Disc Dispatch: FILM NOIR - THE DARK SIDE OF CINEMA XXI
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
For under thirty-five bucks one can lost in the shadows of not one, not two but three noir pictures in The Dark Side of The Cinema XXI collection.
Disc Dispatch: EMPIRE OF THE ANTS (1977)
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
When the next toxic chemical spill occurs and results in humongous, man-eating ants I’ll be very much like Roddy Piper in They Live, left only with the remark: “It figures it be something like this.”
Disc Dispatch: FROGS (1972)
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport and Editor in Chief
Frogs is one of those rare jewels that I believe I enjoyed more than I should have.
Disc Dispatch: KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS (1977)
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport and Editor in Chief
Kingdom of The Spiders may not be a movie that I am pining to revisit, but it did manage to capture me in its web.
Disc Dispatch: SQUIRM (1976)
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport and Editor in Chief
Part of me was equally grossed out and fascinated with being able to hear every worm squiggling and wiggling on screen. I hated but also loved when they were pouring out of the shower head onto their unsuspecting victim. This was actual nightmare fuel to me.
Disc Dispatch: ZOLTAN... HOUND OF DRACULA
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport and Editor in Chief
The concept of Dracula having a canine companion thrilled me and I could not resist imagining that this scenario could also be my reality.
Disc Dispatch: COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
There is something about Burt Lancaster’s demeanor on screen that instantly soothes me. I can’t help but have a feeling of tranquility when I watch him in a film. To my surprise, in Come Back, Little Sheba almost every scene of his was stolen by his costar Shirley Booth.
Disc Dispatch: BWANA DEVIL (1952)
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
Natural Vision 3-D is “healthy and beneficial”.
Disc Dispatch: THE COCAINE FIENDS plus THE PACE THAT KILLS
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
When I received this Blu-ray from Kino Lorber, I was excited to learn that the talkie was a remake of the silent flick. There’s nothing like a good old showdown of a silent versus talkie.
Disc Dispatch: PURSUED
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
Pursued is the kind of motion picture that one will find they will want to revisit as there is so much going on under the surface.
Disc Dispatch: SCI-FI CHILLERS COLLECTION
by Rosalie Kicks, Old Sport & Editor in Chief
If a motion picture involves a monster, creature, or beastie I am, without a doubt, going to hit play. Nothing lures me in like watching the possible destruction of planet Earth at the hands of a cool ghoul.
Disc Dispatch: FLAMING EARS is a visually intriquing kink-laden queer 90s film out of Austria
by Benjamin Leonard, Managing Zine Editor, Best Boy
Is this a pro-cop movie? Or an anti-cop movie?
Disc Dispatch: Diving into MURINA
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Murina is that special kind of feature film debut that seems to emerge fully formed, in this case from the beautiful Adriatic Sea.
Disc Dispatch: Is ELECTRA GLIDE IN BLUE copaganda?
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Is this a pro-cop movie? Or an anti-cop movie?
THE UFO INCIDENT shares an account of a 1961 alien abduction
by Clayton Hayes, Staff Writer
The UFO Incident is quite the oddity…
The music in TIMES SQUARE (1980) is solid; the film is not
by Audrey Callerstrom, Associate Editor
There’s never enough momentum in the story to make any of these songs really hit.
Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema VI offers some hidden gems
by Ian Hrabe, Staff Writer
The crown jewel of this installment of The Dark Side of Cinema is John Brahm’s 1947 Singapore.
12 ANGRY MEN (1997) is a necessary and masterful remake of a classic
by Ian Hrabe, Staff Writer
One thing that struck me about watching this 25-year-old rendition of a nearly 70-year-old story is how relevant it still feels.
THE ANTICHRIST (1974) shows an Exorcist influence, but sometimes too much
by Clayton Hayes, Staff Writer
I’m a huge fan of ‘70s Italian horror and watching The Antichrist was a wonderfully pleasant surprise.
Jean Renoir’s WHIRLPOOL OF FATE looks amazing in Kino Lorber’s new 4K restoration
by Benjamin Leonard, Managing Zine Editor, Best Boy
Sometimes sitting down to an old, silent film takes a bit of an effort on my part to overcome those so-called barriers, but I settled right into this story after the initial info dump.