Category: FILM REVIEWS
Handling the Truth
Review of Warner Home Video’s superb Blu-ray edition of All the President’s Men, one of the finest docu-dramas on politics…
Francis Lai & Claude Lelouch I: A Man & a Woman
Reviews of Silva Screen’s new Francis Lai: The Essential Collection, plus Lai’s original A Man and a Woman album, in addition to a review of the film that began the Lai-Lelouch collaboration (via Warner Home Video), and its conceptually intriguing sequel, A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later (now out via Warner Archives)…
Eros II: If It Feels Good, Do It
Radley Metzger’s Score debuts on a swanky Blu-ray edtion (Cult Epics) and Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (Phase 4 Films) arrives on DVD…
Graphic Social Horror
Lengthy review of the controversial Insex documentary Graphic Sexual Horror (Synapse Films), and an even longer Editor’s Blog on violent sexual imagery in films…
Hammer Films I: Missing Links & Classics
Reviews of Synapse’s swanky Blu-ray of Hammer’s Vampire Circus, plus reviews of Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (from Paramount), and Christopher Lee with creepy contact lenses in Horror of Dracula and Dracula has Risen from the Grave (Warner Home Video). Also covered is a soundtrack review of Laurie Johnson’s Captain Kronos’ score (BSX Records)…
Tales of Revolution
Just uploaded are reviews of Bruce Beresford’s Mao’s Last Dancer (Mongrel) plus Christopher Gordon’s soundtrack (Lakeshore Records), and the superb PBS documentary series China: A Century of Revolution (Zeitgeist)…
Comin’ at Ya: Orphan 3D Films, Part I
In the first of our Orphaned 3D Films series, I review two forgotten classics: Roy Ward Bakers’ superb Inferno (1953), and Irwin Allen’s production of Dangerous Mission (1954)…
Action, Baby!
Reviews of Christopher Nolan’s Inception on Blu-ray (Warner Home Video) and Hans Zimmer score (Water Tower Music), plus action-related soundtracks: Clint Mansell’s Faster and John Powell’s Fair Game (both from Lakeshore), Guy Michelmore’s Jackboots on Whitehall (MovieScore Media), and Harry Gregson-Williams’ Unstoppable (La-La Land Records)…
Christmas Jeers
Editor’s Blog on the plight of Jafar Panahi, and a DVD review of the 2009 documentary Kimjongilia (Mongrel / Lorber) of life under a big fist…
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