Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Wendigo Meets VAMPIRELLA (1996)

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T he most money that my friend Wendigo has ever spent on a DVD is the $59.95 he dropped on the film adaptation of the famous Warren comic ma...
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Monday, March 22, 2010

NIGHT EDITOR (1946)

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S ony Pictures Home Entertainment's Bad Girls of Film Noir Vol. 2 collection goes back further in time than its companion volume to rev...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

On the Big Screen: THE GHOST WRITER (2010)

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W hen a woman hands a man the confidential manuscript of a memoir and tells him he has a limited time to read it, I don't need to see th...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

MAN IN THE WILDERNESS (1971) and LAST CANNIBAL WORLD (1976)

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A t first I was just going to review Ruggero Deodato's first essay into cannibal cinema, which I saw for the first time earlier this mon...
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In Brief: SHUTTER ISLAND (2010)

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I t's been nearly two weeks since I saw the new Martin Scorsese film but I've had a hard time working up a review. In part that'...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

THE TAKING OF POWER BY LOUIS XIV (1966)

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I' m a historian by vocation. In practice my work has ranged from writing a thesis on antislavery politics in Massachusetts to teaching ...
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010

Wendigo Meets CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT (2009)

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M y friend Wendigo is pretty widely read in vampire fiction, but he was barely aware of Darren Shan's 12-book series of young-adult nove...
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