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Guest Blogger Justin McConnell on Under-Seen X-Mas Horror Films Worth a Look
Christmas-based horror is a sub-genre that is seldom recognized, but actually includes a vast array of titles dating back decades. A few are quite well known, with titles such as the original Black...
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February Faves: Glenn Walker’s Favorite Daikaiju
For the month of February, we’ll be doing something special here at Biff Bam Pop! Each week our writers and correspondents will be compiling lists of their favorite things. Many of us were introduced...
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Saturday At The Movies: The Amazing Spider-Man 2: The Joy of Lowered...
I have a problem… …really, what a surprise! See, I’ll find out about an upcoming movie, I’ll read the stories written by breathless fanboys and interviews of actors and directors, and watch every...
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Doubling Down: TIFF’s Best Sequels
With the release of a 4K digital restoration of the classic The Godfather Part II (1974), TIFF is putting on a great program as well. Second Coming: Cinema’s Greatest Sequels is exactly that, a look...
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Doubling Down 2: More of TIFF’s Best Sequels
A few weeks back I took a look at a great sequels program TIFF is running in Toronto: Second Coming: Cinema’s Greatest Sequels. And sure enough, like a Hollywood mogul counting box office receipts...
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The Next Phase of the Marvel Cinematic Universe
This afternoon, Marvel Studios held a press conference at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles to announce the next batch of movies in their ever-growing Marvel Cinematic Universe. There were some...
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Steampunk Granny’s Take on The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part I
I have a secret to tell you. I have all the Hunger Games books, but I haven’t read any of them yet. I’ve made a conscious decision to watch the films first, and then read the books. This is a reverse...
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Marie Gilbert On… Alien
Each week, one of Biff Bam Pop’s illustrious writers will delve into one of their favorite things. Perhaps it’s a movie or album they’ve carried with them for years. Maybe it’s something new that...
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Who watches out for Watchmen 2?
Let’s make this point clear right away: There shouldn’t be any prequels or sequels to Watchmen. The seminal work by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons was originally released as a twelve-issue miniseries in...
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Make The Time For Men In Black 3
Did you think Men In Black 3 was going to be an epic failure? That’s ok if you did. Ten years from the last, underwhelming sequel and rumours of a troubled shoot would lead anyone to believe that the...
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Prometheus Pre-Game – Glenn Walker Revisits Alien 3
The Alien pseudo-sideways-prequel Prometheus hits theaters in a few days, and as part of our build-up for the release here at Biff Bam Pop!, our editor-in-chief asked me to review Alien 3. At first I...
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Prometheus Pre-Game: An Aliens World Where Newt and Hicks Lived?
Did you check out our own Glenn Walker’s piece on the much maligned and possibly misunderstood Alien 3? If not, it’s well worth your time as the man looks back at the failed third film in the venerable...
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RIP Larry Hagman
Larry Hagman passed away yesterday, appropriately in Dallas, from complications of his ongoing battle with cancer. The veteran actor and director was 81. The son of actress Mary Martin, he began...
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Trailer Time: Kick-Ass 2
Also premiering today is the special Hit-Girl spotlight trailer for Kick-Ass 2: Kick-Ass 2 opens on August 16th, 2013, stars Chloe Grace Moretz as Hit-Girl and Aaron Taylor-Johnson as Kick-Ass, and...
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Star Trek Into Theatres – Biff Bam Pop’s Box Office Predictions
After a long wait, a new Star Trek instalment is on the big screen. Will the anticipation translate into dollars? Here’s our prediction. To everyone except a vocal minority of fan boys who will still...
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Emily McGuiness thinks you might get a Hangover Part III
Dream crushed. Dream stomped on, chewed up, spit on. Hollywood, you fickle mistress, you have disappointed me again. Just once, once, I would like to see a sequel that lives up to the potential of the...
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Trailer Time: The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
It’s that time of year again, as December approaches we get closer to the next installment of The Hobbit series. The Desolation of Smaug is directed by Peter Jackson, and stars Sir Ian McKellan,...
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31 Days of Horror 2013: The Human Centipede
When The Human Centipede came out almost five years ago, it became one of the most infamous horror films of its time, stretching the meaning of terror, disgust, and incredulity. It truly is an...
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Biff Bam Pop’s Holiday Gift Guide 2013 – A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes...
For the past three decades A Christmas Story has become a holiday cult classic. Whether it’s a 24 hour marathon on Christmas Day, a Broadway musical adaptation, or sequels (good and bad), the film...
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31 Days of Horror 2016: The Spawn of Jaws
Monsters like Dracula, Frankenstein, and Godzilla have had dozens of movies made about them, some good and some bad, but why is it that Jaws, a monster all too real, who chased folks out of the water...
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31 Days Of Horror: Halloween III
The Halloween franchise is near and dear to my heart as Part 4 was just coming out at a time when I was jumping into horror with both feet. Michael was on the cover of Fangoria and I read my friend’s...
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The Week In Horror: ‘The Ranger,’ Frank Henenlotter, ‘Unfriended’ + ‘Halloween’
If you’re at SXSW, you can see the debut of Jenn Wexler’s The Ranger on March 12, 13, and 15, a movie in which group of punks run afoul of a psychotic park ranger. I’m really excited for this one and...
View ArticlePredator Week: ‘Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem’ (2007)
On paper, I’m sure Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem looked like the “Xenomorphs on Earth” movie fans had been clamoring for since Ripley shot one of the bastards out of the airlock back in 1979. It is not...
View Article31 Days of Horror: Rick Rosenthal’s ‘Halloween II’ is Terrible and Wonderful
Rick Rosenthal’s Halloween II is a divisive film. Not in the horror community, per se, but in my own addled brain. Part of me believes Halloween II is the strongest entry in the entire franchise since...
View Article31 Days of Horror: ‘Halloween: H20 – 20 Years Later’ Begins the Haddonfield...
The producers seemed so set on making Halloween: H20 – 20 Years Later an event film, they couldn’t be bothered enough to properly name it. It’s a Halloween movie, here’s when it takes place, Jamie Lee...
View ArticleTrailer Time: ‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Looks to Be Both Fast and Furious
I don’t pay any attention to the Fast and Furious franchise, but the trailer for the spinoff, Hobbs & Shaw, looks absolutely nuts. Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham together, fighting an evil...
View ArticleThe Week In Horror: Adrienne Barbeau, ‘Rabid,’‘A Quiet Place 2’
Good morning, afternoon, or evening, fiends. Welcome back to The Week In Horror. I’ve spent the last couple of weeks catching up on some remakes and 90s horror films I’d originally turned my nose up at...
View ArticleTrailer Time: ‘Dark Phoenix’ with an Emphasis on ‘Dark’
Dark Phoenix looks better with every trailer that comes out. Sophie Turner is out to make all the things explode as the alien-enhanced Jean Grey. She looks like a viable threat and, if we’re lucky,...
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Fantasia 2019: ‘Sadako’ Trips On Its Way Back to the Well
The 2019 Fantasia International Film Festival kicked off its 23rd year with the North American premiere of the latest entry into the series of Ringu films, spinoffs, and offshoots, Sadako. Director of...
View ArticleTrailer Time: ‘3 From Hell’ Bleeds Out a Full-Length Preview
Here’s a better look at the new Rob Zombie movie, 3 From Hell. With better insight into how Otis, Baby, and Captain Spaulding survived the shoot-out at the end of The Devil’s Rejects, this trailer is...
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