SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE: The Unheard (2023)
Directed by Jeffrey Brown (The Beach House) and written by Michael and Shawn Shawn Rasmussen (Crawl), The Unheard has two horror themes in one: Chloe (Lachlan Watson) is part of a clinical trial to fix the hearing that was damaged by a childhood illness. And oh yeah, she’s going back home — never go back home […]
2023 Calgary Underground Film Festival: Black Barbie: A Documentary (2023)
Director and writer Lagueria Davis has created an amazing movie that asks so many questions about Barbie and what she means to the world of race. Yes, there were once no black Barbies, then there was only Julia, Barbie’s black friend who had no African-American features, just the same doll with black skin. And today, […]
2023 Calgary Underground Film Festival: Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis) (2022)
Pink Floyd, Def Leppard, T. Rex, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Scorpions, Paul McCartney & Wings, the Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Electric Light Orchestra, Rainbow, Styx and more. All of these artists used Hipgnosis, the English design group made up of Storm Thorgerson, Aubrey Powell, and Peter Christopherson. They became nearly as big […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (1966)
April 30: How the (Not) West Was Won — A Western not made in America. My Uncle Bill’s name was Frank, not Bill, but at some time in his teenage years he decided that he wanted to be Bill, after Buffalo Bill, and everyone allowed him to be. So even into his senior years, no one […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Requiem for a Gringo (1968)
April 30: How the (Not) West Was Won — A Western not made in America. In the United Nations that is exploitation cinema, I love the connections that are built. It may seem unexpected, but the line between Japanese samurai cinema and the Italian Western are incredibly direct. Yojimbo is A Fistful of Dollars; Requiem for a Gringo has […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Matalo! (1970)
April 30: How the (Not) West Was Won — A Western not made in America. It would take other film industries decades to equal the sheer volume that the Italian exploitation machine could accomplish. In the four years since Django and five since A Fistful of Dollars and West and Soda, a traditionally animated movie whos escreation predates […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: The Great Silence (1968)
April 30: How the (Not) West Was Won — A Western not made in America. When you’re looking for a happy movie to start the day with, let me not recommend The Great Silence, a film that Sergio Corbucci created after the deaths of Che Guevara and Malcolm X. But let me definitely recommend it any other […]
SALEM HORROR FEST: Fright Night 2 (1988)
EDITOR’S NOTE: This movie was watched as part of Salem Horror Fest. You can still get a weekend pass for weekend two. Single tickets are also available. Here’s the program of what’s playing. Three years and plenty of therapy later, Charley Brewster now believes that Jerry Dandrige was a serial killer and that vampires don’t […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Rollerball (2002)
April 29: Drop A Bomb — Please share your favorite critical and financial flop with us! I’m usually nice about movies, even when they fail on every level, but why the fuck does this movie exist and who is it for? I should just stop this article after that sentence. Somehow, John McTiernan is the […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Green Lantern (2011)
April 29: Drop A Bomb — Please share your favorite critical and financial flop with us! Martin Campbell made two Zorro and two James Bond movies, but that in no way seemed to prepare him for this DC Universe film. It took a long time to get this far, as Warner Brothers had spent nearly […]
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