‘Things Blowing Up Good’ has been surefire entertainment since the beginning of cinema, but this ill-fated Cinerama extravaganza about the biggest explosion in recorded human history limps along despite some pretty darned impressive volcanic effects. It’s quite an entertaining spectacle, with various good performers in three soap opera plots, either overacting or loitering about with nothing to do. And don’t forget the from-left-field musical striptease.
Krakatoa East of Java
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 131 min. / Street Date September 12, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle, Sal Mineo, Rossano Brazzi, John Leyton, J.D. Cannon, Jacqueline (Jacqui) Chan, Victoria Young, Marc Lawrence, Geoffrey Holder, Niall MacGinnis, Sumi Haru.
Cinematography: Manuel Berenguer
Film Editors: Walter Hannemann, Warren Low, Maurice Rootes
Production Design: Eugèné Lourié
Costumes: Laure Lourié
Special Effects: Eugèné Lourié, Alex Weldon, Francisco Prósper
Original Music: Frank De Vol
Written by Clifford Newton Gould,...
Krakatoa East of Java
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1969 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 131 min. / Street Date September 12, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Maximilian Schell, Diane Baker, Brian Keith, Barbara Werle, Sal Mineo, Rossano Brazzi, John Leyton, J.D. Cannon, Jacqueline (Jacqui) Chan, Victoria Young, Marc Lawrence, Geoffrey Holder, Niall MacGinnis, Sumi Haru.
Cinematography: Manuel Berenguer
Film Editors: Walter Hannemann, Warren Low, Maurice Rootes
Production Design: Eugèné Lourié
Costumes: Laure Lourié
Special Effects: Eugèné Lourié, Alex Weldon, Francisco Prósper
Original Music: Frank De Vol
Written by Clifford Newton Gould,...
- 9/2/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Detroit, Transformers, and 6 Days make our daily news roundup!Detroit, Transformers, and 6 Days make our daily news roundup!Zachary Dent4/12/2017 4:02:00 Pm
Brand new trailers hot off the press! The past couple days have been abundant with fresh trailers and today is no different.
Kathryn Bigelow’s new film Detroit dropped its first trailer today and we’re already on the edge of our seats! She’s teaming up with screenwriter Mark Boal again (this duo’s brought you other acclaimed movies like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty). It’s early in the year to start making Oscar predictions but this one is almost guaranteed to get some award season love. The film stars the likes of John Krasinski, John Boyega, Will Poulter, and Anthoney Mackie. It follows a police raid in Detroit in 1967 which results in one of the largest citizen uprisings in the United States' history.
Brand new trailers hot off the press! The past couple days have been abundant with fresh trailers and today is no different.
Kathryn Bigelow’s new film Detroit dropped its first trailer today and we’re already on the edge of our seats! She’s teaming up with screenwriter Mark Boal again (this duo’s brought you other acclaimed movies like The Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty). It’s early in the year to start making Oscar predictions but this one is almost guaranteed to get some award season love. The film stars the likes of John Krasinski, John Boyega, Will Poulter, and Anthoney Mackie. It follows a police raid in Detroit in 1967 which results in one of the largest citizen uprisings in the United States' history.
- 4/12/2017
- by Zachary Dent
- Cineplex
A news item about a tragedy in Detroit got them started, and by the time they were finished—three years and 1,000 hours of footage later—co-directors Tom Putnam and Brenna Sanchez found that their firefighting documentary had become something bigger than they’d imagined. Burn follows a group of firefighters as they try to contain blazes in a city with an endless roster of buildings left vacant amidst an economic collapse (a topic dealt with in Detropia and several other documentaries). Detroit’s population, as the film notes, is less than half of what it was 60 years ago, and many of those abandoned houses and former businesses have become firetraps. The film is built on vivid scenes that depict the danger facing fire crews from one shift to the next, but Burn also has broader implications, raising a host of issues about the changing texture of 21st century American cities...
- 11/6/2012
- by Kevin Canfield
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Collabfeature’s The Owner, a film made by 25 filmmakers on 5 continents will premiere in various cities of the world including Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi and Bangalore on May 25.
The Owner follows the adventures of an old backpack on a journey around the world. The bag is passed from character to character, country to country, on its way back to its owner—a man whose identity is the central mystery of the film. The story, written collaboratively over the Internet, brings together a variety of cultures, languages, and film styles into a singular narrative plot.
Currently the film will be premiering in Bangalore, Berlin, Bogota, Chicago, Detroit, Dubai, Dublin, Holmfirth, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nairobi, Newcastle, New York, Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo & Vienna.
Collabfeature is an international co-production film group. Their second project Train Station is currently under filming all over the world. To be a part of this project, click here.
India Screenings
Mumbai,...
The Owner follows the adventures of an old backpack on a journey around the world. The bag is passed from character to character, country to country, on its way back to its owner—a man whose identity is the central mystery of the film. The story, written collaboratively over the Internet, brings together a variety of cultures, languages, and film styles into a singular narrative plot.
Currently the film will be premiering in Bangalore, Berlin, Bogota, Chicago, Detroit, Dubai, Dublin, Holmfirth, Kolkata, Mumbai, Nairobi, Newcastle, New York, Rio De Janeiro, Sao Paulo & Vienna.
Collabfeature is an international co-production film group. Their second project Train Station is currently under filming all over the world. To be a part of this project, click here.
India Screenings
Mumbai,...
- 5/23/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Horror filmmakers are special people. Just their inborn desire to scare the living shit out of anyone that sits down to watch their work is notable enough, but what would happen if a filmmaker got caught up in her own nightmares? The answer is Liquid Red.
We just received a ton of new images as well as a pretty chilling trailer for Robert Dyke's new movie Liquid Red. The film stars Debra Port, Caprice Benedetti and Vince Grant. Dyke's company, Scout Productions, working in association with Detroit-based Wall Street Productions, recently completed Liquid Red with an anticipated release later this year.
From the Press Release
A beautiful filmmaker finds herself trapped in the fantasies and horrors of her movies. That idea jump-started Robert Dyke (director of Moontrap and Timequest, both featuring cult god Bruce Campbell) to create Liquid Red.
Dyke's experience in the cinematic world of fantasy began...
We just received a ton of new images as well as a pretty chilling trailer for Robert Dyke's new movie Liquid Red. The film stars Debra Port, Caprice Benedetti and Vince Grant. Dyke's company, Scout Productions, working in association with Detroit-based Wall Street Productions, recently completed Liquid Red with an anticipated release later this year.
From the Press Release
A beautiful filmmaker finds herself trapped in the fantasies and horrors of her movies. That idea jump-started Robert Dyke (director of Moontrap and Timequest, both featuring cult god Bruce Campbell) to create Liquid Red.
Dyke's experience in the cinematic world of fantasy began...
- 2/18/2012
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Moontrap and Timequest helmer Robert Dyke (who did the miniatures on Evil Dead II) is back behind the camera for a bizarre slice of cinema called Liquid Red.
The film thrusts a female filmmaker into the surreal fantasies and horrors of the movies she makes. "This concept combining my favorite genres of horror, fantasy and science fiction got me excited," said Dyke, "and this would give me the opportunity to do a show piece for professional talents I waned to work with again."
Liquid Red stars Debra Port as a woman experiencing an alien invasion, murderous clones, mad scientists, the last days of planet Earth and zombies. Even stranger are her encounters with a sexy movie star (Caprice Benedetti) and power-mad studio head (Vince Grant) who inhabit a surreal Hollywood.
Scout Productions, Dyke's company, is working in association with Detroit-based Wall Street Productions on the recently completed film. Look...
The film thrusts a female filmmaker into the surreal fantasies and horrors of the movies she makes. "This concept combining my favorite genres of horror, fantasy and science fiction got me excited," said Dyke, "and this would give me the opportunity to do a show piece for professional talents I waned to work with again."
Liquid Red stars Debra Port as a woman experiencing an alien invasion, murderous clones, mad scientists, the last days of planet Earth and zombies. Even stranger are her encounters with a sexy movie star (Caprice Benedetti) and power-mad studio head (Vince Grant) who inhabit a surreal Hollywood.
Scout Productions, Dyke's company, is working in association with Detroit-based Wall Street Productions on the recently completed film. Look...
- 2/18/2012
- by ryanrotten@shocktillyoudrop.com (Ryan Turek)
- shocktillyoudrop.com
Kaboom
Opens: 2011
Cast: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Juno Temple, Kelly Lynch, James Duval
Director: Gregg Araki
Summary: Smith's everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night.
Analysis: A year after "Thelma and Louise" came "The Living End", an independent film which had a similar premise but made the protagonists two gay HIV+ men. It was raw, intense and signalled the arrival of a new talent in the form of filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the subsequent two decades, he's delivered several trippy films involving young, good-looking omnisexual people having lots of graphic sex and dealing with some wacky cobbled together plot shenanigans.
The tone has ranged the light-hearted "Splendor" and "Nowhere" to the darker "Mysterious Skin...
Opens: 2011
Cast: Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett, Juno Temple, Kelly Lynch, James Duval
Director: Gregg Araki
Summary: Smith's everyday life in the dorm - hanging out with his arty, sarcastic best friend Stella, hooking up with a beautiful free spirit named London, lusting for his gorgeous but dim surfer roommate Thor - all gets turned upside-down after one fateful, terrifying night.
Analysis: A year after "Thelma and Louise" came "The Living End", an independent film which had a similar premise but made the protagonists two gay HIV+ men. It was raw, intense and signalled the arrival of a new talent in the form of filmmaker Gregg Araki. In the subsequent two decades, he's delivered several trippy films involving young, good-looking omnisexual people having lots of graphic sex and dealing with some wacky cobbled together plot shenanigans.
The tone has ranged the light-hearted "Splendor" and "Nowhere" to the darker "Mysterious Skin...
- 1/12/2011
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
The first ever Detroit Independent Film Festival has given its Best Documentary award — to a film produced outside of Michigan — Eddies: The Documentary by Calgary filmmaker Michael Peterson. Eddies chronicles the journey of several Canadian filmmakers as they compete in the Big Rock Brewery’s annual filmmaking competition, which is an event relatively unknown outside of Calgary, but is a prodigious affair in the region.
As of this writing, I haven’t posted my review of Eddies on Bad Lit yet, but I’ve seen it and it’s a really wonderful documentary about everyday, creative folks really getting into the spirit of filmmaking — even for what are just essentially short beer commercials. I’ve previously reviewed three short fictional films by Peterson, who’s a great talent out of Canada.
The Detroit Independent Film Festival ran back on March 2-7 at the Burton Film Theatre and screened close to...
As of this writing, I haven’t posted my review of Eddies on Bad Lit yet, but I’ve seen it and it’s a really wonderful documentary about everyday, creative folks really getting into the spirit of filmmaking — even for what are just essentially short beer commercials. I’ve previously reviewed three short fictional films by Peterson, who’s a great talent out of Canada.
The Detroit Independent Film Festival ran back on March 2-7 at the Burton Film Theatre and screened close to...
- 3/14/2010
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
After his long hiatus, Em performs new tracks at 35-minute concert in his hometown.
By Adam Graham
Eminem performs in Detroit on Tuesday
Photo: Scott Legato/ Getty Images
Detroit — To toast the release of Relapse, his first new studio album in four and a half years, Eminem celebrated with a mini-concert and record-release party Tuesday at the MotorCity Casino in his hometown of Detroit.
Em's 35-minute, eight-song set marked his first concert in three-plus years — and, by his own admission, his first performance since his well-documented struggles with addiction.
"This might actually be one of the best shows I've ever done," the newly clean Em told the audience of more than 2,000. " 'Cause when I get offstage, I'm actually going to remember it."
The rapper was sprightly onstage, opening with the blood-splattered "3 a.m." and jerking his body to pantomime the song's bobbing-and-weaving rhythms. Eminem's manager, Paul Rosenberg, smiled and watched from the soundboard,...
By Adam Graham
Eminem performs in Detroit on Tuesday
Photo: Scott Legato/ Getty Images
Detroit — To toast the release of Relapse, his first new studio album in four and a half years, Eminem celebrated with a mini-concert and record-release party Tuesday at the MotorCity Casino in his hometown of Detroit.
Em's 35-minute, eight-song set marked his first concert in three-plus years — and, by his own admission, his first performance since his well-documented struggles with addiction.
"This might actually be one of the best shows I've ever done," the newly clean Em told the audience of more than 2,000. " 'Cause when I get offstage, I'm actually going to remember it."
The rapper was sprightly onstage, opening with the blood-splattered "3 a.m." and jerking his body to pantomime the song's bobbing-and-weaving rhythms. Eminem's manager, Paul Rosenberg, smiled and watched from the soundboard,...
- 5/20/2009
- MTV Music News
A newspaper film critic is like a canary in a coal mine. When one croaks, get the hell out. The lengthening toll of former film critics acts as a poster child for the self-destruction of American newspapers, which once hoped to be more like the New York Times and now yearn to become more like the National Enquirer. We used to be the town crier. Now we are the neighborhood gossip.
The crowning blow came this week when the once-magisterial Associated Press imposed a 500-word limit on all of its entertainment writers. The 500-word limit applies to reviews, interviews, news stories, trend pieces and "thinkers." Oh, it can be done. But with "Synecdoche, New York?"
Demise of the ink-stained wretch
Worse, the AP wants its writers on the entertainment beat to focus more on the kind of brief celebrity items its clients apparently hunger for. The AP, long considered obligatory...
The crowning blow came this week when the once-magisterial Associated Press imposed a 500-word limit on all of its entertainment writers. The 500-word limit applies to reviews, interviews, news stories, trend pieces and "thinkers." Oh, it can be done. But with "Synecdoche, New York?"
Demise of the ink-stained wretch
Worse, the AP wants its writers on the entertainment beat to focus more on the kind of brief celebrity items its clients apparently hunger for. The AP, long considered obligatory...
- 11/27/2008
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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