Get disturbed by Joe Dante’s The ‘Burbs
“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...
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James Coburn prescribes pain in the THE CAREY TREATMENT
In the late 60s into the 70s actor James Coburn starred in a bunch of great films like In Like Flint, The Presidents Analyst,...
Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are THE NICE GUYS
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...
Heinous Haberdashery of Horrors: Quentin Tarantino’s THE HATEFUL EIGHT
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...
SLEUTH is a smashing mystery indeed
“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...
Spaghetti Slashers: 20 Giallo Classics
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...
Johnny Depp encounters evil in THE NINTH GATE
“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...
The Unique Worldview of Giulio Questi – Part 3
The final full-length pic is the most perplexing and impenetrable – a cinematic experiment overflowed with a huge dimension of even more unbridled surrealism...
Film Noir Classics: CHINATOWN
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...
Jack Nicholson gets nosey in CHINATOWN
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...
