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SILVER BULLET

This 1985 release can lay claim to being among the absolute dumbest Stephen King movies

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MOVING VIOLATIONS

The “institutional comedy” model, established in 1984 by POLICE ACADEMY, was given a fair-to-middling workout in this science fiction-tinged comedy

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SICK

A promising but not entirely successful horror novel that debuted at the wrong time

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CHOICE CUTS

Initially published back in 1965, CHOICE CUTS is, despite some affecting passages, strictly a product of its time

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TRAPPED

I maintain that the Edmund Plante authored 1987 horror-fest TRANSFORMATION is a rotgut classic.  TRAPPED, Plante’s similarly oriented 1989 follow-up, is not.

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KUBRICK: AN ODYSSEY

This book has been proclaimed the definitive biography of the great Stanley Kubrick, and for once the hype is correct

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