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WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS
Here are some articles from this past week that we encourage you to check out and jump in (or start) the conversation.
Sailor’s finishes up his list The 100 Greatest Horror Characters of All Time this week.
We are still looking for your Help to Shape the Future of ScreenAge Wasteland With This Questionnaire.
My Favorite is World Cinema by Lee McCutcheon.
MONSOONVISION SHOWINGS THIS WEEK
(Subject to Change)
Sunday 6/28 at 9PM CST
Movie: The Return of the Living Dead (1985)
“When two bumbling employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to rise again as zombies.”
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Wednesday 7/1 at 9PM CST
Movie: House of 1000 Corpses (2003)
“Two young couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of murder end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.”
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MOVIES WATCHED THIS WEEK
Trancers (1984)
“A gruff bounty hunter travels back in time to 1980s Los Angeles to stop a twisted criminal who can transform people into zombie-like creatures.”
Read mine and Sailor’s thoughts here.
Rocketman (2019)
“A musical fantasy about the fantastical human story of Elton John’s breakthrough years.”
Unless you are just a big fan of Elton John, Taron Egerton is the only reason to watch this because he delivers a tremendous performance. There is just nothing memorable about this biopic. It tried to be a musical at times but it seemed inconsistent. This was just fine. (3/5)
Blood Quantum (2019)
“The dead are coming back to life outside the isolated Mi’gMaq reserve of Red Crow, except for its Indigenous inhabitants who are strangely immune to the zombie plague.”
Very up and down movie. Nothing really new for the zombie genre except for a pretty smart and hilarious way to get rid of undead dead bodies. Acting isn’t great. Brutality is pretty solid. I do appreciate that it was just about survival and not the look for a cure or some place of refuge. It’s worth a watch if you are a fan of the genre. (3/5)
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