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Mondo in HD
Review of Warner Home Video’s sparkling Blu-ray release of Human Planet, the BBC’s unexpected entry in the mondo genre…
The Corman Touch: Part II
Reviews of Roger Corman’s productions of Dinoshark (Anchor Bay) on Blu-ray, and Piranha (aka Piranhas), the all-but-forgotten 1995 cable TV movie that replays all major events from the ’78 original with William Katt and Alexandra Paul…
Ottawa, Part I: Tulips & Pretty Little Flowers
Editor’s Blog on absolutely nothing filmic, but rather Ottawa’s 2011 Tulip Festival, with pictures. Why? Because I can…
Soundtrack Reviews + News
Some brief soundtrack news, and reviews of The Symphonic Celtic Album (Silva Screen), Kristopher Carter’s Yesterday Was a Lie and Abel Korzeniowski’s Copernicus’ Star (both from La-La Land Records)…
The Works of Radley Metzger: Part I
Lengthy Editor’s Blog on the first in (another) ongoing filmmaker series, timed with the release of two Radley Metzger classics in erotic cinema: The Image (Synapse Films) and The Lickerish Quartet (Cult Epics)…
Argento at the TBL and Anthony Gilbert’s “The Woman in Red”
News: Toronto may have been blessed, because July 2nd the TIFF Bell Lightbox will be screening Dario Argento’s Suspiria (1977) and Opera (1987). Reviews: two versions of Anthony Gilbert’s novel “The Woman in Red” were made into films: the underrated My Name is Julia (1945) and Arthur Penn’s last great feature film, Dead of Winter (1987)…
Moguls & Studios: Part I
In Part I of yet another series, we have a review of the TCM mini-series Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (Warner Home Video), plus bonus editorial blather!
Gangsters – Part III
In Part III, we have Sergio Leone’s arty gangster epic, Once Upon a Time in America, released by Warner Home Video in a gorgeous Blu-ray edition…
Video Nasties, Part II
Synapse Films released a swanky new Blu-ray / DVD combo edition of Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter’s slasher classic The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982) which, like Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead (1981), was branded by Britain’s paranoid censor board as a Video Nasty…
Images of Colonial Foolishness
Editor’s Blog on Building Big in rustic areas during the colonial boom, with plenty of image and film links for Beira’s once majestic Grande Hotel, plus links to Bokor Hill Palace, a similar effort in European ego set in Cambodia…
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