“Ozzie and Harriet Meet Charles Manson” – Screenwriter Dana Olsen One of our favorite 80s comedies, Joe Dante’s The ‘Burbs is getting a new Collector’s Edition BluRay release by Shout Select on March 20th. BUY FROM AMAZON Synopsis: Tom Hanks stars in The ‘Burbs, a comedy about a suburbanite whose plans for […]
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In the late 60s into the 70s actor James Coburn starred in a bunch of great films like In Like Flint, The Presidents Analyst, Duck You Sucker, Pat Garrett And Billy The Kid, Harry in Your Pocket, Hard Times and The Last Hard Men just to name a few. One […]
The latest trailer for THE NICE GUYS has a “retro 70s style”. OK, adding soft focus, some split screen blips and film scratches doesn’t do too much but we appreciate the attempt at an old school Grindhouse aesthetic. The movie clearly won’t benefit from that, so we hope it’s own […]
In a white wintry abyss, the sounds of Ennio Morricone‘s ominous score plays as a stagecoach slowly comes into view. Sitting square in the path of the horse drawn buggy upon a heap of dead bodies is Major Marquis Warren (Samuel L. Jackson) an ex-Union officer turned bounty hunter. He […]
“There’s nothing like a little bit of mayhem to cheer one up.” When I was in high school my English Literature teacher introduced me to several movies that were part of the curriculum for our class. It turned out that each of them would become: some of my favorite films. […]
Giallo is the Italian word for yellow and is a reference to the cheap yellow paperback horror/thriller books that were sold in Italy during the mid 20th century. It is also a term used to describe the Italian subgenre murder-mystery films that became popular in the late 60s and early […]
“Mumbo Jumbo! Mumbo Jumbo!” In 1999 Director Roman Polanski returned to familiar territory with the devilishly entertaining supernatural mystery-thriller The Ninth Gate. Johnny Depp plays Dean Corso a rare book dealer who is in the business primarily to make big money and use his expertise to scam clients that don’t […]
The final full-length pic is the most perplexing and impenetrable – a cinematic experiment overflowed with a huge dimension of even more unbridled surrealism which is there to confound and not to sweep the confusion away. Just like Giulio Questi’s previous two creations, Arcana was written and edited by Franco […]
An old fashioned sepia toned Paramount Pictures logo at the start of Roman Polanski’s 1974 Neo Noir masterpiece Chinatown acts as a cinematic portal that sends us back into the past. The romantic horns of “Love Theme From Chinatown (The Main Title) by composer Jerry Goldsmith are enchanting as the […]
One of my personal favorite movies from the 1970s, Roman Polanski’s crime-mystery neo-noir Chinatown is hitting Blu Ray April 3rd! Set in the late 1930s, Jack Nicholson plays J.J. “Jake” Gittes, a Los Angeles gumshoe who is hired to keep tabs on Hollis Mulwray an engineer for the cities’ Department […]