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Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jun 1, 2018
(1965) Directed by Freddie Francis; Written by Milton
Subotsky; Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Neil
McCallum, Bernard Lee, Donald Sutherland, Katy Wild and Roy Castle; Available
on DVD.
Rating: ***½
Note: This is an expanded version of a capsule review, w read more
The Great Hammer-Amicus Blogathon Is Here – Day 1 Recap
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jun 1, 2018
How
do you make two things that are already great even better? By combining them,
of course. Gill Jacob of Realweegiemidget
Reviews and I have submitted for your reading enjoyment The Great Hammer-Amicus
Blogathon! Witness two amazing houses under one roof (don’t try to think of the
arch read more
Musical May Quick Picks and Pans
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on May 28, 2018
Tommy (1975) Writer/director
Ken Russell’s hallucinatory adaptation of The Who’s seminal rock opera engages
your senses and intellect. Roger Daltrey plays the title character, a “deaf,
dumb and blind kid” who “sure plays a mean pinball,” and becomes a latter-day
m read more
Little Shop of Horrors
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on May 22, 2018
(1986) Directed by: Frank Oz; Written by Howard Ashman;
Based on the musical play by Howard Ashman, which was based on the screenplay
by Roger Corman and Charles B. Griffith; Starring: Rick Moranis, Ellen Greene, Levi
Stubbs, Vincent Gardenia, Steve Martin, John Candy and Bill Murray
Availabl read more
The Once Over Twice: Absolute Beginners
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on May 10, 2018
(1986) Directed by Julien Temple; Written by Richard
Burridge, Christopher Wicking and Don MacPherson; Based on the novel by Colin
MacInnes; Starring: Patsy Kensit, Eddie O’Connell, David Bowie, James Fox, Ray Davies,
Eve Ferret and Sade; Available on Blu-ray (region B) and DVD (Out of Print) read more
Cannibal! The Musical
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on May 1, 2018
(1993) Written and directed by Trey Parker; Starring: Trey
Parker, Dian Bachar, Toddy Walters, Robert Muratore, Matt Stone and Jon Hegel; Available
on DVD.
Rating: ****
“I think the biggest influence for Cannibal was just the musicals, like Rodgers and Hammerstein-style
musicals read more
April Quick Picks and Pans
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Apr 25, 2018
Long Dream (2000) Director Higuchinsky’s adaptation of a horror manga by Junji Ito is only 59 minutes long, but it packs a potent wallop. A seasoned doctor (Masami Horiuchi) and his young protégé observe an unusual patient with a strange affliction. Each night, the patient experiences read more
First Men in the Moon
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Apr 15, 2018
(1964) Directed by Nathan Juran; Written by Nigel Kneale and
Jan Read; Based on the novel by H.G. Wells; Starring: Edward Judd, Martha Hyer
and Lionel Jeffries
Available on Blu-ray and DVD
Rating: ***½
“H.G. Wells did suggest that perhaps the ant men grew
intelligenc read more
The Wicker Man
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Apr 6, 2018
(1973) Directed by Robin Hardy; Written by Anthony Shaffer;
Starring: Edward Woodward, Christopher Lee, Diane Cilento, Britt Ekland and
Ingrid Pitt; Available on Blu-ray and DVD
Rating: ****½
“We wanted to create a 20th century pagan
society, and we wanted to make a treasur read more
March Quick Picks and Pans
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Mar 27, 2018
Season of the Witch (1972)
George Romero’s little-known low-budget drama examines the real-life horrors of
domestic malaise (I suspect it took more than a few fans of Night of the Living Dead by surprise). Jan
White plays Joan Mitchell, a housewife approaching middle age and trapped in a
lovel read more
The Great Hammer-Amicus Blogathon – Participant Roster
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Mar 20, 2018
A
few days ago, my co-host Gill Jacob from Realweegiemidget Reviews and I announced The Great Hammer-Amicus Blogathon, which will take place June 1st-3rd.
You can find all the details here.
Response has been great so far, but there’s always room for more bloggers.
Here
are some q read more
Announcing The Great Hammer-Amicus Blogathon
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Mar 17, 2018
They
said it couldn’t be done (and by “they,” I mean me). First there was the
Golblumathon
in 2014, followed by the Nature’s Fury Blogathon in 2016.
Although my second blogathon was a big success, at least by my middling
standards, I was reluctant to do a follow-up, and lapse read more
The Hand
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Mar 13, 2018
(1981) Written and directed by Oliver Stone; Based on the
novel The Lizard’s Tail by Marc
Brandel; Starring: Michael Caine, Andrea Marcovicci, Annie
McEnroe, Bruce McGill; Available on DVD
Rating: **½
“The film has a weird schizophrenia to it because… part read more
Journey to the Beginning of Time
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Mar 10, 2018
(1955) Directed by Karel Zeman; Written by: J.A. Novotný and Karel Zeman; Starring: Vladimír Bejval, Petr Herrman, Zdenek Hustak and Josef Lukás; Available on DVD (PAL, Region 0) Rating: **** “I made Journey to the Beginning of Time because I wanted to show the scale of nature, read more
A Brief Blog Update
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Mar 3, 2018
It’s not easy discussing my emotions publicly. I tend to keep things bottled up, instead of expressing myself. I try to quell the nagging voice in my skull that proclaims a movie blog isn’t a place for non-movie things, but life sometimes gets in the way. This week felt like déjà read more
February Quick Picks and Pans
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Feb 28, 2018
Bad Ronald (1974) I
don’t usually cover TV movies, but this one deserves its own category. Whether
you use 70s or today’s TV as a yardstick, it’s one twisted and bizarre ride.
Scott Jacoby stars as Ronald Wilby, a socially awkward high school senior with
an overbearing mother (Kim read more
Cathy’s Curse
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Feb 10, 2018
(1977) Directed by Eddy Matalon; Written by Myra Clément, Eddy
Matalon and Alain Sens-Cazenave; Starring: Alan Scarfe, Beverly Murray, Randi Allen, Dorothy Davis, Mary Morter and Roy Witham;
Available on Blu-ray and DVD
Rating: ***
“How can a film be a successful film if you read more
Black Butler
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jan 31, 2018
(2014) Directed by Kentarô Ohtani and Kei'ichi Sato; Written by Tsutomu Kuroiwa; Based on the manga by Yana Toboso; Starring: Hiro Mizushima, Ayame Gôriki, Yûka, Mizuki Yamamoto and Masatô Ibu; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: *** “Humans are incapable of sharing sorrow as read more
Japan-uary VII Quick Picks and Pans
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jan 24, 2018
Creepy (2016) Kiyoshi
Kurosawa’s thriller is a film that lives up to its title. Hidetoshi Nishijima
stars as Takakura, a former police profiler now working as a professor at a
university, where he teaches criminal psychology. He finds himself drawn back
into his old profession when a detective read more
Only Yesterday
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jan 12, 2018
(1991) Written and directed by Isao Takahata; Based on the manga by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuuko Tone; Starring: Miki Imai, Toshirô Yanagiba, Yoko Honna and Mayumi Izuka; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: **** “To be a butterfly, a caterpillar has to become a chrysalis read more