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…
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 honor another great who has gone to the great hereafter. We have wine pairings, too, of course. Gene Hackman passed away at the age of 95, leaving a lot of…
No, it’s not about the secret life of Scrooge McDuck — reviewer Charlie Largent takes the measure of Lucio Fulci’s delirious giallo about horrible crimes and the ugly human responses they bring about — undue suspicion, false accusations, hysteria, more violence. Some pretty twisted people are involved, played by a Class-A cast: Florinda Bolkan, Barbara…
Blood and Lace 1971 – 86 Min. Starring Gloria Grahame, Melody Patterson, Vic Tayback Written by Gil Lasky Directed by Phil Gordon As discriminating in their appetites as an expert wine-taster, grindhouse audiences were a special breed of movie-goer: true connoisseurs of crap. Whether lounging in notorious Times Square fleapits like the Liberty or Cine…
Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles 1966-67 – 395 Min. Starring Dick Beals, Paul Frees, Don Messick Written by Michael Maltese, Eddie Brandt Directed by William Hanna, Joseph Barbera A pretty cool cash-in combining the 60s monster-craze and Beatlemania, Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles shouldn’t work but it does; powered by Hanna-Barbera’s well-oiled assembly line of…
The Undead A CineSavant Revival House Review 1957 – 75 Min. Starring Pamela Duncan, Val Dufour Cinematography by William A. Sickner Written by Charles B. Griffith Directed by Roger Corman Roger Corman began directing movies in 1955 and almost immediately his ambitions were at war with his budgets—films with apocalyptic titles like The Day the…
Hatari! Kino Lorber 4K UHD Blu-ray 1962 – 157 Min. Starring John Wayne, Red Buttons, Elsa Martinelli Cinematography by Russell Harlan Directed by Howard Hawks Watching the animals of Hatari! in full flight is a politically incorrect thrill—though they’re running for their lives they have a majesty in motion that make the rampaging dinos of…
Panic in Year Zero! Radiance Films Blu-ray – Region B 1962 – 93 Min. Starring Ray Milland, Jean Hagen, Mary Mitchel, Frankie Avalon Cinematography by Gilbert Warrenton, Written by Jay Simms Directed by Ray Milland American-International built an exploitation empire on teens, horror, and science fiction—in 1962 they combined those cash cows into one 93…
The Beast with Five Fingers Blu-ray Warner Archive 1946 – 88 Min. Starring Peter Lorre, Robert Alda, Andrea King, J. Carroll Naish Cinematography by Wesley Anderson Written by Curt Siodmak Directed by Robert Florey Long before The Addams Family made disembodied hands a punchline there was The Beast with Five Fingers, W. F. Harvey’s short…