Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, we have a trio of films to remind us that November 5th is Election Day. Vote, please. And enjoy the wine pairings for each movie. There are some places in the…
This ’50s cult monster double bill was produced by the Corman brothers Roger and Gene. The first re-plays ideas from several Sci-fi classics on a shoestring budget, and squeaks by with a novel wrinkle of its own. Using some of the same crew and actors, the second item is even cheaper. It hasn’t a single…
Creature with the Blue Hand/Web of the Spider Blu-ray Film Masters 1967, 1971 / 87, 110 min Starring Klaus Kinski, Anthony Franciosa, Michelle Mercier Written by Herbert Reinecker, Bruno Corbucci, Giovanni Grimaldi Photographed by Sandro Mancori, Memmo Mancori Directed by Alfred Vohrer, Antonio Margheriti More ticking time-bomb than actor, Klaus Kinski was born to prowl…
Dr. Rossiter will give you something to scream about! Sidney Hayers’ Big Top terror flick is luridly oversexed, excessively gruesome — and great fun. Mad plastic surgeon Anton Diffring creates his own harem of facially-restored women who also happen to be criminals. Circus acts provide the ‘accidents’ to remove any that become a liability. It’s…
Taken from a story by Patricia Highsmith, director Claude Autant-Lara’s murder thriller can boast an attractive cast: Maurice Ronet, Gert Fröbe, Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady and Yvonne Furneaux. The slick production, good music and committed performances can’t be faulted, but the point gets lost amid a lot of yelling. Just the same, Hossein and Fröbe…
Late October, when the weather portends the oncoming chill of winter, the night rises earlier and the day grows shorter, when the veil between this world and the next grows thin and the spirits of the dead are welcome to revisit and the most terrifying aspects of our reality are celebrated by figures in dread…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies and many more at Trailers From Hell. This week, we scare up wine pairings for three movies that fit right into Halloween week. Eye of the Devil is a British horror film from 1966 starring Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Donald…
David Hinton’s documentary celebration of the ‘Archers’ team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is a feature-length rumination filtered through Martin Scorsese’s narration, emphasizing his first awakening to the Power of Film. The collaboration was so rich and the films so impressive that it takes over two hours just for a cursory pass through the…
George Stevens’ back-from-the-war masterpiece honors family vaues and stability with the near-reverent story of a Norwegian immigrant family subsisting in San Francisco of 1910. The filmmaking is fastidious and the performances exemplary — Irene Dunne is the Hanson matriarch, young Barbara Bel Geddes the teenager who wants to write, and Oscar Homolka the overbearing Uncle…
