Spagvemberfest 2023: Chino (1973)
I guess picking Chino for a month of Italian Westerns is a cheat, even if this is an Italian/Spanish production. Based on the book The Valdez Horses by Lee Hoffman, it was released in Italy as Valdez, il mezzosangue (Valdez the Half Breed). It was directed by John Sturges (The Magnificent Seven, Bad Day at Black Rock, The […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Maybe I’ll Come Home in the Spring (1971)
Denise Miller (Sally Field) has come home after a year of living with hippies. Her younger sister Susie (Lane Bradbury) is about to do the same thing. As for Denise, her boyfriend Flack (David Carradine) is driving across the country to save her from her family. And her parents Ed (Jackie Cooper) and Claire (Eleanor […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: F. Scott Fitzgerald and The Last of the Belles (1974)
Directed by George Schaefer and written by James Costigan, this has a pretty fun cast. There’s Richard Chamberlain as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Blythe Danner as Zelda Fitzgerald, Susan Sarandon (a year before The Great Waldo Pepper and The Rocky Horror Picture Show) as Ailie Calhoun, David Huffman (who died way too young as he was […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: Las Vegas Lady (1975)
Crown International Pictures serving up that sweet, sweet movie sugar that I love so much, with Stella Stevens (The Silencers) and Stuart Whitman (Demonoid) as a Vegas couple looking to get out by pulling a scam. Stevens is Lucky, who is being ordered by a man in the shadows to use two of her friends, […]
Celebrate Gold Wednesday with Gold Ninja
I love Gold Ninja Video and all of their releases. Here are four new ones that are out today! Ed Wood’s Revenge of the Dead: A 2-disc set of Wood’s Night of the Ghouls with the following extras: Audio commentary by Will Sloan and Justin Decloux of The Important Cinema Club podcast Audio commentary by film historian […]
SEVERIN BLACK FRIDAY PART 3: Everything else
Here’s what else Severin has for sale: Closed Circuit: ABOUT THE AUTHOR: When Frederick Burdsall isn’t at work or watching movies while covered in cats, you can find Fred in the front seat of Knoebels’ Phoenix. What we have here today, my friends, is your standard supernatural made for TV Giallo. From 1978, comes Circuito […]
SEVERIN BLACK FRIDAY PART 2: Independent-International
I’m excited about a lot of what Severin has for sale, but beyond excited for these two movies. Raiders Of The Living Dead: A regional New Hampshire film with a synth score that was reedited with new footage by Sam Sherman with that iconic Independent-International Pictures logo at the start of the show? If you’re […]
SEVERIN BLACK FRIDAY PART 1: Michele Soavi
Every Black Friday, Severin brings so much stuff for sale that starts to make you realize that it’s better to buy for yourself than give or receive. This year is no different. This is the first of several guides to what they have for sale starting tomorrow at midnight. Up first are the Michele Soavi […]
MILL CREEK THE SWINGIN’ SEVENTIES: The Klansman (1974)
Directed by Terence Young and written by Millard Kaufman and Samuel Fuller, The Klansman had its film rights bought by black film producer William D. Alexander who spent a year putting the movie together. The movie was put together by Bill Schiffrin, Fuller’s agent, and he said the movie was a mess from when Terence Young […]
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