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Movies Till Dawn: International House of Crime 2022
“The Beast Must Die” (1952, Flicker Alley) Argentinean adaptation, and the first of three film versions of the 1938 thriller by Nicholas Blake (pen name for Daniel Day-Lewis’s father, Cecil), with Narcisco Ibanez Menta as a mystery author who adopts … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Cohen Media Group, Flicker Alley, Kino Lorber, Severin Films
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Movies Till Dawn: Crime and Punishment USA 2022
“The Long Goodbye” (1973, Kino Lorber) A slovenly, muttering Philip Marlowe (Elliott Gould) navigates two disappearances – a close friend and a Hemingway-style author –but finds his efforts thwarted at every turn by something worse than organized crime: an incestuous, … Continue reading
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Tagged Kino Lorber, RLJE Films, Severin Films, The Film Detective, Warner Film Archives
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Movies Till Dawn: The People Next Door
“All Or Nothing” (2002, Severin Films) Studies in quiet (and not so quiet) desperation via three working class families in London, who respond to the millstone of daily life around their necks with a mix of heartbreak, defeat, and carelessness. … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Dark Sky Films, Kino Lorber, Scorpion Releasing, Severin Films, Warner Archives Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: The Saturday Morning Strange Gets Crazy (Epic-Sized Edition)
“Get Crazy” (1983, Kino Lorber) The stage crew of the Saturn Theater (played by the Wiltern in the midst of its 1980s renovation) works overtime to deliver a New Year’s Eve concert to a frenzied crowd while also contending with … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Kino Lorber, New Beverly Cinema, RLJE Films, Severin Films
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Movies Till Dawn: Wholesome Holiday Entertainment
“Prisoners of the Ghostland” (2021,RLJE Films) In a post-apocalypse Japan which has reassembled itself as a crazy-quilt hybrid of its feudal era and the American West, the cowboy-hatted leader (Bill Moseley) of a small town sends bank robber Nicolas Cage … Continue reading
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Tagged Kino Lorber, RLJE Films, Severin Films, Warner Archives Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: Fun Size Sour Shriekers (Halloween 2021)
“Roh” (2019, Film Movement) The arrival of a strange little girl with a dire pronouncement sets in motion a chain of terrible events for a rural mother (Farah Ahmad) and her two children. Deceptively simple but deeply disturbing Malaysian supernatural … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, Film Movement, Halloween, Kino Lorber, Severin Films, The Film Detective, Warner Archives Collection
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Movies Till Dawn: Coffin Crisp Wafer Bar (Halloween 2021)
“The Stand” (2021, CBS Home Video/Paramount Home Video) Miniseries adaptation of Stephen King’s sprawling apocalypse novel for CBS All Access is a vast improvement over the 1994 TV version, but still struggles to present a coherent encapsulation of the story’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Arrow Video, CBS All Access, CBS Home Video, Halloween, Kino Lorber, Paramount Home Video, Severin Films, VInegar Syndrome
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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, Halloween, 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: Horror Business (Global Terror Network)
Boilerplate: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment provided me with a free copy of the Blu-ray I reviewed in this blog post. The opinions I share are my own. “The Awakening” (2011, Cohen Media Group) Writer Rebecca Hall’s skepticism in regard to … Continue reading
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Tagged Cohen Media Group, Mondo Macabro, Severin Films, Shudder Films, Warner Bros. Home Video
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