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Movies Till Dawn: Horror Business (Global Terror Network)
Boilerplate: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. “The Awakening” (2011, Cohen Media Group) Writer Rebecca Hall’s skepticism in regard to … Continue reading
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Tagged Cohen Media Group, Mondo Macabro, Severin Films, Shudder Films, Warner Bros. Home Video
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Movies Till Dawn: Crime and Punishment, USA
“Positive I.D.” (1987, Kino Lorber) Emotionally pulverized and withdrawn from her family after a sexual assault, Stephanie Rascoe finds a mix of release and revenge in a loophole law that allows her to assume a different identity and pursue her … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Siren Calls
“The Letter” (1940, Warner Archives Collection) That Bette Davis, the wife of a rubber plantation owner in British Malaya, was justified in shooting the man who attempted to assault her, is accepted without question by the area’s white/wealthy community, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Cohen Media Group, Dark Sky Films, MVD Visual, Severin Films, Warner Archives Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: More Silents, Please
“The Buster Keaton Collection, Volume 1: The General/Steamboat Bill, Jr.” (1926/1928, Cohen Media Group) Two of Keaton’s final features made under his own independent production shingle, and though both were box office failures at the time of their release, they’re … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Under the Radar (Rarely Seen, Forgotten or Hard to Find)
“Under the Silver Lake” (2018, Lionsgate) Grimy, idle Angeleno Andrew Garfield looks into the disappearance of his come-hither neighbor (Riley Keough) and falls headlong into a web of underground death cults, pet serial killers, and a slew of cryptic signs … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Academy, Cohen Media Group, Kino Lorber, Lionsgate Home Entertainment
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Movies Till Dawn: Bride of (Mostly) New Movies
“On the Basis of Sex” (2018, Universal Home Video/Focus Features) Tracing the arc of Ruth Bader Ginsburg (Felicity Jones) from Harvard Law School to the groundbreaking discrimination case that would pave her way to the Supreme Court. Directed and penned … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Artsploitation Films, Cohen Media Group, Film Movement, Focus Features, GKids, Kino Lorber, shout factory, Universal Home Video
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Movies Till Dawn: Watch It! This Weekend (After Life Edition)
“You Were Never Really Here” (2017, Lionsgate) Burnt to a haunted cinder by a lifetime of unspeakable violence, Joe (Joaquin Phoenix) purges a ceaseless death wish by stalking and murdering those who traffic in underage girls. Writer-director Lynne Ramsay‘s adaptation … Continue reading
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Tagged Cohen Media Group, Kino Lorber, Lionsgate, MVD, shout factory
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Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Weekend (International Kaleidoscope Edition)
“A Fistful of Dollars: Special Edition” (1964, Kino Lorber) Grizzled stranger Clint Eastwood enters a small Mexican town dominated by two warring families, and offers his peerless talents with a pistol to both sides. An unofficial remake of Akira Kurosawa’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Cohen Media Group, Kino Lorber, shout factory, Warner Archive Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Week (Wolf Boy Mohawk Wallah Edition)
“Mohawk” (2017, Dark Sky Films) As her elders debate whether to join the Americans or the British during the War of 1812, a young Native American woman (Kaniehtiio Horn) finds that her mind has been made up for her when … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Cohen Media Group, Dark Sky Films, Kino Lorber, Warner Archive Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Weekend (End of the Year Road Trip Edition)
“Waiting For Guffman” (1997, Warner Archives Collection) If “Spinal Tap” found the all-too-human elements in oversized personalities, then “Guffman” – Christopher Guest’s first feature “mockumentary” as director/co-writer” – uncovers the stratospheric (if deeply weird) ambitions behind small-town, small-time life. Employing … Continue reading
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Tagged Cohen Media Group, Film Movement, Kinor Lorber, shout factory, Warner Archives Collection
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