ARROW BLU RAY RELEASE: Black Sunday (1977)
Black Sunday was an always on HBO film in my childhood — the HBO Guide from January 1978 confirms this, I would have been six years old — and it was pure childhood trauma. There were my beloved Pittsburgh Steelers under attack by a terrorist piloting the Goodyear blimp! It was too much for my young […]
The Welder (2021)
Roe (Roe Dunkley) and Eliza (Camila Rodríguez) are dealing with her PTSD from her military service, which is causing her sleepwalk and be traumatized by basic tasks. She thinks that a weekend away will fix it all. He thinks it’s going to take something else and wonders why she doesn’t just lean on him more. So […]
The First Fallen (2021)
Directed and written by Rodrigo de Oliveira, this movie goes back to 1983 and a young biologist named Suzano (Johnny Massaro) coming home from studying in France and feeling like something is wrong with his body. This is the start of the AIDS crisis and he is amongst the first wave of the epidemic in […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Golden Jail (1976)
On paper, this is about a crime boss named Mr. Winter (Roger Darton) who leaves Hong Kong during a gang war and sets up a new shop in Paris where he gets busy doing what he does best: kidnapping women and getting them to become sex workers who make him money. The strange part is […]
JESS FRANCO MONTH: Tenemos 18 años (1959)
Everything — Dr. Orloff, diamond thieves, longing staring moments into the scenery and the sun, jazz interludes and all the moments of male gaze — all start here. This is Jess Franco’s first film and it doesn’t even hint at the madness that the rest of his near two hundred films would unleash. María José […]
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