Every month, I find myself thinking “Holy sweet Jesus-on-a-stick, Synapse Films — what the hell did you dig up now?”
Archive for July, 2009
*DVD Reviews* Animalda & Rosarigasinos
Posted: 31 July, 2009 in Movies/TVTags: Animalada, Argentina, beastiality, dark comedy, gangster, Rosarigasinos, Spanish, Synapse Films, zoophilia
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*DVD Review* Door Into Silence
Posted: 29 July, 2009 in Movies/TVTags: Black Emanuelle, Door Into Silence, Giancarlo Ferrando, Italian, Jennifer Loeb, Joe D’Amato, John Savage, Lake Pontchartrain Causeway, Laura Gemser, Lucio Fulci, Severin Films, supernatural, Thriller, Twilight Zone
It’s been 13 years now since Italian horror filmmaker Lucio Fulci left our world. I remember hearing about his passing back in 1996 and finding it hard to believe, really. But it was only after watching Lucio’s final opus, the 1991 thriller Door Into Silence, that it really hit home for me: “This is the last film Fulci ever directed!”
*DVD Review* Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery Of America
Posted: 29 July, 2009 in Movies/TVTags: amateur filmmaking, bad, Magnolia Home Entertainment, Norse, Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery Of America, shot on video, Vikings
Sounds fantastic, doesn’t it? Well, try to contain your excitement — for I have come to tell you that you’re just going to have to keep on imagining for such a film since Severed Ways: The Norse Discovery Of America isn’t it.
*DVD Review* The Diary Of Anne Frank (1959): 50th Anniversary Edition
Posted: 28 July, 2009 in Movies/TVTags: George Stevens, Holocaust, The Diary Of Anne Frank, WWII
It’s nice to know that some movies don’t lose their impact over the course of fifty years. Take George Stevens’ The Diary Of Anne Frank, for instance.
*Blu-ray Review* Fast & Furious
Posted: 27 July, 2009 in Movies/TVTags: Action, Drama, Fast & Furious, Jordana Brewster, Justin Lin, Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker, racing, Sequel, series, Thriller, Vin Diesel
Look, if you had to depend on the story alone, you’d find yourself sinking quicker than you would if you were in a boat made by The Three Stooges. So just enjoy the sights and sounds instead.
*DVD Reviews* The Green Hornet (1940) & The Green Hornet Strikes Again!
Posted: 27 July, 2009 in Movies/TVTags: Action, Classic, cliffhanger, family, Keye Luke, serial, Spies, The Green Hornet, The Green Hornet Strikes Again, The Lone Ranger, VCI, WWII
OK, so while there is really nothing for us to do about the upcoming remake, the good folks at VCI Entertainment have done an amazing restoration job for both The Green Hornet (1940) and its 1941 sequel, The Green Hornet Strikes Again!.
*Music Review* Awaydays: Original Soundtrack
Posted: 23 July, 2009 in MusicTags: Awaydays, CD, Music, soundtrack
All in all, Awaydays a fun soundtrack, even if you haven’t read the book that inspired it or the film that it inspired.
*DVD Review* Doc Martin: Series 2
Posted: 22 July, 2009 in TVTags: British, Comedy, Doc Martin Series 2, Drama, House, M.D., Martin Clunes, medical, Saving Grace, series, TV
“Ah, Martin Clunes,” I thought, “the guy from Men Behaving Badly. This ought to be fun.” And indeed it was. My fiancée and I only had to view the first episode to fall in love with this wonderful British comedy/drama series.
