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Interview with the Vampire stars Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt and Antonio Banderas and adapts the best-selling Anne Rice novel (and first in her equally popular The Vampire Chronicles series) of the same name. Adaptations of major works can often be tricky, especially when you’re attempting to fit as much as you can into a two-hour runtime.

Shopping for new vaporizing gear presents a wide array of technical choices and options. Finding the right device requires matching personal habits with hardware capabilities. Beginners and experienced daily users alike need solid facts to choose reliable gear. Navigating power settings, coil styles, and tank sizes becomes simple once core features are broken down clearly. Clear criteria make selecting dependable hardware a smooth process for everyone.

This has got to be the shortest column I’ve ever written, but I was barely home this week and barely had time to read. I’m definitely falling behind again. Best Comic of My Week: Exquisite Corpses: Fox Mask Killer #1 – Writer Che Grayson and artist Adam Gorham take us back into the world of Exquisite Corpses with this miniseries that focuses on the Fox Mask Killer. We get an introduction to the world of the Tooth & Claw, an organization of assassins, and see why the Fox Mask Killer left.

Whether we’re talking about tabletop games or their digital counterparts, one thing is certain: they all test certain aspects of players. Some test reflexes, while others test long-term planning and decision-making with incomplete information. Today, we’re covering the latter: games that reward players for thinking ahead and developing complex strategies to beat other players (or the game). Below are five games that require different forms of strategic thinking.

Evil Dead Burn is the sixth entry into the horror franchise, taking place in the same universe as the other installments with small connections found between them periodically – well, small connections on top of the entire demonic possession premise at the center of each film.

The second film in what James Gunn and Peter Safran call “Chapter One: Gods and Monsters” in the new DC cinematic universe is Supergirl.

Were you part of the lucky 40,000 fans at last night’s Dodgers game last night that got to see Godzilla on the field? If not, we have a few photos of the evening fun. Here’s the press release from Toho: Happy Friday! In case you missed it last night, Godzilla took over Dodger Stadium last night as the Los Angeles Dodgers and TOHO celebrated Godzilla Minus Zero Night, bringing the King of the Monsters to the ballpark ahead of the film’s November 6 theatrical release.

For the longest time I was familiar with Spike of Bensonhurst, but had never actually seen the movie. While I had gone to the theater to see and review FilmDallas Pictures releases of Patti Rocks an Da, I have no memory of Spike of Bensonhurst playing the Carolina Theater in Durham like the others. When I went to film school at the North Carolina School of the Arts, Sam Grogg was the dean for the first few years. He was also the head of the defunct FilmDallas.

I actually reviewed Patti Rocks for N.C. State’s student newspaper Technician when it played at the Carolina Theater in Durham back in the Spring of 1988. I knew nothing about the movie. I knew even less about Loose Ends, the 1975 film that director David Burton Morris made with the two leading actors: Chris Mulkey and John Jenkins. The only hints I had about the film was the Carolina Theater had an actual warning about the language in the film.

A plague has wiped out most of the population and somehow two people have survived. They discover they aren’t completely alone as strange figures are experimenting on the recently departed. The Sky Has Fallen is a physical effects nightmare coming out on Blu-ray and Digital in October.