A salute to fascism on screen – via The Hunger Games (Alliance / Lionsgate) and Anchor Bay’s Battle Royale: The Complete Collection – plus new images of North Korea’s Ruygyong Hotel, aka The Hotel of Doom, aka the Ugliest Building in the World!
Film reviews of The Sound and the Fury (Twilight Time) on Blu and The Long, Hot Summer (Fox) on DVD, each based on material by impenetrable writer William Faulkner, plus news of Sam Sniderman’s passing – bigwig of Sam the Recordman
Blu-ray review of the History Channel’s epic mini-series Hatfields & McCoys (Sony) plus an interview with its Emmy-Nominated co-composer, Tony Morales, and soundtrack album review (Silva Screen).
Blu-ray review of John Gulager’s flat Piranha 3DD (Alliance), a film that utterly fails to recapture the guilty pleasure magic of Alexandre Aja’s 2010 film.
Blu-ray review of Synapse’s swanky Twins of Evil (1971), the latest in the label’s HD Hammer horror series.
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