Gimmicks Aside, The Tingler is Fucking Fantastic By Ciara Moloney • January 21st, 2022 The Tingler is a gimmick movie: not (just) a campy bit of fun, but a genuinely scary, inventive and clever film.
Best of 2021 The Best Movies of 2021 By Team Unwinnable • December 29th, 2021 2020 was a year of establishing a new normal in terms of media consumption, specifically with film, and this year continued the trend.
A Dangerous Dream: Revisiting Mill of the Stone Women (1960) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • December 23rd, 2021 “Trouble began with a woman…”
Another Look Solitary Masculinity By Yussef Cole • December 1st, 2021 The solitary, prepper-style know-how in 2018’s Leave No Trace feels eerily familiar to the masochistic “git gud” approach which has long plagued videogames.
Eyeing Elsewhere What Lies Beneath The Sand By Phillip Russell • November 30th, 2021 How deep into Dune is Hollywood willing to dig?
2021 Unwinnable Halloween Video Store Week Five: Halloween Horrors By Team Unwinnable • October 29th, 2021 For the final week of Unwinnable’s Halloween Video Store, the gang offers up their favorite flicks that take place on the actual day.
A Dark, Dank Death: Blind Beast (1969) on Blu-ray at Last By Orrin Grey • October 28th, 2021 Blind Beast is a film that I had been meaning to watch for decades, ever since I worked in a video store.
Feature Story Reconsidering Rotoscoped Animation for its Second Century By Morgan Galen King • October 28th, 2021 Rotoscoping puts the human body in the spotlight, where the focus on the body and its relationship to the fictional world around it is ever-present.
Feature Excerpt A World Beyond: The Inadvertent Sci-Fi of Universal’s Original Mummy Sequels By Orrin Grey • October 27th, 2021 If you think about it, mummies are the original time travelers.
2021 Unwinnable Halloween Video Store Week Four: Classic Creeps By Team Unwinnable • October 22nd, 2021 It’s Week Four of Unwinnable’s Halloween Video Store! This week we go back to our horror roots with the gang’s favorite classics.
2021 Unwinnable Halloween Video Store Week Three: Haunted Houses By Team Unwinnable • October 15th, 2021 It’s Week three of Unwinnable’s Halloween Video Store! This week, Orrin Grey has the gang pull Haunted House movies out of the rafters!
The Sleeper Has Awakened: Watching the David Lynch Dune for the First Time in this, the Second Year of the Plague By Orrin Grey • October 14th, 2021 So, nearly forty years later, in a world with a very different cinematic landscape, on the cusp of a new, much bigger-budget adaptation, did I come out knowing that I’ve seen Dune?
2021 Unwinnable Halloween Video Store Week Two: Mythos Monsters By Team Unwinnable • October 8th, 2021 Week two of Unwinnable’s Halloween Video Store is upon us! This week, Orrin Grey has the gang pull Cthulhu Mythos movies down from the shelf!
A Distinctive Experience: Overboard (1987) on Blu-ray in 2021 By Orrin Grey • October 7th, 2021 Overboard must be saved from itself.
2021 Unwinnable Halloween Video Store Week One: Sinister Slashers By Team Unwinnable • October 1st, 2021 Join us as your host, noted skeleton Orrin Grey, guides you through five weeks of horror film recommendations from Team Unwinnable.
SFX for Creators By Alan Smithee • September 23rd, 2021 Film, music, advertisements, computer games, and even YouTube content are incomplete without sound effects.
New Order, Same As the Old Order: Siege (1983) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • September 23rd, 2021 Siege is a 1983 Canadian exploitation flick that is one of a long line of movies aping John Carpenter’s Assault on Precinct 13.
Tough Business: Giants and Toys (1958) and the Tragedy of Modernization By Orrin Grey • September 16th, 2021 Every figure in Giants and Toys is ultimately a tragic one, caught up in a web that is eating them all alive.
They Were Heroes: A Strike Commando Double-Feature By Orrin Grey • August 19th, 2021 I’ve seen a couple of the Italian schlockmeister’s other films, so I had some inkling of what to expect when it came time to watch Strike Commando and Strike Commando 2.
1000 words on As the Gods Will By Amanda Hudgins • August 17th, 2021 As the Gods Will is a very gif-able film.
A Born Man-Eater: Irezumi (1966) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • August 12th, 2021 One of the things that makes Irezumi work as brilliantly as it does is the way these moments of violence are handled,
I Created It as I Went Along: Bill Rebane’s Weird Wisconsin Box Set from Arrow Video By Orrin Grey • August 5th, 2021 Prior to sitting down with this substantial Bill Rebane Blu-ray set the full and complete extent of my knowledge of his filmography came from Mystery Science Theater 3000.
Exploits Feature The Shadow of the Cat By Orrin Grey • August 1st, 2021 An old lady gets knocked off by her husband and servants in a relatively brutal opening, and the only witness is the cat. So far so good.
sinning with old By Amanda Hudgins • July 28th, 2021 Old is a weird movie in that it invites thought and immediately falls apart if you think about it too hard.
The Seduction of Solitude By Harry Mackin • July 14th, 2021 Harry Mackin discusses the long lost last year
World Tour Zambia By Oluwatayo Adewole • June 11th, 2021 What makes a witch? Is it a hue of the skin? Is it a twitch in the eye? Is it a smell in the air?
Unholy Blood: Santa Sangre (1989) on 4K Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • June 1st, 2021 Whatever really happened on the set of El Topo, Jodorowsky is, at best, a guy who bragged about raping someone for publicity, and this is what I knew about the director of Santa Sangre.
Black-Hearted Women: Switchblade Sisters (1975) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • May 27th, 2021 Does it always work? Naturally not, this is Switchblade Sisters, after all, not whatever venerated classic movie title you want to put here that, in your mind, always works.
Evil Washes Out Evil: A Daiei Invisible Man Double-Feature By Orrin Grey • May 20th, 2021 It’s something of a homecoming to be tackling The Invisible Man Appears and The Invisible Man vs. the Human Fly on Arrow Video Blu here
World Tour Hong Kong By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 13th, 2021 Pack your bags for Hong Kong but also Argentina sort of!
Here's the Thing The Glorious Slow Burn of Godzilla (2014) By Rob Rich • May 12th, 2021 Sometimes, the best thing isn’t seeing.
Days of Beasts and Cocaine: An Alex de la Iglesia Double-Feature By Orrin Grey • April 15th, 2021 That’s what I did; two-fisting this particular double-feature with a shot of Day of the Beast and a chaser of Perdita Durango.
No Bright Side: Crimewave (1985) on Blu-ray By Orrin Grey • April 7th, 2021 In many ways, Crimewave is the kind of movie I live for: a bonkers, underseen, early-career flick from legendary filmmakers who went on to much bigger things.
World Tour Spain By Oluwatayo Adewole • April 2nd, 2021 Things get messy on this trip to Spain, really messy.
Exploits Feature A Tale of Two Godzillas By Evan Dennis • March 31st, 2021 One of the longest enduring myths in cinema was how there were supposedly two distinct endings to 1962’s King Kong vs Godzilla.
Rookie of the Year Wookie of the Year By Matt Marrone • March 31st, 2021 It’s part of growing up in America, that moment when a child discovers Star Wars.
