William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) is a film rich in production history, controversy, and revisionism. It brought together the director...

King Hu’s Come Drink with Me (1966) and the female knight-errant wuxia released in its wake helped establish Shaw Bros. as the Hong Kong...

Looking at the credits of Cheerleaders' Wild Weekend (also known as The Great American Girl Robbery), the name Chuck Russell jumps out...

By the early ‘90s, the ever-dependable Italian exploitation machine was drying up as the international home video era had put the...

Best-known for his groundbreaking yakuza crime pictures, Kinji Fukasaku was an insanely prolific filmmaker, who dabbled across genres...

Alfred Sole’s Alice, Sweet Alice is a quintessential late stage proto-slasher (one Patrick and I briefly covered during the prototype...

Not to be confused with John Hough’s underseen 1982 film of the same name, Leslie Stevens’ 1966 film Incubus was one of two films...

Almost a decade before he wrote and illustrated his magnum opus, Uzumaki (1998), gaining international fame, and stamping his trademark...

Pulp author Edogawa Rampo (real name Tarō Hirai) was a vital component in the development of modern Japanese literature, having penned...

Inglourious Basterds is, with all due respect to his mostly fantastic filmography, Quentin Tarantino’s masterpiece. It is a perfect...