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[Turner Classic Movies will show Cocoon, one of Ron Howard's pretty-good movies, this coming Sunday, Feb. 10, at 2:45 p.m. Pacific Time. The following review appeared in The Weekly during the film's 1985 first run. Also on screens then was another sci-fi film in a very different key, Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce. That won't be on [...]

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Take out the word “Chainsaw” and it could be the title of a Western. And what do you know? It is. The Texas Chainsaw Massacre takes place over one day, from sunrise after a night of grave desecrations to sunrise after a night of unspeakable murderous horror. Sunset comes not at [...]