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Whether you refer to the subgenre as blaxploitation, black action films or just African-American cinema, you can’t have a conversation about the topic without including the the film Shaft. Sweet Sweetback’s […]

The reunion of Rare Earth at the end of the ’70s was something no one expected, the band members least of all. The mid-’70s was eaten up for everyone involved with a long, expensive legal fight over the rights to […]

For many years, Massacre At Central High drifted in home video limbo. It never received an official DVD or blu-ray release in the U.S., with fans left to watch boots derived from an ancient standard-def master […]

Never underestimate the subversive potential of the exploitation movie.

The savvier filmmakers operating in this backwater of the film industry were quick to recognize that as long as they delivered the good […]

Aerosmith got their second wind when they teamed with Run-DMC for a rap/rock hybrid redux of “Walk This Way.” With a reestablished sense of cachet to protect, they introduced a record-making formula on their next […]

Schlockmania’s trilogy of Quick Schlock posts on Arrow Video’s excellent Shawscope Vol. 1 box set comes to a close with this look at the final four films on the set. Keep in my mind that the three posts devoted to […]

As the mid-’70s approached, Rare Earth hit a rough patch on more than one level. They deferred to Motown’s heavy-handed A&R approach after an attempt at artistic indepdence with Willie Remembers, only for the […]

This installment of Quick Schlock covers the middle third of Shawscope Vol. 1, an amazing 10 blu-ray/2 CD set released by Arrow Video at the end of 2021 (the first installment can be read here). If you’re a fan of […]

As the ’70s gave way to the ’80s, Joe Perry left Aerosmith and didn’t waste any time in starting his own solo band. He was dysfunctional as the rest of his former bandmates, particularly where chemical habits were […]

For Schlockmania’s money, THE home video event of the final quarter of 2021 arrived when Arrow Video released the Shawscope Vol. 1 blu-ray box set. The films of the legendary Shaw Brothers studios were staples of […]

This second installment of the Catalog Crawl for Rare Earth finds this definitive rock and soul outfit at the peak of their fame. They had established themselves as a concert draw and had also scored a few chart […]

The Living Dead At Manchester Morgue has enjoyed a healthy life on home video since the digital era: previous incarnations were released by Anchor Bay, under the title Let Sleeping Corpses Lie, and Blue […]

If this trio of Aerosmith albums was a set of scenes in a movie, those scenes would occur at the end of the second act where everything falls apart for the protagonists before a sign of hope arrives that hints at […]

George Romero reinvented the zombie film in 1968 with Night Of The Living Dead, replacing gothic atmosphere and voodoo elements with science, shocking violence and dark commentary on the human condition. Ten years […]

It’s easy to forget how groundbreaking an act Rare Earth actually was. They were at the vanguard of Motown’s short-lived push into the rock and roll market and came up with a successful way to combine rock and […]

It’s been over two years since the last Grindhouse Releasing blu-ray set, The Tough Ones, dropped. Thankfully, they’ve returned with a double blu-ray set for one of their most-awaited titles, Death Game – and the […]

By 1976, Aerosmith was fully in the glory of their golden era period. Looking back, it’s kind of astonishing that a band who delved so deeply into drugs and all the other rock-world debauchery managed to keep it […]