Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengence is a very different movie from the first one, at least for a little while.
Month: June 2024
The Revision Redux: Valentina: Baba Yaga
The “Baba Yaga” episode progresses mostly the way you’d expect — Valentina is barely hit by a car and Baba Yaga takes her garter clip. There’s the hole in the house. There’s the doll. The bits about the cursed camera are absent, though.
The Revision Redux: Modesty Blaise
I actually watched the 1982 TV pilot for Modesty Blaise (directed by Reza Badigi) twice because the first time I watched it, my focus was fading in and out and I was certain I must have missed something.
The Revision Redux: St. Trinian’s
It’s fascinating how many times the cartoons of Ronald Searle’s St. Trinian’s have been adapted on film given there really aren’t that many of the cartoons themselves.