Tag Archives: Cohen Media Group

Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Weekend (End of the Year Road Trip Edition)

Posted on December 28, 2017 by Paul Gaita

“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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Movies Till Dawn: What You Could Be Watching This Pre-Halloween Weekend (Bite-Sized Sugar Skull Edition)

Posted on October 25, 2017 by Paul Gaita

“Land of the Dead” (2005, Shout Factory) The late George A. Romero‘s last solid zombie effort (two more lower-budgeted entries were released after it), which closes the door on civilization by suggesting that the dead may actually be more human … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: ‘Tis the Season – High Tension for the Holidays

Posted on December 17, 2016 by Paul Gaita

“Don’t Breathe” (2016, Sony) What seems at first like the simplest of robberies – the theft of insurance money hidden in the home of a blind man (Stephen Lang) – proves far more complicated for a trio of young and … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: A Month of Monsters, Part 5 (A Milder Sort of Macabre Edition)

Posted on October 29, 2016 by Paul Gaita

“Chandu the Magician” (1932, Kino Lorber) Who can save the world from the arch-villain Roxor (Bela Lugosi)? Only one man – Chandu the Magician (Edmund Lowe), who pits his mastery of mystical arts against Roxor’s death ray. At 71 minutes, … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: Action Packed – Continental Edition

Posted on December 9, 2015 by Paul Gaita

Midnight – “Two Men in Town” – Crime Drama (1973, Cohen Media Group) Melancholy French noir about redemption and fate, with Alain Delon as a former bank robber freed from prison through the intervention of social worker Jean Gabin, who … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: In Glorious Black and White (and Orange and Blue), Part 2

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Paul Gaita

12 a.m. – “Sherlock Holmes” – Adventure/Mystery (1916, Flicker Alley) Before Basil Rathbone, Jeremy Brett, and more recently, Benedict Cumberbatch, William Gillette was the actor most associated in the public’s mind with portraying Sherlock Holmes, and this silent film, considered … Continue reading →

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Movies Till Dawn: In Glorious Black and White

Posted on July 22, 2015 by Paul Gaita

12 a.m. – “The House of Mystery” – Adventure/Drama/Serial (1921-1923, Flicker Alley) Think of this ten-episode, six-and-a-half-hour silent French melodrama as an arthouse thriller in serial form, with the best qualities of each of those styles and genres. Produced and … Continue reading →

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