Great, great news.

Remember I was talking a while back about the great dvd company Fantoma that finally got off their asses and started release some great discs again. Remember I said one day maybe they will release a 60's Japanese film called Red Angel, which they mention releasing three years ago. Well, guess what? It finally has a release date. August 22nd. Mark your freakin' calendar. The previous four films they have released by director Yasuzo Masumura - Blind Beast, Giants & Toys, Manji, and Afraid to Die are all stellar films. I truly can not wait for this date to come.

But the great news doesnt stop there. Starting in October, the Turner Classic Movies channel is going to air a new show called "TCM Underground" host by Rob Zombie. It is going to be a great place for some of the truly bizarre and amazing cult films of the last 100 years to get some television broadcast airtime. Not only will Zombie host the show but he will also pick the films. So far lined up already is George Romero's The Crazies, Francis Coppola's debut Dementia 13, Leonard Castle's The Honeymoon Killers, Seijun Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter and Ed Wood's Bride of the Monster. How freakin' cool is that. We have a mix of the Horror channel (which never has been officially broadcast on television, only through the web) and the amazing Z channel ( an insanely brilliant cable channel from the 70's that aired ever cool film imaginable- think a Sundance and IFC playing films from the beginning of film through the 70s).

Very exciting news. I can't wait.