Six Home Releases From March 2024 first published by Little White Lies, 13 March, 2024, as entry 186 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Includes capsules of: Fear City, One Percenter, The Swordsman of All Swordsmen, Dark Water, Bodyguard Kiba, City of the Living Dead Fear City (1984) Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen and Spike Lee always get…
Six Home Releases from February 2024 first published by Little White Lies, 18 Feb 2024, as entry 185 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Includes capsules of: Marmalade, Slotherhouse, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Yakuza Wolf 1, Paths of Glory, Psycho IV Marmalade (2024) Recently arrested for armed robbery, long-haired, doe-eyed Baron (Joe Keery) tells his lifestory to cellmate Otis (Aldis…
Six Home Releases from December 2023 first published by Little White Lies, 23 December 2023, as entry 183 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column Includes capsules of: The Fall of Ako Castle, Child’s Play (1988), Murder Obsession, RoboDoc: The Creation of RoboCop, I Am Waiting, Jules The Fall of Ako Castle (aka Murder Syndrome, 1978) The…
The Bullet Train (Shinkansen daibakuha) first published by Little White Lies, as entry 174 in my Cinema Psychotronicum column In 1975, when Junya Sato’s The Bullet Train (Shinkansen daibakuha) was released, Japan’s Shinkansen, or ‘new main line’ – the world’s first high-speed train system – was only 11 years old, even if, in the decade…
Wolf Guy first published by Little White Lies, as part 34 of my Cinema Psychotronicum column “A demon?’, asks one grizzled cop, incredulously, as he skims through a coroner’s official report . “It’s the only possibility,” responds his partner. “A human being wouldn’t be able to slash a body like that – and not in such…