Cinematic Void January Giallo 2025: The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cinematic Void will be playing this Giallo classic Saturday, January 25 at 5:00 PM at the Tenth Ave. Arts Ctr. in San Diego, CA (tickets here) along with Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key and All the Colors of the Dark. For more information, visit Cinematic Void. Sergio Martino’s […]
Cinematic Void January Giallo 2025: Dressed to Kill (1980)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cinematic Void will be playing this film on Friday, Jan. 24 at 10:30 p.m. at the Guild Cinema in Albuquerque, NM (tickets here). For more information, visit Cinematic Void. Let’s get this out of the way: Brian De Palma, much like Giallo, was heavily influenced by Hitchcock. In fact, when an interviewer asked […]
ARROW BLU RAY AND 4K RELEASE: The Cell (2000)
Tarsem was born in Punjab and came to the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, to learn how to be a filmmaker, studying alongside and acting in the student movies of Zack Snyder and Michael Bay. I first noticed his work in the video for R.E.M.’s “Losing My Religion” before he directed this film. He’s gone on to […]
ARROW 4K UHD AND BLU RAY RELEASE: Inglorious Basterds (2009)
Enzo G. Castellari’s The Inglorious Basterds — known in Italy as Quel Maledetto Treno Blindato or That Damned Armored Train — is a 1978 film that ran near constantly on cable throughout the late 70s and early 80s. In case you’re wondering just how important this film was to Quentin Tarantino, check out his excitement as […]
Cinematic Void January Giallo 2025: All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
EDITOR’S NOTE: Cinematic Void will be playing this Giallo classic Saturday, January 25 at 5:00 PM at the Tenth Ave. Arts Ctr. in San Diego, CA (tickets here) along with Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key and The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh. For more information, visit Cinematic Void. The […]
Cinematic Void January Giallo 2025: Corpse Mania (1981)
Editor’s note: Cinematic Void will be playing this movie on Monday, January 20 at 8:00 p.m. at the Music Box Theater in Chicago, IL. You can get tickets here. For more information, visit Cinematic Void. Not all slashers are domestic, as we again test the “Is it Giallo or is it a slasher?” game with […]
Fear City (1984)
After The Driller Killer and Ms .45, Abel Ferrara made this another New York City end-of-the-century trip into sleaze and death. He was joined by regular writer Nicholas St. John, who was fine doing the script for 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy but couldn’t deal with Bad Lieutenant. Matt Rossi (Tom Berenger) and Nicky […]
We Kill for Love (2023)
In the pre-internet, non-binging world of cable and video stores, the erotic thriller — more than even adult videos — was the acceptable dirty secret, whether consumed via Cinemax After Dark, the Playboy Channel or by renting videos out in the open with a piece of tape and a marker written message saying, “Must be […]
Cinematic Void January Giallo 2025: Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972)
Editor’s note: Cinematic Void will be playing this movie on Monday, January 27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Music Box Theater in Chicago, IL (tickets here). It will also be playing at 5 p.m. at Tenth Ave. Arts Ctr. in San Diego, CA (tickets here) with All the Colors of the Dark and Strange Vice of […]
Last Call (1991)
Indian-American director Jag Mundhra was born into a conservative family where films were discouraged. He was a good enough engineering student to earn his master’s degree in electrical engineering at the University of Michigan but switched to a PhD program in filmmaking. While his early and later movies were socially conscious, he’s probably best known […]
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