Orchestrator of Storms: The Fantastique World Of Jean Rollin (2022)
This year began for me with the deepest of dives into all things Rollin, so when this movie was announced, I was quite excited. Dima Ballin and Kat Ellinger have been working for some time to make this film which attempts to get the world to recognize him as “one of genre cinema’s most singular […]
88 FILMS BLU RAY RELEASE: Magnificent Warriors (1987)
Fok Ming-ming (Michelle Yeoh, as ever amazing) and Secret Agent 001 (Derek Yee) are Chinese secret agents who learn that the city of Kaa Yi is being turned into a weapons manufacturing site by Japanese occupation forces. Along with a drifter (Richard Woo) and Princess Chin-chin (Cindy Lau Chin-Dai), they must rally the people to […]
CLEOPATRA ENTERTAINMENT BLU RAY RELEASE: The Long Dark Trail (2022)
After two teenage brothers manage to escape their abusive father, they embark on a journey in the hope of finding their estranged mother who has joined a sadistic cult deep in the woods of Northwestern Pennsylvania. Like Erie, maybe? Directed and written by Kevin Ignatius (a Pitt grad) and Nick Psinakis, this story of Henry (Carter […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Las orgias inconfesables de Emmanuelle (1982)
Emmanuelle, reunited with her husband and making love in a wax museum surrounded by images of Hollywood like John Wayne and Superman and you might think, “Wow, Jess Franco making an Emmanuelle movie*, I wonder what that’s like?” And then you realize that outside of this scene, the one that follows and the end didn’t […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Rififí en la ciudad (1963)
EDITOR’S NOTE: You can read another take on this film here. Based on the Charles Exbrayat novel Vous souvenez vous de Paco, this is all about everyone in the orbit of a corrupt politician named Maurice Leprince (Jean Servais), those who want to protect him and those who seek to stop him. This is Franco’s homage to […]
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