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Cornell Woolrich from Pulp Noir to Film Noir
Posted by Notcot on May 18, 2010 in Noir
The Naked Gun: From the Files of the Police Squad
Posted by Notcot on May 8, 2010 in Cult Film
Amazon.co.uk Review
Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker, the creative troika behind Airplane!, scored another hit with this big-screen adaptation of their short-lived television show Police Squad!. Deadpan as ever, Leslie Nielsen revives his TV role of Lt Frank Drebin, the idiot with a detective’s badge. The jokes come thick and fast, gathering a momentum that lasts until the final act. Ricardo Montalban is a perfect foil as a villain whose aquarium is invaded by Drebin during routine questioning, and George Kennedy is delightful in a self-parodying part as an earnest but obtuse lawman. There’s a hilarious bit when Drebin–wearing a live police wire while going to the bathroom–can be overheard over the loudspeakers at a speech given by a flustered mayor (Nancy Marchand). And yes, that’s OJ Simpson as a detective who ends up on the wrong side of numerous Drebin blunders. –Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Ez Grabber designed to capture video source from VHS, V8 and Hi8. You can then burn files from your PC DVD, VCD and SVCD after editing
Posted by Notcot on May 6, 2010 in Portable Sound & Vision
Product Description
We’ve all got something on video cassette that we’d like to be able to keep forever whether it’s your daughters wedding footage of the kids when they were young or simply a recording of a television programme that’s never going to be on air again. The problem is that video cassettes are fragile and with every watch the tape is becoming slightly more erroded and more liable to break. The Geniatech EZ Grabber Hardware Video Capture unit enables you to keep hold of all those video clips not to metion offer them a new lease of life. The EZ Grabber allows you to connect any video source to your PC and records your videos directly on to your computers hard drive ! That’s not all the EZ Grabber does though with the supplied software you can edit your newly saved video file add titles music or simply remove the ad breaks! The EZ Grabber is as simple to use as it’s name suggests. There’s just one button on the device; push to start push to stop it’s as easy as that. Once your video files have been saved on to your computer you can then burn them to DVDs VCDs or SVCDs to keep the files backed up or to pass on to family and friends. System requirements Pentium-IV 1GHz or higher (recommended) 256 MB RAM of system memory or above (recommended) One available USB port (USB2.0) Graphics Card (Must support DirectX 9.0c) Sound Card (AC97 compatible sound card) 1GB Free HD Space CD-ROM Drive (For software installation) Microsoft Windows 2000/XP/Vista Features Easy to use push to start push to stop capture button; USB 2.0 PnP Interface Real-Time MPEG 4/2/1 encoding Burn edited files onto DVD VCD SVCD… Capture video source from VHS V8 Hi8… Burn your own DVD/VCD USB audio (pro version) support one USB cable to your PC especially for Notebook without Line in port.
- Easy to use push to start push to stop capture button;
- USB 2.0 PnP Interface
- Real-Time MPEG 4/2/1 encoding
- Burn edited files onto DVD VCD SVCD…
- Capture video source from VHS V8 Hi8…
Plan 9 From Outer Space
Posted by Notcot on Apr 27, 2010 in Cult Film
Amazon.co.uk Review
Sometimes a movie achieves such legendary status that it can’t quite live up to its reputation. Plan 9 from Outer Space is not one of these movies. It is just as magnificently terrible as you’ve heard. Plan 9 is the story of space aliens who try to conquer the Earth through resurrection of the dead. Psychic Criswell narrates (“Future events such as these will affect you in the future!”) as police rush through the cemetery, occasionally clipping the cardboard tombstones in their zeal to find the source of the mysterious goings-on. More than just a bad film, Plan 9 is something of a one-stop clearinghouse for poor cinematic techniques: the time shifts whimsically from midnight to afternoon sun, Tor Johnson flails desperately in an attempt to rise from his coffin, and flying saucers zoom past on clearly visible strings. Fading star Bela Lugosi tragically died during filming but such a small hurdle could not stop writer-producer-director Ed Wood. Lugosi is ingeniously replaced with a man who holds a cape across his face and might as well have “NOT BELA LUGOSI” stamped on his forehead. Plan 9 is so sweetly well intentioned in both its message and its execution that it’s impossible not to love it. And if you don’t, well, as Eros says, “You people of Earth are idiots!” –Ali Davis
Invaders From Mars
Posted by Notcot on Apr 26, 2010 in Cult Film
Jazz Noir: Listening to Music from “Phantom Lady” to “The Last Seduction”
Posted by Notcot on Apr 23, 2010 in Noir
Hard Boiled: Great Lines from Classic Noir Films
Posted by Notcot on Apr 22, 2010 in Noir
EasyCAP USB 2.0 Video Capture Device with Audio – DVD/VCD Maker from video source: VHS, V8, Hi8 for laptop/PC,video recorder, camcorder, DVD player or Satellite TV receiver
Posted by Notcot on Apr 21, 2010 in Home Cinema & Video
Neo-Noir: From “Psycho” to “Collateral”
Posted by Notcot on Apr 20, 2010 in Noir
