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Movies Till Dawn: Chocolate Vampire Kisses (Halloween 2021 Edition)
“Kolchak: The Night Stalker (The Complete Series)” (1974-75, Kino Lorber) Having survived a vampire in Las Vegas and an undead strangler beneath the city of Seattle, reporter Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin, still decades away from playing the Old Man from … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, Severin Films, VCI Entertainment, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: Men and Their Decisions
“The Green Knight” (2021, Lionsgate Home Entertainment/A24) Retelling of the 14th century Arthurian poen with Dev Patel as a decidedly un-heroic (at first) Sir Gawain, who is reluctantly thrust into action by the supernatural Green Knight’s plan to claim his … Continue reading
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Tagged A24, Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, Lionsgate Home Entertainment, Severin Films, VInegar Syndrome
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Movies Till Dawn: Little Stabs at Happiness
Quick boilerplate: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided with free copies of the Blu-rays I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. “Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid” (1982, Kino Lorber) Co-writer/director Carl Reiner and co-writer/star Steve … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Music, Offbeat LA
Tagged Kino Lorber, Submarine Music, Warner Archives Collection
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Wife Of A Spy Builds a Hitchcock Style Thriller Based In Pre-WW2; Releasing September 24
Wife Of A Spy is an exquisitely crafted film from Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure, Tokyo Sonata). The film, in Japanese with English subtitles, takes place in Kobe, Japan, pre-war 1940. Satoko (Yū Aoi, Japan Society’s 2021 Honoree) is … Continue reading
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Tagged hitchcock, japan, Kino Lorber, Manchuria, Thriller, Wife of a Spy, World War 2, WW2
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Movies Till Dawn: Horror Business (Cold War Creeps and Creatures)
“The Giant Claw” (1957, Arrow Video) Jeff Morrow and a host of fellow ’50s sci-fi stalwarts (Mara Corday, Morris Ankrum) battle an enormous extraterrestrial bird that lays waste to the U.S.-Canadian border (played by Griffith Park) and later, the New … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Horror Business (Neon Demons)
“Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker” (1983, Code Red) Life for adopted teen Jimmy McNichol gets weird in a hurry after he’s offered a college basketball scholarship: the attentions of his aunt (the late, great Susan Tyrell) turn from overprotective to unsettlingly … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Blue Underground, Code Red, Kino Lorber, Severin Films, VInegar Syndrome
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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
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Movies Till Dawn: Vintage Distractions
“My Little Chickadee” (1940, Kino Lorber) The lawless Western town of Greasewood City is no match for the twin Dionysian forces of saloon singer and free thinker Flower Belle (Mae West) and garrulous con man Cuthbert J. Twillie (W.C. Fields), … Continue reading
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Tagged Elvis Presley, Kino Lorber, Rankin-Bass, Scorpion Releasing, Warner Archives Collection
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A Generous Helping of ‘Lunch,’ Served at the Moroccan Lounge and Nuart
Lydia Lunch (Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, 1980 solo debut “Queen of Siam”) comes to Los Angeles direct from her home in New York, where The Wrinkle Room & Moroccan Lounge will present An Evening of Spoken Word & Music … Continue reading
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
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Tagged Arrow Academy, Arrow Video, Film Movement Classics, Kino Lorber, Warner Archives Collection
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