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Sunday, September 4, 2022
A Fugitive From The Past
Saturday, October 3, 2020
Saturday Sinema: The Last Starfighter
Greetings Starfighter! You have been recruited by Arrow Video to experience the 1984 sci-fi classic as you've never experienced it before! Directed by Nick Castle, the man behind the Michael Myers mask in the original Halloween, The Last Starfighter tells the story Alex Rogan (Lance Guest), an arcade game whizz-kid whose wildest dreams comes true when he finds himself enlisted to fight in an interstellar war. Now newly restored from a 4K scan of the original negative and featuring a 4.1 mix originally created for the film's 70mm release - never included on previous home video formats - The Last Starfighter arrives loaded with brand new and archival bonus features. Strap yourself in: the Blu-ray adventure of a lifetime is about to begin!
Bonus Materials
- Brand new restoration from a 4K scan of the original 35mm camera negative
- High Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Uncompressed 2.0 stereo, 5.1 DTS-HD MA and 4.1 audio
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Brand new audio commentary with Mike White of The Last Projection Booth podcast
- Archival audio commentary with director Nick Castle and production designer Ron Cobb
- Heroes of the Screen – archival featurette
- Crossing the Frontier: The Making of The Last Starfighter – archival 4-part documentary
- Image Galleries
- Theatrical and Teaser Trailers
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matt Ferguson
- PLUS MORE NEW EXTRAS TO BE ANNOUNCED!!!
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY
- Limited Edition O-Card
- Limited Edition Reversible Poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork
- Collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Amanda Reyes and sci-fi author Greg Bear’s never-before-published Omni magazine article on Digital Productions, the company responsible for the CGI in The Last Starfighter
Friday, September 4, 2020
Film Buff Friday: Jesus Shows You The Way To The Highway
What do you get when you cross Afro-futurism, Cold War paranoia, the dystopian world of Philip K. Dick and 60s exploitation cinema, along with a hefty dose of Lynchian surrealism? The answer: Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway, the second feature by Miguel Llansó (Crumbs) and one of the most striking and original films you'll see all year. The year is 2035, and Special Agent Gagano (Daniel Tadesse, Crumbs) dreams of leaving the CIA to open a business with his wife Malin (Gerda-Annette Allikas). Before he can hand in his resignation, however, a strange cyber virus attacks Psychobook, the CIA's operating system, forcing Gagano to enter cyberspace via virtual reality to combat the threat. Before long, however, the virus starts to reach out into the real world, destabilising the fragile socio-political order for its own ends, and Gagano, trapped in the VR world, must find a way out before it's too late. Featuring encounters with an Irish-accented Joseph Stalin, a kung-fu-fighting Batman, and Jesus Christ himself, to name but a few, Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is absurd, audacious and like nothing you've ever experienced before.
Media
Bonus Materials
- High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentation
- New audio commentary by critics Alexandra Heller-Nicholas and Anton Bitel
- From Talinn with Love, a new visual essay by critic Will Webb exploring the influence of exploitation cinema on Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway
- Exclusive audio interview with director Miguel Llansó, conducted by critic Josh Hurtado
- Crumbs (2015), Miguel Llansó’s feature directorial debut and spiritual predecessor to Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway (Limited Edition Exclusive)
- Chigger Ale (2013) and Night in the Wild Garden (2015), two short films by Miguel Llansó
- Original proof-of-concept trailer
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Austin Hinderliter
- Double-sided fold-out poster
- Limited Edition illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway by Barry Forshaw and Crumbs by Anton Bitel
- Limited Edition of 2000 copies
Friday, July 17, 2020
Film Buff Friday: Zombie For Sale
Media
Bonus Materials
- High-Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation
- Original uncompressed Stereo and 5.1 DTS-HD MA options
- Newly-translated English subtitles
- Brand new audio commentary with filmmakers and critics Sam Ashurst and Dan Martin
- Q&A with director Lee Min-jae from a 2019 screening at Asian Pop-Up Cinema in Chicago, moderated by film critic and author Darcy Paquet
- Eat Together, Kill Together: The Family-in-Peril Comedy - brand new video essay by critic and producer Pierce Conran exploring Korea's unique social satires
- Making-Of Featurette
- Behind-the-Scenes footage
- Original Trailer
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly-commissioned artwork by Mike Lee-Graham
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Josh Hurtado
Tuesday, April 28, 2020
"These Troubled Times"
So where in the world has Jay been? Well you are about to find out!
Hi Jay! |
MS: Any plans for a video?
MS: You did a one man musical show "Mental Creatures" that was very successful. Give some 411 on it.
MS: Ever planning on resurrecting it again?
Sunday, October 27, 2019
Repulsion
Born To Hand Jive Catherine Deneuve Repulsion |
Here is the synopsis:
"A sex-repulsed woman who disapproves of her sister's boyfriend sinks into depression and has horrific visions of rape and violence."
While I did not see it the year it was out, duh, I did happen to view it in my twenties, not knowing it was the big fright fest of the year of my birth. I knew that being born a snake was cool, now it has been solidified.
It is time for another viewing of this classic, with me being older and wiser. While I liked it when I first saw it, I believe this is a film, like so many, that gets better with life experience.
Besides who can resist the eternal beauty of Deneuve and the Directing mastery of Polanski?
Yeah, I thought not...only four more days until Halloween!
Repulsion on IMDb -
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059646/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1
Friday, February 1, 2019
Film Buff Friday: Audition
Bonus Materials
- Brand new 2K restoriation of original vault elements
- Original 5.1 Dolby Surround Audio
- Optional English subtitles
- Audio commentary with director Takashi Miike and screenwriter Daisuke Tengan
- Brand new commentary by Miike biographer Tom Mes examining the film and its source novel
- Introduction by Miike
- Ties that Bind – A brand new interview with Takashi Miike
- Interviews with stars Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina, Renji Ishibashi and Ren Osugi
- Damaged Romance: An appreciation by Japanese cinema historian Tony Rayns
- Trailers
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Matthew Griffin
- FIRST PRESSING ONLY: Illustrated collector's booklet featuring new writing on the film by Anton Bitel
Sunday, January 6, 2019
"Oh" What A Night! The Golden Globes
Hosts Sandra Oh & Andy Samberg |
While there is nothing one can really say about the event, especially since tonight's award ceremony has yet to air. I figured why not give you a list of nominees and the prediction of who will win the Globe and who should win the Globe in each category along with other clickable coverage via USA Today.
Don't say I'm not a giver. Because I am, now click minions, click!
PS Did you catch the pun in my byline? "Yes" it's a wink to one of this year's GG hosts Sandra Oh. Ha ha ha ha ha ha...OK now you may click like your Mama taught you!!!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2019/01/03/golden-globes-2019-predictions-who-win-and-who-should/2449076002/
Friday, November 16, 2018
Film Buff Friday: Maniac
Frank Zito (a career performance by writer/executive producer Joe Spinell of ROCKY and THE GODFATHER fame) is a deeply disturbed man, haunted by the traumas of unspeakable childhood abuse. And when these horrific memories begin to scream inside his mind, Frank prowls the seedy streets of N ew York City to stalk and slaughter innocent young women. Now Frank has begun a relationship with a beautiful photographer (Caroline Munro of THE SPY WHO LOVED ME), yet his vile compulsions remain. These are the atrocities of a human monster. This is the story of a MANIAC.
Directed by William Lustig (MANIAC COP 2, VIGILANTE) and featuring landmark gore effects by Tom Savini (DAWN OF THE DEAD, FRIDAY THE 13th), this relentlessly shocking and disturbing film was originally banned or censored all over the world due to its graphic violence. Now Blue Underground is thrilled to present MANIAC in a brand-new 4K Restoration from its recently discovered 16mm original camera negative, overflowing with hours of new and archival extras! A complete list is below...
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Disc 1 (Blu-ray) Feature Film + Extras:
Disc 2 (Blu-ray) Extras:
BONUS! MANIAC Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD by Jay Chattaway
BONUS! Collectable Booklet with new essay by Michael Gingold
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Friday, October 19, 2018
Film Buff Friday - "Bloodlines"
Saturday, September 15, 2018
The Goonies Live!
CAST
“The footage coming from the border over the last few months is sickening. It’s not just that it’s heart-wrenching; it is a helpless sort of rage, the rage that comes from knowing you cannot drive down to Texas and forcibly hurl your body against the fences. You can’t crash into those cages and scoop every child into your arms and swing to the rescue. There is no magic wand to wave that will undo the damage that’s been done. But that does not absolve us from the responsibility of trying.
That’s The Goonies in a nutshell: we keep fighting even when it seems like a done deal – a home in foreclosure, the papers all but signed. RAICES has been on the front lines of this humanitarian crises from the beginning. They haven’t stopped. They won’t stop, but they need our support – now more than ever, in these days when every week in the news cycle brings something worse than the last. They need us to keep paying attention.”
ABOUT RAICES –