At the time, Fist of the North Star (or Hokuto No Ken, if one insists) had been going on in the pages of the top manga series Shonen Jump since 1983, and had gained a TV series back in 1984. Access to the former is...
Generational divides have likely been a thing since the Stone Age, though it has seemed particularly pronounced in the past decade or so. Boomers complaining about millennials, millennials complaining about boomers, boomers confusing zoomers for millennials, and Gen Xers wondering why their grandkids are called...
Horror and Rock music have gone hand-in-hand with each other for years now. Especially within the realm of Slasher films, which have almost always preyed upon the notion of 'sex, drugs, and Rock-n-Roll' being met with a bloody end at the hands of masked killers...
A film that took a while to get a release, Radium Girls turned up at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2018, then continued on the festival circuit for another year, popping up at the Women’s Film Festival and Florida Film Festival in 2019. Set for...
If anyone is looking for a new name for their band, Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles could work. But they may want to stick around for the film of the same name too. Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles follows the famous chef Yotam Ottolenghi...
Someone has to take the hard knocks on camera, and not every leading star can be Jackie Chan. So, when a shot calls for a high jump, a connected punch, or being set on fire, that is when the stuntmen are called in. They have...
If only all holiday snaps could be as interesting as this. In 1968, 23 year old Paul Saltzman took a trip to India to ease a broken heart. During his tour, he spent a week in Rishikesh at the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, where...
Sometimes, all it takes for a medium or writer’s reputation to grow is age. For example, Shakespeare today is considered to be the greatest English playwright. Whereas in his lifetime and up to a century after his death, he was considered too common, bawdy, and...
Released on VOD services August 18, 2020, Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies goes into the what’s, how’s, why’s and when’s of flesh on film. Like the differing social attitudes towards nudity from pre-code Hollywood, post-code Hollywood, and the rise of the MPAA....
Having bounced around the festival circuit since appearing at Fantastic Fest in 2019, Random Acts of Violence finds a larger audience on August 20, 2020 thanks to Shudder. The film sounds like it does what it says on the tin, but what is it really...
