Arrow Films label Nordic Noir & Beyond has become devoted to releasing Euro-crime television series such as The Bridge III, River, and Trapped. Their new release is a 3 DVD set titled The Fjallbacka Murders, which contains 5 feature length television dramas and a hit film, The Hidden Child, that were all novels adapted from […]
Author: Raul J. Vantassle
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15 Cult Horror Comedies You Might Not Have Seen
The combination of horror and comedy may seem like a relatively new cinematic concept with the virtual explosion of the subgenre during the 1980’s all the way up to now, but it actually originated with the silent film era. One of the first to mix both elements was a now lost picture called The Ghost […]
DVD Review: Battle for Sevastopol (2015)
Having seen most of the recent Russian war dramas such as Stalingrad and The Admiral, I can proudly say that this an absolutely brilliant biopic that is easily comparable to the other great war films that have been coming out of Russia in the past ten years or so. This is brought to you by […]
[Book Review] Chaplin’s War Trilogy: An Evolving Lens in Three Dark Comedies, 1918-1947
Wes Gehring has written comprehensively on the subject of film, authoring 32 film-related books covering forties film funnymen, depression-era clowns, and award-winning biographies on James Dean, Carole Lombard, Steve McQueen, Robert Wise and Red Skelton. His 2014 book is the first in a series focusing of the subgenre of dark comedies. It examines three specific […]
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10 Cult Vampire Movies You Might Not Have Seen
Vampires, they suck the good out of life. Yet they are so darn cool. They have been evil, scary, erotic, funny, and have existed in cinematic history for practically one hundred years now. They originated from folklore and were later popularized in literature such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Polidori’s The Vampyre. The first film […]
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15 Cult Road Trip Movies You Might Not Have Seen
A road trip movie’s plot typically revolves around a group of characters taking a trip from one point to another, making stops along the way and having various things happen to them. They may run into unusual people and places along the way and all of this tend to teach or resolve some issues with […]