By Prolific doesn’t come close to describing the filmography of director Chang Cheh (One-Armed Swordsman & Five Venoms). He began directing in 1950 and didn’t stop until 1993. While he was busy, his output went into the Stratosphere when he joined The Shaw Brothers in the mid-60s. How prodigious was Cheh?
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The Grid. A digital frontier. I tried to picture clusters of information as they moved through the computer. What did they look like? Ships? motorcycles? Were the circuits like freeways? I kept dreaming of a world I thought I’d never see. And then, one day…I got in as Jason’s Movie
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As we get closer to Halloween, you might be craving a more exotic spooky film to watch instead of the usual suspects that haunt Spirit Halloween. Why not go to Japan to see how haunted things can get? Last year Radiance Films presented Daiei Gothic boxset with three movies that
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Normally the music credits are reserved for deep in the end credits of a movie. You might hear a song in a scene and not want to sit through 7 minutes of text to figure out the band. Mad Foxes got me hooked on the opening credits when they listed
Perfect Blue (Collector’s Edition) arrives on 4K UHD in December
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