Crime

Ep. 143: The Big Bird Cage featuring Ali Davis

Listen up, #PrisonMarch is back this week for more of Prison MarcH 2: Second Offense! This week’s women-in-prison movie released by New World Pictures is 1972’s THE BIG BIRD CAGE written and directed by Jack Hill and starring NWPP favorites Pam Grier, Sid Haig, and Vic Diaz. Returning again for the fifth time to dish…

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The Big Bird Cage
The New World Pictures Podcast
Ep. 143: The Big Bird Cage featuring Ali Davis
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Abel Ferrara: The T.V. Years by Ryan Gowland

Director Abel Ferrara is nearly synonymous with New York City, despite currently living in Italy for over twenty years, which may be why Quentin Tarantino thought of Ferrara as “the new Scorsese” after he saw 1981’s MS. 45. He wasn’t the only one to make the comparison, in his review, critic Gene Siskel called 1984’s…

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Cross Country

Razor-edged suspense thriller. “Cross Country” is a thrilling action-adventure film released in 1983, directed by Paul Lynch. Set against the backdrop of the rugged American wilderness, the movie follows a group of young friends whose cross-country road trip takes a dangerous turn when they become embroiled in a high-stakes smuggling operation. At the heart of…

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Angel

1983 | R | 1h 34m High School Honor Student by Day. Hollywood Hooker by Night. Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Hollywood Blvd, finds her world beginning to fall apart when a depraved, necrophiliac serial killer begins targeting LA’s streetwalkers. From…

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The Private Eyes

Who better to solve England’s most puzzling mystery than these two international crime busters? The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord’s ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one, causing Inspector Winship and Dr. Tart to investigate the wacky house and its inhabitants.

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The Prize Fighter

“Bags” the boxer (funnyman Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tough and they must save their gym, so they line up some moneymaking fights. But when Bags and Shake discover that the bouts have been…

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Assault in Paradise (The Ransom)

A Native American travels around a resort town, murdering cops and rich people with a high-powered crossbow, while demanding that the town’s richest residents pay him money to stop the killings.

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Bad

Bad is good, but it’s not nice! Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women the oppurtunity to perform hit jobs. L.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work after he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a hit,…

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God Told Me To

The people of this city are being terrorized. The crimes have no motives. The killers have only one explanation… A New York detective investigates a series of murders committed by random New Yorkers who claim that “God told them to.”

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Jackson County Jail

The cops are there to protect her… but who will protect her from the cops? A young woman stumbles into a nightmare land of hijacking and humiliation while driving cross-country from California to New York.

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