Directors Brean Cunningham and Douglas Seirup manage to maintain a very careful balance in this poignant portrait of a special program in which stray dogs from the American South are rescued, physically rehabilitated, and trucked up to a Massachusetts prison where minimum security inmates train the dogs over an 8 week period before they’re adopted by (primarily) families…
After travelling to the U.S. to be mentored by renowned jazz trumpet player Clark Terry, Australian drummer Alan Hicks was soon offered a prime spot in the jazz icon’s band, touring across Europe for four years before Terry’s next student, pianist Justin Kauflin, caught the drummer’s attention…
Reviews of three 1980s shockers of varying quality: John Schlesinger’s deliciously trashy occult thriller The Believers (Twilight Time), Sam Raimi draws blood in Josh Becker’s Thou Shalt Not Kill… Except (Synapse Films), and Klaus Kinski reprises Nosferatu in Vampire in Venice (One 7 Movies).
John Schlesinger (Marathon Man, Pacific Heights) directed this occult thriller that’s perhaps best-remembered by fans for a giant zit that emits spiders from Helen Shaver’s face…
Originally called Stryker’s War, Josh Becker’s film was given a weird new title by original handler Irwin Shapiro which mandated the change if Becker & Co. wanted their film to earn some exposure and make back a little green…
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