Category: FILM REVIEWS
The Saga of Coffin Joe: Part I
With the release of the third and final (Ha!) entry in the Coffin Joe Trilogy, I’ve reviewed the lot: At Night I’ll Take Your Soul and This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (Anchor Bay U.K.), and the gory Embodiment of Evil (Synapse Films)…
John Huston’s Cold War Thrillers
Reviews of two great espionage gems by director John Huston: The Kremlin Letter (Twilight Time), and The MacKintosh Man (Warner Home Video)…
“Pilot Error”
Reviews of three films dealing with pilots and the huge risks and responsabilities within their grips: Clarence Brown’s 1933 melodrama Night Flight (Warner Home Video), Ralph Nelson’s still-potent Fate is the Hunter (Twlight Time) from 1964, and Henry Koster’s No Highway in the Sky drama from 1951 (still unavailable on DVD)…
Colour Noir
Review of Richard Fleischer’s superb ‘colour noir’ suspenser, Violent Saturday (Twilight Time)…
Deep, Deep, Down
Film review of the pretty but horribly written underwater cave drama Sanctum (Universal), aka ‘The Descent without monsters,’ now out on Blu-ray with Nullarbor Deeaming, the rare 1989 documentary that inspired this James Cameron-produced film…
Let’s go to Italy: Mimsy Farmer, Part I
Editor’s Blog on a new series devoted to English-language thespians who found better creative fortunes (and fresh pasta) in Italy during the sixties and early seventies, starting with American actress Mimsy Farmer, who appeared in Francesco Barilli’s dreamy giallo Perfume of the Lady in Black / Il profumo della signora in nero (1974) (Raro Video USA), and Armando Crispino’s sleazy Autopsy / Macchie solari (Blue Underground)…
The Car in Motion: Racing Films, Part I
First enty in racing films, starting with a review of John Frankenheimer’s Grand Prix (Warner Home Video), which contains superb widescreen racing sequences…
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…
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)…
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