One month after “Bugs Bunny in Space” premiered on CBS, another prime-time special with the Looney Tunes crew turned up: “Bugs Bunny’s Howl-O-Ween Special.” I was 13 when it premiered on October 26, 1977, and at the time I was appalled by the haphazard sloppiness of the presentation. I just watched it again for the first time since that initial viewing and my negative opinion has not changed.
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A biotech conference leads to an outbreak and a quarantine in this latest “zombie” offering from South Korean horror icon Yeon Sang-ho.
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Soldiers and a scientist’s daughter try to take down an AI in 2024’s truly awful MUTANT: GENESIS, now on disc from Cleopatra.
A low-level criminal sets up shop in a rural Texas town during a heat wave in Dennis Hopper’s 1990 erotic thriller/neo-noir The Hot Spot, now on 4k from Radiance Films.
The 1970 film “Dodes’ka-den” has always been a puzzling piece of the Akira Kurosawa canon. Despite its cred – an Academy Award nomination as Best Foreign-Language Film and the distinction of being the director’s first color film – audiences did not embrace it during the film’s theatrical release. The film’s commercial failure in Japan compounded a myriad of professional and personal problems that pushed Kurosawa to a suicide attempt. Outside of Japan, it was barely seen on the big screen – a U.S. release didn’t take place until 1974.
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