Zatoichi, still incomplete

I’ve been a fan of Shintaro Katsu’s series of films about Zatoichi, the blind swordsman, since I came across Home Vision Entertainment’s DVD editions of the first two, The Tale of Zatoichi and The Tale of Zatoichi Continues (both 1962) many years ago in the video department of Winnipeg’s long-gone A&B Sound. I was grabbed […]

Horrors, Old and New

The alien ship in Tobe Hooper's Lifeforce (1985)

Horror has been a staple of movie-making almost since the medium was invented – Georges Melies made Le Manoir du Diable in 1896 – and the genre has at times been suspended between art and exploitation, though perhaps more often slipping to the latter end of that spectrum. In the silent period, horror was dominated […]

Blasts from the past

Fessenden and Stanley, together again

Holiday viewing

Life and Death in the films of George A. Romero

The rise of boutique DVDs: The Flipside

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