MVD 4K UHD RELEASE: Rockers (1978)
If The Harder They Come is Jamaica’s Scarface, then Rockers is its Ocean’s Eleven, if the heist involved a bunch of legendary musicians stealing back their dignity (and a motorbike) from the upper class. Originally intended to be a documentary, director Ted Bafaloukos realized that the reality of the Kingston reggae scene was already more […]
TROMA 4K UHD AND BLU-RAY RELEASE: Shakespeare’s Shitstorm (2020)
I guess after fifty years of independent filmmaking, Lloyd Kaufman has earned the right to do whatever the hell he wants, even if I never end up liking most of it. In this movie, what he wants is to take a giant dump on the Bard of Avon. If you thought Tromeo and Juliet was […]
Icefall (2025)
Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, this movie is all about honor among thieves within a jagged, frozen landscape. We’re in the middle of a brutal winter where an indigenous game warden, Harlan (Joel Kinnaman), and a poacher he’s just busted, Ani (Cara Jade Myers), find themselves in a precarious alliance when they discover a plane carrying […]
LIGHTYEAR BLU-RAY RELEASE: Randy and the Mob (2007)
Most people know Ray McKinnon as the tortured preacher from Deadwood or the guy who created Rectify. Most people know Walton Goggins as one of the most electric character actors of his generation. But before they were icons of the new Prestige TV era, they were two guys from the South making some of the […]
LIGHTYEAR BLU-RAY RELEASE: The Accountant (2001)
With the bank closing in and a flask of whiskey usually within arm’s reach, Tommy O’Dell (Walton Goggins) and his brother David (Eddie King) find a savior in the most unlikely form: a mysterious, nameless, beer-chugging Accountant (Ray McKinnon) who arrives like a Southern Gothic ghost in a beat-up car. If you only know Walton […]
We Bury the Dead (2024)
Australia knows the apocalypse. Here’s another entry in their oeuvre of end of the world madness, one that feels like a collision between a Romero social commentary and a Nicholas Sparks novel that took a very wrong turn into a bio-weapon testing site. An experimental weapon test off the coast of Tasmania goes south (literally), […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 28: The Nail Gun Massacre (1985)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennifer Upton is an American (non-werewolf) writer/editor in London. You can listen to her podcast at https://thecinemajunction.com. Her latest book is Japanese Cult Cinema: Best of the Second Golden Age. She writes for Horror & Sons and Drive-in Asylum. She has also appeared on the podcasts Japan on Film, Making Tarantino, Making Scorsese, The […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 28: Baby Rosemary (1976)
April 28: Nightmare USA — Celebrate Stephen Thrower’s book by picking a movie from it. Here’s all of them in a list. I’ve been super into John Hayes’ films lately. Jailbait Babysitter, The Hang-Up, Rue McClanahan’s debut film Hollywood After Dark, End of the World, Garden of the Dead, Grave of the Vampire, the Tales from the Dark Side episode […]
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