SWV Week Continues with ALL WOMEN ARE BAD!
ALL WOMEN ARE BAD1969, Something Weird Video61 minutes, $10 DVD-R, $9.99 download Larry Crane's mind-boggling ALL WOMEN ARE BAD ("And I ought to know... I'm a man!") - a latter-day release from Stan...
View ArticleDoris Wishman's A TASTE OF FLESH (1967)
A TASTE OF FLESH1967, Something Weird Video71m 50s, $10.00 DVD-R, $9.99 downloadDespite its title, this is not a further entry in Michael Findlay's Flesh series from the same period but rather a...
View ArticleClaude Sautet's DICTATOR'S GUNS reviewed
DICTATOR'S GUNSL'arme à gauche 1965, Something Weird Video100m 41s, $10 DVD-R, $9.99 downloadReviewed by Special Request! While it's probably not the first thing that crosses anyone's mind when they...
View ArticleLOST HORIZON - Now With More Found Horizons
Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt star in LOST HORIZON (1937).I watched Sony's newly 4K-restored 80th Anniversary Blu-ray presentation of Frank Capra's LOST HORIZON last night, which is now only 6m shy of...
View ArticleOctober 30 is... Hammerween!
It was now 60 years ago that Hammer Films released their first color horror film, Terence Fisher's THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN (1957) - and, in commemoration of this important anniversary, some major...
View ArticleRIP Umberto Lenzi (1931-2017)
I was very sorry to awaken this morning to the news of director Umberto Lenzi’s passing at the age of 86. He seldom received the critical respect due to someone like himself, who had done so much heavy...
View ArticleBringing Back the Bippy
Dan Rowan and the lovely Dick Martin.Maybe it's the state of our world, but humor has become a good deal more important to me lately. When I was in junior high (secondary school) and planning a way I...
View ArticleTHE NEST OF THE CUCKOO BIRDS reviewed
Bert Williams (1922-2001) was a Florida-based actor whose career reached back to episodes of SEA HUNT and THE WILD WOMEN OF WONGO. In 1965, he rolled the dice to become a multi-hyphenate by writing,...
View ArticleKino Lorber's Restored SINCE YOU WENT AWAY (1944)
Last night I decided to watch my advance copy of Kino Lorber Studio Classics' Blu-ray of David O. Selznick'sSINCE YOU WENT AWAY(1944), starring Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple, Joseph...
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I know, I know. I was doing extremely well there for awhile, with new postings every day or practically every day, and I have dropped off again lately.Not that I am being unproductive - anything but....
View ArticleThanksgiving Special: BAT PUSSY reviewed
Almost 25 years ago, I opened my novel THROAT SPROCKETS with a detailed, comic description of a porn flick based on BATMAN. When I did this, I was consciously spoofing one of the trappings of vampire...
View ArticleFilmstruck Over Mario Bava
Taking to the air.A little over a month ago, I was invited down to Atlanta to visit the Turner Studios and participate in a promotional film about Mario Bava for the streaming site Filmstruck. They're...
View ArticleTim Lucas Audio Commentaries Released in 2017
To better guide you in your holiday shopping, here - by popular demand (people ask, if not demand) - is a list of all my audio commentary work released this past year. I have included links (just click...
View ArticleMy Favorite Blu-rays of 2017
1. FRITZ LANG: THE SILENT FILMS(Kino Classics)If you told me that my two top choices this year would be devoted to silent films, I wouldn't have believed you - but this mammoth box set overwhelms...
View ArticleSomeday I Need To Get Organizized
For several days, while working on what will become my first audio commentary of the New Year, I've been reflecting on how much I love the music score for this film (all I can tell you is that it's an...
View ArticleTHE FAT BLACK PUSSYCAT... UNMASKED!
I'm presently doing some research at the moment on the actress Patricia McNair, who did some Joe Sarno movies, and tonight I decided to take a look at her earliest screen credit, THE FAT BLACK PUSSYCAT...
View Article50 Years Ago: Sherlock Holmes in Cincinnati
Nigel Bruce and Basil Rathbone as the 20th century Watson and Holmes.Last night, while looking through CINCINNATI ENQUIRER archives through the courtesy of newspapers.com, I realized that 2018 likely...
View ArticleSarno's 3rd - Available Now
I thought I should remind my friends and followers that the third Joseph W. Sarno RetrospectSeries Blu-rayis now out, devoted to the comedies made by "The Ingmar Bergman of 42nd Street."The packaging...
View ArticleEarly Seijun: THE BOY WHO CAME BACK (1958)
Streeting next Tuesday in the UK and the US is SEIJUN SUZUKI, THE EARLY YEARS VOL. 1 (SEIJUN RISING: THE YOUTH MOVIES) - a four-disc box set (two Blu-ray, two DVD) collecting five of the maverick...
View ArticleCutting Remarks: A Look at Arrow's SCALPEL
In the Image Gallery of Arrow Video's new Blu-ray of John Grissmer's SCALPEL (1977), there is photographic evidence that the film's original distributor, unable to put the PG film across as a horror...
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