A haunted seaside cottage, an opinionated ghost, and a romance that transcends time. Theia revisits The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Joseph L. Mankiewicz's exquisite supernatural classic starring Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison, and delivers a five-star verdict.
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Three legendary scream queens. One bathtub. Eleven completely unauthorized stars. Thalia reviews David DeCoteau's Nightmare Sisters (1988), featuring ridiculous demonic possession, outrageous comedy, an unforgettable bathing scene, and the first five-star ORGASMIC decree of Spook-n-Boobtacular!
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A comfortable hobbit, an unexpected adventure, and a story that has enchanted readers since 1937. In the debut edition of From the Glyphkeeper's Shelf, Maddie explores J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, the courage of ordinary heroes, and why Bilbo Baggins earns five golden glyphs and an immortal place in the Halls.
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In honor of Eva Marie Saint, who passed away at 102, Throwback Thursday heads back to 1959 for Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest. Cary Grant, spies, trains, Mount Rushmore, one very determined crop duster, and Eva Marie Saint at her absolute best. Nearly seventy years later, this thing still moves better than most thrillers made today.
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Critics hated it, audiences stayed away, and I couldn't care less. Death to Smoochy remains my favorite comedy ever made, thanks to Robin Williams going completely off the rails, Edward Norton playing the world's most sincere fuchsia rhino, and one very unfortunately shaped batch of cookies.
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A snowy Alabama afternoon, a Movie Gallery rental, and one hell of a Sega Genesis platformer. More than 30 years later, Disney’s Aladdin still looks great, plays beautifully, and reminds me why games didn’t need 80 hours of bullshit to be memorable.
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I got Donkey Kong Country at launch after the hype VHS and it became my Thanksgiving game for years after. Thirty years later it's still one of the best games ever made.
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The Memorial Day countdown reaches its last new review at #3. We Were Soldiers covers the Battle of Ia Drang in 1965 with the respect and emotional weight it deserves. Mel Gibson, Sam Elliott, and the entire cast are extraordinary. Full review.
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Titan Quest is one of my all-time favorites, and it's part of why this site exists. The PS4 version has real problems, but the game itself is the greatest ARPG ever made.
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Terence Young directs Audrey Hepburn in the most underappreciated film of her career — a claustrophobic thriller that ranks among the best ever made, with one of the great villain performances from Alan Arkin.
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William Wyler directs Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck in the film that made her a star. Charming, beautiful, and honest enough to skip the fairy tale ending. A perfect film.
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Super Mario Bros. is the first game I ever played and my first gaming memory. This week's Retro WedNESday game review looks back on the all-time classic. Forty years later it's still just as fun as it ever was. Some things don't need improving.
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WrestleMania week calls for a look back at the best wrestling game ever made. WWF WrestleMania 2000 brought the AKI engine to the WWF roster and nothing in the genre has topped it since.
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Harvest Moon 64 is one of my all-time favorites. A year of waiting for it, a Christmas surprise, and a farming sim that somehow turned me into a real-life gardener. Here's why it still holds up.
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Richard Dreyfuss delivers the best performance of his career in a film that spans thirty years of one man's life and earns every emotion it asks you to feel. The ending alone is worth the price of admission.
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Gary reviews the latest entry in his favorite franchise, Assassin's Creed. Mirage is a return to series roots and a love letter to the first games in the series. But how does it hold up compared to the earlier titles and is it worth experiencing?
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John Wayne was reported to have been offered a part in Blazing Saddles. After reading the script he called back and said “I can’t be in this, it’s too dirty… but I’ll be first in line to go see it when it comes out.” Imagining Wayne in the Wilder role makes me glad he turned it down. The other casting question that often comes up is why Richard Pryor did not play the part of the black sheriff in the film. That one apparently came down to a studio call, which is unfortunate since Wilder…
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Almost Famous is a movie I not only love, but was important to me in my formative years, and my life in general. It tells the story of William Miller (Patrick Fugit), a 15 year old kid on assignment for Rolling Stone magazine. He has to cover an up and coming rock band during what critic Lester Bangs (Phillip Seymour Hoffman) calls the dying days of Rock N’ Roll. Along the way, Miller falls in love with a “groupie” (although she would object to the term) named Penny played by Kate Hudson. Penny…
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It's been almost a month since Fall Guys took the world by storm. Since its release on August 3rd, the game has quickly become of the most popular (both played and watched) games on the planet and also is the most downloaded game in PlayStation Plus history. While it's been free on PS Plus, it has still managed to sell over seven million copies on Steam at an MSRP of $19.99. It's been an amazing success story, has become a favorite of many, and shows absolutely no signs of slowing down anytime…
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Book of Demons is the first installment of developer Thing Trunk's series Return 2 Games, which is creating a "Paperverse" of games inspired by the "early golden days" of PC gaming. Return 2 Games is planned to be made up of seven Books where the game world is a pop-up book, paper style. Book of Demons kickstarts the series with a tribute to and parody of a true PC gaming classic, Diablo. Like Diablo, Book of Demons is a hack and slash ARPG and shares a similar theme. Here, you'll make your way…
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