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.โTwice 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:โIn 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.โTwice 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:โBalancing 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.โTwice 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:โIn 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.โTwice 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:โUnfolding 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.โTwice 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:โIn 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.โTwice 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:โThe 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.
Something Like a Filmography: Madadayo (1993)
Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa.โTwice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa's legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts' lives. FROM THE BOX:โFor his final film, Akira Kurosawa paid tribute... Continue Reading →
Something Like a Filmography: Rhapsody in August (1991)
Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa.โTwice a month, Chris and Jon share their impressions of each film, both on its own terms and in terms of Kurosawa's legacy and its intersection in the Cinema Dual hosts' lives. FROM THE BOX:โSet in the gorgeous countryside surrounding, this endearing... Continue Reading →
