This week the TIFF Bell Lightbox launches its 2-month series Attack the Bloc: Cold War Science Fiction from Behind the Iron Curtain, and I’ve added a list of what’s screening, what’s on DVD, and why these films matter.
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / B . Film: Good/ DVD Transfer: Excellent/ DVD Extras: Very Good Label: Anchor Bay/ Region: A / Released: April 26, 2011 Genre: Science-Fiction / Roger Corman / B-movie Synopsis: A fisherman and synchronized swimming instructor must stop an ancient dinoshark from mawling up the Puerto Vallarta coastline. Special […]
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / P to R . Film: Good/ DVD Transfer: Good/ DVD Extras: n/a Label: New Horizons/ Region: 1 (NTSC) / Released: July 20, 2004 Genre: Horror / Roger Corman / Disaster Synopsis: A marine biologist and a private investigator try and stop a mass of hybrid piranha from reaching […]
Reviews of Roger Corman’s Sharktopus (Anchor Bay), and Philippe Robert’s surprisingly fun no-budget shocker Resonnances (Synapse Films)…
Return to: Home / Blu-ray, DVD, Film Reviews / S . Film: Very Good/ DVD Transfer: Excellent/ DVD Extras: Very Good Label: Anchor Bay/ Region: All / Released: March 15, 2011 Genre: Science-Fiction / Roger Corman / B-movie Synopsis: A team of eggheads race to trap and kill an errant half-shark, half-octopus before it eats up a […]
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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