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Nature’s Fury Blogathon
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Mar 3, 2016
It’s hard to believe, but it’s been a year and half since
I hosted my first blogathon, the Goldblumathon. Call it inspiration, insanity or self-masochism, but I decided I was long
overdue for another go-round. Behold…
What: The Nature’s Fury Blogathon
Who: Hoste read more
February Quick Picks and Pans: ‘80s Edition
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Feb 29, 2016
Shock Treatment (1981)
This lesser-known semi-sequel to The
Rocky Horror Picture Show brings back some of the cast, along with the two
main characters, Brad and Janet (now played by Cliff De Young and Jessica Harper).
Jim Sharman returned to direct, and co-wrote the script with Richard O’Brien read more
The Once Over Twice: One Crazy Summer
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Feb 24, 2016
(1986) Written and directed by Savage Steve Holland; Starring:
John Cusack, Demi Moore, Joel Murray, Bobcat Goldthwait, Tom Villard, Curtis
Armstrong and Joe Flaherty; Available on DVD
Rating: ***½
“I was there a couple of summers ago, and they had movies to
rent about Nant read more
Q: The Winged Serpent
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Feb 17, 2016
(1982) Written and directed by Larry Cohen; Starring: Michael
Moriarty, Candy Clark, Richard Roundtree and David Carradine; Available on DVD
Rating: ***½
“I think the Chrysler Building is a lot more attractive than
the Empire State Building, by far. And I thought that the Ch read more
The Hitcher
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Feb 11, 2016
(1986) Directed by Robert Harmon; Written by: Eric Red; Starring:
C. Thomas Howell, Rutger Hauer, and Jennifer Jason Leigh; Available on DVD.
Rating: ***
“…I cut off his legs, and his arms, and his head, and I’m
gonna do the same to you.”
– John R read more
The Gate
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Feb 4, 2016
(1987) Directed by Tibor Takács; Written by: Michael Nankin; Starring: Stephen Dorff, Christa Denton and Louis Tripp; Available on DVD Rating: *** “It was competing with Freddy and Friday the 13th, but it was never intended to do that.” – Tibor Takács “…I, read more
Japan-uary V Quick Picks and Pans
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jan 31, 2016
When Marnie Was There (Omoide no Mânî) (2014) Probably because it wasn’t a Takahata or Miyazaki Studio Ghibli film, When Marnie Was There arrived and departed with little fanfare. But this film only proved the veteran animators aren’t the only formidable talents at the studio. Director read more
Uzumaki (aka: Spiral)
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jan 26, 2016
(2000) Directed by: Higuchinsky; Written by: Kengo Kaji, Takao Nitta and Chika Yasuo; Based on the manga by: Junji Ito; Starring: Eriko Hatsune, Fhi Fan, Hinako Saeki, Keiko Takahashi and Ren Ôsugi; Available on DVD. Rating: **** “…to those of you who felt lost while watchi read more
Onibaba
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jan 20, 2016
(1964) Written and directed by Kaneto Shindô; Starring: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Satô; Available on DVD Rating: *** ½ “The smallness of human existence within the world is explored. Though we are small, we have to live, so how we survive when faced with difficulty is read more
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Dec 3, 2015
(1969) Directed by Peter Hunt; Written by: Richard Maibaum
and Simon Raven; Based on the novel by Ian Fleming; Starring: George Lazenby,
Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Gabriele Ferzetti, Lois Maxwell, Bernard Lee and
Desmond Llewelyn; Available on Blu-ray and DVD
Rating: ***½
“& read more
Noir-Vember Quick Picks and Pans
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Nov 28, 2015
High and Low (aka: Tengoku to Jigoku) (1963) High and Low is film noir Akira Kurosawa style, employing many of the familiar tropes of the genre to explore the darker side of success and fortune. Toshirô Mifune stars as wealthy shoe company executive Kingo Gondo. On the eve of Gondo assuming ownershi read more
Classics Revisited: Kiss Me Deadly
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Nov 18, 2015
(1955) Directed by Robert Aldrich; Written by A.I.
Bezzerides; Based on the novel by Mickey Spillane; Starring: Ralph Meeker, Maxine
Cooper, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart, Gaby Rodgers and Cloris Leachman;
Available on Blu-ray and DVD
Rating ****½
“You’re one of th read more
Gun Crazy
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Nov 14, 2015
(1950) Directed by Joseph H. Lewis; Written by MacKinlay
Kantor and Millard Kaufman (aka: Dalton Trumbo); Based on a story originally
published in The Saturday Evening Post
by MacKinlay Kantor; Starring: John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger, Harry
Lewis, Nedrick Young and Russ Tamblyn; Available read more
Out of the Past
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Nov 8, 2015
(1947) Directed by Jacques Tourneur; Written by Geoffrey
Homes (aka: Daniel Mainwaring); Based on the novel Build My Gallows High by Geoffrey Homes; Starring: Robert Mitchum, Jane
Greer, Kirk Douglas, Rhonda Fleming, and Virginia Huston; Available on Blu-ray and DVD
Rating ****½ read more
The Hands of Orlac (aka: Orlac's Hände)
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Oct 26, 2015
(1924) Directed by: Robert Wiene; Written by Louis Nerz; Based on the novel Les Mains d’Orlac by Maurice Renard;
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner, and Carmen Cartellieri;
Available on DVD
Rating: ***
“I feel like it comes from you, along the read more
The Dead Zone
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Oct 17, 2015
(1983) Directed by David Cronenberg; Written by Jeffrey Boam;
Based on the novel by Stephen King; Starring: Christopher Walken, Brooke Adams,
Herbert Lom, Martin Sheen and Tom Skerritt; Available on DVD
Rating: ****
“It was in making The
Dead Zone that I came up with my mantra, w read more
Night of the Demons
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Oct 12, 2015
(1988) Directed by Kevin Tenney; Written by: Joe Augustyn;
Starring: Cathy Podewell, Alvin Alexis, Hal Havins, Billy Gallo, Amelia Kincade
and Linnea Quigley
Available on Blu-ray and DVD
Rating: **
“…it doesn’t tax you too much. You don’t have to sit and
think read more
Phantom of the Paradise
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Oct 6, 2015
(1974) Written and directed by Brian De Palma; Starring: Paul
Williams, William Finley, Jessica
Harper and Gerrit Graham; Available on Blu-ray and DVD
Rating: ****
“I got the idea riding in an elevator, and listening to a
Beatles song done on Muzak, and I said to myself, ‘T read more
Cinematic Catharsis Turns Five!
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Oct 3, 2015
Friends,
today marks my blog’s fifth anniversary. I know there are lots of movie
bloggers out there who have been doing this a lot longer than I have, but half
of a decade on the web isn’t too shabby, especially if you convert it into dog
years (there’s probably a connection somewh read more
The Black Hole
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Sep 22, 2015
(1979) Directed by Gary Nelson; Written by Jeb Rosebrook and
Gerry Day; Based on a story by: Jeb Rosebrook, Bob Barbash and Richard H.
Landau; Starring: Maximilian Schell, Anthony Perkins, Yvette Mimieux, Ernest
Borgnine, Robert Forster and Joseph Bottoms; Available on DVD
Rating: *** read more