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Screamers (1995) – Review

Director: Christian Duguay

Stars: Peter Weller, Roy Dupuis, Jennifer Rubin

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A gargantuan box office flop at its initial release, ‘Screamers’
( an adaptation of legendary writer Philip K. Dick’s horrifying short story ‘Second Variety’) has since fallen into relative obscurity, left largely forgotten by sci-fi audiences.

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Out of the Past (1947) – Review

  Director: Jacques Tourneur

  Stars:  Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas

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In the pantheon of great noirs, one usually finds such illustrious works  as Double Indemnity, Touch of Evil, The Third Man or The Maltese Falcon. One not as well- acquainted with the era easily forgets, however,  that the enthusiastic creativity that typified the period  in which they were made
( 1941-1958, roughly), has spawned hundreds more of these genrefilms. Many of which are just as good as – or sometimes superior over – the ones listed above. Read the rest of this entry

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