Monthly Archives: February 2016

Golden Year: DJANGO (Sergio Corbucci, 4/6/1966)

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Budd Wilkins

Caked in mud and spattered with blood, Sergio Corbucci’s classic spaghetti western, Django, noodles around with cinema of cruelty, surrealistic imagery, and proto-Peckinpahvian carnage—only without all those erupting squibs. Granted, the emblematic plotline, in which a mysterious stranger who pits … Continue reading →

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Golden Year: SECONDS (John Frankenheimer, 10/5/1966)

Posted on February 8, 2016 by Budd Wilkins

In the hands of lesser craftsmen, Seconds might have made for a chillingly effective episode of The Twilight Zone padded out to feature length. But the perfect storm of creative talent – director John Frankenheimer, cinematographer James Wong Howe, composer … Continue reading →

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Video Watchdog #182

Posted on February 1, 2016 by Budd Wilkins

Video Watchdog 182, shipping to subscribers mid-February and available in bookstores early March, contains several Blu-ray reviews from me, including George Barry’s mindblowing Death Bed: The Bed That Eats. Click here for more info – and a full-color, 18-page sneak … Continue reading →

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