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When someone mentions the name Skinner there is two things that jump into most people’s mind: the eternal mama’s boy and principal of Springfield elementary Seymour Skinner of The Simpsons or Mitch Pileggi’s portrayal of FBI assistant director Walter Skinner ...

Toys are often the earliest conduits for our fantasies. Silent actors, they play out our hopes, dreams and aspirations. Toys enable us to project our intangible desires onto the substance of the material world. Yet, toys can also be unsettling. ...

Disc Details Arrow Video, 2019. Region A.Feature: 94 mins. Aspect ratio 2.35:1.  The Movie After Short Night of the Glass Dolls (1971), director Aldo Lado returned to the giallo and delivered one of the genre’s most interesting fims, Who Saw ...

Congresswoman Phoebe Frost (Jean Arthur) didn’t come to post-war Berlin for romance (and she doesn’t fall in love because she’s the only woman amongst her male colleagues). She came as part of a congressional committee to look into the morale ...

What would you say if I told you there was a silent comedian contemporary of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin who used stop animation in his shorts? Raymond Borde didn’t know his name, either, when he found three of his ...

Commencing in an amiable, almost playful style indicative of the other films in the Black Emanuelle series, Aristide Massaccesi’s Emanuelle in America (1976)—which he directs under his usual pseudonym of Joe D’Amato—on the other hand possesses a distinctly different attitude ...

Disc Details Kino Lorber, 2019. Region A. Feature:  131 mins. Aspect ratio 1.85:1.  The Movie Back in 1991, Jonathan Demme’s film adaptation of The Silence of the Lambs swept the Academy Awards, becoming the rare genre piece to take Best Picture, ...

Disc Details Arrow, 2019. Region A. Feature:  96 mins. Aspect ratio 1.85:1. The Movie An Italian-French-German co-production, The Iguana with the Tongue of Fire (Italian title: L’iguana dalla lingua di fuoco) is a giallo from the heyday of the genre. ...

Over the last few months multiplatform distributor 88 Films has added two memorable, and potentially controversial, horror sequels to its expanding range of new releases. The first of these, Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh was Bill Condon’s divisive follow-up to ...

Hammer fans who have a soft spot for Frankenstein Created Woman (1967) are in good company with no less a fan than Martin Scorsese, who has referred to this as his favorite Hammer film of all time. Those of us who first ...