Tag Archives: Kino Lorber

Movies Till Dawn: All Points on the Map

*indicates that this title is also available to rent, purchase from, or stream on various platforms. “Black Circle” (2018, Synapse Films*) A self-help record from the 1970s which promises to reduce the negative elements in the listener’s life proves accurate … Continue reading

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Movies Till Dawn: Recently Unearthed

*indicates that this title is also available for rent, purchase, or viewing through streaming sources. “Party Girl” (1995, Fun City Editions*) Breezy comedy from the ’90s indie scene fueled largely by the effervescent presence of Parker Posey as a New … Continue reading

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Movies Till Dawn: From Long Ago

*indicates that this title is also available to view, rent, or purchase on various streaming platforms. “Tom Mix: Sky High/The Big Diamond Robbery” (1922/1929, Undercrank Productions*) Two adventures featuring Tom Mix, a Western star of the silent era whose vast … Continue reading

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Movies Till Dawn: My Fist/Your Face 2

*indicates that this title is also available to view, rent, or buy on various digital streaming sources. “The Cynic, the Rat, and the Fist” (1977, Severin Films*) The cynic is the magnificently mustachioed Maurizio Merli, who reprises his role as … Continue reading

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Movies Till Dawn: Here and There, Then and Now

* indicates that the film is also available for digital sale or rental on various platforms. “The Worst Ones” (2022, Kino Lorber*) A filmmaker (Johan Heldenberg) and his crew seek an authentic tone to their socially conscious drama by casting … Continue reading

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Movies Till Dawn: Freaky Deaky

“V/H/S/99” (2022, RLJE Films) Fifth entry in the found footage horror anthology franchise is set in 1999 (the tail end of the VHS era, it should be noted), which is echoed, somewhat opaquely at times, in the subject matter of … Continue reading

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Movies Till Dawn: Thrills and Chills ’23

“AmnesiA” (Cult Epics, 2001) Photographer Alex (Fedja van Huet) abandons his faltering career – too many visions of a past trauma interrupting the shoots – and joins his twin brother Aram (also van Huet) at their mother’s home, which appears … Continue reading

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Movies Till Dawn: Beyond Belief Part 3

“Police Story 3: Supercop” (1992, 88 Films) Third entry in Jackie Chan’s long-running action-crime film series (which includes one spinoff and two reboots) is also one of its most entertaining thanks to the proliferation of eye-popping stunts and the addition … Continue reading

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Movies Till Dawn: B/W

“The Night of the Iguana” (1964, Warner Archives Collection) Sin and redemption (but mostly sin) in Puerto Vallarta, with Richard Burton as a defrocked priest leading American tours in Mexico and Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, and Sue Lyon as various … Continue reading

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Movies Till Dawn: Beyond Belief

“The Texas Chain Saw Massacre” (1974, Dark Sky Films) Tobe Hooper’s landmark horror film has been imitated, duplicated, and sequelized multiple times, all of which (even Hooper’s own 1986 revisit) haven’t come close to the anarchic, nightmarish terror of the … Continue reading

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