For this week’s Kickstart Sunday, we would like to highlight Man From Reno by Dave Boyle. This narrative feature stars Ayako Fujitani as a young Japanese author who teams up with a small town sheriff to solve
During the exploitation boom of the late sixties through the seventies, many low budget gorefests achieved notoriety through playing at the grindhouses on Times Square. One such film that became a cult hit was David E. Durston’s I Drink
This week on Kickstart Sunday we’d like to highlight Art Story by Aaron Blaise and Chuck Williams. This CG animated film focuses on a boy and his grandfather who literally get sucked into the art world and must
This week, we’re heading back to prison to talk about one of the later released women in prison films, titled Reform School Girls. Released in 1986 and Directed by former porn producer Tom DeSimone, this film is much
I haven’t seen as many films in 2013 as I would normally have seen by now for various reasons and many of them were disappointments such as the latest Star Trek entry, the latest Iron Man entry, the Superman reboot
Continuing with our mid-year top tens, here’s Film Pulse contributor Gina Kelly‘s picks. Some films unique to her list include Sarah Polley‘s Stories We Tell, David Lowery‘s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, and Nicolas Winding Refn‘s Only God Forgives. I could definitely see
Though Ryan doesn’t see as many films as most of us do on the site, his opinion is just as important as anyone’s, and he’s become our unofficial voice of the common movie goer. Below you’ll find Ryan’s picks for
2013 has been a solid year for me, having seen 111 features thus far. While many of the big studio films were a disappointment, with this summer feeling particularly weak, there have been a lot of great smaller films coming
With the year half over, we thought it would be nice to take a look back at some of our favorite films of the year so far and publish some mid-year top tens. Here’s Film Pulse contributor and critic Ernie Trinidad’s take
There were a number of films within the first half of the year that I did not get a chance to see and, more than likely, would have replaced a handful of films that made it onto my Mid-Year
This week on Kickstart Sunday, we’d like to highlight The Ningyo, by Miguel Ortega. This short film takes a look at Cryptozoology in the early 1900’s. This is an insanely ambitious looking project, being filmed entirely in the filmmakers’
When exploitation cinema had its boom in the 70s and 80s, the US wasn’t the only country that hopped on the bandwagon. Australia produced a slew of great titles during this time, such as Road Games, Wake
Every week on Film Pulse we like to highlight a film that is currently being crowd-funded, in order to promote unique and interesting independent film projects. Kick your week off right by donating to this filmmaker and help them make
DIRECTED by REMY BELVAUX, ANDRE BONZEL and BENOIT POELVOORDE 1992 95 min. Belgium
First things first, if you have not
Of all the subgenres of exploitation and grindhouse, the Giallo is by far one of my favorites. The term translated means “yellow” and is derived from a popular series of pulp novels released in Italy that were noted for their yellow
Every week on Film Pulse we like to highlight a film that is currently being crowd-funded, in order to promote unique and interesting independent film projects. Kick your week off right by donating to this filmmaker and help them make their vision
