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Video Tales I: Rewind This, Firing Up the Betamax, and The Magic Beta Case

January 11, 2014 | By admin | Add a Comment

The Editor’s Blog goes in-depth with much personal blather about Josh Johnson’s new documentary on VHS collecting, Rewind This! (MPI). In addition to a review of the doc, there’s a review Charlie Sheen’s No Man’s Land as watched on Betamax, a short-short film on “The Magic Beta Case,” and a review of David Gregory’s great doc on Britain’s Video Nasty era – Ban the Sadist Videos! (Severin Films).

News + Soundtrack Reviews

January 9, 2014 | By admin | Add a Comment

Some site update news & info on upcoming film reviews (plus a short-short video), and soundtrack reviews of Lior Ron’s Pablo (Light Drop Music), and Murray Gold’s Doctor Who Series 7 and the double-billed The Snowmen + The Doctor, the Widow, and the Snowmen (Silva Screen).

R.I.P. Wojciech Kilar

December 29, 2013 | By admin | Add a Comment

R.I.P. Wojciech Kilar, one of Poland’s greatest composers.

Nikkatsu Naughties, Part 6: Nurses-in-Training!

December 29, 2013 | By admin | Add a Comment

Yes, in addition to several classic and horror film reviews on the way, there is some smut from Impulse Pictures / Synapse Films: Nurse Diary- Wicked Finger / Kangofu nikki – waisetsu na karute (1980), and Story of White Coat – Indecent Acts / Hakui monogatari – Midasu! (1984), directed by Debauchery’s Hidehiro.

Despotism, Hedonism, and Outrageous Conduct

December 29, 2013 | By admin | Add a Comment

Newly reviewed are Christoph Waltz in one of the best TV mini-series you’ve never heard of, Konig der letzten Tage (ARD Video), Sam Spiegel’s last great epic Nicholas and Alexandra on Blu (Twilight Time), and Franco Nero in the period drama The Sack of Rome / aka Oro, aka Zoloto (One 7 Movies).