Daemon (Level 48)

Smashing Time (1967) directed by Desmond Davis from the UKThis film was a day late and a dollar...er pound short with its skewering of the swinging '60s era London as by then the fascination with the pop culture movement has just finished running its course. Ironically the violently transitory nature ...

Haywire (2012) directed by Steven Soderbergh from the USAWith all the genre dabbling Soderbergh has been fond of exploring it makes sense he would eventually tackle the direct to video market by taking a generic, revenge, espionage thriller that has all the ear marks of a poor man's Bourne movie ...

Yellow Brick Road (2011) directed by Jesse Holland & Andy Mitton from the USAIn 1940 at Friar, New Hampshire the entire town suddenly got up and started marching down a path leading into the open wilderness dubbed the Yellow Brick Road and promptly never returned. A search was conducted but ...

Norwegian Wood (2011) directed by Anh Hung Tran from JapanIt's always a tricky thing plunging into a movie adaptation of a book you've read, even more so when it's a book you're intimately familiar with by one of your favorite authors. Should I contrast and compare? Should I nitpick? Did ...

The Artist (2011) directed by Michel Hazanavicius from FranceI suppose on the whole this film isn't really meant for odd folks such as myself who regularly watch silent films although there are certainly a number of things sprinkled throughout the film to delight fans of film history -- the use ...

A Page of Madness (1926) directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa from JapanA unique vision in the history of Japanese cinema, this film was created from the combined efforts of a young and quite restless artistic collective with the driving force being the writer/actor/director Teinosuke Kinugasa. Thought lost until Kinugasa found a ...

Taking place in the wild and fairly lawless days of pre-communist China in the 1920s, Wen Jiang directs and stars as "Pocky" Zhang the leader of a notorious group of road thieves who whilst robbing a passing train coach realize they have interrupted the plans of Ma Bangde (You Ge) ...

I Start Counting (1969) directed by David Greene from the UKA loverly little forgotten gem that suddenly popped up on my Netflixian radar which is exceptionally bizarre as this film has never been available in DVD format, just an old VHS release, so honestly I don't know why it's there. ...

Title: Drive (2011)Director: Nicolas Winding RefnCountry: USAI've slowly become something of a fan of Mr. Refn's works and although I was excited for his newest project Drive, my excitement was tempered a bit by the fact that this was the first film he's directed in which he was not the ...

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (2011) directed by Andy Lau from China A movie continuation of the TV series Fist of Fury starring Donnie Yen chronicling the life of Chen Zhen, The Return of Chen Zhen could still be considered a rough sequel to Jet Li's ...

                       Django Kill...If You Live, Shoot! (1967) directed by Giulio Questi from Italy Yet another one of dozens of false Django films that saturated the western market in the late '60s early '70s,  this particular one is thankfully one which wasn't originally intended to be a false Django rip-off but ...

                  The Show Off (1926) directed by Malcolm St. Clair from the United States   A very ordinary and somewhat irritating film whose startling clarity of picture quality on the Image DVD belies its age but only reason for being noteworthy is that it is a surviving film from the U.S. ...

Swedish Poster                        The Phantom Carriage (1921) directed by Victor Sjöström from SwedenIt's certainly not hyperbole to state that The Phantom Carriage is one of the most influential films ever made considering the vast and highly influential directors it has inspired, not the least of which was Stanley Kubrick and ...

Black Christmas                        Black Christmas (1974) directed by Bob Clark from the United StatesIt's not hard to see how Black Christmas is often cited as the progenitor of the '80s era slasher of which John Carpenter's Halloween is generally accepted as kicking off some four years later, as it contains ...

                     Solomon Kane (2009) directed by Michael J. Bassett from the US/UK/Czech/FranceSolomon Kane fans rejoice! Hello? Ah...well admittedly although I am one that's mainly because I'm a big fan of all of Robert E. Howard's works so although the author was quite influential and his Conan quite well known, his other ...