MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: Superior 8 Ultra Brothers (2008)
The first Ultraman was introduced to our world — as well as the universe of this movie in 1966. As children, Daigo Madoka, Shin Asuka and Gamu Takayama were inspired by the show and never forgot about their hero, even after they grew up. Nor did they forget the strange girl they met the first […]
CANNON MONTH: The Frog Prince (1986)
Cannon Movie Tales was a huge project for the studio, a series of 16 live action children’s movies from Cannon Group producers Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus, associate producer Patricia Ruben and executive producer Itzik Kol. Filmed in Israel, these movies feature major stars as the leads supported by an Israeli cast and they had […]
CANNON MONTH: Salsa (1988)
Cannon made more than a few dance craze cash-ins. We already covered Breakin’ and Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. In our next Cannon Month, we’ll get to the split of Goram and Globus and the same day release of Lambada and The Forbidden Dance. Today, we salsa. Former Menudo member Robby Rosa is Rico, a mechanic by day and […]
CANNON MONTH: Shy People (1988)
A nominee for the 1987 Cannes Film Festival Golden Palm and the movie that won Barbara Hershey best actress at that year’s festival, Shy People features the eleventh official soundtrack by the band Tangerine Dream. Want to know more about them? Check out a past article we featured on the site, Exploring: 10 Tangerine Dream Film Soundtracks. Diana […]
Interview with Ed Glaser, author of How the World Remade Hollywood part 4
All week long, Ed Glaser, the author of How the World Remade Hollywood, has been discussing just why remake and remix cinema is great. Here’s our final segment. B&S: Are there any movies that didn’t make it into the book? Ed: I wanted to cap it at 75, so there were definitely some I couldn’t […]
CANNON MONTH: Powaqqatsi (1988)
Directed by Godfrey Reggio, Powaqqatsi is the sequel to Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi and the second film in the Qatsi trilogy. This is one of the few, if only, Cannon movies in the Criterion Collection. It’s also the only Golan and Globus released film with a Phillip Glass soundtrack. In fact, Glass also traveled to the locations with […]
SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE: Night’s End (2022)
Ken Barber (Geno Walker, who is great in this movie) is recovering from a breakdown, alone in a new apartment where he’s pushing his personal physical improvement while obsessively recording YouTube self-help videos that have viewers in the single digits. His apartment is filled with dead and stuffe birds, dying plants and newspapers lining the […]
MILL CREEK BLU RAY RELEASE: Ultraseven X – The Complete Series (2017)
The 20th entry in Tsuburaya Productions’ long-running Ultra Series, Ultraseven X is a revival of the 1967 series Ultraseven and the first Ultra show to be made exclusively for an adult audience. In a world where all war has been eliminated, Jin deals with amnesia and a new life, as he’s given a mission by a secret […]
CANNON MONTH: Appointment With Death (1988)
After numerous other theatrical and made-for-television adaptions where Peter Ustinov played Hercule Poirot, including Murder On The Orient-Express, this would be the actor’s last time playing the role. This time, he was directed by Michael Winner, who you probably wouldn’t consider for the restrained world of Agatha Christie. He spoke to this by saying, “You […]
CANNON MONTH: Bloodsport (1988)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We watched this during our week of Van Damme on July 10, 2019. This has been updated and added for our month of Cannon films. You can also read Ten things you should know about Jean-Claude Van Damme to understand just how beloved he is on our site. Jean-Claude Van Damme — the […]
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