Suburban Parasitic Anxieties: David Cronenberg’s Shivers

On 05/02/2016 By C.H. NewellIn Body Horror, Canadian Film Development Corporation, David Cronenberg, Film, Horror, Sci-FiLeave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6B4oZhFaFI Shivers. 1975. Directed & Written by David Cronenberg. Starring Paul Hampton, Joe Silver, Lynn Lowry, Allan Kolman, Susan Petrie, Barbara Steele, Ronald Mlodzik, Barry Baldaro, Camil Ducharme, Hanna Poznanska, Wally Martin, Vlasta Vrana, Silvie Debois, Charles Perley, & Al Rochman. Cinépix/DAL Productions/Canadian Film Development Corporation. Rated R. 87 minutes. Horror/Sci-Fi ★★★★ Even if I love Alien …

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Fear The Walking Dead – Season 2, Episode 4: “Blood In The Streets”

On 05/02/201609/09/2018 By C.H. NewellIn Alycia Debnam-Carey, AMC, Cliff Curtis, Colman Domingo, Fear the Walking Dead, Frank Dillane, Kim Dickens, Season 2, ZombiesLeave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6w344Yoizw AMC's Fear The Walking Dead Season 2, Episode 4: "Blood In The Streets" Directed by Michael Uppendahl Written by Kate Erickson * For a review of the previous episode, "Ouroboros" - click here * For a review of the next episode, "Captive" - click here Nick (Frank Dillane) has swam onto a nearby shore …

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Don’t Go In The House: The Death of Disco and A Mother Too Far

On 05/01/201610/19/2016 By C.H. NewellIn Dan Grimaldi, Film, Horror, Joseph Ellison, SlasherLeave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPuDc7Bn7iM Don't Go In The House. 1979. Directed by Joseph Ellison. Screenplay by Ellison, Ellen Hammill, & Joe Masefield. Starring Dan Grimaldi, Charles Bonet, Bill Ricci, Robert Osth, Dennis M. Hunter, John Hedberg, Ruth Dardick, Johanna Brushay, Darcy Shean, Mary Ann Chinn, & Lois Verkruepse. Turbine Films Inc. Rated R. 82 minutes. Horror ★★★★ Still …

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Skinhead Subculture vs. White Nationalism in This Is England

On 05/01/201610/19/2016 By C.H. NewellIn 2006, British Film, Crime, Drama, Film, Racism, Shane Meadows, Stephen GrahamLeave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqjEYfslwpA This Is England. 2006. Directed & Written by Shane Meadows. Starring Thomas Turgoose, Stephen Graham, Jo Hartley, Andrew Shim, Vicky McClure, Joseph Gilgun, Rosamund Hanson, Andrew Ellis, Perry Benson, George Newton, Frank Harper, & Jack O'Connell. Warp Films/Big Arty Productions/EM Media. Unrated. 101 minutes. Crime/Drama ★★★★★ Shane Meadows is a British National Treasure. His …

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Immortals a.k.a Greek Mythology on Steak and Eggs

On 04/30/201608/26/2016 By C.H. NewellIn Action, Drama, Fantasy, Film, Greek Mythology, Henry Cavill, Luke Evans, Mickey Rourke, Tarsem SinghLeave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSmJ5UXtUnk Immortals. 2011. Directed by Tarsem Singh. Screenplay by Charley & Vlas Parlapanides. Starring Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke, John Hurt, Stephen Dorff, Freida Pinto, Luke Evans, Joseph Morgan, Anne Day-Jones, Greg Bryk, Alan Van Sprang, Peter Stebbings, Daniel Sharman, Isabel Lucas, Kellan Lutz, & Steve Byers. Relativity Media/Virgin Produced/Mark Canton Productions. Rated 18A. 110 minutes. …

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Terry Gilliam’s Brazil is a Dystopian Vision of Not-So-Distant Future

On 04/30/201604/30/2016 By C.H. NewellIn Bob Hoskins, Drama, Film, Ian Holm, Jonathan Pryce, Michael Palin, Robert De Niro, Sci-Fi, Terry GilliamLeave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKPFC8DA9_8 Brazil. 1985. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Screenplay by Gilliam, Charles McKeown, & Tom Stoppard. Starring Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond, Ian Holm, Bob Hoskins, Michael Palin, Ian Richardson, Peter Vaughan, Kim Greist, Jim Broadbent, Barbara Hicks, Charles McKeown, Derrick O'Connor, Kathryn Pogson, Bryan Pringle, & Shella Reid. Embassy International Pictures. Rated R. 132 …

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Carl Th. Dreyer’s Day of Wrath: An Allegory of Power and the Raw Truth of Religious Cruelties

On 04/30/201610/18/2016 By C.H. NewellIn 1943, Black-and-white, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Day of Wrath, Drama, Film, Nazis, WitchesLeave a comment

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_SATxIRMts Day of Wrath. 1943. Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer. Screenplay by Dreyer, Pol Knudsen, & Mogens Skot-Hansen; based on the play Anne Pedersdotter by Hans Wiers-Jenssen. Starring Thorkild Roose, Lisbeth Movin, Sigrid Neiiendam, Preben Lerdorff Rye, & Albert Hoeberg. Palladium Productions. Not Rated. 97 minutes. Drama ★★★★1/2 History allows us to look back on films …

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