Tag: Martin Landau

BR: Tucker – The Man and His Dream (1988)

September 5, 2018 | By Mark R. Hasan

Originally conceived as a musical (!) but shelved for several years until friend George Lucas asked ‘Hey, whatever happened to that movie about Preston Tucker?’ Francis Ford Coppola’s deeply personal biopic…

Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors + TJFF 2014: Claire Bloom

May 19, 2014 | By Mark R. Hasan

Two related reviews: Woody Allen’s Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) makes its debut on Blu (Twilight Time) + a doc on Claire Bloom, recently screened at TJFF 2014.

BR: Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)

May 19, 2014 | By Mark R. Hasan

There’s a genuine lightness to this otherwise grim tale of an ophthalmologist who reluctantly agrees to take the advice of his street-smart brother Jack and kill an obsessed lover Dolores bent on exposing an illicit relationship and embezzling…

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