One of the strangest tales in film history is the abduction of late South Korean director Shin Sang-ok and award-winning film star Choi Eun-hee by North Korea’s Kim Jong-il to improve his country’s film industry…
Film: Good Transfer: Good VHS Extras: n/a Label: Section 23 Region: (NTSC) Released: February 20, 2001 Genre: Science-Fiction / North Korean / Propaganda Synopsis: A dying villager creates a vengeance deity that increases in size and might as it devours metal, and eventually transforms into a force oppressed villagers use to fend of an evil, […]
Editor’s Blog on the plight of Jafar Panahi, and a DVD review of the 2009 documentary Kimjongilia (Mongrel / Lorber) of life under a big fist…
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / J to L . Film: Very Good/ DVD Transfer: Very Good/ DVD Extras: Good Label: Mongrel (Canada) / Lorber (U.S.) / Region: 1 (NTSC) / Released: October 12, 2010 Genre: Documentary / North Korea Synopsis: Oral chronicles by refugees of life in North Korea under the fist of Kim Il […]
Now Where Were We? Right. Let’s go back to LAST NIGHT (1998)
Don McKellar’s LAST NIGHT (1998) is the first review after a long pause in activities at KQEK.com
Gothic Steele: An Angel for Satan (1966)
Review of AN ANGEL FOR SATAN / UN ANGELO PER SATANA (1966), Barbara Steele’s last Italian Gothic, on Blu-ray from Severin Films
Spanish Giallo I: When a Cannibal is not a Cannibal, but When a Scream is Indeed a Scream
Severin Films showcases the work of Eloy de la Iglesia via two fine Spanish gialli entries: NO ONE HEARD THE SCREAM (1973) + CANNIBAL MAN (1972)
ArtScopeTO 10: Interview with Abstract Painter Donna Wise
For my occasional podcast series ArtScope TO, Abstract Painter Donna Wise discusses her unique techniques, and working during the 2020-2021 pandemic.
Podcast: Jason Pichonsky on Restoring Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + PHOBIA (1980)
Alongside a podcast with CanCon film historian Jason Pichonsky are revised reviews of Julian Roffman’s THE BLOODY BROOD (1959) + John Huston’s PHOBIA (1980), both from KINO Lorber / Unobstructed View.
Podcast: ANNE WITH AN E composers Amin Bhatia & Ari Posner
Podcast interview with ANNE WITH AN E’s composing team Amin Bhatia and Ari Posner.
Assorted characters collide and interact in the lead-up to Earth’s demise at precisely midnight.
BR: Angel for Satan, An / Un angelo per Satana (1966)
Had Barbara Steele remained in Europe – especially Italy – during the early 1970s, she may well have appeared in giallo thrillers…
BR: Cannibal Man / La semana del asesino / Apartment on the 13th Floor, The (1972)
Cannibal Man has a palpable crime-drama feel – the events unfold after daily title cards – and one can sense Hitchcockian sensibilities…
BR: No One Heard the Scream / Nadie oyó gritar (1973)
After the grisly thriller Cannibal Man (1972), Spanish auteur Eloy de la Iglesia opted for a far less graphic thriller which is part giallo…
DVD: Go-Go Boys: The Inside Story of Cannon Films, The (2014)
Produced and released around the same time as Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014), the approach by director Hilla Medalia is a more authorized chronicle…
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