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Movies Till Dawn: Short and Sweet and (Mostly) Brand New, Part 2
“Skate Kitchen” (2018, Magnolia Home Entertainment) Shy New York tomboy Rachelle Vinberg finds acceptance and confidence – and considerable drama – when she joins an all-female skateboard crew. Dramatic feature debut of Crystal Moselle (“The Wolfpack“) benefits greatly from her … Continue reading
Movies Till Dawn: Post-Thanksgiving Small Plates of Reality
“Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood” (2017, Kino Lorber) Delirious, gossip-laden portrait of nonagenarian Scotty Bowers, who from a gas station at 5777 Hollywood Blvd., is alleged to have provided discreet sexual favors to a galaxy of Golden Age … Continue reading
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Tagged FIlmRise, First Run Features, Kino Lorber, La-La Land Entertainment, MVD Visual
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Movies Till Dawn: Arthouse Confidential
“Art School Confidential” (2006, MVD Visual) Naïve student Max Minghella is dismayed to find that his dream of becoming the next Picasso is regularly trampled at an East Coast art college by a parade of egos, both dampened and unfettered, … Continue reading
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Tagged Arbelos Films, Kino Lorber, MVD Marquee Collection, MVD Visual
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Movies Till Dawn: Mad Monster Party I
“The Evil Dead” (1981, Lionsgate) A quintet of Michigan college students makes the unfortunate decision to read from a book of incantations, which unleashes demonic forces determined to turn them, as the great drive-in critic Joe Bob Briggs rightly put … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Lionsgate, MVD Visual, Scream Factory, shout factory
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Movies Till Dawn: Special Beast Rubbish Edition
“Beast” (2018, Lionsgate) Smothered under the emotional rubble of her dysfunctional family and troubled past, Moll (Jessie Buckley) finds what seems like salvation in rough-hewn but ruggedly handsome Pascal (Johnny Flynn); so great is her need to escape that she … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, Lionsgate, MVD Visual, Second Run DVD, shout factory, Warner Archives Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: TV Archaelogy (Part 2 – Martian Sentai Octopus Edition)
“The Martian Chronicles” (1980, Kino Lorber) Six-hour, three-part miniseries attempts to translate Ray Bradbury‘s collection of short stories and prose poems about the fallout of an attempted colonization of Mars by Earth astronauts. Screenwriter Richard Matheson uses mission commander Rock … Continue reading
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Tagged Kino Lorber, MHz Networks, MVD Visual, shout factory, Van Dyke Parks
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Movies Till Dawn: TV Archaeology (Part 1 – Ash, Sid and Joan Edition)
“Ash vs. Evil Dead: The Complete Series” (2016-2018, Anchor Bay) Five-disc Blu-ray set packages the gore-soaked TV adventures of Ash Williams (Bruce Campbell), the bloviating, abuse magnet hero of Sam Raimi‘s “Evil Dead” trilogy. Here, as in the films, it’s … 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: Hired, Wired and Inspired Edition
“First Reformed” (2017, Lionsgate) Locked into an emotional and spiritual spiral by the loss of parishioners, the death of his son and declining health, a small-town Protestant minister (Ethan Hawke) finds something like purpose in the apocalyptic visions of a … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Academy, Arrow Video, Film Rise, Kino Lorber, Lionsgate, MVD Marquee Collection, MVD Visual, shout factory, Shout Studios
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Movies Till Dawn: Birds, Bone and Bean Edition
“The Yellow Birds” (2017, Lionsgate) Adaptation of Kevin Powers’ much-celebrated novel traces the conflicts in war and at home endured by two American soldiers during the Gulf War. Alden Ehrenreich and Tye Sheridan are two sides of the same untested … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, IFC, Lionsgate, Magnolia Home Entertainment, MVD Visual, Warner Archive Collection
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