Burn, Witch, Burn!
June 17, 2011
Known originally as The Night of the Eagle in United Kingdom, Sidney Hayers’ film was retitled Burn, Witch, Burn! (1962) when it was released in the United States by American International Pictures (AIP). Based on Fritz Leiber’s 1943 novel Conjure...
Sweet Karma
June 16, 2011
Sweet Karma (2009) attempts to do what Eastern Promises (2007) did for the Russian mafia in England, only by setting it in Toronto, Canada, and with a smaller budget and minus the big name talent. So, instead of Naomi Watts, this film has Playboy Playmate...
Pale Flower: Criterion Collection
June 13, 2011
Masahiro Shinoda is considered to be one of the filmmakers that pioneered the Japanese New Wave of cinema and with Pale Flower (1964) he created a moody film noir, a story of a doomed love affair between two gambling junkies. Shonda got his start as an...
Defiance
June 6, 2011
Defiance (1980) is an early Jerry Bruckheimer production, back when he was interested in making gritty crime films like American Gigolo (1980) and Thief (1981). Unfortunately, Defiance was given a limited released where it promptly bombed at the box office...
Solaris: Criterion Collection
June 2, 2011
Along with Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972) is one of the best examples of the successful blending of hard science fiction with philosophical and spiritual musings. Both films are towering epics released...
Money for the Weekend with Alberta Cross
June 1, 2011
Alberta Cross, one of the leading lights from the music world and hailing from Brooklyn, New York, have teamed up with Ketel One, the vodka brand to come out of the Netherlands, to promote the vodka to the world via their music, and the Internet. Alberta...
