Murder in Paradise – The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden
DVD review of Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine’s latest documentary, The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden (2013), from Zeitgeist Films.
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DVD: Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden, The (2013)
The latest collaboration from documentarians Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine (Ballet Russes) is what’s ostensibly a true life (and likely true crime) tale of three sets of eccentric European settlers who carved out their own respective pockets of paradise on the harsh Galapagos island of Floreana during the 1930s, and after enduring jealousies, drought, and internecine levels of contempt, where given a jolt by a series of peculiar disappearances…
Nikkatsu Naughties, Part 8: For the Love of Dance!
DVD Reviews of Nikkatsu’s dance-themed naughties – Female Gym Coach: Jump and Straddle (1981) + Sex Hunter (1980) from Impulse Pictures / Synapse Films.
DVD: Female Gym Coach: Jump and Straddle / Onna taiiku kyôshi: Tonde hiraite (1981)
Junko Asahina (Horny Working Girl: From 5 to 9, I Love It From Behind!) plays Kei, a former balance beam gymnast who’s somewhat traumatized by her company’s decision to hire her former coach, a cocksure tyrant who ruined her concentration and severed future certificates of merit when he just had to bag his pliable protégé the day before her Big Performance…
DVD: Sex Hunter / Sekkusu hantâ – sei kariudo (1980)
Prior to Evil Dead Trap (1988), Toshiharu Ikeda apprenticed at Nikkatsu as an assistant director before making his debut in 1980 with Sukeban mafia: Rinchi, after which came Sex Hunter, one of the strangest and perhaps more offensive Roman Porno films sanctioned by the studio…
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