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When Severin offered me a chance to talk about all their summer sale titles I was thrilled. So, check out the video. This really is an amazing group of films, and I was able to dig up some fun trivia on them. I also have some thoughts about what it means to be a physical media collector. First up are the Uhd upgrades of Ben Wheatley’s Kill List (2011), Can Evrenol’s Baskin (2015), Douglas Buck’s Sisters (2006), Penelope Spheeris’ The Boys Next Door (1985), the gonzo nature strikes back film Wild Beasts (1984), the classic Amicus horror anthology Asylum (1972), and Last House on the Left knockoff House on the Edge of the Park (1980). There’s also a trio of sharksploitation releases in Shark...

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Stars: Benjamin L. Newmark, Nick Wilson, Arlene Lagos, Tristen Amason, Bruce Peoples, Laronn Marzett, Vanesa Tamayo | Written by Lauren Pritchard, Joe Roche | Directed by Christopher Ray

Attack of the Meth Gator lets you know what you’re in for right from the start as cops raid a Florida meth lab only to have its operators make a run for it. As Shane wades across the swamp, he drops a bag of meth. That’s when we see a giant gator’s snout twitch as if it’s smelling something. Then it goes straight for the meth, then goes for Shane, and one of the cops in a drug-induced frenzy.

In response, Mayor Jensen (Nick Wilson) hires Skylar and Twain (Tristen Amason) to take care of the gator discreetly, and before the tourists start arriving for the Memorial Day Weekend. Needless to say, they quickly become gator chow instead. Sheriff Williams...

Stars: Dawna Lee Heising, Erik Anthony Russo, Sophiah Koikas | Written and Directed by Dustin Ferguson

Despite the name, Cocaine Cougar is not about the women down at the corner bar. It’s another microbudget attempt to cash in on Cocaine Bear, but unlike Cocaine Shark, this one actually involves cocaine. On the other hand, there is no such thing as a black cougar. But I suppose cocaine panther didn’t have the same ring to it.

After a title card tell us that this is based on true events and several minutes of the camera prowling through the woods we get several minutes of credits intercut with stock footage of a lab where animals are being experimented on. This normally wouldn’t matter that much, except Cocaine Cougar runs for fifty minutes including credits so by the time we’re told a black cougar has escaped from the lab and...

John Cale Liverpool Sound City, UK Friday 26th May 2017

Fifty years on and it is time to remember one of the most innovative albums ever impressed onto wax. A delicious dark and jagged confection of nihilism and sulky sophistication unlike it's Liverpudlian counterpart Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, also now fifty, but which was sunny, funny and a bit vaudeville. Both represent a pair of wildly different bookends. The Velvet Underground and Nico was then a monumental, commercial flop, whilst the Beatles album sold in the millions. With half a century under its belt of shiny studded leather, the Velvets album now has an arc of influence that continues to reach into the hearts of those who wish to create a positive noise.

There is something incongruous about the weather, it is clammy and warm, and the sun is blinding, and yet the music we await really should be...

This first feature of Kirsten Tan premiered in Sundance ‘17 World Cinema Dramatic Competition. Its provenance is Singapore but it takes place in Thailand. It continued onward to the Hivos Tiger Competition at Iffr (R’dam).

The thrill of interviewing here in Sundance is that you see a film; you have an impression and while it is still fresh you meet the filmmakers without having much time for any research or reflection. And then you get to see them again as “old friends” when you meet again in Rotterdam.

As Kirsten, her producer Weijie Lai and I sat down at the Sundance Co-op on Main Street here in Park City, I really had little idea of where the interview would take us, somewhat analogously to her film in which an architect, disenchanted with life in general, being put aside as “old” in his own highly successful architectural firm and in a stale relationship with his wife,...

According to THR, Karen Walton has been hired to shape Ian Hamilton‘s Ava Lee crime novel series for the big screen. Dubbed “the next The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo,” The Water Rat of Wanchai is the first novel in a series that could ultimately become a franchise.

Wanchai, also Hamilton‘s debut novel, follows a “fictional Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant character who uses unorthodox methods to recover multi-million debts for her clients.” I do see the connection to Dragon Tattoo, though I’m not too convinced this project will hold out as well. But you never know.

Here’s the official, lengthy synopsis for the book courtesy of Amazon:

Ava Lee is a young Chinese-Canadian forensic accountant who specializes in recovering massive debts. Ava works for an elderly Hong Kong–based “Uncle,” who may or may not have ties to the Triads. At 5’3″ and 115 lbs., she hardly seems a threat.

French animator Michel Ocelot is returning to Africa. Ocelot first rose to international prominence with 1998's Kirikou And The Sorceress, a magical tale of a tiny little boy and a fearsome sorceress based on African folk legends. The film marked Ocelot as one of the world's true great masters of his form, status he has confirmed with later efforts such as Azur And Asmar - released in some territories as The Prince's Quest - this year's Berlin film festival selection Tales Of The Night and 2005 follow up effort Kirikou And The Wild Beasts. But it seems there are more stories remaining to be told about the little boy and Ocelot is preparing another now. Though plot details are scarce French production house Les...