http://mondomark.com/ DVD reviews with comprehensive special features and historical details; reviews of current and rare books on films; filmmaking; resource on movie scores, soundtracks, and film composers en-gb 0 0 http://mondomark.com/ Film review of the pretty but horribly written underwater cave drama Sanctum (Universal), aka 'The Descent without monsters,' now out on Blu-ray with Nullarbor Deeaming, the rare 1989 documentary that inspired this James Cameron-produced film... http://mondomark.com/ Editor's Blog on a new series devoted to English-language thespians who found better creative fortunes (and fresh pasta) in Italy during the sixties and early seventies, starting with American actress Mimsy Farmer, who appeared in Francesco Barilli's dreamy giallo Perfume of the Lady in Black / Il profumo della signora in nero (1974) (Raro Video USA), and Armando Crispino's sleazy Autopsy / Macchie solari (Blue Underground)... http://mondomark.com/ Yes, it's back. Another depressing & disheartening blog on a dying, abandoned cinema somewhere on planet Earth... with fascinating images by various photographers and urban explorers... http://mondomark.com/ First enty in racing films, starting with a review of John Frankenheimer's Grand Prix (Warner Home Video), which contains superb widescreen racing sequences... http://mondomark.com/ Review of Warner Home Video's sparkling Blu-ray release of Human Planet, the BBC's unexpected entry in the mondo genre... http://mondomark.com/ Reviews of Roger Corman's productions of Dinoshark (Anchor Bay) on Blu-ray, and Piranha (aka Piranhas), the all-but-forgotten 1995 cable TV movie that replays all major events from the '78 original with William Katt and Alexandra Paul... http://mondomark.com/ Editor's Blog on absolutely nothing filmic, but rather Ottawa's 2011 Tulip Festival, with pictures. Why? Because I can... http://mondomark.com/ Some quick soundtrack news + reviews of The Symphonic Celtic Album (Silva Screen), and Kristopher Carter's Yesterday Was a Lie and Abel Korzeniowski's Copernicus' Star (both from La-La Land Records)... http://mondomark.com/ Lengthy Editor's Blog on the first in (another) ongoing filmmaker series, timed with the release of two Radley Metzger classics in erotic cinema: The Image (Synapse Films) and The Lickerish Quartet (Cult Epics)... http://mondomark.com/ News: Toronto may have been blessed, because July 2nd the TIFF Bell Lightbox will be screening Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977) and Opera (1987). Reviews: two versions of Anthony Gilbert's novel "The Woman in Red" were made into films: the underrated My Name is Julia (1945) and Arthur Penn's last great feature film, Dead of Winter (1987)... http://mondomark.com/ In Part I of yet another series, we have a review of the TCM mini-series Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood (Warner Home Video), plus bonus editorial blather! http://mondomark.com/ In Part III, we have Sergio Leone's arty gangster epic, Once Upon a Time in America, released by Warner Home Video in a gorgeous Blu-ray edition... http://mondomark.com/ Synapse Films released a swanky new Blu-ray / DVD combo edition of Jeffrey Obrow and Stephen Carpenter's slasher classic The Dorm That Dripped Blood (1982) which, like Sam Raimi's Evil Dead (1981), was branded by Britain's paranoid censor board as a Video Nasty... http://mondomark.com/ Editor's Blog on Building Big in rustic areas during the colonial boom, with plenty of image and film links for Beira's once majestic Grande Hotel, plus links to Bokor Hill Palace, a similar effort in European ego set in Cambodia... http://mondomark.com/ Reviews of three films from Toronto's Hot Docs film festival: Lotte Stoops' debut, Grande Hotel (2010), Robert-Jan Lacombe’s short documentary Goodbye Mandima (2010), and Stefan Kolbe and Chris Wright's doc Das Block / The Block...