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Short Film: Neighbours (Canada, 1952)
Here's a quirky little film from the early 50s exploring an age-old topic that can, on a metaphorical level, be used to represent anything from the current almost retro East/West conflict over Ukraine...
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R.I.P.: Carol Speed
Carol Speed14 March 1945 – 14 January 2022 Unbelievably, her passing passed us by. Carol Speed, born Carolyn Ann Stewart, died at the age of 76 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on 14 January 2022. She has since...
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The House (Brexitland, 2022)
To say that The House is a captivating film is an understatement. An anthology film, The House is of course distantly related to the horror anthology films of yore that so many of us fondly remember,...
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R.I.P. Carol Speed (Part I: 1971-73)
14 March 1945– 14 January 2022 Carol Speed, born Carolyn Ann Stewart, died at the age of 76 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on 14 January 2022. She has since been cremated. The daughter of Cora Valrie Stewart*...
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When Nature Calls (Tromaville, 1985)
Okay, as normal with so many movies we watch, one is hard-placed to say that When Nature Calls is really any good — it's a Troma flick, for gawd's sake — but we would be lying if we didn't admit to...
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Short Film: Don't Croak (USA, 2019)
Here's a nastily funny little film we stumbled upon while wasting time on YouTube, one of many fine shorts there by [former] students of Ringling College of Art & Design. This one here is by Daun...
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Jason X (USA, 2001)
"It's okay, he just wanted his machete back!Prof. Brandon Lowe (Jonathon Potts) For a long time, decades, Jason would not die. Or at least the film franchise wouldn't: the time span between first film,...
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R.I.P. Carol Speed (Part II: 1974-2006)
14 March 1945 — 14 Jan 2022Carol Speed, born Carolyn Ann Stewart, died at the age of 76 in Muskogee, Oklahoma, on 14 January 2022. She has since been cremated. The daughter of Cora Valrie Stewart* (née...
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Dollar for the Dead (USA, 1998)
A.k.a.Django — Ein Dollar für den Tod. In Europe, or at least in the German-speaking regions in which our DVD was marketed, this forgotten Western had the name "Django" added to the relatively literal...
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Short Film of the Month: Labyrinth (Poland, 1962)
Intentions can change. For a long time, we had been planning to present an intriguing and entertaining and drily humorous short animated film from 1965 entitled Rhinoceros (full short) as our Short...
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Isolation (Ireland, 2005)
An obscure and unknown (assumedly outside of Ireland that is) direct-to-DVD science cum nature-gone-wrong film that truly deserves a wider audience than it has, and not just for being an early and...
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Babe of Yesteryear – Gigi Darlene, Part III: 1965 (Part I)
Photo above not found at Pulp International. Photographer unknown.Blonde Babe of Yesteryear Gigi Darlene (4 Mar 1943 – 1 Jan 2002) was one the multitude of attractive, intriguing actresses of New...
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Warbus (Italy, 1985)
Forewarned: A meandering, all-over "review" with spoilers and attitude.A war film, and despite being an Italian-Philippine production, its tale is told, as normal, from an American perspective. And...
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Short Film: Surrogate (1961, Croatia)
This month's short film is a somewhat forgotten blast from the past from Croatia, made at a time when the country was still behind the Iron Curtain and part of the Socialist Federal Republic of...
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Fallen Angel / Ángel caído (Mexico, 2010)
It's been a long time (okay, maybe not that long a time) since the last time we felt justified to say it, but in the case of Arturo Anaya's Fallen Angel a.k.a. Ángel caído, we must warn you: "We've...
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Babe of Yesteryear – Gigi Darlene, Part IV: 1965 (Part II)
Photo above not found at Pulp International. Photographer unknown.Blonde Babe of Yesteryear Gigi Darlene (4 Mar 1943 – 1 Jan 2002) was one the multitude of attractive, intriguing actresses of New...
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Red Sonja (Italy / USA, 1985)
If we are to believe the popular press, when Red Sonja was released, Arnold Schwarzenegger's then wife, Maria Shriver, supposedly told him, "If this doesn't kill your career, nothing will." Well, she...
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Short Film: Tango (Poland, 1980)
Two months after Labyrinth(1962), our Short Film of the Month for March 2022, we once again turn our attention to the land of Rainbow Mary and to a short film introduced to us in February by way of one...
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Little Caesar (USA, 1931)
(Spoilers!) The film that made Edward G. Robinson (12 Dec 1893 – 26 Jan 1973) a star, and one of three classic pre-code, talkie crime films which, with notable debt to the great Josef von Sternberg's...
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Babe of Yesteryear – Gigi Darlene, Part V: 1966 onwards
Blonde Babe of Yesteryear Gigi Darlene (4 Mar 1943 – 1 Jan 2002) was one the multitude of attractive, intriguing actresses of New York's low budget exploitation film scene of the sixties. We would...
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