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The first issue of Apache Revolver is live: https://kino-ventura.square.site/
Minneapolis based (fictional) Crime Enthusiast. I write about movies at https://kino-ventura.blogspot.com/
Less polished reflections at https://letterboxd.com/Kino_V
Minneapolis based (fictional) Crime Enthusiast. I write about movies at https://kino-ventura.blogspot.com/
Less polished reflections at https://letterboxd.com/Kino_V
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My first zine of crime film writing and artwork is finally a thing in the real world! 📽️ kino-ventura.square.site
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I'm officially SOLD OUT of Apache Revolver here at Kino HQ. There are still copies out there in the world so please contact a zine seller near you if you're looking for one.
Great piece, I would have loved to see Reflection in a Dead Diamond theatrically
I wrote about something both new and old for Belgian duo Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet: a Eurospy thriller with giallo flare--black latex, crimson lipstick, eyeball peril. The whole bit. Plays Dec 3 at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center thanx to @grandillusioncinema.org. @seattlecritics.bsky.social
The Eurospy Genre Lives Again in Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet's Dazzling, Dizzying Pastiche <i>Reflection in a Dead Diamond</i>
REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND / Reflet dans un Diamant Mort (Bruno Forzani and Hélène Cattet, 2025, Belgium/ Luxembourg/Italy/France, 87 min...
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December 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Great piece, I would have loved to see Reflection in a Dead Diamond theatrically
One final repost of this list, check it out!
It's that time of year again - my Hardboiled Top 10 Film List! I really enjoyed putting this together last year and decided to keep the tradition alive. Check it out, tell me I'm wrong, tell me I'm right, and let me know what I missed! kino-ventura.blogspot.com/2025/12/best...
Best of Hardboiled Crime - 2025
Last November, I decided to do something different for a "Noirvember" watch list - instead of indulging in noir classics or filling long va...
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December 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
One final repost of this list, check it out!
This was very high on my anticipated list for the year. Really hoping the TC market is part of "select US theaters"
Exclusive first look at the official poster for Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s A Useful Ghost 👀
Winner of the 2025 Critics Week's Grand Prize. Coming to select US theaters January 16, 2026.
Winner of the 2025 Critics Week's Grand Prize. Coming to select US theaters January 16, 2026.
December 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This was very high on my anticipated list for the year. Really hoping the TC market is part of "select US theaters"
I find Minneapolitans' cold weather resiliency generally overhyped but I saw some kids with blank skate decks (no trucks/wheels) doing rail slides into the snow at Smith Triangle Park last night, and that's pretty cool.
December 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
I find Minneapolitans' cold weather resiliency generally overhyped but I saw some kids with blank skate decks (no trucks/wheels) doing rail slides into the snow at Smith Triangle Park last night, and that's pretty cool.
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It's that time of year again - my Hardboiled Top 10 Film List! I really enjoyed putting this together last year and decided to keep the tradition alive. Check it out, tell me I'm wrong, tell me I'm right, and let me know what I missed! kino-ventura.blogspot.com/2025/12/best...
Best of Hardboiled Crime - 2025
Last November, I decided to do something different for a "Noirvember" watch list - instead of indulging in noir classics or filling long va...
kino-ventura.blogspot.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It's that time of year again - my Hardboiled Top 10 Film List! I really enjoyed putting this together last year and decided to keep the tradition alive. Check it out, tell me I'm wrong, tell me I'm right, and let me know what I missed! kino-ventura.blogspot.com/2025/12/best...
Working out of order on this one. I’ve already seen Park Chan Wook’s loose adaptation, gonna read the original, and eventually track down the Costa-Gavras version
December 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Working out of order on this one. I’ve already seen Park Chan Wook’s loose adaptation, gonna read the original, and eventually track down the Costa-Gavras version
Very little info seems to exist on Godfather's Fury (1978), but that's one heck of a poster image
December 1, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Very little info seems to exist on Godfather's Fury (1978), but that's one heck of a poster image
Desert Island actor filmography? Hideo Murota is regularly one of my most watched actors, but I might go with Willem Dafoe. Deep catalog, lots of variety. Plenty of faves, too.
Mmmm
Christopher Lee is the first and most obvious choice to pop into my mind.
Christopher Lee is the first and most obvious choice to pop into my mind.
December 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Desert Island actor filmography? Hideo Murota is regularly one of my most watched actors, but I might go with Willem Dafoe. Deep catalog, lots of variety. Plenty of faves, too.
It's that time of year again - my Hardboiled Top 10 Film List! I really enjoyed putting this together last year and decided to keep the tradition alive. Check it out, tell me I'm wrong, tell me I'm right, and let me know what I missed! kino-ventura.blogspot.com/2025/12/best...
Best of Hardboiled Crime - 2025
Last November, I decided to do something different for a "Noirvember" watch list - instead of indulging in noir classics or filling long va...
kino-ventura.blogspot.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 PM
It's that time of year again - my Hardboiled Top 10 Film List! I really enjoyed putting this together last year and decided to keep the tradition alive. Check it out, tell me I'm wrong, tell me I'm right, and let me know what I missed! kino-ventura.blogspot.com/2025/12/best...
The Trylon's McQuarrie double is this weekend! I wrote about Way of the Gun here: www.perisphere.org/2025/11/21/d...
November 28, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The Trylon's McQuarrie double is this weekend! I wrote about Way of the Gun here: www.perisphere.org/2025/11/21/d...
I watched some higher profile stuff earlier in the week (Marty Supreme, No Other Choice), but yesterday I feasted on new crime(ish) films. Gotta fit in what I can.
#LastFourWatched
#LastFourWatched
November 28, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I watched some higher profile stuff earlier in the week (Marty Supreme, No Other Choice), but yesterday I feasted on new crime(ish) films. Gotta fit in what I can.
#LastFourWatched
#LastFourWatched
This still is so great! I reviewed Truck Turner for a now OOP zine, but also posted it on my blog: kino-ventura.blogspot.com/2025/08/two-...
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
This still is so great! I reviewed Truck Turner for a now OOP zine, but also posted it on my blog: kino-ventura.blogspot.com/2025/08/two-...
Was watching Jeffrey Reiner's also underappreciate Lake George last night, so this was on the brain.
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love...
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love...
November 24, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Was watching Jeffrey Reiner's also underappreciate Lake George last night, so this was on the brain.
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love...
Share a 90s movie you think deserves more love...
Tangentially related, I attended a corporate function this year in which two different executives opened their presentation with the same AI generated joke.
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Tangentially related, I attended a corporate function this year in which two different executives opened their presentation with the same AI generated joke.
Did a writeup on Way of the Gun for Perisphere. It's playing at @trylon.org as part of a McQuarrie double feature next weekend. I don't think any of us could have predicted him becoming Tom Cruise's go-to guy back then, but here we are! www.perisphere.org/2025/11/21/d...
Doing the Man Dance: Way of the Gun – Perisphere
|Matt Clark| For the last 15 years, writer/director Christopher McQuarrie has essentially been in the Tom Cruise business. Eight of the ten pictures that list McQuarrie as a writer and the entirety of...
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November 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Did a writeup on Way of the Gun for Perisphere. It's playing at @trylon.org as part of a McQuarrie double feature next weekend. I don't think any of us could have predicted him becoming Tom Cruise's go-to guy back then, but here we are! www.perisphere.org/2025/11/21/d...
This is going to be extremely fun - I will be there tonight but the double feature plays all weekend.
Starting TONIGHT! Grab your tickets now here: www.trylon.org/film-series/...
November 21, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is going to be extremely fun - I will be there tonight but the double feature plays all weekend.
Though my inbox is filled with awards hopefuls, I'm focused on some recent crime blind spots as I'm aiming to have a hardboiled top 10 ready by the end of the month #LastFourWatched
November 21, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Though my inbox is filled with awards hopefuls, I'm focused on some recent crime blind spots as I'm aiming to have a hardboiled top 10 ready by the end of the month #LastFourWatched
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Andrew Madetzke designed these incredible silk screened posters our upcoming 35mm Kung Fu Double Feature at the @trylon.org - we will have a very limited number for sale in the lobby in between shows.
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Andrew Madetzke designed these incredible silk screened posters our upcoming 35mm Kung Fu Double Feature at the @trylon.org - we will have a very limited number for sale in the lobby in between shows.
When I first put this list of French Noir/Crime Films together, a couple of them were very tough to track down. Now I own all 5 on disc, which is extremely cool. Something for your Noirvember lists: kino-ventura.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-...
The French Had a Name For It – Top 5 Underseen French Crime Flicks
Minneapolis' own Cult Film Collective recently released a zine of "top 5" lists contributed by its membership. The zine is only being dis...
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November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
When I first put this list of French Noir/Crime Films together, a couple of them were very tough to track down. Now I own all 5 on disc, which is extremely cool. Something for your Noirvember lists: kino-ventura.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-...
Art Carney has a great supporting role in this and I think this might be one of his first 70s movies to make the jump to Blu Ray. So many terrific movies still stuck in (sometimes OOP) DVD purgatory.
***ANNOUNCEMENT***
Coming soon on Blu-ray in the US from @kinolorber.com: #HouseCalls (1978)!
Charley is a surgeon who’s recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age,
Coming soon on Blu-ray in the US from @kinolorber.com: #HouseCalls (1978)!
Charley is a surgeon who’s recently lost his wife; he embarks on a tragicomic romantic quest with one woman after another until he meets up with Ann, a singular woman, closer to his own age,
November 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Art Carney has a great supporting role in this and I think this might be one of his first 70s movies to make the jump to Blu Ray. So many terrific movies still stuck in (sometimes OOP) DVD purgatory.
HBD to the maestro, Martin Scorsese! I wrote a longer piece on After Hours a couple years back that I still think is pretty good (my writing, the film is terrific) kino-ventura.blogspot.com/2023/08/not-...
Not No Place: Time Spent After Hours (1985)
I wish I could tell you I'm cool. I've been a fan of Martin Scorsese ever since I knew you could be a fan of directors and I wish I could t...
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November 17, 2025 at 5:04 PM
HBD to the maestro, Martin Scorsese! I wrote a longer piece on After Hours a couple years back that I still think is pretty good (my writing, the film is terrific) kino-ventura.blogspot.com/2023/08/not-...
Do yourself a favor and get into Hobtown Mystery Stories. One of my favorite reads this year and I'm really stoked for the third volume.
HOBTOWN MYSTERY STORIES III: THE SECRET OF THE SAUCER is here in a WEEK, so I'm offering a HOBTOWN REFRESHER COURSE for those who haven't been paying attention:
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Do yourself a favor and get into Hobtown Mystery Stories. One of my favorite reads this year and I'm really stoked for the third volume.
Wrote a quick piece on Joseph Kuo/The Mysteries of Chess Boxing because Dan Halsted is coming back to town for another 35mm Kung Fu Double Feature! Courtesy of @trylon.org @cultfilmcollective.bsky.social www.perisphere.org/2025/11/15/c...
Chess Moves, Rice Bowls, and Full Throttle Vengeance – Perisphere
|Matt Clark| During the 1970s peak of kung fu film popularity, films from the Shaw Brothers’ legendary studio were known for lavish sets, period detail, and often outrageous kung fu styles. Rival stud...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Wrote a quick piece on Joseph Kuo/The Mysteries of Chess Boxing because Dan Halsted is coming back to town for another 35mm Kung Fu Double Feature! Courtesy of @trylon.org @cultfilmcollective.bsky.social www.perisphere.org/2025/11/15/c...
Great flick. I reviewed in Apache Revolver, but check out Andrew's post (and listen to the latest Projection Booth podcast)!
A special #Noirvember themed missive on my Substack today. A few thoughts on my favourite German noir - and one of my favourite late film noirs generally - Helmut Kautner's 1961 film, BLACK GRAVEL.
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Helmut Käutner's Black Gravel and the lost decade of German cinema
I have written previously here about my love for German director Helmut Käutner’s 1961 noir, Schwarzer Kies, or translated into English, Black Gravel. It is without doubt my favourite German noir and ...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Great flick. I reviewed in Apache Revolver, but check out Andrew's post (and listen to the latest Projection Booth podcast)!
It's that time again. Started and ended where I belong - at the grindhouse. #LastFourWatched
November 14, 2025 at 3:25 PM
It's that time again. Started and ended where I belong - at the grindhouse. #LastFourWatched