Reviews

Before we get too deep into this Blu-ray review of Kid From Kwang Tung, a few of you might have a simple question: Where’s Kwang Tung? This is a province in Southern China against the South China Sea. The province borders Hong Kong. It’s also referred to as Canton. It’s

Still catching up… The Best Comic of the Week: Convert #3 – I continue to love this series by John Arcudi and Savannah Finley. It’s a story about an astronaut who has been stranded on a hostile and strange world. He’s been adopted, in a way, by a small group

When we think of classic Shaw Brothers films, the focus is often on the fighting. But there was a softer side to the studio. They made movies about love. Although Facets of Love isn’t quite about love. This is about the people you’d meet in a Shanghai brothel during the

Roger Corrman wasn’t the only producer of low budget drive-in films during the late ’50s. There was a wave of wannabe filmmakers who thought they could easily crank out a teen horror film. They swore the cinematic formula was cool looking teens, a few hot rods and a freaky looking

Towards the end of the documentary Corman’s World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011), Jack Nicholson declares that Roger Corman “was my lifeblood.” Then the biggest star in Hollywood begins to cry and his voice breaks up. We get a true sense that Jack wouldn’t be Jack without Roger. Roger