Posts tagged Steve Carver
Digi-Schlock: LETHAL LADIES COLLECTION VOL. 2 (Shout! Factory 2-DVD Set)
Jan 27th
By this point, it seems like Shout Factory has covered most of the key gems in their dvd/blu-ray tour through Roger Corman’s New World Pictures filmography. Key films like Death Race 2000, Piranha and Battle Beyond The Stars have all been treated to deluxe editions that offer newly stellar picture quality and a host of More >
THE ARENA: Swords & Sandals, Drive-In Feminist Style
Jan 26th
One of the great things about producer Roger Corman was that he was willing to let women tackle the kind of cinematic fare that was usually left to men. Part of it was commercial calculation: he knew that women were underrepresented in genre fare and that both women and men would get a charge from More >
Digi-Schlock: CAPONE (Shout! Factory DVD)
Apr 1st
This is not an easy time to be a fan of cult-ish movies on home video: Warner Brothers has led the charge to release back-catalog films on DVD-R’s instead of pressed DVD’s and it looks like the other major studios are slowly falling in line. While it’s nice to be able to get rarities, it’s More >
CAPONE: Camp Theatrics For The Tommy Gun Set
Mar 31st
Mob movie fever swept Hollywood in the wake of The Godfather and its equally successful sequel: The Don Is Dead, The Valachi Papers, Crazy Joe and Lepke were amongst the many films cranked out to capitalize on the public’s thirst for gangster fare. Roger Corman had a history with the mobster genre — The St. More >
Schlock-Wire: Shout! Factory Gives CAPONE Its First-Ever U.S. DVD Release
Feb 8th
Over the last few years, Shout! Factory has made a real bid to become one of the top cult DVD companies. Their Roger Corman releases have played a big role in raising their profile amongst exploitation film fans and they will soon extend their Corman-related reach to his work with 20th Century Fox via a More >
Digi-Schlock: BIG BAD MAMA DOUBLE FEATURE (Shout! Factory DVD)
Dec 9th
Both of the Big Bad Mama films have been on DVD before, with each release having its ups and downs. The first film has been previously released twice, on New Concorde and Buena Vista, and the latter release had a commentary track with Roger Corman and Angie Dickinson as well as a retrospective featurette. Big More >
BIG BAD MAMA: Southern Exploitation With A Woman’s Touch
Dec 6th
If you want to see Roger Corman’s New World Pictures operation working at a peak level, you need look no further than Big Bad Mama. This femme-centric riff on the post–Bonnie And Clyde gangster genre is everything you could hope for from a 1970’s drive-in flick. It remains a big favorite with Corman fans today More >
Schlock-Wire: Full Specs For Shout! Factory’s Double-Feature DVD’s Of BIG BAD MAMA/BIG BAD MAMA II And CRAZY MAMA/THE LADY IN RED
Oct 13th
This Christmas, crime will pay for cult movie addicts via a pair of two-for-one discs of Roger Corman productions from Shout! Factory. The company has just released the specs for their upcoming releases of Big Bad Mama/Big Bad Mama II and Crazy Mama/The Lady In Red. Fans have wanted quality releases of these titles forever More >
DRUM: A Sleazy Second Helping, With Diminishing Returns
Jan 28th
Mandingo is one of the most controversial cult films of the 1970’s but it has a small cult of defenders willing to make a case for its artistic value. You’d be hard-pressed to find a similar group willing to defend its sequel, Drum. It shares the noteworthy cast and lavish production values of its predecessor More >
MONDO MANDINGO: The Salacious Story Of Slavesploitation
Jan 26th
Behind every eccentric, cultish phenomenon lurks a fascinating story of how that profitable oddity came to be. The stranger the phenomenon, the better the story. Thus, it seems reasonable to believe that there is an interesting story behind the Mandingo phenomenon, which spawned three decades’ worth of books, two feature films and a legion of More >
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