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BLU-RAY REVIEW: RIGOR MORTIS (2013)
Director Juno Mak, quite possibly as famous for his role in (and the creator of) the Wong Ching-po directed slasher/love story REVENGE: A LOVE STORY as he is for his career as a pop singer with...
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DVD REVIEW: VIDEO NASTIES: THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE (2014)
Anyone that knows anything about horror films is well aware of a period in British horror film history where a woman by the name of Mary Whitehouse and the NVALA (National Viewers And Listeners...
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BOOK REVIEW: BIG ASS SHARK by Briar Lee Mitchell
Since Shark Week was not too long ago, I thought that I would start reading some sharksploitation novels and stories, which I don’t know if the term “sharksploitation” can technically even be...
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DVD REVIEW: AT WAR WITH THE ARMY (1950)
The comedy duo of Martin & Lewis, comprising of actor/singer Dean Martin and comedic slapstick artist Jerry Lewis, team up for a comedic romp that takes place in the army entitled AT WAR WITH THE...
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BOOK REVIEW: FULL FRONTAL TENUDITY! by Judy Tenuta
Who is Judy Tenuta? Honestly, when I requested this book from Bear Manor Media to read and review, I do not know whom I was thinking this woman was or what the content of her book would be about....
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DVD REVIEW: TRIAD (2012)
Movies that revolve around criminal organizations, such as the Italian Mafia, the Mexican Mafia, the Japanese Yakuza, and the Chinese Triads–have always intrigued me. I feel that they make for great...
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BLU-RAY REVIEW: NIGHT OF THE COMET (1984)
The Arrow Films’ blu-ray release of NIGHT OF THE COMET, filled with all the bells and whistles one would expect from an Arrow Films release (Boy, do I get jealous of some of the cool artwork and extra...
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BLU-RAY REVIEW: SALVATORE GIULIANO (1962)
The film, SALVATORE GIULIANO, starts out with a dead body laying face-down in a dirty courtyard in a town in Sicily, gunshot wounds to various parts of the body in what looks to be a man gunned-down in...
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DVD REVIEW: DIRTY SANCHEZ (2013)
Indie horror filmmaker Anthony Cooney, a Chicago-native and also a friend of SHU-IZMZ, has made a few short films in his burgeoning career of indie horror filmmaking, each film getting a smidgeon of a...
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DVD REVIEW: THE HOUR OF THE LYNX (2013)
Director Søren Kragh-Jacobsen’s THE HOUR OF THE LYNX (or its original title: I LOSSENS TIME) is the sad story of a young man with mental issues who has been locked up in a high-security psychiatric...
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DVD REVIEW: REAL HEROES (2014)
REAL HEROES is the story of a misfit string of B-Grade super heroes who audition for a reality television show and hope to “hit the big time” from the exposure and gain some notoriety as a...
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BLU-RAY REVIEW: THE GUEST (2014)
THE GUEST’s director, Adam Wingard, has a pretty good track record with me. Although I have not seen a good majority of his body of directorial work, what I have seen I have really liked. I guess I...
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TELEVISION REVIEW: MARK AT THE MOVIES
I love movies. I love all kinds of movies. Sometimes I enjoy “dumb” movies for various reasons and sometimes I want to see a very smart and technically mind-blowing film on another day. I may like that...
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BOOK REVIEW: I’M THE MAN: by SCOTT IAN with Jon WIEDERHORN
As I cracked open the brand spanking new hardcover book published by Da Capo Press, I’M THE MAN: The Story of That Guy from Anthrax by Scott Ian w/ Jon Wiederhorn, I thought it was going to be another...
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TV MOVIE REVIEW: HIGH HOPES: THE AMITYVILLE HORROR MURDERS (2014)
Sadly, I first learned of the Amityville Horror Murders from, of course, remembering the original THE AMITYVILLE HORROR film from 1979 starring James Brolin as George Lutz and Margot Kidder as Kathy...
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BLU-RAY+DVD COMBO REVIEW: GET ON UP (2014)
Everyone knows James Brown’s music, whether it be the memorable horns and guitar strumming of “Papa’s Got a Brand New Bag” or the equally popular “I Got You (I Feel Good)”, and his particular sound and...
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BLU-RAY+DVD Combo REVIEW: A WALK AMONG THE TOMBSTONES (2014)
Maybe Liam Neeson has been typecast as an ass-kicking, thug-terrorizing, criminal-castrating man of virtue whose morality code goes out the window when dealing with the lowliest of lowly dirtbags...
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BLU-RAY+DVD REVIEW: JOHN WICK (2014)
In case you didn’t know what you were about to get into, you are about to begin reading a review of the film JOHN WICK, by a film buff who generally dislikes Keanu Reeves as an actor. When the...
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BOOK REVIEW: INTO THE BLACK: THE INSIDE STORY OF METALLICA
If one has been keeping up with my reviews and posts at SHU-IZMZ (as they should be!), they will have known that the first book by authors Paul Brannigan and Ian Winwood (“BIRTH SCHOOL METALLICA DEATH:...
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BLU-RAY REVIEW: DAY OF ANGER a.k.a. I GIORNI DELL’IRA (1967)
Originally titled I GIORNI DELL’IRA, DAY OF ANGER (world-wide English title) which is also known as GUNLAW (in the U.K.), DAYS OF WRATH (USA alternative), and BLOOD AND GRIT (U.K. alternative), is a...
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