Three Wishes for Cinderella by Eric Cotenas (25th December 2024)
Cinderella (Kolya's Libuse Safránková) lives under the thumb of her wicked stepmother (Bread and Roses' Carola Braunbock) and spoiled stepsister Dora (I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen's Dana Hlavácová). The servants love her and the animals help her in the backbreaking daily chores meted out by her stepmother, but she's really a tomboy at heart. While her stepmother and stepsister prepare for a visit from the King (Mephisto's Rolf Hoppe) and Queen (The Dead Stay Young's Karin Lesch), Cinderella comes across the Prince (singer... |
The Brokenwood Mysteries: Series 10 by Eric Cotenas (25th December 2024)
Touted as New Zealand's answer to Midsomer Murders, The Brokenwood Mysteries trades village fetes for cheese rolls as four-times divorced, country & western music-loving city officer Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd (The Irrefutable Truth About Demons's Neill Rea) first turned up in the North Island town of Brokenwood to put the "field in field investigator" and takes over investigation into a death that everyone else would rather believe was a suicide or accidental death, replacing the local senior inspector implicated in the case. Ditching the city for Brokenwood and a vineyard, Shephard finds his outsider status both alienates him from the locals but also allows him to view cases from a perspective lacking in partner Kristin Sims (The Almighty Johnsons' Fern Sutherland) and D.C. Daniel Chalmers (... |
Cooking Price-Wise by James-Masaki Ryan (22nd December 2024)
"Cooking Price-Wise" (1971) Vincent Price had a long distinguished career as an actor for more than five decades of his life on stage and on screen. While his most well remembered works were in the horror genre such as "House on Haunted Hill", "The Fly", "The Last Man on Earth", and "The Pit and the Pendulum", he graced the screen in almost every genre there was, giving striking performances to each role. He poised charm and power in major works such as "The Ten Commandments" and "Laura", while also giving his all in campy works as well, treating each production as not a paycheck, but a wonderful way to show his remarkable talent. Television roles such as in ... |
The Hop-Pickers by Eric Cotenas (20th December 2024)
It is a mandatory requirement that teenagers from all over the country participate in the seasonal harvesting of hops. To all of them it is thankless work. Even handsome model worker Honza (Milos Zavadil) is just "in it for the money," but everyone goes to bed exhausted whether they exceed their quota or come under. Those that stand out from the group are the unpopular ones: intellectually-minded Filip (Loves of a Blonde's VladimÃr Pucholt) who earns the contempt of Honza, his buddies, the chairman (Witchhammer's Josef Kemr), and the camp's teacher Jana (Ikarie XB 1's Irena KacÃrková) for his lack of sociability, and Hanka (Ivana Pavlová) who dresses in the l... |
The Wombles: The Complete Series by Peter Neal (19th December 2024)
"The Wombles" (1972-1975) "Wombling Free" (1977) There are many beloved UK TV series, especially those with a younger audience in mind, but above all else, one stands head and shoulders above the rest. Well, about three feet high, actually. Yes, it's The Wombles, the inhabitants of Wimbledon Common who made good use of the things everyday folk leave behind. Originating with the first novel by Elisabeth Beresford in 1968, the tales of Bungo, Tomsk, Wellington, Tobermory, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Orinoco and Madame Cholet quickly became a sensation with kids, and after the book was read on similarly beloved TV show Jackanory, it wasn't long before Auntie Beeb commissioned The Wombles for a series of their own. With the triumph The Herbs already under their belt for rival TV station ITV, FilmFair was tasked with unleashing the beloved characters from the page and into three-dimensional life. In the hands of the ridiculously talented Barry Leith (who would go ... |
The Wombles: The Complete Series by Peter Neal (19th December 2024)
"The Wombles" (1972-1975) "Wombling Free" (1977) There are many beloved UK TV series, especially those with a younger audience in mind, but above all else, one stands head and shoulders above the rest. Well, about three feet high, actually. Yes, it's The Wombles, the inhabitants of Wimbledon Common who made good use of the things everyday folk leave behind. Originating with the first novel by Elisabeth Beresford in 1968, the tales of Bungo, Tomsk, Wellington, Tobermory, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Orinoco and Madame Cholet quickly became a sensation with kids, and after the book was read on similarly beloved TV show Jackanory, it wasn't long before Auntie Beeb commissioned The Wombles for a series of their own. With the triumph The Herbs already under their belt for rival TV station ITV, FilmFair was tasked with unleashing the beloved characters from the page and into three-dimensional life. In the hands of the ridiculously talented Barry Leith (who would go ... |
The Wombles: The Complete Series by Peter Neal (19th December 2024)
"The Wombles" (1972-1975) "Wombling Free" (1977) There are many beloved UK TV series, especially those with a younger audience in mind, but above all else, one stands head and shoulders above the rest. Well, about three feet high, actually. Yes, it's The Wombles, the inhabitants of Wimbledon Common who made good use of the things everyday folk leave behind. Originating with the first novel by Elisabeth Beresford in 1968, the tales of Bungo, Tomsk, Wellington, Tobermory, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Orinoco and Madame Cholet quickly became a sensation with kids, and after the book was read on similarly beloved TV show Jackanory, it wasn't long before Auntie Beeb commissioned The Wombles for a series of their own. With the triumph The Herbs already under their belt for rival TV station ITV, FilmFair was tasked with unleashing the beloved characters from the page and into three-dimensional life. In the hands of the ridiculously talented Barry Leith (who would go ... |
Cop Killers by Eric Cotenas (18th December 2024)
Alex (Alice in Wonderland: An X-Rated Musical Fantasy's Bill Osco) and (Cheerleaders' Wild Weekend's Jason Williams) are two Rolls Royce-driving hippies who have picked up a bag of cocaine to transport back across the border to an as-yet-unknown connection for $50,000. Almost immediately, they run into a roadblock, and the ensuing bloody shootout – and it is bloody, thanks to a future Oscar-winner Rick Baker (An American Werewolf in London) make-up – results in four dead cops while Alex and Ray get away unscathed. Alex is worried that the police probably already have their descriptions so they ditch the Rolls Royce and take an ice cream vendor hostage. After a shoot-out at a gas station, they steal Karen’s (Diane Keller) car... |
The Watcher in the Attic by Eric Cotenas (15th December 2024)
Young Goda (Wolves, Pigs and Men's Renji Ishibashi) lives off of his late parents' money and the additional income he earns from running his family home as a boarding house, but the real perk of this side business is getting to spy on his tenants through peep holes in the attic floor. Socially-awkward and scorned by his tenants, Goda makes as the center of his whole world Minako (Street of Joy's Junko Miyashita), a wealthy housewife who keeps a room in his house for sexual liaisons while her husband Koichiro (Branded to Kill's Hiroshi Chô) is on business trips. Minako has a lover in clown Pierrot (Zigeunerweisen's Shiro Yumemura) and she rewards the ... |
I am a Nympomaniac by Eric Cotenas (14th December 2024)
Having grown up with under a domineering father (What's New Pussycat's Richard Saint-Bris) and a passive mother (France-Noëlle), Carole (The Shiver of the Vampires' Sandra Julien) has come to fear and despise love as much as she feels revulsion at the idea of sexual pleasure and feeling trapped in her engagement to boring boyfriend Eric (Alain Hitier). When she catches sight of physician Michel (Patrick Verde), she feels an unfamiliar sense of "love at first sight" and accidentally falls down an elevator shaft. Although miraculously uninjured, Carole can no longer stifle her feelings of bodily arousal. She feels ashamed when Eric rebuffs her, surmising that she is a neurotic nymphomaniac, but when she gives in to the attentions of boss' sleazy n... |
Sweden Porno: Blonde Animal by Eric Cotenas (14th December 2024)
It seems like love at first sight for a young man (Göran Svensson) and a young woman (Helen Sanderholm), but they both have guilty secrets that are closer than they realize. They have both been separately inveigled by an older swinging couple (The Second Coming of Eva's Jim Steffe and Annette Albisson), and the boy gives in far more easily than the girl; but it is with this knowledge that the older man finally breaks through the girl's defenses. The swinging couple fall back into their routines while the young couple walk away with a better appreciation of one another. That is pretty much all there really is to Sweden Porno: Blonde Animal, and even much of that is speculative. An odd example of a Nikkatsu Roman Porno shot outside Japan with a European cast and possibly a European crew since the credits only list four of the five cast members – the two women are unnamed while the men are Goran and Jim – executive producer ... |
Columbo: The Final Years by Peter Neal (13th December 2024)
"Columbo" With Peter Falk riding high from newfound success on the big screen courtesy of films like The Princess Bride and Wings of Desire at an age where other actor's careers would be winding down, the time was ripe to cash in on his situation and bring back his most beloved - and lucrative - character. But there was a problem. During the 80s, Columbo head-honchos Richard Levinson & William Link were living high on the hog through their hugely successful show Murder She Wrote, which presented the Columbo format in almost half the time. In spite of Levinson's untimely death in 1987, the show cranked out a whopping 264 episodes in 11 years, as it splayed out the mechanics of Colombo for all to see, but preserving the whodunit element which its predecessor largely ignored. But in spite of that differin... |
Columbo: The Final Years by Peter Neal (13th December 2024)
"Columbo" With Peter Falk riding high from newfound success on the big screen courtesy of films like The Princess Bride and Wings of Desire at an age where other actor's careers would be winding down, the time was ripe to cash in on his situation and bring back his most beloved - and lucrative - character. But there was a problem. During the 80s, Columbo head-honchos Richard Levinson & William Link were living high on the hog through their hugely successful show Murder She Wrote, which presented the Columbo format in almost half the time. In spite of Levinson's untimely death in 1987, the show cranked out a whopping 264 episodes in 11 years, as it splayed out the mechanics of Colombo for all to see, but preserving the whodunit element which its predecessor largely ignored. But in spite of that differin... |
Columbo: The Final Years by Peter Neal (13th December 2024)
"Columbo" With Peter Falk riding high from newfound success on the big screen courtesy of films like The Princess Bride and Wings of Desire at an age where other actor's careers would be winding down, the time was ripe to cash in on his situation and bring back his most beloved - and lucrative - character. But there was a problem. During the 80s, Columbo head-honchos Richard Levinson & William Link were living high on the hog through their hugely successful show Murder She Wrote, which presented the Columbo format in almost half the time. In spite of Levinson's untimely death in 1987, the show cranked out a whopping 264 episodes in 11 years, as it splayed out the mechanics of Colombo for all to see, but preserving the whodunit element which its predecessor largely ignored. But in spite of that differin... |
Watership Down by James-Masaki Ryan (11th December 2024)
"Watership Down" (1978) Taking place in rural England in a wild rabbit warren, one of the rabbits, Fiver (voiced by Richard Briers) has a premonition that their entire community would perish. His older brother Hazel (voiced by John Hurt) tries to inform the chief (played by Ralph Richardson) of the community, only to be struck down as traitors. Hazel and Fiver decide to escape the warren for a safer place, and they are joined by fellow rabbits Bigwig (voiced by Michael Graham Cox), Blackberry (voiced by Simon Cadell), Pipkin (voiced by Roy Kinnear), Dandelion (voiced by Richard O'Callaghan, Silver (voiced by Terence Rigby), and Violet. On their journey to find a new safe haven, they encounter some allies such as Kehaar (voiced by ... |
Mill of the Stone Women: Standard Edition by Eric Cotenas (10th December 2024)
Assigned to prepare a paper on the centennial of the "Mill of the Stone Women", a macabre carousel of wax statues of statues in a windmill in the village of Veeze designed by the grandfather of local art school professor Gregorius Wahl (Secret of the Red Orchid's Herbert Boehme), young journalist Hans Van Arnim (Sweet Violence's Pierre Brice) catches the eye of (and catches sight of) Wahl's beautiful daughter Elfie (The White Warrior's Scilla Gabel). In spite of warnings from Wahl and mysterious live-in physician Dr. Bohlem (Dr. M's Wolfgang Preiss) that excitement could kill Elfie – along with the withering watchful eye of housekeeper Selma (... |
Schizo by Eric Cotenas (9th December 2024)
No one believes newly married ice skater Samantha (Four of the Apocalypse's Lynne Frederick) when she fears that she is being stalked and terrorized by William Haskin (The Wild Geese's Jack Watson) who was institutionalized for the murder of her mother twenty years previous. Her husband Alan (The Great Escape's John Leyton) and her prank-playing best friend Beth (House of Mortal Sin's Stephanie Beacham) think she is just stressed, Beth's psychologist boyfriend Leonard (Repulsion's John Fraser) is more interested in probing her repressed traumatic memories than indulging her delusions of persecution, but people are beginning... |
The Comeback by Eric Cotenas (9th December 2024)
Pop singer Nick Cooper (singer Jack Jones) has recently divorced his wife Gail (The Omen's Holly Palance) who convinced him to give up singing, and is planning to recording a comeback album in England. His agent Webster Jones (Charlie's Angels's David Doyle) arranges for him to stay in a country house staffed by housekeeper Mr. and Mrs. B (Last of the Summer Wine's Bill Owen and who else but Sheila Keith); which is just as well since Nick's riverside loft is a mess as an old hag with a sickle hacked Gail to pieces on the staircase and left her corpse to decompose. Nick finds further distraction in Webster’s secretary Linda (... |
Crimson Peak: Standard Edition by Eric Cotenas (9th December 2024)
Ever since she was a child, Edith Cushing (Stoker's Mia Wasikowska) has known that ghosts do indeed exist when her mother appeared her days after her death from black cholera with a cryptic warning. An intelligent young woman in 1890s Buffalo, New York, Edith is on her way to spinsterhood having forsaken suitors and mixing with high society in favor of looking after her father Carter (Supernatural's Jim Beaver) and pursuing her own goal of becoming an authoress of ghost stories. Upon hearing of the arrival of an English baronet who made the acquaintance of Eunice (Star Trek: Discovery's Emily Coutts), sister of her childhood friend ophthalmologist Dr. Alan McMichael (Sons of Anarchy's ... |
The Cat and the Canary: Standard Edition by Eric Cotenas (9th December 2024)
Wealthy and eccentric Cyrus Canby West spends his remaining days feeling like a canary surrounded by cats. If he is mad, he believes he has been driven to it by greedy relatives, and he decides to make them wait a while after his death until they can learn of their inheritance; indeed, he makes them wait twenty years after his death until all that remain of his family line are imperious Aunt Susan Sillsby (Orphans of the Storm's Flora Finch), ditzy niece Cecily Young (Stage Struck's Gertrude Astor), grave Harry Blythe (Doctor X's Arthur Edmund Carewe), wily Charlie Wilder (Curse of the Undead's Forrest Stanley), craven Paul Jones (... |
The Primevals by Eric Cotenas (9th December 2024)
Having been kicked out the university doctorate program for submitting a "speculative" thesis about the existence and nature of the yeti as factual, anthropology dropout Matt Connor (Vampirella's Richard Joseph Paul) gets a special invite back to campus by Dr. Claire Collier (Beyond the Door's Juliet Mills) who reveals at a conference the killing of a "Nepalese anthropoid" of immense stature that had killed a number of sherpas in the mountains, unveiling its frozen carcass to the press and colleagues. Claire introduces the miffed Matt to biologist Dr. Lloyd Trent (The Thing from Another World's Robert Cornthwaite) who discovered upon dissection of the creature's brain that its violent behavior might have been caused by a surgical operation as barbaric as it is advanced beyond ... |
Hillbillys in a Haunted House by Eric Cotenas (9th December 2024)
On the road to Nashville for Jamboree, country western singers Woody Wetherby (Ferln Husky) and Boots Malone (Touch of Evil's Joi Lansing) along with their business manager Jeepers (Don Bowman) get caught up in a shootout between local law enforcement and foreign spies. With night falling quickly and a storm coming, the trio are unable to find accommodations in the ghost town that is Sleepy Junction and stumble upon the crumbling antebellum Beauregard Mansion. Locals inform them that the house is supposed to be haunted, and that people who have investigated the strange sounds and lights emanating from the property have never returned. Woody and Boots are not so willing as Jeepers to believe in ghosts and they settle in for the night, and things do indeed go bump. Of course, the haunting is a front for the secret basement operations of spies Miss Wong (Dimension 5's... |
Hollywood 90028 by Eric Cotenas (9th December 2024)
Freelance cameraman Mark (The Doll Squad's Christopher Augustine) is in love with film, believing that only celluloid is capable of showing people as they really are; as such, he aspires to work in documentaries more so than cinema and is honing his skills shooting 16mm pornographic loops for voyeuristic director Jobal (Dick Glass). One one of the rougher S&M-oriented shoots, he meets Michelle (Jeannette Sears then billed as "Jeannette Dilger") and feels like she is a kindred spirit, having compromised her ideals by being a kept woman for an inattentive wealthy musician and feeling that her work in pornography out of economic necessity has tainted any other opportunities she might have had. It is perhaps a good thing that he identifies so closely with her since the other women he meets tend to wind up with their larynxes crushed by his hands as he relives a childhood trauma forever replaying in his brain like a movie. With a body count sparse enough ... |
Off Balance by Eric Cotenas (7th December 2024)
Robert Dominici (Accident's Michael York) seems to have it all. He's young, handsome, engaged to beautiful socialite Susanna (Curse IV: The Ultimate Sacrifice's Mapi Galán), and on the verge of world fame as a concert pianist; however, he has been diagnosed with the late onset of progeria, a rapid aging disease that usually shortens the life expectancy of children. While Robert's aging on the outside seems slow by the standards of the disease, the deterioration of his brain is accelerating and he is finding it harder to control his violent urges; having already brutally murdered his doctor (Tenebrae's Carola Stagnaro) to keep his illness secret. When Susanna is murdered after a fight with Robert that sent her into the arms of his best friend Davide (... |
The Addiction by Eric Cotenas (7th December 2024)
Golden Berlin Bear: (nominee) - Berlin International Film Festival, 1995 Independent Spirit Award (Best Feature): Denis Hann and Fernando Sulichin (nominee) and Best Female Lead: Lily Taylor (nominee) - Film Independent Spirit Awards, 1996 Critics Award: Abel Ferrara (winner) and Best Film: Abel Ferrara (nominee) - Mystfest, 1995 Best Film: Abel Ferrara (winner), Best Actress: Lily Taylor (winner), and Special Mention: Christopher Walken (winner) - Málaga International Week of Fantastic Cinema, 1997 Sant Jordi (Best Foreign Actress): Lily Taylor (winner) - Sant Jordi Awards, 1998 On her way home from class one night, philosophy student Kathleen Conklin (I Shot Andy Warhol's Lily Taylor) is assaulted by a woman in an evening dress (... |
Beezel by Eric Cotenas (7th December 2024)
An old Massachusetts homestead has long had a reputation in the neighborhood for being haunted by a killer witch; but there was nothing truly concrete until 1966 when the Weems family moved in and wife Jane (Elise Manning) was found in the basement bitten to death and young son Avery (Leo Wildhagen) was discovered in the ground floor bathroom above the basement laundry hatch with his face pulled off. Twenty-one years later, while suspicion officially has stuck with husband and father Harold Weems (Bob Gallagher) despite no evidence while his wife (Kimberly Salditt Poulin) finds joy in scaring off the children who dare each other to creep onto the property and see the witch. Harold is ready to "spill his guts" and hires documentary videographer Apollo (The Hangman's LeJon Woods) to film his account of what really happened. He has cellulo... |
The Convent by Eric Cotenas (7th December 2024)
Audience Award: Mike Mendez (winner) - Fantafestival, 2000 International Fantasy Film Award (Best Film): Mike Mendez (nominee) - Fantasporto, 2000 Narcisse Award (Best Feature Film): Mike Mendez () - Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, 2000 Chainsaw Award (Best Limited-Release/Direct-to-Video Film): The Convent (nominee), Best Supporting Actress: Adrienne Barbeau (winner), and Best Screenplay: Chaton Anderson (nominee) - Fangoria Chainsaw Awards, 2000 The St. Francis Boarding School for girls has been an attractive nuisance for forty years since sixteen-year-old Christine (The Dead Hate the Living!'s Oakley Stevenson) gunned down the priest and nuns and set the chapel ablaze after they supposedly forcibly aborted her child rumored to have been fathered by the priest. While the exterior of the old mission building and its classrooms have been vandalized, every few years during homecoming, students from the local college attempt... |
Village of Doom by Eric Cotenas (7th December 2024)
Rural Japan, 1938: Residents of the mountain village of Kamo near Tsuyama in the Okinawa prefecture are bidding farewell another group of young men conscripted for the war effort, possibly never to return (especially should they lose). Twenty-one-year-old Tsugio (Female Teacher's Masato Furuoya) is eagerly awaiting his opportunity to serve his country. Living alone with his grandmother (The Inugami Family's Izumi Hara) and self-studying to become a schoolteacher, Tsugio lives a lonely life estranged from the rest of the village due to his family's social position and the resentment it engenders from people who nevertheless borrow money from his grandmother. When he develops a cough, his grandmother insists he sees the doctor who prescribes him three months rest for inflamed lungs. His wastrel friend Tetsuo (Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters' ... |
Midsomer Murders: Series 23 by Eric Cotenas (7th December 2024)
Detective Inspector John Barnaby (Different for Girls' Neil Dudgeon) and his sergeant Jamie Winter (Suffragette's Nick Hendrix) are back for another season of Midsomer Murders with four new cases along with Barnaby's wife Sarah (Ultraviolet's Fiona Dolman), their young daughter, Paddy the dog, and spunky senior citizen coroner Fleur (Angels & Insects's Annette Badland). In "The Blacktrees Prophecy" (89:20), the murder of an extreme survivalist (Aran Bell) in his own high-tech shelter cast suspicion on his long-suffering wife (... |