Trying to increase my #Japanuary dosage just a little bit more (also see my recent review of Irezumi), I went for Blind Beast (Môjû) next. Arrow Video’s BluRay release seems like a great opportunity to further expand my short exursion into the work of Yasuzo Masumura who also directed this […]
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“You got low self-esteem baby, you’re a fantastic fuck.” The excessive nature of Martin Scorsese’s latest effort The Wolf of Wall Street got me thinking about another movie I love with a massive amount of T&A and crazy behavior. I’m talking about Paul Verhoeven’s SHOWGIRLS (1995). The screenplay was written […]
In this new series, we’ll be listing a variety of popular grindhouse genres and subgenres, explain them for beginners (or newcomers), and provide outstanding examples and links to further reading for interested minds. Cautionary Films & Drugsploitation The earliest kinds of exploitation films were actually presented as educational movies about […]
Hey Furious Freaks! Get your claws sharpened and ready to grab another hi-def digital treasure! Shout Factory will be releasing Director Paul Schrader’s 1982 remake of the Jacques Tourneur gothic noir classic on January 21, 2014. Fans of cult cinema will surely want to add this newly restored collector’s edition […]
“I like to watch.” Throughout the 1970s, Director Brian DePalma established himself as one of the best of The Movie Brat collective of filmmakers which included Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Martin Scorsese. In the early 80s his erotic thriller Dressed To Kill got him labeled a misogynistic Hitchcock ripoff […]
The first film I ever saw by David Cronenberg was his reimagining of the sci fi film The Fly. I knew after that visceral experience he was an incredibly daring filmmaker with a dark, thought provoking style all his own. 10 years later he made CRASH (1996), based on the […]