ARROW VIDEO BOX SET RELEASE: Inside The Mind Of Coffin Joe: The Strange Hostel of Naked Pleasures (1976)
This film begins with dancing women, native Brazilian drummers and an old man who chants over a coffin which opens to reveal…begins chanting over a closed coffin. The coffin opens and a man rises. Zé do Caixão! Coffin Joe! At an isolated inn — “Hospedaria dos Prazeres” (Hostel of Pleasures) — the owner (Jose Mojica […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: TMZ No BS: Jennifer Lopez (2023)
From Fly Girl on In Living Color to being a diva whose name got shortened because it is so iconic, J. Lo has been a major force in entertainment since the 90s. Her first starring roles in Selena, Anaconda, Out of Sight and The Cell showed that she had a good eye for picking movies and yes, perhaps her career […]
ARROW VIDEO BOX SET RELEASE: Inside The Mind Of Coffin Joe: The End of Man (1971)
Embracing the socially conscious — yet still exploitative — black humor and tongue in cheek style of the Brazilian Mouth of Garbage Cinema (Boca do Lixo), the man known as Coffin Joe — José Mojica Marins — directed co-wrote (with Rubens Francisco Luchetti) and stars in this story of a man named Finis Hominis who […]
VICE News Presents: Vigilante, Inc.(2023)
In the middle of a fire, the online world of the Citizen App spills into Los Angeles, which has been ignited in more ways than one as the calls on the app turn into a vigilante mob looking for someone who may not even be a suspect. Directed by Paula Neudorf, who worked on the […]
ARROW VIDEO BOX SET RELEASE: Inside The Mind Of Coffin Joe: The Awakening of the Beast (1970)
José Mojica Marins directed movies for six years before making At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul, the first appearance of Brazil’s national boogeyman, Zé do Caixão, or Coffin Joe. Joe is a man with no morals but a devotion to Nietzschian philosophies and absolute hatred for religion with the goal of achieving immortality through the birth […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Suburban Nightmare: Chris Watts (2022)
On August 13, 1988, a pregnant Shannan Watts disappeared along with her two daughters, four-year-old Bella and three-year-old Celeste. Her husband Christopher Watts went on television to plead for their safe return knowing that he had already murdered his wife and dumped her in a shallow grave and jammed his children into an oil tank […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Fresh Meat: Jeffrey Dahmer (2021) and Fresh Meat: Killing Dahmer (2023)
Fresh Meat: Jeffrey Dahmer (2021): Directed by Kevin Barry. this Tubi original documentary has drawn some ire online for featuring podcasters in the place of actual experts as well as several inaccuracies, including it claiming that Dahmer lived in the Oxford Apartments in 1988 when he didn’t move in until May 1990; that he accidentally took […]
TUBI ORIGINAL: Domingo (2020)
Directed and written by Raul Lopez Echeverria, this is — as the title tells us — the story of Domingo (Eduardo Covarrubias), who lives in a poor neighborhood in Guadalajara. He has lost his wife to divorce and only has work in his life until he learns that his passion for announcing soccer matches can […]
Thanksgiving (2023)
The original Thanksgiving trailer that played during Grindhouse was so memorable that for years, people have asked when a real one was coming. After all, Machete and Hobo With a Shotgun — which won a competition of fake trailers and actually played with the movie in Canada — got made. Director Eli Roth said of the trailer, “My friend […]
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