Shaken, Not Stirred takes a (brief) look at the James Bond canon from Eon Productions. Twice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of the cultural landscape as well as the genre it helped to create, not to mention its intersection in the... Continue Reading →
Shaken, Not Stirred: Taking On James Bond
That's right, we're back for another round. When Jon and I started compiling ideas for this series, exploring the Bond films was an early suggestion from me. Beyond the personal connection – the Connery films in particular were very important to my father, and was one of the things he shared with me as a... Continue Reading →
Hail Horror! It Returns for 2025!
Not gonna lie...time caught up with me. With the world in a seemingly irreversible nosedive, the time for horror seems both completely unnecessary, yet at the time time vital for my sanity. And so like a bloodied angel here comes the 12th annual Hooptober Horror Movie Marathon, ready to take me away into darker and... Continue Reading →
Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell (1974)
Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts' lives. FROM THE BOX: In the final Lone Wolf and Cub film, star Tomisaburo Wakayama decided to make the... Continue Reading →
Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons (1973)
Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts' lives. FROM THE BOX: Balancing physical action with Buddhist musings on life and death, the most spiritual... Continue Reading →
Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril (1972)
Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts' lives. FROM THE BOX: In this distinctly lowbrow entry in the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Itto Ogami is... Continue Reading →
Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)
Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts' lives. FROM THE BOX: Unfolding in an idyllic countryside that contrasts sharply with the violence that occurs... Continue Reading →
Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart at the River Styx (1972)
Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts' lives. FROM THE BOX: In this exploitation-cinema classic, which took the action and graphic violence of the Lone... Continue Reading →
Choose The Sword – Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance (1972)
Choose The Sword takes a (brief) look at the film series Lone Wolf and Cub. Twice a month, Jon and Chris share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts' lives. FROM THE BOX: The inaugural film in the Lone Wolf and Cub series immediately thrust Itto Ogami into... Continue Reading →
Choose The Sword – The Films of Lone Wolf And Cub
An introduction to the series Choose The Sword, covering the films in the Lone Wolf and Cub.
