Review

December 16, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2018, Ben Mendelsohn, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke, simon pegg, steven spielberg, t.j. miller, Tye Sheridan

Steven Spielberg delivers his most thoroughly entertaining movie in years with his adaptation of author Ernest Cline’s novel, Ready Player

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Mimic (1997) – Review

November 15, 2018November 13, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1997, Alexander Goodwin, Charles S Dutton, F. Murray Abraham, Giancarlo Giannini, guillermo del toro, Jeremy Northam, josh brolin, Mimic, MIra Sorvino

Mimic doesn’t always make a lot of sense, but it’s propped up by an intriguing premise and a strong visual

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Species II (1998) – Review

October 21, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Justin Lazard, Marg Helgenberger, michael madsen, Natasha Henstridge, Peter Medak, Species II

Species was an enjoyable variation on the Alien genre. The follow-up, Species II, is a cheap, awful film with a

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Alien Predator (2018) – Review

September 10, 2018September 14, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2018

The traditional stars rating value for grading movies goes right out the window when it comes to the Asylum’s “Mockbusters.”

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Blade (1998) – Review

August 21, 2018August 27, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 1998, Blade, Donal Logue, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, stephen dorff, stephen norrington, wesley snipes

Long before the Marvel Universe was the behemoth that its become, there was Blade. The long gestating project was the

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Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) – Review

July 23, 2018July 23, 2018 Jason Rugaard 0 Comments 2018, Ant Man and the Wasp, Bobby Cannavale, Evangeline Lilly, Judy Greer, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Douglas, Michael Peña, michelle pfeiffer, paul rudd, Peyton Reed, Randall Park, Tip "T.I." Harris, Walton Goggins

I’m still in disbelief that secondary Marvel characters have not only been given ‘the big screen’ treatment, but are viable