Tag: Hal Ashby

Darryl Ponicsan’s The Last Detail + Cinderella Liberty (1973)

March 22, 2016 | By Mark R. Hasan

Two stellar classics from 1973 based on the novels by Darryl Ponicsan: Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail (Twilight Time) + Mark Rydell’s Cinderella Liberty (Fox).

BR: Last Detail, The (1973)

March 22, 2016 | By Mark R. Hasan

Scripted by Robert Towne (and preceding his Oscar-winning classic Chinatown by a year), Detail is also renowned for packing in a then record-breaking level of “fucks,” which must have made studio Columbia rather nervous in unleashing such a profanity-laden film on audiences…

Film: Thomas Crown Affair, The (1968)

August 22, 2011 | By Mark R. Hasan

Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / T to U . Film: Very Good / DVD Transfer: n/a / DVD Extras: n/a Label: n/a/ Region: n/a / Released: n/a Genre: Caper / Romance / Drama / Suspense Synopsis: A wiley insurance adjuster’s attempt to catch a millionaire thief is endangered when she starts to fall for […]

Tales of Giant Bugs on VHS, a Podcast Interview, and Tape Swapping

In addition to a review of the 3D short film ROACH (2022) on VHS, I’ve an interview with its maker, SCHNUDLBUG, and links to an essay I wrote for the latest issue of BRANDON LIM’s zine, FILM FVCKERS, titled “THE GREAT TAPE SWAP”

January 7, 2025 | By Mark R. Hasan

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

July 25, 2023 | By Mark R. Hasan

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

January 28, 2022 | By Mark R. Hasan

Latest Podcasts / Interviews

Tales of Giant Bugs on VHS, a Podcast Interview, and Tape Swapping

January 7, 2025 | By Mark R. Hasan

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.

July 11, 2021 | By Mark R. Hasan

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.

April 25, 2020 | By Mark R. Hasan

New Film Reviews

VHS: Roach (2022)

The core story involves a pilot who runs into an available, functional spacecraft, and boots up into the planet’s now-toxic atmosphere, relying on the craft’s occasionally bristling AI navigation system to find a strata safe from dense clouds, and a roving giant bug determined to make a meal of the tiny craft and its pilot.

January 7, 2025 | By Mark R. Hasan