Todd Newman

songwriter, musician, writer, raconteur. A big fan of horror/grindhouse/exploitation films, and any other interesting films.

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

@DanielHood4 Speaking of Japanese films, I’ve got Wild Zero, Evil Dead Trap, Sweet Home, and Tokyo Gore Police on my near-future rewatch list.

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

Weekend film vibe. I love both of these movies. ❤️ @thirdwindow

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

@Chucky101_blood That might be a movie that would fit into my new made-up rating category “Beyond Good Or Bad” that I apply to movies that seem like they exist in a dimension beyond ratings. So far, I have two Russell Crowe movies in it: The Pope’s Exorcist and Unhinged.

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

@DanielHood4 “You don’t have to live on Elm Street to have a nightmare.” 🙂

[LiamTheFilmCvnt @WackoJackosflix]

It's the quintessential foil to people who call Caine a one-trick pony. He was a very cheeky, chipper and loveable rogue in Alfie and The Italian Job, seamlessly, and he's equally seamless as the dead-eyed & extremely dangerous sociopath in Get Carter (pure evil in Mona Lisa)

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

@WackoJackosflix I am with you 100%!

[The Broken TV @TheBrokenTV]

7/12下北沢SPREAD放送内容
バースデー
SF
QP
ゆらり〜オバケだよの巻
こだまの町
タカタカタン
鬼の子浮浪

レアな4人The Broken TV
いつもよりロッキンにお送りしました🔊⚡️
応援ありがとチャンネル！！

[askfyあすくふぁい @askfyfy]

ソイちゃん不在のブロ、残念ではあるけどそれはそれでカッコいいライブでした！高ポテンシャルメンバー&良曲&良アンサンブルな強み！！凄い☺️👍

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

@LeoSmith7166 Maybe it was one of those psych experiments that go wrong!

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

Whizzo the clown. 1981, local Topeka, Kansas TV broadcast. Nightmare fuel. I was on his show, years before that, when I was a little kid. I don’t remember any glitched out, bizarre audio track like the one in the video. Or is that something your mind blocks out?

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

One of my favorite films.

[Disc-Connected @disc_connected]

***ANNOUNCEMENT***

Coming on September 2nd on #4K/Blu-ray dual format in the US from @WarnerArchive: #OutOfThePast (1947)!

Everything you want in a film noir you’ll find in Out of the Past. A tenacious detective (Robert Mitchum) spinning his wheels to make good. A drop-dead beauty (Jane Greer) up to no good. A moneyed mobster (Kirk Douglas) with a shark’s grin. Plus double-crosses and fall guys. Shadowy rooms and bleak souls. Mitchum solidified his tough-guy persona in this archetypal film noir directed with memorable style by the masterful Jacques Tourneur. He plays Jeff Bailey, a one-time private investigator walking the straight and narrow of small-town life…until an acquaintance from his past pulls him back into the troubles he’d left behind. “Build my gallows high, baby”, Bailey sneers as events stack up behind him. With dialogue like that and much more, Out of the Past builds its reputation high. Now, meticulously restored and remastered from its original camera negative as a 4K UHD HDR Blu-ray presentation with Dolby Vision®, this seminal noir looks better than ever imagined.

NEW 2026 4K UHD HDR MASTER FROM 4K SCAN OF THE ORIGINAL NITRATE CAMERA NEGATIVE!

Special features:
Introduction by Turner Classic Movies “NOIR ALLEY” host EDDIE MULLER
Feature-length commentary by Film noir author/specialist JAMES URSINI
Audio-only: Robert Mitchum radio appearances: HALLMARK PLATHOUSE: “WE WERE EXPENING YOU AT DAKAR” 2/27/1947, SUSPENSE “DEATH AT LIVE OAK” 5/16/1947, SUSPENSE “THE STORY OF MARKHAM’S DEATH” 10/2/1947, and Kirk Douglas on SUSPENSE “COMMUNITY PROPERTY” (4/10/1947)

BD100/BD50-Two disc 4K/Blu-ray combo pack
B&W
DOLBY VISION
Running Time 97 Minutes
NOT RATED Aspect Ratio: 16x9 1.37:1 with side mattes Audio Specs: DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono
Subtitles: ENGLISH SDH
Disc authoring and compression by Fidelity in Motion
Directed by Jacques Tourneur

Cast: Robert Mitchum, Kirk Douglas, Jane Greer, Rhonda Fleming

#BluRay #PhysicalMedia #BluRays #BoutiqueBluRay #CultMovies #DiscConnected #WarnerArchive #RobertMitchum #KirkDouglas #JaneGreer #RhondaFleming #JacquesTourneur

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

@SkinTrader2 Cool!

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

Friday night. First movie watch of the night: the restored 4k of the uncut international version of Lifeforce.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

John Carpenter on how the studio, audience and critics reacted after watching "Big Trouble in Little China" (1986) & the reason for movie's failure:

"Carpenter: I thought about writing a book about my experiences in Hollywood being a director, mainly because I was burned out on making movies. But | didn't do it because | thought, “I’m not ready yet. | don't have enough to say yet. I need to make more films and | don’t want to quit yet.”

Interviewer: How did Fox executives react when they saw the movie for the first time?

Carpenter: Needless to say, they had a few problems with the movie. They sat down with me and we went through the film. They didn’t like that the white hero was such a buffoon, and that he was being shown up by the Asians. They were afraid the audience wouldn't think this guy was brave, so they asked me to cut out the humor and emphasize his bravery, which was impossible to do. Then we got to the preview stage. The audience that saw it really loved it and laughed, so they wanted me to put the humor back in and go back to what it was—they still hated the movie, though. They didn't want Kurt to play it plenty. They wanted him to be an action hero, a real live action hero, not Jack Burton. They wanted him to be more like Rambo or Stallone. They wanted him to play it straight and it wasn't straight.

Interviewer: How was the movie perceived by the audience and the critics?

Carpenter: Nobody got it. Like I said earlier, timing was never my thing in terms of when my movies come out. This movie was completely and totally misunderstood. The critics and the public thought it was just bad, and there is nothing | can do about that."

("John Carpenter - The Prince of Darkness", Gilles Boulenger, 2001)

P.S: On this day, 40 years ago, "Big Trouble in Little China" (1986) was released in the USA.

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

@WackoJackosflix @RobMottoMovies We’ll have to discuss the ending of Hardcore with George C. Scott. I thought I read somewhere that the studio wanted the more upbeat (that’s probably not the right word!) that’s in the movie and maybe Schrader didn’t originally? Maybe I imagined that…

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

@WackoJackosflix @RobMottoMovies Definitely a win!

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

@WackoJackosflix @RobMottoMovies What was the ending Towne wanted? Seems to me to have a perfect ending now!

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

@DanielHood4 I liked The Witch a whole lot, liked but didn’t love the Viking one (which I should maybe watch again), thought The Lighthouse was disturbing but didn’t love it , skipped the vampire one. I’m done with vampires unless it’s an interesting one like Abagail, or an older movie.

[Todd Newman @toddjnewman]

@Firstscreamto One of my favorite films. ❤️❤️❤️