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Mar 11
Impulse Buy Theater - The Lake Michigan Monster
“One month ago, me and a fellow ship captain o’ mine ventured out on a morning fishing trip upon the great tides of Lake Michigan. As we...
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Oct 3, 2022
Sex & Violence Movie Review Part 1 - Porno
Chekov’s Gun. It’s a principle in drama, both on stage and on screen, that if you allude to something in the first act, you need to have...
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Sep 19, 2022
Movie Review - The Call of Cthulhu
Filming H.P. Lovecraft stories has always proven to be an interesting proposition. Hollywood has always shied a way from the material,...
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Mar 13, 2022
MechaMarch - Robot Jox
We’re already almost halfway through the month and I’ve failed to unleash a theme, so let me take this opportunity to welcome you to...
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Mar 10, 2022
Thriller Thursday - Pontypool
Yeet. 10 years ago, ‘yeet’ didn’t exist. Even now as I’m typing this, Microsoft word is telling me that ‘yeet’ isn’t a real word either....
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Feb 19, 2022
Samurai Saturday - Six-String Samurai
This one’s gonna be weird to write. I can’t even imagine how tough it would be had I not seen the movie before! Today, in this amalgam of...
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Aug 25, 2016
Kung Fu Concussion Discussion - The Assassin
It’s almost not right to throw this in with the usual fare I’ve come to associate with the Kung Fu Concussion Discussion, but it was the...
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Aug 17, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Fire City: End of Days
Well, they can’t all be good. While I’m certain that this isn’t the first or the last time an Impulse Buy Theater review goes negative,...
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Jul 4, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Freaks of Nature
One week. The film was only out for one week. You see, I remember seeing the trailer for Freaks of Nature a week before it was released...
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Jun 1, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater's Avengers - Captain America (1990)
As any dog with a hankering for Christmas tinsel will tell you…sometimes a shiny shit makes all the difference in the world. And that’s...
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May 1, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater's Avengers - The Incredible Hulk TV Movies
The Marvel Cinematic Universe is not unique. There, I said it. And no, I’m not alluding to DC’s nascent effort into that arena. Hell,...
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Feb 24, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Turbo Kid
What if the Power Glove for the old Nintendo Entertainment System was as cool as your young imagination had hoped? Now, mix that thought...
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Feb 6, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - What We Do In The Shadows
Before we wrap up our Down Under trilogy here on Impulse Buy Theater, be sure to check out part 1, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead and part 2,...
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Feb 3, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Deathgasm
Check out part 1 of our Down Under trilogy, Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, here! For part 2 of our Impulse Buy Theater Down Under trilogy,...
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Feb 1, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead
Everything you have or will read or hear about Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead will tell you that it’s ‘Mad Max meets Dawn of the Dead’. ...
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Jan 24, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Love in the Time of Monsters
Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to present…the greatest assembly of undead woodland creatures ever put to film…Love in the Time of...
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Jan 6, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Embrace of the Vampire
Part 3 of how I spent my drunken New Year’s Eve! See Part 1 HERE and Part 2 HERE! So now, we must complete the trilogy…but a warning...
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Jan 5, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Black Scorpion
Part 2 of how I spent my drunken New Year’s Eve! See Part 1 HERE. Comic books have a linear progression in their history: the emergence...
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Jan 4, 2016
Impulse Buy Theater - Lifeforce
How I spent my drunken New Year’s Eve: Part 1 Directed by Tobe Hooper, fresh off of the success of Poltergeist. Written by Dan O’Bannon,...
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Dec 16, 2015
Impulse Buy Theater - The Final Girls
Part 2 of a 2 part Impulse Buy Theater!!! Last time…we talked about my going into a Best Buy wanting to buy “The Final Girls” and leaving...
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