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Category: Movie Reviews

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Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2

June 16, 2017 Ken Newquist Movie Reviews, Movies & TV, Movies & TV Reviews

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2 is an unapologetic comic book movie that embraces the bright colors, superhero logic, and heart-on-your-sleeve emotions of the best of Marvel’s vintage titles from the 1970s and 80s The first movie felt more like[…]

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Helicopters fly toward a giant ape. The ape is backlit by a sunset; small mountains appear at his feet.

Kong: Skull Island

March 20, 2017 Ken Newquist Movie Reviews, Movies & TV, Movies & TV Reviews

I’ve got a soft spot for lost worlds in general, and Skull Island in particular. I love the idea of worlds that time forgot, wrapped up in mystery, mysticism and maybe a touch of the occult. In many ways, King[…]

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A woman sits on a pile of debris, a gun raised in her left hand while the sun sets behind her. Crumbling buildings appear to the left and right.

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter

February 18, 2017 Ken Newquist Movie Reviews, Movies & TV, Movies & TV Reviews

Resident Evil: The Final Chapter is a bad movie. It is a terrible, ridiculous, over-the-top, spectacularly bad movie … and that’s why I loved it. Look, let’s be clear — there are no good Resident Evil movies. They’re all bad[…]

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A red dragon looms menacingly over a burning medieval town.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

December 20, 2014 Ken Newquist Movie Reviews, Movies & TV

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is either too short, or too long … I haven’t decided which yet. Regardless it’s a movie filled with spectacular moments, tremendous visuals, and a sense that there’s a story that was[…]

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A creepy cabin is divided into thirds, then each third is slightly rotated.

The Cabin in the Woods

August 7, 2013 Ken Newquist Movie Reviews, Movies & TV

The Cabin in the Words is the ultimate meta monster movie. It lovingly explains exactly why all those countless teenagers in all those terrible creature features movies had to die, and does so in amusing — yet horrifying — fashion.

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The yellow eyes of a snake stare out of the darkness.

B-movie villainy rules Anaconda

August 3, 2013 Ken Newquist Movie Reviews, Movies & TV

There are certain animals that simply creep people out. Endless documentaries on the Discovery Channel and PBS have shown us that sharks, spiders, and snakes are misunderstood creatures, but that doesn’t stop up from secretly worrying about being strangled in[…]

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Get ready to run from the Eight Legged Freaks

August 2, 2013 Ken Newquist Movie Reviews, Movies & TV

Eight Legged Freaks is a throwback to the radiation-infused monster movies of 1950s, in which fallout from a nuclear weapon causes fauna to grow to unusual size and then go on a murderous rampage. In Eight-Legged Freaks, it’s toxic waste[…]

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The words "The Relic" written over a distorted, screaming red face. The face appears over a black background.

Don’t Uncover The Relic

July 31, 2013 Ken Newquist Movie Reviews, Movies & TV

The Relic is a Alien-rip off creature feature with delusions of scientific authenticity, unlikeable characters, and an underwhelming monster. It’s appearance on Netflix streaming may tempt you to watch it, but you’re better of watching one of the many Tremors sequels available on the service.

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Prometheus: A Flawed Creation Story

July 30, 2013 Ken Newquist Movie Reviews, Movies & TV

The night I went to see Prometheus, a friend tried to wave us off, calling the movie a “hot mess”. We saw it anyway … and she wasn’t wrong. This isn’t to say it doesn’t have it’s moments, but the[…]

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A lone individual sits in an observation bubble on a starship, surrounded by dingy, beat-up computer equipment.

Alien: The Definitive Interstellar Creature Feature

July 29, 2013 Ken Newquist Movie Reviews, Movies & TV

Alien isn’t just a monster movie. In many ways it is the definitive interstellar creature feature that spawned dozens of half-baked imitations (including some that had the Alien moniker) Thirty-four years after its release, the movie remains one of the best monster — and science fiction — movies ever made.

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Nuketown is a speculative fiction website that’s been published continuously since 1996.

It’s publishing focus is articles, reviews and editorials about science fiction, fantasy, and horror with heroic overtones. It covers a variety of topics within the speculative fiction genre, including games, movies, soundtracks, books, and websites.

Radiating from Easton, Pa.

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