The Historian (2014)
Written and directed by Miles Doleac (The Dinner Party), this is a story all about a young history professor who heads off to a new university where he finds that no one cares — not the students, not his department chair and, well, hopefully his new love interest cares. And hey — William Sadler is […]
Victoria and Victoria (1933)
Many know Blake Edwards’s 1982 film and the 1995 Broadway production, but few have seen the original 1933 film until now, thanks to this new release by Kino Lorber. A young woman (Renate Müller) can’t find work as a singer, so she works with a down on his luck actor to revise her act and […]
The Whispering Man (2019)
Originally known as The Surreal Project, this Hungarian film has been retitled and released here in the U.S. by Wild Eye. It’s all about a family that inherits a painting that is possessed by the demon known as The Whispering Man. You know what happens next: they get rid of the painting, roll credits. I’m kidding. […]
Los Cronocrímenes (2007)
This is the first full-length film by Nacho Vigalondo, whose work also appears in the anthologies The ABCs of Death, The Profane Exhibit and VHS: Viral. He’s since made his English-language debut with the Elijah Wood and Sasha Grey-starring Open Windows and was noticed by his films Colossal and Pooka! He was inspired to make this movie by […]
Like A Boss (2020)
Man, this quarantine is killing me. If my wife wants to watch something, now we watch it. I’ve seen more than a few Tiffany Haddish movies now. Let me share my pain with you. I put on a strong front in these posts, but trust me, I always get roped in to these movies. Haddish […]
Drive-In Friday: Crown International Night
Crown International Pictures was an independent film studio and distribution company formed in 1959 by Newton P. Jacobs. They were one of the first franchise distributors for American-International Pictures and like that studio, they specialized in low-budget junk. In other words, perfect movies for the drive-in. Crown was all over the place in what they […]
The Hunt (2020)
The Hunt has often been a punchline in the emails between this site’s R. D Francis and myself, as we’ve discussed many times how bad the film appeared from trailers and whether or not the controversy was just made up to get rid of a movie that did not appear ready for theaters. When the […]
Two Heads Creek (2019)
A butcher and his twin sister have gone to Australia to find their birth mother, but what they end up finding is a small town that has a carnivorous — and yes, cannibalistic — secret. Two Heads Creek lets you know that it’s a quality, fun romp right from the beginning with great credits and well-done […]
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Directed by Stuart Paton, this was the first attempt at ever filming Jules Verne’s novel. It also includes elements of his story The Mysterious Island. It was also the first motion picture filmed underwater, which was the role of the Williamson Submarine Film Corporation in the Bahamas. While they did not use actual underwater cameras, they […]
White Fire (1984)
Also known as Vivre Pour Survivre and Le Diamant, White Fire is a movie that is crazy from literally first few moments of the movie, where Bo and Inga (soon to be played by Robert Ginty from The Exterminator and Belinda Mayne from Alien 2: On Earth) watch as their father is burned up by a flamethrower and […]
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