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Day: April 13, 2026

Movie reviews

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ARROW VIDEO 4K UHD and BLU-RAY RELEASE: The Birthday (2004)

Is there anything more stressful than meeting your girlfriend’s father for the first time? How about doing it at a lavish, Kafkaesque hotel where everyone looks like they walked out of a 1940s noir and a doomsday cult is busy prepping for the arrival of a cosmic god? The Birthday premiered at Sitges in 2004, […]

April Movie Thon Movie reviews

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APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 13: Gui wu xiao jing (1990)

April 13: (Evil) Plant Appreciation Day — It ain’t easy being green. Pay tribute to all the plants with a movie starring one of them. Also known as Haunted House Elf, this Hong Kong/Taiwan crossover has a rich Hong Kong family move to a new home in Taiwan, where poor kid Wang Chi-Chiang convinces Shiao-Ming (Lin Hsiao […]