Reviews of The Jester’s Supper / La cena delle beffe (1942) from One 7 Movies with Osvaldo Valenti and Luisa Ferida, Italy’s wartime silver screen power couple whose tragic final years and execution were dramatized in Wild Blood / Sangepazzo (2008) from eOne.
Reviewed are two films I’d have to have if trapped on a desert island: Steve Kloves’ The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) from Twilight Time + Robert Towne’s Tequila Sunrise (1988) from Warner Home Video.
Review of Roger Corman’s rare studio picture, the outstanding true crime thriller The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967), new on swanky Blu from Twilight Time.
Review of the demented stage version of the classic 1973 cult film “The Baby” + a podcast interview with writer-director Dan Spurgeon and star Frank Blocker.
Book signing alert: yours truly (plus other excellent writers) will be signing copies of the new U of T book “The Canadian Horror Film: Terror of the Soul” this Sat. Oct. 24 at the TIFF Bell Lightbox + imminent podcast details.
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