Henri-Georges Clouzot’s suspense ordeal is back, with additional minutes of footage and remastered in flawless 4K. Few films express such a poisonous attitude about humanity: for four desperate men, the only way to escape a South American backwater is to volunteer for a veritable suicide mission, driving truckloads of nitroglycerine up a punishing mountain road….
This is the movie with the spiky bra that doubles as a gun. Pop Art meets progressive social Sci-fi in a wicked satire about a future where wars are replaced with an organized murder game. Contestants alternate the role of hunter or victim; the goal is to score ten kills. Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week our trio of films is for those who sleep with a nightlight on. Don’t worry, we have wine pairings for each movie. And, we’ll leave the light on for you. Darkman,…
It’s Chlorophyll in Motion, writ large: in Godzilla’s most interestingly stylized franchise entry, the mean-tempered monster faces off with a colossal surrealist vision, a gene-spliced amalgam of a rose plant, high-vitamin Godzilla cells, and the genetic-spiritual essence of a scientist’s daughter. Director Kazuki Ômori’s frenetic thriller is all over the map, with industrial assassins, more…
The territorial imperative gets a curious workout: English planters in Malaya defend their homesteads against ‘bandits’ with undefined aims. Ken Annakin contributes deft direction to a ‘colonial conflict’ story with the postwar politics filtered out, and replaced with domestic anxiety. Will planter’s wife Claudette Colbert look for love somewhere else, or will hubby Jack Hawkins…
How can such a tiny production be so noteworthy? Roger Corman’s cleverly-assembled monster romp has simplicity and sincerity going for it, not to mention Floyd Crosby’s handsome cinematography and a winning leading lady in Anne Kimbell. It’s a producer’s picture, made on a shoestring just as the studios’ domination of the industry was on the…
Two-Way Stretch 1960 – 87 Min. Kino Lorber – Blu ray 1:66 Widescreen Starring Peter Sellers, Bernard Cribbins, Lionel Jeffries Written by John Warren Directed by Robert Day “Dodger” Lane, “Jelly” Knight and “Lennie the Dip” have been living large in Huntleigh Prison for several years; their Runyonesque nicknames all but guarantee they’re an amiable…
Who rules? That’s often the question in life, isn’t it? Whether it’s concerning a job, a religion or a government, the important thing to know is who’s actually running things. Is that person moral with good intentions or are they a narcissistic sociopath content to watch everything burn? It’s useful to know these things, because…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, Let’s get crazy. Let’s get nuts. Let’s pair wine with some films from the fringe. From the crazy ‘60s, 1969 actually, Coming Apart stars Rip Torn as a psychiatrist with mental…
