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Hollywood star Veronica Cartwright has one of those faces instantly associated with horror: Lambert in Alien, Nancy in Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Felicia in The Witches of Eastwick. All standout roles that showed Cartwright's horror range and consolidated her status as an underrated icon of the genre. But perhaps her most significant early horror film role is the one many don't immediately remember. When she was just a child, Cartwright starred in a groundbreaking scary film directed by visionary Alfred Hitchcock. That film is the "nature strikes back" horror movieThe Birds.

Cartwright is currently promoting her most recent movie, an interesting return to the genre titled The Ruse. Per the report by IndieWire, Cartwright plays a "dementia-afflicted musician whose home contains myriad mysteries for the young nurse who has taken a job as her caregiver." At 76, Cartwright proves she hasn't lost her touch. It couldn't be any other way,...

Lee Ran-hee’s Korean film “The Final Semester” had the most wins at the 29th Busan International Film Festival’s Busan Vision Awards ceremony, held Thursday evening.

The coming-of-age film secured a trifecta of accolades, including the Dgk Plus M Award, the Kbs Independent Film Award, and the Songwon Citizen Critics’ Award.

“The Final Semester” shared the Dgk Plus M Award with another Korean film, Hwang Seulgi’s “Red Nails,” which belongs to the psychological mystery and suspense thriller genres.

Kim Sung-yoon’s coming-of-age film “Fragment” also had a strong showing, securing the Cgv Award and sharing the Chorokbaem Media Award with Choi Jongyong’s “Waterdrop,” also in the coming-of-age genre, with elements of psychological mystery and suspense thriller. Both films are from Korea. The latter film’s cinematographer, Kang Jongsu, was recognized with the Cgk Award.

Other notable recipients at the ceremony included Jo Seyoung’s Korean human rights...

The director-centric 1970s were a time for pushing the boundaries of 'acceptable' film content, but John Byrum's witty and profane period piece about a Hollywood porn director was a step too far. Richard Dreyfuss leads a cast of utterly fearless actors in a witty and intelligent dissection of movieland decadence. Inserts Region A Blu-ray Twilight Time 1975 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 115 min. / Street Date June 14, 2016 / (Nc-17) / Available from Twilight Time Movies Store29.95 Starring Richard Dreyfuss, Jessica Harper, Veronica Cartwright, Bob Hoskins, Stephen Davies. Cinematography Denys N. Coop Art Direction John Clark Costumes Shirley Russell Produced by Davina Belling, Clive Parsons Written and Directed by John Byrum

Reviewed by Glenn Erickson

At least in Los Angeles, the theatrical showings of John Byrum's remarkable Inserts came and went (cough) so fast that nobody had time to be outraged. The reviews made it sound like sordid trash that could only attract men in plastic raincoats.

The Post-1960S, Pre-Digital Age: Real-time One-offs, 1975-1998

British filmmaker John Byrum is responsible for the first (and in some ways only) real-time period film. Inserts (1975), set in the early 1930s, is about a Boy Wonder movie director (called Boy Wonder, played by Richard Dreyfuss fresh from American Graffiti (1973) and Jaws (1975)) now washed up before the age of 30, resigned to making porn because of Hollywood’s conversion to sound. Not only is Inserts scrupulously real-time (with the exception of the opening credits sequence, which offers glimpses of the stag film we’re about to see made) and period, but it’s rather long for such a film, just shy of two hours. To tell the entire story would be spoiling the fun, but the Boy Wonder deals with recalcitrant actresses, the problem of his own potency, career problems, death, sex, after-death and after-sex…and in the end, as...

We expect limited collector’s edition DVDs to become expensive collectables over time. But what about paying nearly $100 for a Corey Feldman movie...?

The maturity of the DVD market has meant that, inevitably, over the years, plenty of releases have been deleted. Most of the time, that’s that. The disc disappears, nobody notices, we all move on.

Sometimes, that’s part of the plan. Numbered limited editions, scarce boxsets, time limited releases… it’s all part of the game in making a DVD release feel collectable, and thus more valuable. They taunt us with the prospect of us getting rich by selling the film on for a massive profit many years down the line.

However, there’s emerging an unlikely collection of rare and surprisingly valuable DVDs, films that you might never expect to double their retail value. See if you’ve got any of these on your shelf…...

Award-winning movie producer Clive Parsons has lost his battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 66.

Parsons, who produced and developed 20 feature films with partner Davina Belling, passed away on 12 August in his native England.

His work on 1974 film Inserts, starring Richard Dreyfuss and Bob Hoskins, began a string of production credits including Britannia Hospital, Scum, Breaking Glass, A Business Affair, True Blue, I Am David and director Franco Zeffirelli's films Tea With Mussolini and Callas Forever.

Parsons also served as president at Kings Road Productions in the U.S. and later moved to Warner Bros, Europe as head of business affairs.

In 1971, Parsons and Belling formed Film and General Productions, continuing to pursue movie projects while also producing childrens' British TV series The Queen's Nose and The Giblet Boys, which won a BAFTA award for Best Children's Drama for 2005/2006.