The ‘Zombi’ series in a nutshell goes like this: Zombi is Dawn of the Dead, in the Italian Dario Argento cut that takes out a lot of the satire and makes it into more of an action movie. The following year, Lucio Fulci, the king of Italian gore movies, made Zombi 2. Zombi 2 went … Continue reading Zombie 5: Killing Birds – Blu-Ray Review
Many bands have reformed over the years, but very few have done it like Swans. They were always a forward-thinking band, but from the outset of their new incarnation they more or less refused to do any kind of "nostalgia" act—you’d get maybe one song, if you were lucky two, from anything before their 2019 album My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope … Continue reading Swans: Where Does a Body End? – DVD Review
Finding The Way Back was the ‘patient zero’ of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic's impact on cinema. It played in the US for two weeks, but its theatrical run was cut short and, in a huge turnaround from Warner Bros., it was released onto premium streaming. Birds of Prey and The Invisible Man, which had already … Continue reading Finding The Way Back – Blu-Ray Review
Pocketful of Miracles was Frank Capra's final feature, made in 1961. He went on to make the documentary Rendezvous in Space for the Martin Marietta Corporation, about the US's plans for a space station and beyond! Like Hitchcock, Capra remade two of his early films later in his career, and Pocketful of Miracles is one of these: a remake … Continue reading Pocketful of Miracles – Blu-Ray Review
Disclaimer: this is not about the much-beloved Peter Jackson film Braindead, or Dead Alive as it was retitled in the US on its release in 1992, but the 1990 film directed by Alan Simon. This film is based on an old Charles Beaumont script called Paranoia, written for Roger Corman back in the '60s. The … Continue reading Brain Dead (1990) – Blu-Ray Review
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