On the road to Halloween, Screambox is unleashing another massive wave of spooky streaming here in September 2023, including 4 shot-on-video obscurities unearthed by our friends over at VHShitfest and Vinegar Syndrome! Now streaming, the lineup includes…
Satan’s Menagerie (1995): Demons from hell are on the loose murdering people for fun. The Cornshukker (1996): The townsfolk bother The Cornshukker because they don’t understand him. Justice Ninja Style (1985): A man blamed for rape and murder has a ninja help him prove his innocence. Blood Hunter (1995): A vampire in Kentucky tries to stop the crime rate.
All four of these VHS-made diamonds-in-the-rough are now streaming on Screambox alongside other new arrivals including the must-see RoboCop docuseries RoboDoc; Mario Bava’s giallo classic Blood and Black Lace; a double-dose of Lucio Fulci madness with The Psychic and Don’t Torture a Duckling; Open Windows, a found footage film starring Elijah Wood; ’70s...
Satan’s Menagerie (1995): Demons from hell are on the loose murdering people for fun. The Cornshukker (1996): The townsfolk bother The Cornshukker because they don’t understand him. Justice Ninja Style (1985): A man blamed for rape and murder has a ninja help him prove his innocence. Blood Hunter (1995): A vampire in Kentucky tries to stop the crime rate.
All four of these VHS-made diamonds-in-the-rough are now streaming on Screambox alongside other new arrivals including the must-see RoboCop docuseries RoboDoc; Mario Bava’s giallo classic Blood and Black Lace; a double-dose of Lucio Fulci madness with The Psychic and Don’t Torture a Duckling; Open Windows, a found footage film starring Elijah Wood; ’70s...
- 9/13/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
One woman's search for her missing son puts her on the path to a teenager who just might be descended from heavenly, cannibalistic giants in the new horror comic book series Daisy. Written and illustrated by Colin Lorimer, the first issue of Daisy will be released on December 8th from Dark Horse Comics, and we caught up with Lorimer in a new Q&a feature to discuss what readers can expect from his new five-issue series, how he approaches the creative process of making a comic book, and the heavenly and hellish influences that inspired him while creating Daisy.
What can you tell our readers about the origins of Daisy?
It all started with the voices in my head and the visions of heaven.
Well, not quite.
The main spark for the book was John Dee. I’d been reading up on him for years and found it fascinating that Dee,...
What can you tell our readers about the origins of Daisy?
It all started with the voices in my head and the visions of heaven.
Well, not quite.
The main spark for the book was John Dee. I’d been reading up on him for years and found it fascinating that Dee,...
- 11/10/2021
- by Jonathan James
- DailyDead
Written by Ian Edginton | Art by Valeria Favoccia | Published by Titan Comics
Creatively, Assassin’s Creed is the gift that keeps on giving. Its core concept, of using the Animus to jump into any specific point of time, is essentially a free licence for creators to have fun. And they have, ever since the game first appeared in 2007. Renaissance Italy. Ancient Egypt. Victorian London. Anything goes. First the games reflected this richness, then later the comics. Titan Comics have put out several series that have all managed to take a different aspect of the mythology and run with it, relatively recently actually having the Templar’s star in their own books. Can you say ‘game changer’.
One of many.
It’s been ten years since that first game, and the creativity just gets better and better. What better way to celebrate than a special collection that features ‘untold’ stories of...
Creatively, Assassin’s Creed is the gift that keeps on giving. Its core concept, of using the Animus to jump into any specific point of time, is essentially a free licence for creators to have fun. And they have, ever since the game first appeared in 2007. Renaissance Italy. Ancient Egypt. Victorian London. Anything goes. First the games reflected this richness, then later the comics. Titan Comics have put out several series that have all managed to take a different aspect of the mythology and run with it, relatively recently actually having the Templar’s star in their own books. Can you say ‘game changer’.
One of many.
It’s been ten years since that first game, and the creativity just gets better and better. What better way to celebrate than a special collection that features ‘untold’ stories of...
- 10/20/2017
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters | Art by Jose Holder | Published by Titan Comics
With all the great stuff out there on the shelves at the moment, even the great stuff being put out by Titan Comics alone, this title has fallen a little under the radar. Although I wouldn’t put it at the very top of my reading pile, it is consistently a solid, entertaining read. Paknadel and Watters take the best elements of the games and mythology, fuse them with their own ideas, and create a book that while being wholly true to the Assassin’s Creed brand is definitely its own creature.
So to date we now know that the followers of Juno, known as The Instruments of the First Will, are trying to bring about a New World Order by destroying everything. That means destroying both the Templars and the Assassins, and both groups have...
With all the great stuff out there on the shelves at the moment, even the great stuff being put out by Titan Comics alone, this title has fallen a little under the radar. Although I wouldn’t put it at the very top of my reading pile, it is consistently a solid, entertaining read. Paknadel and Watters take the best elements of the games and mythology, fuse them with their own ideas, and create a book that while being wholly true to the Assassin’s Creed brand is definitely its own creature.
So to date we now know that the followers of Juno, known as The Instruments of the First Will, are trying to bring about a New World Order by destroying everything. That means destroying both the Templars and the Assassins, and both groups have...
- 10/16/2017
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters | Art by Jose Holder | Published by Titan Comics
I’ve ended up liking this book more than I initially thought I would do. Although not a total Assassin’s Creed fan boy I do have most the games, and enjoy pretty much all of them, and their strength has, for me, been their non-action approach. Although fighting is still a big part, stealth and sneakiness are even bigger. Assassin’s Creed: Uprising has not only taken the action approach, but double downed on it. That approach, which initially jarred a little, has started to work really well as it is combined with existing Assassins mythology, and new wrinkles such as the Black Cross and the new Assassins/Templar hybrid followers of Juno faction. The more these pieces come together, the better the book gets.
Last issue of course was mostly taken up with the...
I’ve ended up liking this book more than I initially thought I would do. Although not a total Assassin’s Creed fan boy I do have most the games, and enjoy pretty much all of them, and their strength has, for me, been their non-action approach. Although fighting is still a big part, stealth and sneakiness are even bigger. Assassin’s Creed: Uprising has not only taken the action approach, but double downed on it. That approach, which initially jarred a little, has started to work really well as it is combined with existing Assassins mythology, and new wrinkles such as the Black Cross and the new Assassins/Templar hybrid followers of Juno faction. The more these pieces come together, the better the book gets.
Last issue of course was mostly taken up with the...
- 8/11/2017
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters | Art by Jose Holder | Published by Titan Comics
Assassin’s Creed Uprising was always an interesting idea, melding together characters from other Assassin’s Creed titles. As Assassin’s Creed has mainly been a single player type of adventure, which the other titles mainly kept in line with, this is more of a multiplayer look at Assassin’s Creed. It also took the interesting idea to take away some of the strength of the Creed concept, assassination and stealth, in favour of all out foot to the floor action. The purist in me has had mixed feelings on this book for that reason, though I can’t deny it entertains.
So the title has essentially been following the Assassins led by Charlotte de la Cruz, and the Templars, led by Juhani Otso Berg both investigating the arrival of a mysterious faction that combines the...
Assassin’s Creed Uprising was always an interesting idea, melding together characters from other Assassin’s Creed titles. As Assassin’s Creed has mainly been a single player type of adventure, which the other titles mainly kept in line with, this is more of a multiplayer look at Assassin’s Creed. It also took the interesting idea to take away some of the strength of the Creed concept, assassination and stealth, in favour of all out foot to the floor action. The purist in me has had mixed feelings on this book for that reason, though I can’t deny it entertains.
So the title has essentially been following the Assassins led by Charlotte de la Cruz, and the Templars, led by Juhani Otso Berg both investigating the arrival of a mysterious faction that combines the...
- 5/29/2017
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Pete Dillon-Trenchard Mar 25, 2017
As Power Rangers rides high at the box office, a look at what led to this point...
Lionsgate’s new Power Rangers film, out in cinemas now, is not a film which assumes any prior knowledge of the Power Rangers franchise. But that doesn’t stop it from containing a number of sly nods for long-term fans, and perhaps the slyest of these comes early in the movie, when Kimberly (Naomi Scott) is confronted in the school toilets by her frenemy Amanda. In a heated exchange, Amanda tells her:
“You shouldn’t have sent Tai that picture of me.”
Either this line is an extraordinary coincidence, or its middle words combine, Megazord-style, to form a tip of the hat towards Sentai - or rather, Super Sentai - the Japanese franchise from which the Power Rangers TV show has always taken the bulk (no pun intended) of its action footage.
As Power Rangers rides high at the box office, a look at what led to this point...
Lionsgate’s new Power Rangers film, out in cinemas now, is not a film which assumes any prior knowledge of the Power Rangers franchise. But that doesn’t stop it from containing a number of sly nods for long-term fans, and perhaps the slyest of these comes early in the movie, when Kimberly (Naomi Scott) is confronted in the school toilets by her frenemy Amanda. In a heated exchange, Amanda tells her:
“You shouldn’t have sent Tai that picture of me.”
Either this line is an extraordinary coincidence, or its middle words combine, Megazord-style, to form a tip of the hat towards Sentai - or rather, Super Sentai - the Japanese franchise from which the Power Rangers TV show has always taken the bulk (no pun intended) of its action footage.
- 3/23/2017
- Den of Geek
Written by Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters | Art by Jose Holder | Published by Titan Comics
The first issue of this new series last month gave me very mixed feelings if truth be told. I like Assassin’s Creed as a brand, as a concept, and I like the fact it allows you to branch out in all different places and times. The comic book series so far have really embraced this, jumping into various historical periods and allowing us to enjoy those adventures. Two good books were discontinued to make way for Assassin’s Creed: Uprising, Assassin’s Creed and Assassin’s Creed: Templars, and the new title’s approach left me a little cold. Instead of the Animus and the philosophical differences of the Assassins and Templars, we got mainly an action book, all shoot outs and explosions. Entertaining in its own way, but I’m going to need more...
The first issue of this new series last month gave me very mixed feelings if truth be told. I like Assassin’s Creed as a brand, as a concept, and I like the fact it allows you to branch out in all different places and times. The comic book series so far have really embraced this, jumping into various historical periods and allowing us to enjoy those adventures. Two good books were discontinued to make way for Assassin’s Creed: Uprising, Assassin’s Creed and Assassin’s Creed: Templars, and the new title’s approach left me a little cold. Instead of the Animus and the philosophical differences of the Assassins and Templars, we got mainly an action book, all shoot outs and explosions. Entertaining in its own way, but I’m going to need more...
- 3/8/2017
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Alex Paknadel, Dan Watters | Art by Jose Holder | Published by Titan Comics
There’s been times recently I feel as though I’m in an Animus myself. What with finally getting around to playing Assassin’s Creed IV on my PS4, going to see the Assassin’s Creed movie, reading the Black Flag novelization, and reading all the comic book issues as they come out. If nothing else, it gives a pretty good indication that this is a very solid multi-media franchise, as I’m sure I’m not alone. The comic book series have been as good as anything out there so far, so let’s hope this new title lives up to the hype.
I say ‘new’, but this book is actually a mash up of two former series that were recently wrapped up. Assassin’s Creed featured Charlotte de la Cruz, a novice recruited into...
There’s been times recently I feel as though I’m in an Animus myself. What with finally getting around to playing Assassin’s Creed IV on my PS4, going to see the Assassin’s Creed movie, reading the Black Flag novelization, and reading all the comic book issues as they come out. If nothing else, it gives a pretty good indication that this is a very solid multi-media franchise, as I’m sure I’m not alone. The comic book series have been as good as anything out there so far, so let’s hope this new title lives up to the hype.
I say ‘new’, but this book is actually a mash up of two former series that were recently wrapped up. Assassin’s Creed featured Charlotte de la Cruz, a novice recruited into...
- 2/9/2017
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Dennis Calero | Art by Dennis Calero | Published by Titan Comics
Assassin’s Creed Templars #9 brings both some good news and some bad news it seems. The bad news is that this issue will be the final one of the series. That, for me, is a real shame as this has been an excellent book throughout its two story arcs, with its introduction of the Black Cross mythology into this world. A special shout out as well to Dennis Calero, who has been a fixture since the first issue, both as artist and ,of late, writer as well. The good news I mentioned? I’ll save that for the end of the review.
Last issue saw us juggling two storylines, one in the past, one in the present. In the past Jan van de Graff was banged up in the prison of Lord Selim, a man filled with hatred for both Assassins and Templars.
Assassin’s Creed Templars #9 brings both some good news and some bad news it seems. The bad news is that this issue will be the final one of the series. That, for me, is a real shame as this has been an excellent book throughout its two story arcs, with its introduction of the Black Cross mythology into this world. A special shout out as well to Dennis Calero, who has been a fixture since the first issue, both as artist and ,of late, writer as well. The good news I mentioned? I’ll save that for the end of the review.
Last issue saw us juggling two storylines, one in the past, one in the present. In the past Jan van de Graff was banged up in the prison of Lord Selim, a man filled with hatred for both Assassins and Templars.
- 1/20/2017
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Dennis Calero | Art by Dennis Calero | Published by Titan Comics
Dennis Calero has been an outstanding job on this second arc of the Templars book, which is just as well considering he writes, pencils, inks and colours it. That’s one heck of a workload, so you have to assume this is something of a labour of love, and for me it certainly hasn’t disappointed. As I said last time round, this book has a more mature feel to it, slighter darker themes and imagery, which gives it its own little distinctive corner of the Assassins Creed universe.
So where did we leave our main players at the end of last issue? Well, in the past Jan Van der Graff has been captured and imprisoned by the Sultan he had come to rob. Solo Bolden, the Black Cross of that era, has seemingly been killed. Things are on a distinct slide.
Dennis Calero has been an outstanding job on this second arc of the Templars book, which is just as well considering he writes, pencils, inks and colours it. That’s one heck of a workload, so you have to assume this is something of a labour of love, and for me it certainly hasn’t disappointed. As I said last time round, this book has a more mature feel to it, slighter darker themes and imagery, which gives it its own little distinctive corner of the Assassins Creed universe.
So where did we leave our main players at the end of last issue? Well, in the past Jan Van der Graff has been captured and imprisoned by the Sultan he had come to rob. Solo Bolden, the Black Cross of that era, has seemingly been killed. Things are on a distinct slide.
- 12/6/2016
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Dennis Calero | Art by Dennis Calero | Published by Titan Comics
I like the way that although this second story arc for the book, ‘Cross of War’, is obviously it’s own animal, it has directly come out of the groundwork laid in that first 5 issue arc introducing the Black Cross. The Black Cross, if you are late to the party, was/is the enforcer for the Templars, carrying out missions for them and rooting out internal corruption. The Black Cross always has to be from a single bloodline, and the last Black Cross was seemingly shot and killed at the conclusion of the first arc, back in 1920′s Shanghai.
A modern day descendant, Andre Bolden, has been located and via the Animus is helping Templar agents investigate into the past of the Black Cross. This aspect also takes another a little more from old pulp characters. Just as...
I like the way that although this second story arc for the book, ‘Cross of War’, is obviously it’s own animal, it has directly come out of the groundwork laid in that first 5 issue arc introducing the Black Cross. The Black Cross, if you are late to the party, was/is the enforcer for the Templars, carrying out missions for them and rooting out internal corruption. The Black Cross always has to be from a single bloodline, and the last Black Cross was seemingly shot and killed at the conclusion of the first arc, back in 1920′s Shanghai.
A modern day descendant, Andre Bolden, has been located and via the Animus is helping Templar agents investigate into the past of the Black Cross. This aspect also takes another a little more from old pulp characters. Just as...
- 11/21/2016
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Written by Fred Van Lente | Art by Dennis Calero | Published by Titan Comics
As I have written in previous Assassin’s Creed reviews, the Assassin’s Creed universe is one of the richest out there. Although the many games supply a good back story and establish the Assassins Guild/Templar mythology, there is a huge blank canvas there for writers to play with characters, locations and historical timeframes. For this reasons, Assassins Creed has been probably the best game transferred to comic book format ever. This series gave Van Lente a chance to create his own little corner of that universe, and a central character in Black Cross who, as a Templar enforcer, works for the bad guys. Or does he? I love the shades of grey with the Templar Order and Assassins Guild, both of whom believe they are the ones in the right, and both of whom do both good and bad.
As I have written in previous Assassin’s Creed reviews, the Assassin’s Creed universe is one of the richest out there. Although the many games supply a good back story and establish the Assassins Guild/Templar mythology, there is a huge blank canvas there for writers to play with characters, locations and historical timeframes. For this reasons, Assassins Creed has been probably the best game transferred to comic book format ever. This series gave Van Lente a chance to create his own little corner of that universe, and a central character in Black Cross who, as a Templar enforcer, works for the bad guys. Or does he? I love the shades of grey with the Templar Order and Assassins Guild, both of whom believe they are the ones in the right, and both of whom do both good and bad.
- 10/12/2016
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Monday night’s premiere of Timeless, the time-hopping NBC drama from creators Eric Kripke (Supernatural) and Shawn Ryan (The Shield), was grand and clearly expensive. (How about that Hindenburg?) But was it enough to make you want to revisit the past again?
Before you chime in with your thoughts, a recap of the pilot: After ex-nsa asset Garcia Flynn (ER‘s Goran Višnjić) steals a time machine, Homeland Security recruits history professor Lucy (Suits‘ Abigail Spencer), scientist Rufus (Better Off Ted‘s Malcolm Barrett) and Delta Force soldier Wyatt (Star-Crossed‘s Matt Lanter) to stop him — in the past. How...
Before you chime in with your thoughts, a recap of the pilot: After ex-nsa asset Garcia Flynn (ER‘s Goran Višnjić) steals a time machine, Homeland Security recruits history professor Lucy (Suits‘ Abigail Spencer), scientist Rufus (Better Off Ted‘s Malcolm Barrett) and Delta Force soldier Wyatt (Star-Crossed‘s Matt Lanter) to stop him — in the past. How...
- 10/4/2016
- TVLine.com
Written by Fred Van Lente | Art by Dennis Calero | Published by Titan Comics | Format: Paperback, 32pp
Assassin’s Creed: Templars was a welcome addition to the Assassins Creed universe, switching the focus as it did from the Assassins Guild to the Templar Order. As all the books and games have established, neither side are the traditional good or bad guys, both are trying to point the world in a direction they wish it to go. Black Cross, as we learned last issue, is an enforcer for the Templar Grand Masters in the late 1920′s, whose job is to stamp out corruption and dissension within Templar ranks. His look, and the way he acts and talks, owes a lot to the old pulp heroes of that era.
Funnily enough though, last issue focused the most on young Darius Gift, sent on a mission to Shanghai by the Templars to redeem his...
Assassin’s Creed: Templars was a welcome addition to the Assassins Creed universe, switching the focus as it did from the Assassins Guild to the Templar Order. As all the books and games have established, neither side are the traditional good or bad guys, both are trying to point the world in a direction they wish it to go. Black Cross, as we learned last issue, is an enforcer for the Templar Grand Masters in the late 1920′s, whose job is to stamp out corruption and dissension within Templar ranks. His look, and the way he acts and talks, owes a lot to the old pulp heroes of that era.
Funnily enough though, last issue focused the most on young Darius Gift, sent on a mission to Shanghai by the Templars to redeem his...
- 5/3/2016
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Story By
Fred Van Lente
Art By
Dennis Calero
Colors By
Hi-Fi
Letters By
Comicraft
Cover By
Marc Laming
Publisher
Titan Comics
Cover Price:
$3.99
Release Date
Mar 23rd, 2016
Synopsis:
All-new adventures from the world of Assassin’s Creed. In 1927 Darius Gift arrived in Shanghai on his first assignment for the Templar Order. A minor misstep means he soon finds himself mixed up in the shadowy underworld of the International Settlement, and mixed up with the mysterious, enigmatic, Black Cross...
Review:
I love the Assassin’s Creed video game series. I’ve enjoyed every single one that came out, including Rogue which puts you in the role of a Templar. So when I read that this series was coming out, I was pretty intrigued to see how the Templars would be presented in conjunction to how they come across in the game. To my dismay Fred Van Lente doesn’t seem...
Fred Van Lente
Art By
Dennis Calero
Colors By
Hi-Fi
Letters By
Comicraft
Cover By
Marc Laming
Publisher
Titan Comics
Cover Price:
$3.99
Release Date
Mar 23rd, 2016
Synopsis:
All-new adventures from the world of Assassin’s Creed. In 1927 Darius Gift arrived in Shanghai on his first assignment for the Templar Order. A minor misstep means he soon finds himself mixed up in the shadowy underworld of the International Settlement, and mixed up with the mysterious, enigmatic, Black Cross...
Review:
I love the Assassin’s Creed video game series. I’ve enjoyed every single one that came out, including Rogue which puts you in the role of a Templar. So when I read that this series was coming out, I was pretty intrigued to see how the Templars would be presented in conjunction to how they come across in the game. To my dismay Fred Van Lente doesn’t seem...
- 3/25/2016
- by Jeremy Scully
- LRMonline.com
Written by Fred Van Lente | Art by Dennis Calero | Published by Titan Comics | Format: Paperback, 32pp
The good thing about the Assassin’s Creed universe is that it has almost unlimited potential for stories, due to the Assassins Guild/ Templar Order feud running down through the centuries. You can pretty much use any era, any country, any historical events you wish. As if that wasn’t fertile ground enough, you also have the moral ambiguity of both sides; neither the Templars nor the Assassins Guild are the ‘bad guys’, both operate firmly in a shade of grey and in fact both believe they are the ‘good guys’. Aptly enough for a series of games, books, comics etc called Assassin’s Creed, most have been content to focus on the Assassins side. This series has decided to shine the spotlight on the Templars, and in particular a Templar called Black Cross.
The good thing about the Assassin’s Creed universe is that it has almost unlimited potential for stories, due to the Assassins Guild/ Templar Order feud running down through the centuries. You can pretty much use any era, any country, any historical events you wish. As if that wasn’t fertile ground enough, you also have the moral ambiguity of both sides; neither the Templars nor the Assassins Guild are the ‘bad guys’, both operate firmly in a shade of grey and in fact both believe they are the ‘good guys’. Aptly enough for a series of games, books, comics etc called Assassin’s Creed, most have been content to focus on the Assassins side. This series has decided to shine the spotlight on the Templars, and in particular a Templar called Black Cross.
- 3/23/2016
- by Dean Fuller
- Nerdly
Close-Up is a column that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Hard to Be a God is playing on Mubi in the Us through January 2.Hard to Be a GodRussian director Aleksei German spent the final 15 years of his life working on Hard To Be A God (2013), a brutal medieval epic adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name by Arkady and Boris Strutgatsky, dying just before he could complete the job in February 2013. Happily, his son and widow were able to oversee the final sound mix. The result is one of the most immersive and harrowing cinematic experiences going, three hours of being put to the sword and mired in the mud, blood and viscera of a nightmare alternate reality.Although German's characters are dressed in the clanking armour, chainmail and robes of the European Middle Ages, Hard To Be A God is in fact set on a distant planet,...
- 12/3/2015
- by Joe Sommerlad
- MUBI
★★★★☆ "Not to know what happened before you were born is to be a child forever," quoth the Roman philosopher Marcus Tullius Cicero. The turning wheel of time on which the master orator predicated this assertion is one that is palpably intertwined with the viewing experience of Aleksander Ford's bombastic Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960), Poland's first blockbusting epic which still remains the most viewed film in the country's history. Based on Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel of the same name it is medieval pomp in glorious Eastmancolor, set against the backdrop of Poland and Lithuania's decisive conflict with the Teutonic Knights at the Battle of Grunwald in 1410.
- 4/17/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema brings together 24 films chosen by Scorsese, including The Last Day of Summer and Camouflage [pictured].
Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, BFI Southbank and Filmhouse Edinburgh are collaborating on a national UK tour of Polish cinema.
Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema brings together 24 films chosen by Scorsese, all restored and digitally remastered to 2K resolution, as well as a series of contextual workshops, talks, exhibitions and special guests, all with the aim of exploring Polish film culture.
Scorsese commented: “These are films that have great emotional and visual power – they’re ‘serious’ films that, with their depth, stand up to repeated viewings. There are many revelations in the season and whether you’re familiar with some of these films or not, it’s an incredible opportunity to discover for yourself the great power of Polish Cinema, on the big screen.”
The season includes films from the likes of Andrzej Wajda, [link...
Kinoteka Polish Film Festival, BFI Southbank and Filmhouse Edinburgh are collaborating on a national UK tour of Polish cinema.
Martin Scorsese Presents Masterpieces of Polish Cinema brings together 24 films chosen by Scorsese, all restored and digitally remastered to 2K resolution, as well as a series of contextual workshops, talks, exhibitions and special guests, all with the aim of exploring Polish film culture.
Scorsese commented: “These are films that have great emotional and visual power – they’re ‘serious’ films that, with their depth, stand up to repeated viewings. There are many revelations in the season and whether you’re familiar with some of these films or not, it’s an incredible opportunity to discover for yourself the great power of Polish Cinema, on the big screen.”
The season includes films from the likes of Andrzej Wajda, [link...
- 3/13/2015
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
Nothing says “I love you” like FEARnet this February with an horrific heart-shaped box full of premieres, prizes, and stunts kicked off by the world television debut of Lost Boys: The Thirst on February 3 and "The Complete Exorcist Marathon" on February 17.
From the Press Release:
For the first time ever, a TV network is consecutively airing all films, prequels and sequels, associated with The Exorcist franchise. One of the most significant genre films ever made, the Academy Award®-winning movie celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. In that time it has spawned two sequels and two prequels, which FEARnet presents back-to-back starting at 2 p.m. Et/11 a.m. Pt on February 17.
The original head-spinning classic The Exorcist stars Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil, a young girl possessed by the demon Pazuzu, with Max von Sydow and Jason Miller as the priests who try to save her. Next is Exorcist II: The Heretic at 4:30 p.
From the Press Release:
For the first time ever, a TV network is consecutively airing all films, prequels and sequels, associated with The Exorcist franchise. One of the most significant genre films ever made, the Academy Award®-winning movie celebrates its 40th anniversary this year. In that time it has spawned two sequels and two prequels, which FEARnet presents back-to-back starting at 2 p.m. Et/11 a.m. Pt on February 17.
The original head-spinning classic The Exorcist stars Linda Blair as Regan MacNeil, a young girl possessed by the demon Pazuzu, with Max von Sydow and Jason Miller as the priests who try to save her. Next is Exorcist II: The Heretic at 4:30 p.
- 1/30/2013
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
Polish film was an early frontrunner, before occupation forced wave after wave of talent abroad. Its fortitude is embodied by Andrzej Wajda – still going strong 50 years after his first feature
There aren't many traces on the internet of the early Polish pioneers: people such as Kazimierz Prószyński and Bolesław Matuszewski who were operating at the turn of the century, turning out silent short docos called things like Ślizgawka w Łazienkach (Skating-rink in the Royal Baths). (Prószyński was also a pioneering camera inventor, developing a model called a pleograph in 1894, and a handheld effort called an aeroscope in 1909.) Nor is there any link for Anton in Warsaw for the First Time, Poland's legendary first feature film, directed by and starring Antoni Fertner in 1908.
Fertner, though, went on to a respectable career as an actor in the interwar period – you can see him as an old man in Książątko (1937, above) and Gehenna...
There aren't many traces on the internet of the early Polish pioneers: people such as Kazimierz Prószyński and Bolesław Matuszewski who were operating at the turn of the century, turning out silent short docos called things like Ślizgawka w Łazienkach (Skating-rink in the Royal Baths). (Prószyński was also a pioneering camera inventor, developing a model called a pleograph in 1894, and a handheld effort called an aeroscope in 1909.) Nor is there any link for Anton in Warsaw for the First Time, Poland's legendary first feature film, directed by and starring Antoni Fertner in 1908.
Fertner, though, went on to a respectable career as an actor in the interwar period – you can see him as an old man in Książątko (1937, above) and Gehenna...
- 4/6/2011
- by Andrew Pulver
- The Guardian - Film News
How the mysterious James Young Deer came to live in East Finchley. And how he made it to YouTube
Cinema was once the most amnesiac of arts. It has now recovered from that malaise – and a man called James Young Deer is the proof. He was an actor, director and producer who managed a prolific Californian studio that specialised in westerns. But his films had an angle that distinguished them from all the rest, and would, under different circumstances, have assured his name a comfortable place among the masters of the genre. Young Deer was celebrated as that unaccountably rare being, a Native American film-maker – a member of the Winnebago tribe. In his movies, the Indians were never the villains. Instead of howling around bonfires and turning stagecoaches into porcupines, they were figures of heroism and moral authority. When a red man sank his blade into a white man in a Young Deer picture,...
Cinema was once the most amnesiac of arts. It has now recovered from that malaise – and a man called James Young Deer is the proof. He was an actor, director and producer who managed a prolific Californian studio that specialised in westerns. But his films had an angle that distinguished them from all the rest, and would, under different circumstances, have assured his name a comfortable place among the masters of the genre. Young Deer was celebrated as that unaccountably rare being, a Native American film-maker – a member of the Winnebago tribe. In his movies, the Indians were never the villains. Instead of howling around bonfires and turning stagecoaches into porcupines, they were figures of heroism and moral authority. When a red man sank his blade into a white man in a Young Deer picture,...
- 9/23/2010
- by Matthew Sweet
- The Guardian - Film News
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