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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: What’s New for 2020?
“The Lighthouse” (2019, Lionsgate Home Entertainment) Isolation, treacherous weather, grain alcohol and dangerous secrets – as well as a possible sea monster or two – collaborate to drive grizzled 19th century lighthouse keepers Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson out of … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: It Gets Dark Early This Time of Year
“Midsommar” (2019, Lionsgate Home Entertainment) Reeling from a terrible family tragedy, an already-anxious Florence Pugh discovers, far too late, that a visit to a remote religious community in Sweden is a Very Bad Decision. Writer-director Ari Aster‘s second feature doesn’t … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: New Kind of Kick (in the Head) Edition
“Dragged Across Concrete” (2018, Lionsgate Home Entertainment) A trifecta of hardluck types – disgraced cops Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn and ex-con Tory Kittles – decide that the solution to their downward-spiraling fortunes is to rob violent criminal Thomas Kretschmann. … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: New Year (Mostly) New Movies Part 3
“The Girl in the Spider’s Web” (2018, Sony Home Entertainment) Hard-boiled hacker Lisbeth Salander – here played by “The Crown’s” Claire Foy – is tasked with destroying software that can access to the world’s nuclear arsenal; when the sinister Spider … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: High Tension for the Holidays 2018
“Await Further Instructions” (2018, Dark Sky Films) Fractious British family discovers that their tense holiday celebration has become more unpleasant due to an unseen force that issues increasingly violent demands through their television set. An appropriately nasty parable for nasty, … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: September Shock Show Edition (Second Part)
“Dead Night” (2017, Dark Sky Films) Indie creepshow by Brad Baruh, which follows two concurrent tracks, one of which follows a family’s visit to a remote cabin, where Dad AJ Bowen can take advantage of healing mineral deposits to ward … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Dark Sky Films, Kino Lorber, MPI Media, MVD Rewind Collection, MVD Visual
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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 Pre-Halloween Weekend (Bite-Sized Sugar Skull Edition)
“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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Tagged Arrow Video, Cinedigm, Cohen Media Group, Dark Sky Films, Kino Lorber, shout factory, Undercrank Productions
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Movies Till Dawn: Programmer’s Notes – Documentaries Real and Imagined
With reality seemingly at a premium of late, it might time to look at a recent spate of documentaries – and one mockumentary – as a palate cleanser to the current state of things. “All Things Must Pass: The Rise … Continue reading
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Tagged Billingsgate Media, Dark Sky Films, FIlmrise Warner Archives Collection, Kino Lorber
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