Tinto Brass: Maestro of Erotic Cinema 2 by Eric Cotenas (16th May 2024)
While Cult Epics' unnumbered first volume of Tinto Brass: Maestro of Erotica showcased four of Brass' latest films in Cheeky, Private, Black Angel, and Monamour, this second volume presents four of his major works prior to those from the peak of household name period as the "master of erotica." Paprika: To help her electrician's apprentice fiance Nino (Capriccio's Luigi Laezza) buy out his boss' business, Mimma (Foxy Lady's ... |
Tinto Brass: Maestro of Erotic Cinema 2 by Eric Cotenas (16th May 2024)
While Cult Epics' unnumbered first volume of Tinto Brass: Maestro of Erotica showcased four of Brass' latest films in Cheeky, Private, Black Angel, and Monamour, this second volume presents four of his major works prior to those from the peak of household name period as the "master of erotica." Paprika: To help her electrician's apprentice fiance Nino (Capriccio's Luigi Laezza) buy out his boss' business, Mimma (Foxy Lady's ... |
Tinto Brass: Maestro of Erotic Cinema 2 by Eric Cotenas (16th May 2024)
While Cult Epics' unnumbered first volume of Tinto Brass: Maestro of Erotica showcased four of Brass' latest films in Cheeky, Private, Black Angel, and Monamour, this second volume presents four of his major works prior to those from the peak of household name period as the "master of erotica." Paprika: To help her electrician's apprentice fiance Nino (Capriccio's Luigi Laezza) buy out his boss' business, Mimma (Foxy Lady's ... |
Tinto Brass: Maestro of Erotic Cinema 2 by Eric Cotenas (16th May 2024)
While Cult Epics' unnumbered first volume of Tinto Brass: Maestro of Erotica showcased four of Brass' latest films in Cheeky, Private, Black Angel, and Monamour, this second volume presents four of his major works prior to those from the peak of household name period as the "master of erotica." Paprika: To help her electrician's apprentice fiance Nino (Capriccio's Luigi Laezza) buy out his boss' business, Mimma (Foxy Lady's ... |
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain by Eric Cotenas (15th May 2024)
Middle-aged George Tatum (Baird Stafford) is a paranoid schizophrenic suffering from amnesia, a repressed memory only expresses itself in nightmares of murder and mutilation in which he sees himself as a child alternately witnessing or perpetrating the crime. Institutionalized while under suspicion of the unsolved sexual mutilation of an entire family, George has become the subject of an experimental drug. While the drugs have been successful in stopping his violent behavior, they have not stopped the dreams. Despite this, Dr. Williamson (Oriental Blue's Bill Milling) is confident that George can be treated as an outpatient. A visit to a 42nd Street porno palace, however, reveals the sexual component of George's nightmares and the drugs are no longer able to curb his murderous impulses. For reasons unknown, he steals a car and heads towards Florida, stopping along the way to murder and mutilate women who attract his eye. Arriving in Cocoa Beach, George starts stalking the family of divorcee Susan Temper (... |
The Cat and the Canary by Eric Cotenas (14th May 2024)
Wealthy and eccentric Cyrus Canby West spends his remaining days feeling like a canary surrounded by cats. If he is mad, he believes he has been driven to it by greedy relatives, and he decides to make them wait a while after his death until they can learn of their inheritance; indeed, he makes them wait twenty years after his death until all that remain of his family line are imperious Aunt Susan Sillsby (Orphans of the Storm's Flora Finch), ditzy niece Cecily Young (Stage Struck's Gertrude Astor), grave Harry Blythe (Doctor X's Arthur Edmund Carewe), wily Charlie Wilder (Curse of the Undead's Forrest Stanley), craven Paul Jones (... |
The Cat and the Canary by Eric Cotenas (12th May 2024)
Wealthy and eccentric Cyrus Canby West spends his remaining days feeling like a canary surrounded by cats. If he is mad, he believes he has been driven to it by greedy relatives, and he decides to make them wait a while after his death until they can learn of their inheritance; indeed, he makes them wait twenty years after his death until all that remain of his family line are imperious Aunt Susan Sillsby (Orphans of the Storm's Flora Finch), ditzy niece Cecily Young (Stage Struck's Gertrude Astor), grave Harry Blythe (Doctor X's Arthur Edmund Carewe), wily Charlie Wilder (Curse of the Undead's Forrest Stanley), craven Paul Jones (... |
Nightmares in a Damaged Brain by Eric Cotenas (12th May 2024)
Middle-aged George Tatum (Baird Stafford) is a paranoid schizophrenic suffering from amnesia, a repressed memory only expresses itself in nightmares of murder and mutilation in which he sees himself as a child alternately witnessing or perpetrating the crime. Institutionalized while under suspicion of the unsolved sexual mutilation of an entire family, George has become the subject of an experimental drug. While the drugs have been successful in stopping his violent behavior, they have not stopped the dreams. Despite this, Dr. Williamson (Oriental Blue's Bill Milling) is confident that George can be treated as an outpatient. A visit to a 42nd Street porno palace, however, reveals the sexual component of George's nightmares and the drugs are no longer able to curb his murderous impulses. For reasons unknown, he steals a car and heads towards Florida, stopping along the way to murder and mutilate women who attract his eye. Arriving in Cocoa Beach, George starts stalking the family of divorcee Susan Temper (... |
Them by James-Masaki Ryan (10th May 2024)
"Them" ("Ils") (2006) Clémentine (played by Olivia Bonamy) and Lucas (played by Michaël Cohen) are a French couple living in Romania, with Clémentine teaching French at an elementary school and Lucas being a novelist suffering from writer's block. The two live a secluded life in an old mansion in the middle of a forest which is quiet and peaceful, but one evening they get some unexpected visitors who start terrorizing the young couple late into the night... After working on short films, advertisements, and television separately, directors David Moreau and Xavier Palud made their feature film debut with "Them", a home invasion story that they claim was based on a story they heard from a driver while location scouting for an ad in the Czech Republic. They were told that some Austrians who were living in the Czech Republic were attacked in their home, and from that idea came their vision of unsettling terror. Changing the setting from the Czech Republic to Romani... |
Shadowzone by Eric Cotenas (10th May 2024)
NASA Captain Hickock (Creepshow 2's David Beecroft) arrives at the Jackass Flats Proving Ground underground research facility to investigate the death of one of the research subjects of the government-funded "Shadowzone" project, an "extended sleep study" with applications for space travel supervised by the shifty Dr. Van Fleet (Big Trouble in Little China's James Hong). Although the research team - including imperious Dr. Erhardt (Flowers in the Attic's Louise Fletcher), pretty Dr. Kidwell (Baywatch's Shawn Weatherly), and computer tech Wiley (... |
Black Tight Killers by Eric Cotenas (8th May 2024)
War photographer Hondo (Battles Without Honor and Humanity's Akira Kobayashi) returns to Tokyo and immediately asks out stewardess Yoriko (Outlaw Gangster VIP's Chieko Matsubara). Yoriko, however, seems less flirtatious and more paranoid about a man she claims has been following them. Hondo gallantly gets up to question the man but loses him and returns to learn that Yoriko has left. Hondo follows a scream into an alley only to discover that Yoriko has been saved from the man by three weapon-wielding women in black tights who have murdered the would-be abductor. Hondo manages to fight them off when they attack him, but when he goes in search of the police, he is arrested as the suspected killer on the testimony of two mysterious witnesses. When the police try to pin the killing on him of the man identified as smuggler Lopez, his American journalist friend Bill Sommers manages to exonerate him ("He was with a girl… who'd commit... |
That Most Important Thing: Love - Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (6th May 2024)
César (Best Actress): Romy Schneider (won), Best Production Design: Jean-Pierre Kohut-Svelko (nominated), and Best Editing: Christiane Lack (nominated) - César Awards, 1976 To pay back the debts incurred by his alcoholic father (Le Corbeau's Roger Blin) to loan shark Mazelli (Barbarella's Claude Dauphin), photographer Servais Mont (What Have You Done to Solange?'s Fabio Testi) sneaks onto the set of a pornographic film to take some snaps only to be shamed by the self-loathing of actress Nadine (What's New Pussycat?... |
Crimson Peak by Eric Cotenas (6th May 2024)
Ever since she was a child, Edith Cushing (Stoker's Mia Wasikowska) has known that ghosts do indeed exist when her mother appeared her days after her death from black cholera with a cryptic warning. An intelligent young woman in 1890s Buffalo, New York, Edith is on her way to spinsterhood having forsaken suitors and mixing with high society in favor of looking after her father Carter (Supernatural's Jim Beaver) and pursuing her own goal of becoming an authoress of ghost stories. Upon hearing of the arrival of an English baronet who made the acquaintance of Eunice (Star Trek: Discovery's Emily Coutts), sister of her childhood friend ophthalmologist Dr. Alan McMichael (Sons of Anarchy's ... |
Lady Reporter by Eric Cotenas (6th May 2024)
When the FBI discovers that the major influx of trade flow capital into the country's major cities comes from counterfeit cash printed in Hong Kong, they believe that a newspaper called the Asian Post is a front for the operation (especially because its major staff have more martial arts than journalism credentials). Without the official support of the Hong Kong police, the FBI sends in San Francisco cop Cindy (Yes Madam's Cynthia Rothrock) – nicknamed "Chinatown Moe Cheung" due to her specialty in Chinese crime – to infiltrate the paper as a reporter. Arriving in Hong Kong, Cindy moves in with her old friend Judy (Long Arm of the Law: Part 3's Elizabeth Lee Mei-Fung) and easily lands a position at the paper paired with go-getter Chung (Vampire's Breakfast's Kwan Chiu-Chung). C... |
The Shape of Night: Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (6th May 2024)
Yoshie (Red Beard's Miyuki Kuwano) graduates from high school and heads to the city to study dressmaking and work part-time at the Fruit of the Tree Bar where she hopes to become more sophisticated in the company of interesting customers. She is bowled over pretty quickly by the attentions of handsome "businessman" Eiji Kitami (Sword of the Beast's Mikijirô Hira) – who is unbeknownst to her actually a member of the Kabuto yakuza syndicate – so much so that when he forces himself on her, she sees their subsequent routine of dinner and window-shopping before taking a room for the night as the beginnings of a meaningful relationship. Eiji constantly solicits loans from Yoshie to meet his quota with the syndicate, suggesting that Yoshie earns the money to cover his debts with the "perks of being a woman." Yoshie leaves Eiji only to be dragged back by his gang on the orders of his boss who has his men gang rape her to punish Eiji ... |
The Chaser by James-Masaki Ryan (5th May 2024)
"The Chaser" <추격자> (2008) Eom Joong-ho (played by Kim Yoon-seok) is a pimp who is concerned that two women that he employs have gone missing. He notices the last customer that had contact with the two girls was the same person, and when he requests another, he asks his employee Mi-jin (played by Seo Yeong-hye) to service him, and Joong-ho would tail her to find out if he had anything to do with the disappearances. The customer, Jee Young-min (played by Ha Jung-woo) is in fact killing the women, chaining up Mi-jin and bludgeoning her head with a hammer. But with Joong-ho on his tail and the police also getting involved, a chain of events are set loose for the manhunt... There have been a number of South Korean films that are part of serial killer thriller genre. Director Bong Joon-Ho's 2003 feature "Memories of Murder" was a major hit as it was a manhunt film that was based on ... |
The Shape of Night: Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (5th May 2024)
Yoshie (Red Beard's Miyuki Kuwano) graduates from high school and heads to the city to study dressmaking and work part-time at the Fruit of the Tree Bar where she hopes to become more sophisticated in the company of interesting customers. She is bowled over pretty quickly by the attentions of handsome "businessman" Eiji Kitami (Sword of the Beast's Mikijirô Hira) – who is unbeknownst to her actually a member of the Kabuto yakuza syndicate – so much so that when he forces himself on her, she sees their subsequent routine of dinner and window-shopping before taking a room for the night as the beginnings of a meaningful relationship. Eiji constantly solicits loans from Yoshie to meet his quota with the syndicate, suggesting that Yoshie earns the money to cover his debts with the "perks of being a woman." Yoshie leaves Eiji only to be dragged back by his gang on the orders of his boss who has his men gang rape her to punish Eiji ... |
Black Tight Killers by Eric Cotenas (5th May 2024)
War photographer Hondo (Battles Without Honor and Humanity's Akira Kobayashi) returns to Tokyo and immediately asks out stewardess Yoriko (Outlaw Gangster VIP's Chieko Matsubara). Yoriko, however, seems less flirtatious and more paranoid about a man she claims has been following them. Hondo gallantly gets up to question the man but loses him and returns to learn that Yoriko has left. Hondo follows a scream into an alley only to discover that Yoriko has been saved from the man by three weapon-wielding women in black tights who have murdered the would-be abductor. Hondo manages to fight them off when they attack him, but when he goes in search of the police, he is arrested as the suspected killer on the testimony of two mysterious witnesses. When the police try to pin the killing on him of the man identified as smuggler Lopez, his American journalist friend Bill Sommers manages to exonerate him ("He was with a girl… who'd commit... |
That Cold Day in the Park (Blu-ray) by Paul Lewis (3rd May 2024)
That Cold Day in the Park (Robert Altman, 1969) Arrow Video have released to Blu-ray Robert Altman’s 1969 film That Cold Day in the Park>. Noticing a 19 year old young man (Michael Burns) sitting on a bench in a nearby park during a rainstorm, wealthy and repressed Frances Austen (Sandy Dennis) invites him into the apartment she has inherited from her parents. The young man appears to be mute, and listens to Frances as she tells him about her life. It soon becomes clear that Frances has quickly become accustomed to the presence of the young man, and is experiencing sexual desire towards him. Sneaking out of Frances’ apartment, the young man returns to his hectic family home before seeking out his sister, Nina (Susanne Benton), and her draft dodger boyfriend, Nick (David Garfield). Soon it becomes clear that the young man is not mute: the appeara... |
Planet of the Vampires: Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (2nd May 2024)
When the two exploratory spaceships Argos and Galliot pick up a distress signal from an unexplored, fog-shrouded planet, they lose contact when landing on the planet. A force overcomes the crew of the Argos and they attempt to kill each other, but they are able to regain their senses. Fearing that something similar has happened to the crew of the Galliot, Argos Captain Markary (Queen Bee's Barry Sullivan) and his crew - including Sonya (Mafioso's Norma Bengell), Wess (Satan's Blood's Ángel Aranda), Tiona (Paris When It Sizzles' Evi Marandi), and Carter (... |
China O'Brien 1 and 2 by Eric Cotenas (30th April 2024)
"The inimitable martial arts superstar Tiger Claws' Cynthia Rothrock stars in two of the most gloriously entertaining films of her career!" After shooting and killing a teenage boy while saving one of her students from an ambush, Kung fu-teaching police officer China O'Brien (Tiger Claws' Cynthia Rothrock) turns in her badge and quits the big city for her home town of Beaver Creek, Utah where her father (David Blackwell) is the sheriff. Upon returning, China discovers that things have changed for the worst, with her father fighting a losing battle against the widespread corrupt operations of wealthy Kurt Sommers (Steven Kerby) who has powerful Judge Godar (Will C. Hazlett) in his pocket along with one of O'Brien's own deputies Li... |
China O'Brien 1 and 2 by Eric Cotenas (30th April 2024)
"The inimitable martial arts superstar Tiger Claws' Cynthia Rothrock stars in two of the most gloriously entertaining films of her career!" After shooting and killing a teenage boy while saving one of her students from an ambush, Kung fu-teaching police officer China O'Brien (Tiger Claws' Cynthia Rothrock) turns in her badge and quits the big city for her home town of Beaver Creek, Utah where her father (David Blackwell) is the sheriff. Upon returning, China discovers that things have changed for the worst, with her father fighting a losing battle against the widespread corrupt operations of wealthy Kurt Sommers (Steven Kerby) who has powerful Judge Godar (Will C. Hazlett) in his pocket along with one of O'Brien's own deputies Li... |
Chocolat by James-Masaki Ryan (29th April 2024)
"Chocolat" (1988) Taking place in French Cameroon in the 1950s, the Dalens are a white family living in the rural Mindif area, where the father Marc (played by François Cluzet) is the appointed government official. Along with his wife Aimée (played by Giulia Boschi) and their young daughter named France (played by Cécile Ducasse), they have a fairly quiet and peaceful life, though Marc at times must travel far for work for days at a time. The family's servant Protée (played by Isaach De Bankolé) is a young man who is loyal to his work and helps with many of the family's needs. This includes being an interpreter, a caretaker for young France, and serving the family other everyday needs. The bond between France and Protée is loving and friendly, though times and situations are changing for everyone. Filmmaker Claire Denis made her directorial debut with "Chocolat", which was partially based on some of her own ex... |
Frivolous Lola by Eric Cotenas (26th April 2024)
Young Lola (Anna Ammirati) is engaged to be married to baker's son Tomasso (Max Parodi). While his father is distracted by his soon-to-be-daughter-in-law's derriere, Tomasso's mother has misgivings about the union of her precious son with the daughter of Zaira (Antropophagus' Serena Grandi) who came back to her village from her stint as a cruise line coat check girl with a baby and a husband in libidinous chef André (The Devil Rides Out's Patrick Mower) who the village biddies regard as "the devil himself" and may or may not actually be Lola's father. Lola is also having second thoughts about Tomasso whose desire to wait until after they are married to have sex is a source of growing frustration. Alternately intrigued and exasperated by the Bluebeard's chamber-like quality of her father's study where ... |
The Inspector Wears Skirts II by Eric Cotenas (26th April 2024)
Madame Wu (The Seventh Curse's Sibelle Hu) and the entirely female police commando unit of SKIRTS are back… that is, they are back in training despite their impromptu "graduation" rescuing their male Tiger Squad counterpart and foiling a jewel heist by international terrorists. There are four new recruits – Phoebe (She Shoot Straight's Anglie Leung), Ping (Vampire vs Vampire's Tiffany Lau Yuk-Ting), Jo (Happy Ghost II's May Lo Mei-Mei), and Susanna (Robotrix's Amy Yip) – and attention-seek... |
The Swordsman of All Swordsmen/The Mystery of Chess Boxing: Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (25th April 2024)
Swordsman of All Swordsmen: When martial arts master Chao Hu (A Touch of Zen's Miao Tian) challenges a traveling street performer (Island of Fire's Ming Kao) for possession of his pretty daughter Pearl (Yang Meng-Hua), he mercilessly beats the man and threatens her when she tries to fight back. Just in the nick of time, young wandering swordsman Tsai Ying-Jie (The Shaolin Kids' Tien Peng) steps in and effortlessly kills his rival. Ying-Jie regrettably explains to Pearl that he cannot honor her father's dying wish that he look after her because he is on a mission of revenge against the five men who were not content to merely take the le... |
The Swordsman of All Swordsmen/The Mystery of Chess Boxing: Limited Edition by Eric Cotenas (25th April 2024)
Swordsman of All Swordsmen: When martial arts master Chao Hu (A Touch of Zen's Miao Tian) challenges a traveling street performer (Island of Fire's Ming Kao) for possession of his pretty daughter Pearl (Yang Meng-Hua), he mercilessly beats the man and threatens her when she tries to fight back. Just in the nick of time, young wandering swordsman Tsai Ying-Jie (The Shaolin Kids' Tien Peng) steps in and effortlessly kills his rival. Ying-Jie regrettably explains to Pearl that he cannot honor her father's dying wish that he look after her because he is on a mission of revenge against the five men who were not content to merely take the le... |
Frivolous Lola AKA Monella (Blu-ray) by (25th April 2024)
Young Lola (Anna Ammirati) is engaged to be married to baker's son Tomasso (Max Parodi). While his father is distracted by his soon-to-be-daughter-in-law's derriere, Tomasso's mother has misgivings about the union of her precious son with the daughter of Zaira (Antropophagus' Serena Grandi) who came back to her village from her stint as a cruise line coat check girl with a baby and a husband in libidinous chef André (The Devil Rides Out's Patrick Mower) who the village biddies regard as "the devil himself" and may or may not actually be Lola's father. Lola is also having second thoughts about Tomasso whose desire to wait until after they are married to have sex is a source of growing frustration. Alternately intrigued and exasperated by the Bluebeard's chamber-like quality of her father's study where ... |
The Inspector Wears Skirts II by Eric Cotenas (25th April 2024)
Madame Wu (The Seventh Curse's Sibelle Hu) and the entirely female police commando unit of SKIRTS are back… that is, they are back in training despite their impromptu "graduation" rescuing their male Tiger Squad counterpart and foiling a jewel heist by international terrorists. There are four new recruits – Phoebe (She Shoot Straight's Anglie Leung), Ping (Vampire vs Vampire's Tiffany Lau Yuk-Ting), Jo (Happy Ghost II's May Lo Mei-Mei), and Susanna (Robotrix's Amy Yip) – and attention-seek... |
Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu by James-Masaki Ryan (21st April 2024)
"Two Films by Yasujiro Ozu" "I Was Born, But..." 「大人の見る絵本 生れてはみたけれど」 (1932) The Yoshii family move to their new home in a suburb of Tokyo so the father (played by Tatsuo Saito) for work under the business of Mr. Iwasaki (played by Takeshi Sakamoto). His wife Mitsuko Yoshikawa), and his two sons Ryoichi (played by Hideo Sugawara) and the younger Keiji (played by Tomio Aoki AKA Tokkan Kozo) are dealing with the changes, and for the children it means a new school and new friends in the neighborhood. But making new friends with the schoolmates proves to be a difficult task due to bullying. Kamekichi (played by Zentaro Iijima) is the lead bully who has his legion of minions following him, and the first encounter with Ryoichi and Keiji ... |