Recent Comments
- Movies Till Dawn: Criminals in Charge | The LA Beat on Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange vs. Strangler
- Editor on Movies Till Dawn: Something for Your Rattled Nerves
- Coches excéntricos e icónicos de Los Ángeles y las coloridas personalidades que los conducen. - Notiulti on Offbeat L.A.: Cast Me in Your Next Film! Actor Dennis Woodruff, A Hollywood Legend and His Tricked Out Cars
- Movies Till Dawn: Last House on Dead End Street | The LA Beat on Movies Till Dawn: Something for Your Rattled Nerves
- Movies Till Dawn: House of Dark Shadows | The LA Beat on Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Weekend (24 Hour Vampire Mission Edition)
Categories
Tag Archives: Arrow Video
Movies Till Dawn: Horror Business (Blood in Black and White)
“Dr. X” (1932, Warner Archives Collection) As I mentioned in a 2016 write-up, this absolutely out-to-lunch thriller, from “Casablanca” director Michael Curtiz, “folds cannibalism, serial murder, deranged scientific experiments, artificial flesh, and unseemly obsessions into its 76-minute running time.” The … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellanious, Movies
Tagged Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, Warner Archives Collection
Leave a comment
Movies Till Dawn: Mid-July Global Mayhem
“The Daimajin Trilogy” (1966, Arrow Video) Enjoyable blend of Japanese giant monster movie and historical action/drama, all issued in the same year by Daiei (the home of Gamera) and hinged on a similar plot: a massive statue of a warrior … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Arrow Video, MVD Visual, Second Run DVD, Severin Films, Warner Archives Collection
Leave a comment
Movies Till Dawn: Past in Present
“Giants and Toys” (1958, Arrow Video) Desperate candy manufacturing exec Hiroshi Kawagachi hitches his company’s tumbling fortunes on spokesmodel Hitomi Nozoe, an enthusiastic young girl with dreadful teeth who becomes a national sensation that quickly eclipses his control. Sharp-witted and … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Arrow Academy, Arrow Video, Film Movement Classics, Kino Lorber, Warner Archives Collection
Leave a comment
Movies Till Dawn: Skull-Busters’ Union (International Chapter)
“Graveyards of Honor” (1975/2002, Arrow Video) Two takes on crime, ego, and self-destruction in Japan, courtesy of cult directors Kinji Fukusaku and Takashi Miike. Both features are based on the life of gangster Rikio Ishikawa, whose almost supernatural anger (and … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Arrow Video, Artsploitation Films, Film Movement, Kino Lorber
Leave a comment
Movies Till Dawn: Science Fiction and Fact
“Minor Premise” (2020, Utopia) Researcher Sathya Sridharan, crumbling under strain from multiple fronts (his late father’s scientific legacy, his shambolic life, alcohol), pours his energy into an experiment to control emotion, which literally shatters him into 10 distinct personalities, each … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: With/Without a Backwards Glance
“The Wild Life” (1984, Kino Lorber) Wasted days and wasted nights with three boys (Eric Stoltz, Chris Penn, and Ilan-Mitchell Smith) navigating the suburban jungles of Los Angeles. Minor retread of co-director-writer-producer Cameron Crowe and co-director Art Linson‘s “Fast Times … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Television
Tagged Arrow Video, Film Movement, Fun City Editions, Kino Lorber, VInegar Syndrome
Leave a comment
Movies Till Dawn: Chills in Springtime
“The Bloodhound” (2020, Arrow Video) “The Fall of the House of Usher,” transposed to Middle America, where Liam Aiken accepts an invitation from oddball friend Joe Adler (the 2017 “Twin Peaks”) to visit his lonely midcentury modern home, where Adler’s … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, Mondo Macabro, Paramount Home Video, Severin Films
Leave a comment
Movies Till Dawn: International House of Action
“Versus” (2000, Arrow Video) To their chagrin, escaped convict Tak Sakaguchi and his Yakuza confederates discover that the remote location chosen for their meet-up is called the Forest of Resurrection for a reason: it’s a portal of Hell that causes … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange Has Risen from the Grave
“Southland Tales” (2006, Arrow Video) The fate of a post-apocalyptic United States – or its ultimate demise, as narrator Justin Timberlake occasionally and obliquely infers – rests in the hands of amnesic action star Dwayne Johnson, who has penned a … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Guilty Pleasures and Nostalgic Nonsense (2021 Edition)
“Hard to Hold” (1984, Kino Lorber) Pop-rocker Jamie Roberts (Rick Springfield) contends with writer’s block, his ex-wife (Patti Hansen), and the attention of adoring fans while also pursuing romance with icy Janet Eilber. Much-maligned vehicle for Springfield, intended to springboard … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Television
Tagged Arrow Video, CBS Home Video, Kino Lorber, Paramount Home Video, Warner Archives Collection
Leave a comment
