It's Here - A Trailer For Cheang Pou-Soi-Directed, Johnnie To-Produced ACCIDENT!
It took quite a long while for the new project by DOG BITE DOG director Cheang Pou-Soi to surface, but as ACCIDENT is finally heading to cinemas and festivals this autumn - we're talking Venice, Toronto and a regular HK...
To fans rejoice! THE RED CIRCLE is still happening
A few months ago, Liam Neeson suggested in an AICN interview that Johnnie To's remake of Jean-Pierre Melville's legendary LE CIRCLE ROUGE was effectively dead in the water. This was of course a sad moment for a lot of us,...
The B-Movie Splendor of Herman Yau
Herman Yau is arguably one of Hong Kong film's strangest fruits. After all, it is hard to find a director whose ouvre shifts between the most despicable expoitation flicks ever conceived (Need I name them?), thoughtful sociopolitical commentary (From the...
Mystique of the Miniseries
This week's edition of the ScreenAnarchy-o-Meter presents a very unusual topic, yet one that everyone somewhat old enough may still relate to - at least if you grew up somewhere around Europe. I am here to tell you about a...
Corbucci's NAVAJO JOE out soon on R1 DVD by MGM!
About time! Corbucci's Navajo Joe, which so far has never been available on DVD outside Japan, is finally getting an English-friendly DVD release courtesy of MGM. Release date is set May 13, no details yet on any possible bonus features...
Hong Kong Movie Music That Stuck With Me
For all the positive reputation Hong Kong cinema has accumulated outside of its home territory in the past few years, the soundtracks accompanying it are usually completely neglected. Which, to a certain extent, is understandable: Rarely does a movie from...
Swashbuckler R2 DVD Review
In the wake of Jack Sparrow's unabashed success story, film companies worldwide have been digging out as many pirate-themed film reels as they can find - and if you also consider all the made-for-TV features haunting our screens in recent...
Timo's MEGA-AoM! (Anarch-O-Meter turns 50, part seven)
Ardvark here, presenting you with the seven-of-nine. Yes, this article starts the last third of our MEGA-ToM. Once more one of our writers will list you his 5 most favorite directors as part of our celebration for the 50th ScreenAnarchy-O-Meter....
Koch Media Western Collection #3: Arizona Colt Returns R2 DVD Review
Arizona Colt Returns, or, as it is known in Germany, Der Tod Sagt Amen, was intended and marketed as a sequel to Michele Lupo's Arizona Colt released in 1966, but in reality, the cast & crew overlap between the two...
Koch Media Western Collection #2: Yankee R2 DVD Review
-Tinto Brass made Yankee in 1966. The man who would go on to direct Caligula and Salon Kitty was apparently not yet interested in documenting certain female body parts at that point, but feeling more inclined to follow the trends...
Koch Media Western Collection #1: Quien Sabe? (A Bullet For The General) R2 DVD Review
Damiano Damiani is perhaps most recognized for the critically acclaimed TV series [b]La Piovra[/b] - but before he, like many other directors at that time, joined the TV business in the late 70s, he made a number of quality films...
New DVDs of IL TRUCIDO E LO SBIRRO (1976) and LA BANDA DEL TRUCIDO (1976)
Another two excellent releases for Euro cult film fans upcoming - Umberto Lenzi's IL TRUCIDO E LO SBIRRO (FREE HAND FOR A TOUGH COP) and Stelvio Massi's LA BANDA DEL TRUCIDO (DESTRUCTION FORCE), to be released on November 22. Directed...
Final specs & release dates for new Koch Media Spaghetti Western DVDs
It's been quite a while since I last reported on the long-awaited return of the highly acclaimed Spaghetti Western releases by German company Koch Media which in the past have always proven popular with international fans. And rightly so, since...
Category III Madness!
Hong Kong's Category III rating can be considered unique in that it not only represents an age restriction imposed on films, but, to some, a seal of quality as well - after the Hong Kong government introduced the film rating...
Tim Lucas' Mario Bava book ALL THE COLORS OF THE DARK finally released!
Just a quick heads-up for all Bava aficionados (and those intending to become just that), since I've just stumbled upon it myself - Tim Lucas, founder and publisher of cult magazine VIDEO WATCHDOG, has finally finished his massive undertaking of...
Snuff (American Cannibale) released by NEW Entertainment World on R2 DVD
Touted as the film that sparked the urban legend of the "Snuff" film, Snuff (or American Cannibale, as the German version was called) is one of the most legendary Grindhouse efforts of the 70s, a low-budget gore flick directed...
La Vittima Designata (The Designated Victim / Der Todesengel) R2 DVD Review
The cast and the lurid German title (which translates to "Angel of Death") might suggest otherwise, but Maurizio Lucidi's La Vittima Designata (The Designated Victim) is far from your average exploitation effort. Instead, we are presented with a brilliant...
Maurizio Lucidi's LA VITTIMA DESIGNATA (1971) released on R2 DVD
Maurizio Lucidi's LA VITTIMA DESIGNATA (or THE DESIGNATED VICTIM in the US) has just received it's first worldwide DVD release as a R2 disc coming from NEW Entertainment World in Germany. Lucidi's film is seen as one of the...
More Spaghetti Westerns From Koch Media.
If you've read my Johnny Hamlet review, you perhaps can understand my affection for the DVD releases from German company Koch Media - besides serving the public with mainstream DVD releases, every once in a while they dig out an...
Johnny Hamlet Review
It's easy to forget how Enzo G. Castellari actually started out in the Italian film industry, considering that his popularity is usually associated with later work such as spaghetti swan song Keoma and poliziotteschi like The Big Racket and...
