Blood and Money – Four Filmmakers on Making B-Movies in These Times
Why do B-movies endure in the modern age? Filmmakers Richard MacQueen, Shawn Burkett, M. J. Dixon, B. J McDonnell weigh in.
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Tribeca 2021: ‘My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To’ Constricts
Jonathan Cuartas’ ‘My Heart Can’t Beat Unless You Tell It To’ is a surprisingly tender family drama steeped in the blood of modern horror.
Paul Leni’s Haunting ‘Waxworks’ Come to Life in This Restoration
Paul Leni’s silent film Waxworks (1924) is a brilliantly acted, engaging, and exhilarating example of German Expressionism on film.
Jayro Bustamente’s War Crimes Film, ‘La Llorona’, Reckons with Crushing Guilt
Bustament’s Efraín Ríos Montt-inspired La Llorona reimagines the Latin American folk tale of a woman mourning her children along the banks of the river where they drowned.
‘Relic’ Director Natalie Erika James on Our Relatable Anxieties
Director Natalie Erika James talks with PopMatters about how she invites her audience to project their fears onto the screen in her slow burn and suspenseful horror, Relic.
Sundance 2021: Sion Sono’s Gonzo ‘Prisoners of the Ghostland’
Prisoners of the Ghostland, starring a whacked-out Nicholas Cage, is exciting, wild, bold, and joyfully ridiculous -- pretty much what you expect from a Sion Sono film.
Exploring the Sci-fi Worlds of Ishirō Honda in 3 Films
The devastating power of the atomic bomb casts a long shadow over Ishiro Honda's The H-Man, Battle in Outer Space, and Mothra, now available on Blu-ray from Eureka Entertainment.
The Best Classic Films on Blu-ray in 2020
Many formats have come and gone and streaming competes, to a degree, but these best classic films offered on Blu-ray in 2020 prove irresistible.
Eraserhead’s Stylistic Tics Leave Traces of Infection
David Lynch's impossibly mundane and unspeakably grotesque Eraserhead turns a looking glass upon an entire constellation of avant-garde signifiers.
Scorsese’s ‘World Cinema Project No. 3’ Has a Filtered Gaze
Scorsese's selections for World Cinema Project No. 3 recall an attitude typical of a bygone age of film studies when professors would rationalize overlooking the reactionary politics of a film because aspects of the filmmaking itself trumped such "trivial" concerns.
Flirting with Demons at Home, or, When TV Movies Were Evil
Just in time for Halloween, a new Blu-ray from Kino Lorber presents sparkling 2K digital restorations of TV movies that have been missing for decades: Fear No Evil (1969) and its sequel, Ritual of Evil (1970).