April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama Primer: Zombi 3 (1988)
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on April 29 and 30, 2022. This Back to the 80s Weekend is going to be amazing! The features for Friday, April 29 are Halloween 2, Terror Train, Midnight and Effects. Saturday, April 30 has Evil Dead 2, Re-Animator, Dr. Butcher MD and Zombie 3. Admission is still […]
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama Primer: Dr. Butcher, M.D. (1980)
April Ghouls Drive-In Monster-Rama is back at The Riverside Drive-In Theatre in Vandergrift, PA on April 29 and 30, 2022. This Back to the 80s Weekend is going to be amazing! The features for Friday, April 29 are Halloween 2, Terror Train, Midnight and Effects. Saturday, April 30 has Evil Dead 2, Re-Animator, Dr. Butcher MD and Zombie 3. Admission is still […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 28: Catchfire (1990)
This Alan Smithee-directed film really belongs to Dennis Hopper, who had a rough time for a variety of reasons. There were issues between Jodie Foster and Hopper from the first day of shooting, as Foster yelled “cut” which angered the directing side of Hopper. She may have been upset by the shower scene, which is […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 28: Ghost Fever (1987)
Sherman Hemsley from The Jeffersons is Buford Washington. Luis Ávalos from The Electric Company is Benny Alvarez. And they’re Greendale County, GA — yes, a black man and a Latino in the South! — police officers sent to serve an eviction notice to a plantation when the ghosts of the former slavemaster that owned the house, Andrew […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 28: Death of a Gunfighter (1969)
Death of a Gunfighter was originally directed by Robert Totten, who directed the original The Quick and the Dead, as well as plenty of TV like Gunsmoke and Mystery In Dracula’s Castle. Despite a year of work, he couldn’t get along with star Richard Widmark and lost that battle, getting replaced by Don Siegel (Invasion of the […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 28
Who is Alan Smithee? Created in 1968 and used until it was formally discontinued in 2000, there is no Alan Smithee. Instead, it was the pseudonym used by members of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) when they were dissatisfied with the final product. In order to use the name, it had to be voted […]
ARROW SET RELEASE: Twisting The Knife: Four Films By Claude Chabrol
After enjoying Lies and Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol, the second set of his films from Arrow Video brings The Swindle, The Color of Lies, Nightcap and The Flower of Evil to your physical media collection. Over five decades, Chabrol made fifty-five feature films and I hope that this is not the last collection from Arrow. Here’s what’s on […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Twisting The Knife: Four Films By Claude Chabrol: The Flower of Evil (2003)
Three generations of a wealthy family are torn apart when Anne (Nathalie Baye), the second wife of drink philanderer Gérard (Bernard Le Coq), runs for mayor. That unleashes a political pamphlet that brings back so many old scandals, including war profiteering, corruption, Nazi collaboration, cheating, incest and generally not being very great people. At the […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Twisting The Knife: Four Films By Claude Chabrol: Nightcap (2000)
Nightcap, also known as Merci pour le Chocolat, was based on the novel The Chocolate Cobweb by Charlotte Armstrong. It’s directed and co-written (with Caroline Eliacheff) by Claude Chabrol, whose career is being re-released by Arrow Video in several box sets. André Polonski (Jacques Dutronc) is an internationally recognized concert pianist whose love life is interesting […]
ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Twisting The Knife: Four Films By Claude Chabrol: The Swindle (1997)
Victor and Betty (Michel Serrault and Isabelle Huppert) have a great angle. They go to business conventions, Berry lures a man to her room and then slips him a knockout cocktail. Victor then appears and they take the cash they need. Is there honor amongst thieves? Well, Victor lives by the rule that you should […]
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