After a quiet spell, Eureka has returned to their Eureka Classics label with the release of The War Lord, following close behind that is Richard Fleischer’s Violent Saturday, a spiritual companion to the recent release of Don Siegel’s The Killers and Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye. This 1955 film is an […]
Month: April 2014
S08E15 – The End
S08E14 – Take The Journey
Half of a Yellow Sun (2014): More stage play than Nigerian War Drama (Review)
Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie which recounts the Biafran war from a personal and not military perspective. Charged with adapting this 2007 award-winning book is first time director and playwright Biyi Bandele. Where the book focused on the two sisters, Bandele […]
Pit Stop (1969): the fortuitous birth of Modern Carsploitation (Review)
On the latest making-of documentary for Arrow Video, legendary exploitation director Jack Hill explains that Roger Corman requested that he should make a stock car film, capitalizing on their success at the time. Hill only accepted if Corman allowed him to make an art movie, the result was Pit Stop. […]
