ARROW VIDEO 4K UHD AND BLU RAY RELEASE: Incubus (1966)
Created by ophthalmologist L. L. Zamenhof in 1887, Esperanto is supposed to be a universal second language for international communication. In English, the name means one who hopes and it’s the largest constructed international auxiliary language with a few thousand speakers. Zamenhof had some big dreams that go past making an easy and flexible language. […]
B&S About Movies Video Essay: BEE-TLES: When the Bee-Gees Made Sgt. Pepper
Ever wondered, “What if The Bee-Gees and Peter Frampton got together, had a whole bunch of movie stars and other bands, and cosplayed The Beatles?” Well, it happened. Here’s the story.
FILM MASTERS BLU RAY RELEASE: Creature With the Blue Hand (1967), Web of the Spider (1971), The Bloody Dead (1987)
Film Masters has put together an exciting blu ray with Creature of the Blue Hand, scanned in 4K from 35 mm archival elements, a new 4K scan of Web of the Spider and The Bloody Dead. Bonus features include commentaries on both movies by Stephen Jones and Kim Newman; reimagined trailers for Creature of the Blue Hand and Web […]
Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons (2020)
Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons started as an animated web series on CW Seed. Once the first episode aired, the series was repurposed into a direct-to-video animated film. Written by J.M. DeMatteis and directed by Sung Jin Ahn, it attempts to make a hero out of Slade Wilson, the villain known as Deathstroke. Michael Chiklis is […]
Spy Shadow (1967-1968)
As part of the show Super President, which had two adventures per episode, one part of the show was where we learned of Spy Shadow, an agent of Interspy named Richard Vance (Ted Cassidy) who learned — somewhere in the mysterious Far East, just like Lamont Cranston, here said to be in Tibet with mystics who […]
Batgirl (1967)
Detective Comics #359, the first issue of January 1967, featured “The Million Dollar Debut of Batgirl!” They were getting Batgirl into fan’s minds before she would debut on the show, even if there had already been another Batgirl, Bette Kane, who first showed up in Batman #139. Post-Crisis, her name would be changed to Flamebird. The […]
SEVERIN BLU RAY RELEASE: Russ Meyer’s Vixen (1968)
Give Russ Meyer $70,000 and he will give you everything. Take it from Roger Ebert: “Meyer’s ability to keep his movies light and farcical took the edge off the sex for people seeing their first skin-flick. By the time he made Vixen, Meyer had developed a directing style so open, direct and good-humored that it […]
SEVERIN 4K UHD RELEASE: Russ Meyer’s Beneath the Valley of the Ultravixens (1979)
The original elements for this film gad been stored in less-than-optimal conditions. As a culture and, well, let’s get hyperbolic and say as a people, we’re so blessed that Severin Films devoted months to the painstaking restoration of its weather-damaged negative before scanning it in 4K and compiling over two hours of new and archival […]
The Adventures of Super Pup (1958)
Last week, there was plenty of online outrage — when isn’t there? — about Krypto in the new Superman trailer. There’s another super powered dog who no one gets mad about because, well, no one knows about it. Television producer Whitney Ellsworth planned to continue The Adventures of Superman in 1959 with at least two more […]
SEVERIN BLU RAY RELEASE: Russ Meyer’s Supervixens (1975)
I’m struggling for a way to explain what a big deal Severin releasing this movie is to the uninitiated. For years, I’ve worried that because it was so difficult to see the full catalogue of Russ Meyer’s movies that he’d be relegated to a director only remembered for a few images seen in books, but […]
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