Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / B . Film: Excellent / DVD Transfer: n/a / DVD Extras: n/a Label: n/a/ Region: n/a / Released: n/a Genre: Drama / Suspense Synopsis: A doctor ‘re-assigned’ to a country hospital awaits her turn to flee from Communist East Germany. Special Features: n/a . . Review: Even when making […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / V to Z . Film: Excellent / DVD Transfer: Very Good/ DVD Extras: n/a Label: Indigo (Germany)/ Region: 2 (PAL) / Released: March 2, 2009 Genre: Suspense / Drama Synopsis: A womanizer saves the life of the woman whose son he killed in a car accident, and attempts […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / G . Film: Very Good/ DVD Transfer: Very Good/ DVD Extras: n/a Label: Indigo (Germany)/ Region: 2 (PAL) / Released: July 7, 2006 Genre: Drama Synopsis: A teenage orphan encounters a woman claiming to be her mother. Special Features: n/a . . Review: The middle film in Christian […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / V to Z . Film: Good/ DVD Transfer: Very Good/ DVD Extras: Good Label: New Yorker Video/ Region: 1 (NTSC) / Released: March 17, 2009 Genre: Drama / Mystery Synopsis: After fleeing from her abusive ex-husband, a young woman forges a strange alliance as she enters the cut […]
Running at the tIFF Bell Lightbox us Christian Petzold’s excellent and very intimate drama Barbara, starring Nina Hoss as an East German doctor quietly waiting for her chance to escape from under the evil Communist thumb. Uploaded in tandem with the film review are mobile editions of three other Petzold films reviewed at KQEK.com – Yella (2007), Gespenster / Ghosts (2005), and Wolfsburg (2003). Oh yeah: and Happy New Year!
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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