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DVD: Grindhouse Trailer Classics

DVD: Grindhouse Trailer Classics

May 2, 2015 | By

The 55 represented flicks in this collection span many genres – zombie, women-in-prison, Naziploitation, biker flicks, martial arts, straight action, car chase, slasher, rape-revenge, and charnel house gruel…

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DVD: Video Nasties – The Definitive Guide, Part 2 (2015)

DVD: Video Nasties – The Definitive Guide, Part 2 (2015)

May 2, 2015 | By

Jake West’s follow-up to Video Nasties: Moral Panic, Censorship & Videotape (2010) is another superb chapter in the history of Britain’s Video Nasties era, in which the lack of any ratings system by a government agency was in large part responsible for a glut of unrated films in rental shops…

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Thoughts on National Canada Film Day + Canada Screens

Thoughts on National Canada Film Day + Canada Screens

April 29, 2015 | By

Some thoughts on Reel Canada’s National Canadian Film Day, and how to improve fledgling CanCon online channel Canada Screens.

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BR: To Sir, with Love (1967)

BR: To Sir, with Love (1967)

April 23, 2015 | By

In 1967, Sidney Poitier appeared in three films of equal importance to his career, and roles which addressed issues of racial inequality in very different stories & expressions of outrage: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, In the Heat of the Night, and To Sir, with Love…

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Rebel Pedagogues, Part 3: To Sir, with Love (1967)

Rebel Pedagogues, Part 3: To Sir, with Love (1967)

April 23, 2015 | By

Review of Twilight Time’s fully-loaded Blu-ray edition of the classic love-your-teacher film To Sir, with Love (1967).

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