I began this three-part Fernando Di Leo series a few weeks ago with a look at two of the first films in his poliziotteschi trilogy, the Milieu Trilogy: Milano calibro 9 (Caliber 9, 1972) and La mala ordina (The Italian ...

The wonderful Vinegar Syndrome has really been on a tear this year expanding their catalogue beyond erotica to include cult, horror, and even blaxploitation. Over the last few months, they’ve released a number of restored, Blu-ray editions of films starring ...

True Detective, an American anthology of self-contained stories created and written by Nic Pizzolato, exploded onto television screens in 2014. The first eight-part mini-series starred Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey, as a pair as former homicide detectives in rural Louisiana ...

By and large, Lucio Fulci is one of horror cinema’s most notable and beloved directors. However, that love is often applied loosely to his catalog. Sure, everyone knows his gory, zombie films, but these are only a small fraction of the ...

Artsploitation Films jumped on the scene for North American distribution in a big way in the last few years, filling a much needed gap in the allocation/distribution of a certain kind of film for NA distribution. Self-described as ”not strictly ...

As the camera fades up, the first image audiences are met with is a woman dressed in traditional garb, gesturing for the camera. It plays out like a parody of a bad sitcom, complete with cutesy gestures and goofy interactions complete ...

While many have reduced it to a response to vigilante-style thrillers produced in America, such as Dirty Harry and Death Wish, the Eurocrime subgenre nonetheless thrived in Italy for years and produced nearly as many classics as the more renowned, ...

Japanese director Shohei Imamura has an interesting career trajectory. Beginning as an assistant to the, now, legendary director Yasujiro Ozu, Imamura soon grew tired of Ozu’s depiction of Japanese life. Despite the praise for Ozu’s authentic Japanese cinematic style, Imamura ...

For many film fans, the moniker Hammer Film Productions instantly summons the association with classic British horror. The studio, established in 1934, became the reigning monarchs of British horror from the late 50’s to the mid-seventies—making icons out of the ...

Prior to the 1950s, Richard Fleischer was mainly known for his work within the crime genre. At the start of the 1950s, however, he began to move away from the genre, producing MGM’s first 3-D film Arena, as well as the ...