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Home Video Hovel: Meet Him and Die, by West Anthony
Sometimes, another country can take an American film genre and turn it on its head; think of what John Woo did for crime pictures in the 1990’s. Of course, you can also get films like Franco...
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Sequelcast: Rocky Balboa
In this episode, Mat and Thrasher are joined by West Anthony to discuss Rocky Balboa. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
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Home Video Hovel: The Great Flood, by West Anthony
In late April 1927, it began raining in the Mississippi Valley so much that levees broke and towns in the lowlands were flooded, with thousands of square miles submerged before it was over. According...
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Home Video Hovel: Black Out, by West Anthony
This review originally ran for the film’s theatrical release. A guy wakes up with a bloody corpse in his bed and no memory of how it got there; shortly thereafter, many eccentric and allegedly...
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The Annotated Battleship Pretension: Notes on Episode 380, by West Anthony
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I was unable to participate in this episode on the career of film composer Jerry Goldsmith; I felt (and feel) terrible about it, and those of you who were upset...
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Home Video Hovel: Bill Morrison: Collected Works (1996 to 2013), by West Anthony
There aren’t too many filmmakers around these days who really make you think about cinema like Bill Morrison. In scouring film archives for faded and crumbling imagery from the earliest years of...
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Home Video Hovel: Cinerama’s Search for Paradise, by West Anthony
Whilst watching Christopher Nolan’s regrettable snoozefest Interstellar in the 70MM IMAX film format, I was forcibly reminded that size isn’t everything, and in the case of cinema, neither is format....
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Home Video Hovel: Kinoshita and World War II, by West Anthony
There were certainly a lot of films made in America during World War II, dramatizing the lives of military personnel (Delmer Daves’ Destination Tokyo) and civilians (John Cromwell’s Since You Went...
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Just Wrecking the Surface, by West Anthony
The Monkees caught a lot of grief from music cognoscenti for not writing a great deal of their own material, as well as not playing on most of it. This always seemed disingenuous, and maybe a bit of a...
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Home Video Hovel: Bonnie’s Kids, by West Anthony
If you’re looking for 70’s exploitation in an anachronistically pristine home video presentation, good news awaits you. Bonnie’s Kids is a suitably lurid melodrama slopping over with titillation,...
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16. The Empire Strikes Back
score by John Williams How do you top the music of Star Wars? You don’t – you just add to it. Just as The Empire Strikes Back built upon the foundation of George Lucas’ film, deepening and enriching...
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8. Raiders of the Lost Ark
score by John Williams The Raiders march, brimming with brash heroism and can-do gusto, is one of the most memorable of John Williams’ themes in a career slopping over with memorable themes. (Any...
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1. Star Wars
score by John Williams I have purchased John Williams’ score for Star Wars five times, in various configurations, over the course of my life. (Only one less than Ben-Hur!) If you tell me it’s been...
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EPISODE 444: TOP 50 SCORES with WEST ANTHONY
West Anthony returns to talk about the Top 50 Movie Scores of All Time.
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Roger Waters: The Wall: More Bricks, by West Anthony
Roger Waters: The Wall recently played nationwide as part of the Fathom Events series. Our own West Anthony was there to see it. For future screening information, click here. There is a moment in...
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Home Video Hovel: The Bat, by West Anthony
If and when Joel Hodgson’s Mystery Science Theater 3000 makes its return, he could hardly do worse than riff on The Bat, Crane Wilbur’s absurd, overwritten 1959 thriller that plays like a Murder, She...
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Home Video Hovel: Dark Film Mysteries, by West Anthony
#Noirvember may be over, but who are we kidding? Anytime’s the right time for desperate schnooks who are in over their head, wrapped around the little fingers of ruthless dames who’ll stop at nothing...
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Home Video Hovel: Hitch-Hike, by West Anthony
Hitch-Hike begins with Franco Nero having sex with his wife in uncomfortably close proximity to a dead animal. It would be nice if this was as lurid as the film got, but director Pasquale Festa...
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Musical Notation: Batman vs. Superman – Part 1
In this episode, West Anthony discusses the music from Batman movies. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN
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