April 20, 2022 marks exactly a decade since Ayushmann Khurrana, Bollywood’s most successful thematic risk taking actor, debuted in the film industry.
Ten years ago today is when Khurrana debuted with “Vicky Donor,” in which he played a sperm donor. Starting from then, he has made a point of playing diverse characters, and each of them have been box-office successes.
These include playing a man who suffers from erectile dysfunction in “Shubh Mangal Savdhan” (2017); an alopecia sufferer in “Bala” (2019); an out and proud gay man in “Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan” (2020) and a macho gym instructor who finds out that his fiancée used to be a man and has undergone gender reassignment surgery in “Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui” (2021).
While these roles obviously fly in the face of traditional Bollywood macho stereotypes, Khurrana’s other role choices have also been unusual by the industry’s mainstream standards. These include playing a piano player who...
Ten years ago today is when Khurrana debuted with “Vicky Donor,” in which he played a sperm donor. Starting from then, he has made a point of playing diverse characters, and each of them have been box-office successes.
These include playing a man who suffers from erectile dysfunction in “Shubh Mangal Savdhan” (2017); an alopecia sufferer in “Bala” (2019); an out and proud gay man in “Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan” (2020) and a macho gym instructor who finds out that his fiancée used to be a man and has undergone gender reassignment surgery in “Chandigarh Kare Aashiqui” (2021).
While these roles obviously fly in the face of traditional Bollywood macho stereotypes, Khurrana’s other role choices have also been unusual by the industry’s mainstream standards. These include playing a piano player who...
- 4/20/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
If you typically fill out your Oscar ballots after consulting with the predictions of Gold Derby’s Experts, you may have noticed something unique this year. In exactly two of the 23 categories — Best Actress and Best Documentary Short — all of the nominees have the support of at least one of our Experts from major media outlets. Are these races still too close to call? The other 21 categories at the 2022 Oscars are less scattershot and feature at least one nominee with zero Experts predicting it to win.
See 2022 Oscar nominations: Full list of nominees in all 23 categories at the 94th Academy Awards
For Best Actress, a leading 17 of 24 Experts predict a victory for Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”), who recently cleaned up at the Critics Choice and SAG Awards for her role as televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. Despite only being nominated twice before at the Academy Awards, for “The Help...
See 2022 Oscar nominations: Full list of nominees in all 23 categories at the 94th Academy Awards
For Best Actress, a leading 17 of 24 Experts predict a victory for Jessica Chastain (“The Eyes of Tammy Faye”), who recently cleaned up at the Critics Choice and SAG Awards for her role as televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker. Despite only being nominated twice before at the Academy Awards, for “The Help...
- 3/17/2022
- by Marcus James Dixon
- Gold Derby
The Santa Barbara Film Festival said Thursday that newly minted Oscar nominee Penélope Cruz has been chosen to receive the Montecito Award at the festival’s 37th edition next month.
The honor will be bestowed during a ceremony March 8 that will include an in-person conversation with Cruz, who was nominated last week in the Best Actress category for her role in Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers. It’s the fourth Oscar nom for Cruz, who won the Supporting Actress Oscar in 2009 for Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Cruz now joins a roster of Sbiff honorees that includes her husband and fellow Oscar nominee Javier Bardem, who is getting the Maltin Modern Master Award with his Being the Ricardos star Nicole Kidman; Bardem is also a past recipient of the Montecito Award. Other Oscar nominees headed to the beach city for fete duties at the annual awards-season stop are Kristen Stewart,...
The honor will be bestowed during a ceremony March 8 that will include an in-person conversation with Cruz, who was nominated last week in the Best Actress category for her role in Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers. It’s the fourth Oscar nom for Cruz, who won the Supporting Actress Oscar in 2009 for Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
Cruz now joins a roster of Sbiff honorees that includes her husband and fellow Oscar nominee Javier Bardem, who is getting the Maltin Modern Master Award with his Being the Ricardos star Nicole Kidman; Bardem is also a past recipient of the Montecito Award. Other Oscar nominees headed to the beach city for fete duties at the annual awards-season stop are Kristen Stewart,...
- 2/17/2022
- by Patrick Hipes
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Heat director Michael Mann is getting closer to the start line on his passion project Ferrari thanks to some strong new cast and a big domestic deal with STX. We can reveal that Oscar nominee Adam Driver, Oscar winner Penélope Cruz and Emmy nominee Shailene Woodley are newly aboard for the big-budget biopic of racing mogul Enzo Ferrari. Star Wars and House Of Gucci actor Driver is replacing Hugh Jackman in the title role while Parallel Mothers star Cruz will play Enzo’s wife Laura. Big Little Lies star Woodley will play mistress Lina Lardi. Four-time Oscar nominee Mann is gearing up for a May start in Italy. STX is handling International rights and has now picked up domestic in a big deal with Mann. As we revealed in previous reporting on the project, Amazon is aboard in a handful of international markets. STX International will look to close...
- 2/9/2022
- by Andreas Wiseman and Justin Kroll
- Deadline Film + TV
Javier Bardem and his wife Penelope Cruz were both nominated for Academy Awards on Tuesday, the former for Best Lead Actor in Amazon’s Being the Ricardos, and the latter for Best Lead Actress for her role in Parallel Mothers. Also nominated for Best Lead Actress is Bardem’s costar Nicole Kidman, for her portrayal of Lucille Ball, leaving Bardem in a pickle fas to who to cheer for on Oscar night.
“I think both did a fantastic job,” Bardem tells Deadline on the heels of their nominations. “But Penelope did something extraordinary because she’s nominated for the second time for a role in Spanish—that’s really historic. Of course, I am rooting for her.”
He continued while evidently torn, “And I’m also rooting for Nicole, we had an amazing time working together. I’m rooting for Penelope…and then I’m also rooting for Nicole. It makes sense.
“I think both did a fantastic job,” Bardem tells Deadline on the heels of their nominations. “But Penelope did something extraordinary because she’s nominated for the second time for a role in Spanish—that’s really historic. Of course, I am rooting for her.”
He continued while evidently torn, “And I’m also rooting for Nicole, we had an amazing time working together. I’m rooting for Penelope…and then I’m also rooting for Nicole. It makes sense.
- 2/8/2022
- by Rosy Cordero
- Deadline Film + TV
This year’s Diff will run as physical event from February 23-March 6.
Sasha King’s Vicky and Dónal Foreman’s The Cry Of Granuaile are among the world premieres screening at this year’s Dublin International Film Festival (Diff), which will run as a physical event from February 23-March 6.
Produced by King and Bill Snodgrass, documentary Vicky tells the story of Irish woman Vicky Phelan’s work to expose the truth behind Ireland’s Cervical Check healthcare scandal.
The Cry Of Granuaile is produced by Foreman, Liam Beatty and Edwina Forkin and centres on an American filmmaker, reeling from the...
Sasha King’s Vicky and Dónal Foreman’s The Cry Of Granuaile are among the world premieres screening at this year’s Dublin International Film Festival (Diff), which will run as a physical event from February 23-March 6.
Produced by King and Bill Snodgrass, documentary Vicky tells the story of Irish woman Vicky Phelan’s work to expose the truth behind Ireland’s Cervical Check healthcare scandal.
The Cry Of Granuaile is produced by Foreman, Liam Beatty and Edwina Forkin and centres on an American filmmaker, reeling from the...
- 2/4/2022
- by Esther McCarthy
- ScreenDaily
Androids such as Mother and Father in HBO Max’s Raised by Wolves are unique among their robot cousins depicted in science fiction television. Instead of being metallic, mechanical servants devoid of any life-like appearance, androids are by definition built to look just like humans, and as a result, they are often written to have some of the same emotional strengths and flaws. But while their function may be to assist the humans that created them, they often are either caretakers like Father or killers like Mother, at least as it applies to her necromancer origins.
Reconciling those two sides is never easy, and androids weren’t always so realistic in the different eras of television, often acting as Pinocchios who wanted to be “real.” There have been many android characters in film and TV, but below are a few exemplars of each type among the main cast of some...
Reconciling those two sides is never easy, and androids weren’t always so realistic in the different eras of television, often acting as Pinocchios who wanted to be “real.” There have been many android characters in film and TV, but below are a few exemplars of each type among the main cast of some...
- 2/3/2022
- by Michael Ahr
- Den of Geek
For many marginalized communities, the act of racial passing stirs up uncomfortable questions. But for Rebecca Hall, it was the answer to a lingering family mystery. Hall, who you may recognize from "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" or "Iron Man 3," is the daughter of the very-British Sir Peter Hall and the American opera singer Maria Ewing. While her father had the privilege of a well-documented family line, it was more complicated on her mother's side. The actress recalls asking her mother about her ethnicity, but Ewing never had a straight answer. "Sometimes she would intimate that maybe there was African American ancestry," Hall told the New...
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- 1/18/2022
- by Lyvie Scott
- Slash Film
Mia Hansen-Løve’s long-developing Bergman Island (starring Tim Roth, Vicky Krieps, Mia Wasikowska, and Anders Danielsen Lie) finally premiered at Cannes in July, and while positive word had a certain mutedness to it, these reactions suggest something wholly in keeping with the great director’s soulful, measured cinema. After years of anticipation it’s hard to believe the movie is so close at hand, but on October 15 (with an NYFF pit stop along the way) it’ll hit screens.
IFC have released a trailer that suggests all is well—the shots are perfect, the atmosphere effervescent, the dynamics ringing with tension. As we said at Cannes, “A story of prickly truths but no shortage of levity, it is a clear passion project for Hansen-Løve, a director whose work has always leaned as much toward the biographical as the cinephilic.”
See preview and poster below:
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IFC have released a trailer that suggests all is well—the shots are perfect, the atmosphere effervescent, the dynamics ringing with tension. As we said at Cannes, “A story of prickly truths but no shortage of levity, it is a clear passion project for Hansen-Løve, a director whose work has always leaned as much toward the biographical as the cinephilic.”
See preview and poster below:
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- 9/7/2021
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Following the presentation of exclusive footage at the European Film Market last week, highly anticipated title “Official Competition” – reuniting Spanish stars Antonio Banderas and Penélope Cruz – has seized sales to major distributors for sales agency Protagonist Pictures and producer The Mediapro Studio.
Banderas, Cannes best actor winner and Academy Award nominee for “Pain and Glory,” and Cruz, Academy Award winner for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” star alongside Argentinian actor Oscar Martínez, Venice best actor winner for “The Distinguished Citizen,” in the comedy about the fierce rivalry between two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos.
Lucky Red has acquired the film for Italy, Studiocanal for Germany/Austria, Scanbox for Scandinavia, Pathe Films Ag for Switzerland, MK2 Mile End for Canada, Madman for Australia/New Zealand, Golden Scene for Hong Kong/Macau, and Sahamongkol Film for Thailand, with further deals closed previously at EFM 2020 for Benelux (September Film), Portugal (Lusomundo), Cee...
Banderas, Cannes best actor winner and Academy Award nominee for “Pain and Glory,” and Cruz, Academy Award winner for “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” star alongside Argentinian actor Oscar Martínez, Venice best actor winner for “The Distinguished Citizen,” in the comedy about the fierce rivalry between two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos.
Lucky Red has acquired the film for Italy, Studiocanal for Germany/Austria, Scanbox for Scandinavia, Pathe Films Ag for Switzerland, MK2 Mile End for Canada, Madman for Australia/New Zealand, Golden Scene for Hong Kong/Macau, and Sahamongkol Film for Thailand, with further deals closed previously at EFM 2020 for Benelux (September Film), Portugal (Lusomundo), Cee...
- 3/10/2021
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
The world we currently orbit is a strange and confined one. This world has introduced us to a new type of solitude as unfamiliar feelings surface that are unique to a chaotic world amidst a global pandemic. During this time, reflection has happened upon us all to varying degrees. As we move into winter with no prospect of clarity, we seek out ways to stay positive and escape the distress of uncertainty. A constant source of solace during this time has been the (re)discovery of cinema. Through cinema the exploration of other worlds is possible: small pockets of alternate realities to escape the reality of a winter stuck inside the house, missing loved ones and the joys of full bodied freedom.It came as perfect timing then, that as "melancholy fall" became my particular cinematic mood, Pure Person Press released a new charity compilation Va focused on musician and...
- 12/4/2020
- MUBI
Tinto Brass's Deadly Attractions and Sinful Desires is showing September - October, 2020 on Mubi.Above: Salon KittyKnown today as a maestro of erotic cinema, Italian director Tinto Brass’s legendary status is hard-won and attributable to his dogged dedication to filming sex. There’s a whiff of aimless opportunism in his genre-hopping early career, which included flirtations with neorealism, psychedelic experimentalism, and even a spaghetti western. But in Salon Kitty (1976), his first English-language film, Brass began to consolidate and wield influences. Salon Kitty brandishes its references in plain acknowledgement of the director’s derivative tendencies, meanwhile offering glimpses of Brass-original motifs that he would later (rather ingeniously) repurpose in erotic contexts. In Salon Kitty, we can perceive the director’s artistic resolve stiffening, amounting to a film that’s greater than the sum of its cherry-picked parts. Based on the stranger-than-fiction, true story of a Berlin brothel of co-opted...
- 9/25/2020
- MUBI
Mort Rifkin, the ostensible novelist at the center of “Rifkin’s Festival,” has longterm writer’s block, and it’s hard to imagine that Woody Allen has ever empathized less with a character. Where Mort believes it’s futile to write if the finished work is not going to be on the level of Dostoevsky, the 84-year-old Allen continues churning out screenplays on an annual basis, unencumbered even by the increasingly distant memory of his own greatest work. His 49th feature, “Rifkin’s Festival” is the latest in a lengthy string of undistinguished bagatelles that might all be described as effortless, and not in an especially complimentary fashion.
Following Wallace Shawn and a typically jumbled grab-bag of fine actors as they mosey around the San Sebastián Film Festival — for which the film acts as an extended promo, duly opening this year’s edition — “Rifkin’s Festival” is a scenic summer-wind romcom that...
Following Wallace Shawn and a typically jumbled grab-bag of fine actors as they mosey around the San Sebastián Film Festival — for which the film acts as an extended promo, duly opening this year’s edition — “Rifkin’s Festival” is a scenic summer-wind romcom that...
- 9/18/2020
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Stars: Timothee Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Liev Schreiber, Selina Gomez, Diego Luna, Jude Law | Written and Directed by Woody Allen
Woody Allen can be hit-and-miss these days. He’s a great writer and director. We all know that, with films like Manhattan; Annie Hall; Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona and my favourite of his films, Midnight in Paris, he has the ability to create some magical human stories when he wants to. Even fairly recently, with Blue Jasmine, he’s knocked it out of Yankee Stadium. Now, personal opinions of Allen aside, he’s created some wonderful films over the years, and so I was intrigued by his most recent one, A Rainy Day in New York.
A cast featuring the very-talented Timothee Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Liev Schreiber, Selina Gomez, Diego Luna and Jude Law, this is the story of a young couple, Gatsby (Chalamet) and Ashleigh (Fanning) who head to Manhattan when...
Woody Allen can be hit-and-miss these days. He’s a great writer and director. We all know that, with films like Manhattan; Annie Hall; Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona and my favourite of his films, Midnight in Paris, he has the ability to create some magical human stories when he wants to. Even fairly recently, with Blue Jasmine, he’s knocked it out of Yankee Stadium. Now, personal opinions of Allen aside, he’s created some wonderful films over the years, and so I was intrigued by his most recent one, A Rainy Day in New York.
A cast featuring the very-talented Timothee Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Liev Schreiber, Selina Gomez, Diego Luna and Jude Law, this is the story of a young couple, Gatsby (Chalamet) and Ashleigh (Fanning) who head to Manhattan when...
- 7/2/2020
- by Chris Cummings
- Nerdly
Some of the biggest names in Indian entertainment Have come together with Facebook to put on a home-to-home fundraiser concert, I For India. 100% proceeds from the fundraiser concert will go to the India Covid Response Fund managed by GiveIndia, to support on-ground relief efforts.
The vision for the concert is to entertain those locked down in their homes. To pay tribute to those who are working on the frontlines. And to raise funds for those who have no work and no home and do not know where their next meal is coming from.
The four-hour long concert will be live globally on Facebook (www.facebook.com/Facebookindiapp) on Sunday, 3rd May 2020 at 7:30pm Ist and will feature performances and personal messages from 85+ Indian and global stars including:
A R Rahman • Aamir Khan • Abhishek Bachchan • Aditya Roy Kapur • Aishwarya Rai Bachchan • Ajay – Atul • Akshay Kumar • Alia Bhatt • Amaan Ali Bangash...
The vision for the concert is to entertain those locked down in their homes. To pay tribute to those who are working on the frontlines. And to raise funds for those who have no work and no home and do not know where their next meal is coming from.
The four-hour long concert will be live globally on Facebook (www.facebook.com/Facebookindiapp) on Sunday, 3rd May 2020 at 7:30pm Ist and will feature performances and personal messages from 85+ Indian and global stars including:
A R Rahman • Aamir Khan • Abhishek Bachchan • Aditya Roy Kapur • Aishwarya Rai Bachchan • Ajay – Atul • Akshay Kumar • Alia Bhatt • Amaan Ali Bangash...
- 5/1/2020
- by Stacey Yount
- Bollyspice
Recently, Hrithik Roshan visited the city of Udaipur for an event. Amidst much fanfare, the actor was asked about who he reveres as his role model in life and his answer gives away the most significant perspective which we all must take note of.
Also read:?Hrithik Roshan has a fanboy in Vicky Kaushal
His answer tells us all about how we see growth and evolution synonymous with Hrithik in a two-decade-long career.
?My role model is myself 20 years from now. I try and imagine the kind of person I want to be, the kind of values I want to have, the kind of character I want to build as a human being, the things I want to achieve in life.
So to be able to achieve those things, what kind of a person do I need to be right now, that becomes my process?, shares Hrithik giving us the...
Also read:?Hrithik Roshan has a fanboy in Vicky Kaushal
His answer tells us all about how we see growth and evolution synonymous with Hrithik in a two-decade-long career.
?My role model is myself 20 years from now. I try and imagine the kind of person I want to be, the kind of values I want to have, the kind of character I want to build as a human being, the things I want to achieve in life.
So to be able to achieve those things, what kind of a person do I need to be right now, that becomes my process?, shares Hrithik giving us the...
- 2/22/2020
- GlamSham
In an inspired bit of holiday season counter-programming, the Quad Cinema in New York is showing 34 non-family films that were either rated X or should have been. In the U.K. the X rating was first introduced in 1951 when it originally indicated “suitable for those aged 16 and over” and replaced the H for Horror rating that had existed since 1932. In 1972 the age was raised to 18 (and ten years later the certificate changed from X to 18). A surprising number of arthouse classics such as Jules and Jim and a number of Bergman films received an X rating in the U.K.In the U.S. the X rating was introduced in 1968 as part of Jack Valenti’s new MPAA rating system, and Midnight Cowboy became not only one of the first films to receive the rating, but was the only X-rated film ever to win Best Picture.For some filmmakers and...
- 12/14/2018
- MUBI
Oscar winning production designer Ken Adam died today in London at the age of 95 according to The BBC.
Adam is most famous for creating the iconic and sprawling lairs of the supervillains who populated the Sean Connery and Roger Moore-era James Bond films. His designs included the Crab Key complex in "Dr. No," the Fort Knox interiors on "Goldfinger," the volcano lair of "You Only Live Twice," Stromberg's supertanker and Atlantis sets in "The Spy Who Loved Me," and Drax's space station in "Moonraker". He also did the production design on "Thunderball" and "Diamonds Are Forever".
Adams' work extended well beyond the Bond franchise though, such as two films in the anti-Bond Harry Palmer film series with Michael Caine - "The Ipcress File" and "Funeral in Berlin". He was a favorite of Stanley Kubrick following his design of the famous war room for "Dr. Strangelove". He was offered "2001" but turned it down,...
Adam is most famous for creating the iconic and sprawling lairs of the supervillains who populated the Sean Connery and Roger Moore-era James Bond films. His designs included the Crab Key complex in "Dr. No," the Fort Knox interiors on "Goldfinger," the volcano lair of "You Only Live Twice," Stromberg's supertanker and Atlantis sets in "The Spy Who Loved Me," and Drax's space station in "Moonraker". He also did the production design on "Thunderball" and "Diamonds Are Forever".
Adams' work extended well beyond the Bond franchise though, such as two films in the anti-Bond Harry Palmer film series with Michael Caine - "The Ipcress File" and "Funeral in Berlin". He was a favorite of Stanley Kubrick following his design of the famous war room for "Dr. Strangelove". He was offered "2001" but turned it down,...
- 3/10/2016
- by Garth Franklin
- Dark Horizons
Hollywood’s answer to the sexual excesses of the internet is the steel-and-glass status porn of El James’s erotic megaseller
I see the backed-up hunger for the forthcoming Fifty Shades Of Grey, with all its palely transgressive, kiss-the-lash sexual provocations, and I ask myself, did the clock just stop? Have we moved one inch into the sexual future since 1975? Is this still all it takes – a virginal naif willing to submit, a power magnate keen to dominate more than just his supine boardroom and stunted workforce, and a fancy set of bedroom restraints – to whip America up into a tumescent frenzy of anticipation?
I say 1975 advisedly because that seems like the year when Hollywood topped out on what it was prepared to show sexually in the wake of the 1968 MPAA ratings reforms. Even now, even with the Nc-17 rating, Hollywood is hard-pressed to match what was sexually acceptable in mid-70s international cinema.
I see the backed-up hunger for the forthcoming Fifty Shades Of Grey, with all its palely transgressive, kiss-the-lash sexual provocations, and I ask myself, did the clock just stop? Have we moved one inch into the sexual future since 1975? Is this still all it takes – a virginal naif willing to submit, a power magnate keen to dominate more than just his supine boardroom and stunted workforce, and a fancy set of bedroom restraints – to whip America up into a tumescent frenzy of anticipation?
I say 1975 advisedly because that seems like the year when Hollywood topped out on what it was prepared to show sexually in the wake of the 1968 MPAA ratings reforms. Even now, even with the Nc-17 rating, Hollywood is hard-pressed to match what was sexually acceptable in mid-70s international cinema.
- 2/9/2015
- by John Patterson
- The Guardian - Film News
Title: Nazithon: Decadence And Destruction by: Charles Band Starring: Michelle “Bombshell” McGee & Ian Roberts Running time: 79min Michelle “Bombshell” McGee hosts a marathon of Nazi themed grindhouse horror movie trailers. Titles include the following: SS Camp 5 Women’s Hell, SS Hell Camp (women get raped by a genetically mutated monkey man), SS Experiment Love Camp, Private House of the SS, Salon Kitty (starring Helmut Berger), The Damned (with Helmut Berger again and Charlotte Rampling), Ilsa She Wolf of the SS, Ilsa: Harem Keeper of the Oil Sheiks, Wanda the Wicked Warden, Elsa Fraulein SS, The Tigress, The Black Gestapo (wtf?!), The Tormentors (motorcycle neo-nazis), Mad Foxes (neo-nazi biker gang [ Read More ]
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- 6/27/2013
- by juliana
- ShockYa
The Nazisploitation film cycle was to last for a very brief period in the 1970s. It mainly consists of Italian films which all copied each other and pilfered ideas from better Nazi-themed movies like The Night Porter.
These films dealt with the concentration camps as a hotbed of sexual shenanigans and kinkiness. The vast majority of people who watch the Nasty Nazi films find them either execrable or hilarious – depending on what movie they are watching. Yes it is wrong to laugh at war crimes but some of these films are just so dumb, it is impossible to be offended by them.
On the other hand, there are films on the list which are revolting in their sleaze factor and willingness to exploit the Holocaust for their own perverted agendas. However, these films exist and we have to put up with them. Hence, I decided to give Nasty Nazi films a list of their own.
These films dealt with the concentration camps as a hotbed of sexual shenanigans and kinkiness. The vast majority of people who watch the Nasty Nazi films find them either execrable or hilarious – depending on what movie they are watching. Yes it is wrong to laugh at war crimes but some of these films are just so dumb, it is impossible to be offended by them.
On the other hand, there are films on the list which are revolting in their sleaze factor and willingness to exploit the Holocaust for their own perverted agendas. However, these films exist and we have to put up with them. Hence, I decided to give Nasty Nazi films a list of their own.
- 5/31/2013
- by Clare Simpson
- Obsessed with Film
Now that our new house is settling, we wanted to bring back our weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Releases posts. We are calling this weekly post “Home Invasion”. If you plan on purchasing these items via Amazon, all you need to do is click on the buttons provided or on the artwork and not only do you get the same price you normally would with Amazon, but you help us out a little bit as well – which is all we ask because this list does take some time to put together.
All Descriptions are from Amazon.com unless otherwise noted. We have excluded the Netflix code on this particular post. This is due to all of the changes with Netflix and their DVD mailing program. If you want us to include the code in future Home Invasion posts, where you just click a button to add it to your queue, leave us a comment below.
All Descriptions are from Amazon.com unless otherwise noted. We have excluded the Netflix code on this particular post. This is due to all of the changes with Netflix and their DVD mailing program. If you want us to include the code in future Home Invasion posts, where you just click a button to add it to your queue, leave us a comment below.
- 9/26/2011
- by Andy Triefenbach
- Destroy the Brain
Blue Underground will give the 1973 psycho-sexual thriller movie Torso by controversial Italian cult film director Sergio Martino (Mountain of the Cannibal God) its Blu-ray debut on July 26.
Suzy Kendall and company are stalked by a killer in Torso.
Containing both an uncensored English version and a full-length Italian Director’s Cut, the Blu-ray will carry the list price of $29.98. Blue Underground’s updated DVD version will also be available for a list price of $19.98.
Starring Suzy Kendall (To Sir, With Love), Tina Aumont (Salon Kitty) and John Richardson (One Million Years B.C.), Torso concerns a series of sex murders that shock a college campus, prompting four beautiful young girlfriends to head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the hands—and blade—of the lecherous maniac.
Originally released in America...
Suzy Kendall and company are stalked by a killer in Torso.
Containing both an uncensored English version and a full-length Italian Director’s Cut, the Blu-ray will carry the list price of $29.98. Blue Underground’s updated DVD version will also be available for a list price of $19.98.
Starring Suzy Kendall (To Sir, With Love), Tina Aumont (Salon Kitty) and John Richardson (One Million Years B.C.), Torso concerns a series of sex murders that shock a college campus, prompting four beautiful young girlfriends to head for the safety of an isolated country villa. But as they succumb to their own erotic desires, their weekend of pleasure becomes a vacation to dismember at the hands—and blade—of the lecherous maniac.
Originally released in America...
- 4/30/2011
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
By Devin Faraci (from our sister site Badass Digest). The posters below will be available at tonight’s (Feb 8th) screenings of Maniac, Maniac Cop 2, and tomorrow’s (Feb 9th) screening of Vigilante. Director William Lustig will be in attendance at all three shows!
William Lustig has made some of the most interesting exploitation films of all time. He’ll be in Austin this week showing three of them – Maniac, Vigilante and Maniac Cop 2. But he also runs a DVD/Blu-ray company called Blue Underground that preserves and releases cult classics. The latest releases include Lustig’s own Maniac, Quiet Days in Clichy and Salon Kitty. Deep Red is coming up.
I was able to chat with Lustig last week. I talked to him for a half an hour, but that’s not even close to enough time with a guy like this. I hope to be able...
William Lustig has made some of the most interesting exploitation films of all time. He’ll be in Austin this week showing three of them – Maniac, Vigilante and Maniac Cop 2. But he also runs a DVD/Blu-ray company called Blue Underground that preserves and releases cult classics. The latest releases include Lustig’s own Maniac, Quiet Days in Clichy and Salon Kitty. Deep Red is coming up.
I was able to chat with Lustig last week. I talked to him for a half an hour, but that’s not even close to enough time with a guy like this. I hope to be able...
- 2/8/2011
- by Caitlin Stevens
- OriginalAlamo.com
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The Expendables
Was it the be-all-end-all of action films? No. But it was a retro-blast that in this past summer was desperately needed. What took so long to get our action heroes together in one movie, I don’t know,...
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The Expendables
Was it the be-all-end-all of action films? No. But it was a retro-blast that in this past summer was desperately needed. What took so long to get our action heroes together in one movie, I don’t know,...
- 11/23/2010
- by Jon Peters
- Killer Films
Tinto Brass has always had a touch for making exploitative movies that look like real movies. This is not an insult. It is the truth. His command of sleazy grandeur is probably why Bob Guccione handed him the reigns to Caligula. A new uncensored cut of Brass' Salon Kitty (1976) from Blue Underground shows the director near the height of his filthy powers. This isn't just regular trash. This is really artful trash.
Kitty Kellerman (played by Ingrid Thulin) runs Salon Kitty -- a brothel where the German elite come to relax. An amorphously perverse Nazi general named Wallenberg (Helmet Burger) forces Kitty to move to a new building, which is wired for spying, and swaps out her trusted stable with a bunch of SS spies. In the middle of all of this scheming is a committed Nazi concubine named Margherita (Teresa Ann Savoy).
Salon Kitty is based on a non-fiction book by Peter Norden.
Kitty Kellerman (played by Ingrid Thulin) runs Salon Kitty -- a brothel where the German elite come to relax. An amorphously perverse Nazi general named Wallenberg (Helmet Burger) forces Kitty to move to a new building, which is wired for spying, and swaps out her trusted stable with a bunch of SS spies. In the middle of all of this scheming is a committed Nazi concubine named Margherita (Teresa Ann Savoy).
Salon Kitty is based on a non-fiction book by Peter Norden.
- 11/21/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Weeding out what is and what isn’t a “horror” film is tough, but by this writer’s definition, horror is about exposing the dark side of the human condition, either by graphically confronting it with realism or cloaking it in fantasy. Horror is dread, confusion, the breakdown of things we trust, the bending of taboos, the invading of our social and psychological comfort zones. And although Italian maverick Tinto Brass’ (Caligula) 1976 Nazi-sploitation film Salon Kitty may not be viewed by the world at large as a horror film, I argue that it is. Hence the review that you are currently reading…...
- 11/15/2010
- by samueldzimmerman@gmail.com (Chris Alexander)
- Fangoria
DVD Playhouse—November 2010
By Allen Gardner
Paths Of Glory (Criterion) Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 antiwar classic put him on the map as a major filmmaker. Kirk Douglas stars in a true story about a French officer in Ww I who locks horns with the military’s top brass after his men are court-martialed for failing to carry out an obvious suicide mission. A perfect film, across the board, with fine support from George Macready as one of the most despicable martinet’s ever captured on film, Ralph Meeker, and Adolphe Menjou, all oily charm as a conniving General. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Audio commentary by critic Gary Giddins; Excerpt from 1966 audio interview with Kubrick; 1979 interview with Douglas; New interviews with Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, and producer James B. Harris; French television documentary on real-life case which inspired the film; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
Winter’S Bone (Lionsgate) After her deadbeat father disappears,...
By Allen Gardner
Paths Of Glory (Criterion) Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 antiwar classic put him on the map as a major filmmaker. Kirk Douglas stars in a true story about a French officer in Ww I who locks horns with the military’s top brass after his men are court-martialed for failing to carry out an obvious suicide mission. A perfect film, across the board, with fine support from George Macready as one of the most despicable martinet’s ever captured on film, Ralph Meeker, and Adolphe Menjou, all oily charm as a conniving General. Also available on Blu-ray disc. Bonuses: Audio commentary by critic Gary Giddins; Excerpt from 1966 audio interview with Kubrick; 1979 interview with Douglas; New interviews with Jan Harlan, Christiane Kubrick, and producer James B. Harris; French television documentary on real-life case which inspired the film; Trailer. Widescreen. Dolby 1.0 mono.
Winter’S Bone (Lionsgate) After her deadbeat father disappears,...
- 11/6/2010
- by The Hollywood Interview.com
- The Hollywood Interview
Malcolm McDowell in Caligula Avatar’s 3D success has had some far-reaching effects. First, Warner Bros. announced that Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part I and Part II and Clash of the Titans will be converted to 3D. Now comes erotic filmmaker Tinto Brass, 76, who says he’ll produce Italy’s first-ever 3D movie — which will also happen to be the world’s first-ever 3D pornographic production. Brass has been making erotic films for decades. Among his efforts are Salon Kitty (1976), Paprika, Life in a Brothel (1991), All Women Do It (1992), The Voyeur (1994), and Transgressions (2000). For his first film in 3D, he intends to "revisit an abandoned project about a Roman emperor that was ruined by Americans, and [...]...
- 1/29/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
While there are no mainstream horror releases this week, it's a Huge week for fans of under-the-radar titles, vintage frights, indie and international horror.
There's quite a few re-issues, some titles hitting Blu-ray for the first time, and several collections hitting stores. Below the jump you can view the full list of genre DVD & Blu-Ray titles arriving tomorrow, Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 in this weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List - updated with all the last minute additions and deletions.
The 10th Victim
It is the 21st Century, and society's lust for violence is satisfied by "The Big Hunt," an international game of legalized murder. But when the sport's two top assassins (Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress) are pitted against each other, they find that love is the most dangerous game of all. As the world watches, the hunt is on. Who will become The 10th Victim?
The 10th...
There's quite a few re-issues, some titles hitting Blu-ray for the first time, and several collections hitting stores. Below the jump you can view the full list of genre DVD & Blu-Ray titles arriving tomorrow, Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 in this weekly version of the famous Fangoria Chopping List - updated with all the last minute additions and deletions.
The 10th Victim
It is the 21st Century, and society's lust for violence is satisfied by "The Big Hunt," an international game of legalized murder. But when the sport's two top assassins (Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress) are pitted against each other, they find that love is the most dangerous game of all. As the world watches, the hunt is on. Who will become The 10th Victim?
The 10th...
- 7/27/2009
- by no-reply@fangoria.com (James Zahn)
- Fangoria
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