The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963)
Mario Bava is a genius. This is the root of all giallo before The Bird with the Crystal Plumage and it stars John Saxon as Dr. Marcello Bassi and Leticia Roman as Nora Davis, a young girl who travels to Rome only to witness murder after murder. No one believes her because there’s no corpse. And it […]
Acts of Desperation (2018)
Alan Grilo is a police officer struggling to do his job because all he can think about is how his wife might be cheating on him. Then, there’s Glenn Kolasa, a bank thief who is dealing with Alan chasing him down as well as two blackmailers. Everyone gets pulled into a dangerous and violent cat and mouse game between these […]
Death Laid an Egg (1968)
Let me put it out there right now: This movie is completely insane. Let me see if I can summarize it. A high tech chicken farm is trying to create birds that have no heads or bones. A love triangle develops between the three people who run it: Anna (international sex symbol and the photojournalist […]
Blood and Black Lace (1964)
There’s no way to calculate the influence of Blood and Black Lace. It takes the giallo from where Bava started with The Girl Who Knew Too Much and adds what was missing: high fashion, shocking gore and plenty of sex. The results are dizzying; it’s as if Bava’s move from black and white to color has pushed […]
Kill Bill Volume 2 (2004)
When we last saw the Bride, she’d crossed two names off of her kill list: O-Ren Ishii and Vernita Green. And oh yeah — we also learned that her daughter is still alive. Now, she’s finally going to do what she’s been promising. She’s going to kill Bill…right after she gets through Elle, Budd and […]
Kill Bill Volume 1 (2003)
I had a discussion this week about whether or not an excessive amount of tributes and homages within a film makes for a great movie or one worthy of derision. It all depends on how well remixed the source material is. When it comes to the two Kill Bill movies, the multiple references are so dense […]
Us (2019)
As anyone who reads this site on an ongoing basis knows, I watch a lot of movies. That’s an understatement. But rarely do I find myself unable to move at the end of a film. That’s how I found myself at the end of Us, sitting in my theater chair, staring at the credits, trying to […]
Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance (1974)
When we’d last seen Meiko Kaji’s Lady Snowblood, she was passed out face down in the snow at the end of a climactic battle. Any worries or reports of her demise have been greatly exaggerated, as this film starts off with her already in the midst of a battle, as she walks toward the camera […]
The Tattooist (2018)
We first met Michael Wong when he sent us his film The Story of 90 Coins. Now, he returns with what he’s calling a micro short, which lasts a little over a minute and appears to be the trailer for what could be quite an interesting horror film. Wong shot everything at the Scream Zone Escape […]
37 movies that make up Kill Bill
Is Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill an outright ripoff or a homage full of sampled scenes and ideas from the director’s favorite films all put together based around a story that unites them? No matter what side of the fence you stand on, we thought it’d be a good idea to list as many of the references […]
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