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 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 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 →
Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice 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: THERE IS MAN AND BEAST AT NATURE’S MERCY.... Continue Reading →
Something Like a Filmography takes a (brief) look at the filmography of Akira Kurosawa. Twice 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: By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film... Continue Reading →
Being Film #30 for Hooptober 2024 Something a little different. I thought I had reviewed this film before, and I did...15 years ago. It's been sitting on a dead blog forever, and so in the interest of preservation I present it to you here, in all its childish glory. I kid...it's pretty good if I... Continue Reading →
Being Film #22 for Hooptober 2024 Sometimes a film is so generic, so typical of its genre trappings without standing out there's very little to write about. I'm actually kind of curious as what the two critics on the audio commentary for Riccardo Freda's The Iguana With The Tongue Of Fire would talk about, because... Continue Reading →
Being Film #2 for Hooptober 2024 Last May I went on a big giallo kick, and out the vast number of new films discovered one of my favorites was The Red Queen Kills Seven Times, a great title for a gothic tale that had all sorts of twists and turns and some truly gorgeous cinematography.... Continue Reading →
Being Film #31 for Hooptober 2023 And so we come to end of the 10th annual Hooptober Marathon. And it had to end with a giallo, the mixed up genre I've been feverishly catching up on this year. The second I saw the title Strip Nude For Your Killer I knew I needed to see... Continue Reading →
Being Film #27 for Hooptober 2023 NOTE: Using this opportunity to revisit a review I wrote for this film fifteen years ago, slightly cleaned up and reflecting my recent re-watch of this classic. Although now armed with with experience of many of the Master's films, prior to my first viewing of Bay of Blood, aka... Continue Reading →
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