Saturday, January 18, 2025

LADY VENGEANCE -- Movie Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 1/26/22   I first thought LADY VENGEANCE , aka Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005), was going to be another hot-ac...
Friday, January 17, 2025

COLD PREY -- DVD Review by Porfle

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  Originally posted on 1/18/09   Another throwback to the old stalker-slasher tradition, the Norwegian thriller COLD PREY , aka FRITT VILT (...
Thursday, January 16, 2025

THE HORROR OF PARTY BEACH -- Blu-ray Review by Porfle

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 Originally posted 8/20/2018   When actor-turned-filmmaker Del Tenney made a deal to direct some drive-in fodder for the teen crowd, one ...
Wednesday, January 15, 2025

THE SHADE SHEPHERD -- Movie Review by Porfle

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I just got played. Big time. By a movie. A movie that I didn't think was going to be all that great, so I underestimated it, and le...
Tuesday, January 14, 2025

The Burning Orphanage Scene From "MIGHTY JOE YOUNG" (1949) (video)

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(spoilers) Jill Young (Terry Moore) and her friend Gregg (Ben Johnson) are fleeing from the law... ...after a judge orders that her...
Monday, January 13, 2025

MORE Lesser Known Stop-Motion Animation Monsters (video)

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The most famous stop-motion animators are Willis O'Brien (KING KONG)… ...and Ray Harryhausen (JASON AND THE ARGONAUTS). But other...
Sunday, January 12, 2025

Lesser Known Stop-Motion Animation Monsters (video)

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The most famous stop-motion animators are Willis O'Brien (KING KONG)… ...and Ray Harryhausen (7th VOYAGE OF SINBAD). But other ...
Saturday, January 11, 2025

Kong Undresses Ann in (Censored!) Scene From KING KONG (1933) (video)

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When "King Kong" (1933) was re-released in 1938, several violent shots which violated the Production Code were removed. Alo...
Friday, January 10, 2025

Extra Flips His Wig in "KING KONG" (RKO, 1933) (video)

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When King Kong invades the native village looking for Ann Darrow, pandemonium ensues. And for one unfortunate extra...it's truly...

KING KONG (1933) -- DVD Review by Porfle

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(NOTE: This review was written upon the DVD's initial release in 2005.) Before CGI, before summer blockbuster films like JAWS, before...
Thursday, January 9, 2025

MY TOP 20 FAVORITE STOP-MOTION ANIMATION MOVIES! by Porfle

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These aren't movies that are entirely stop-motion, such as A NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS or a Wallace and Gromit movie, but ones fea...
Wednesday, January 8, 2025

SON OF KONG -- Movie Review by Porfle

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Originally posted on 10/25/15 (Caution: the last couple of paragraphs contain spoilers.)   I watched SON OF KONG (1933) again last n...
Tuesday, January 7, 2025

"WIZARD OF OZ" Blooper: Dorothy's Ruby Slippers Disappear (MGM, 1939)

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Glinda the Good Witch warns Dorothy to never remove her magic ruby slippers. But in the scene with the talking apple trees, there...
Monday, January 6, 2025

THE WIZARD OF OZ 3D: 75TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION (Blu-ray 3D/ Blu-ray/ Digital HD) -- Review by Porfle

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 (Originally posted in 2013)   When I was a kid, the annual airing of the 1939 classic "The Wizard of Oz" on network primetime ...
Sunday, January 5, 2025

THE WITCHES OF OZ -- DVD review by porfle

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  Originally posted on 4/8/12   Fans of L. Frank Baum's celebrated Oz series never know what they're going to get in the way of scr...
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Saturday, January 4, 2025

THE STEAM ENGINES OF OZ -- Blu-ray/DVD Review by Porfle

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Originally posted on 5/31/18   THE STEAM ENGINES OF OZ (Cinedigm, 2018) is one of those dystopian Oz tales in which L. Frank Baum'...