Category: FILM REVIEWS
No Superpowers Whatsoever
Reviews of two overlooked and marginalized comic book movies – The Losers (Warner Home Video), and Kick-Ass (Canada: Maple, U.S.: Lionsgate)…
Durham County and Other TV News
DVD review of Durham County: Season 2 (Anchor Bay), plus news of some upcoming TV series on DVD…
Bring On the Virgins
Reviews of WHV’s Blu-rays of the 1981 and 2010 Clash of the Titans, Paramount’s Dragonslayer DVD, and Alex North’s Dragonslayer score (La-La Land)…
Sanity Slippage
A quartet of films about environments affecting the mental and physical states of poor heroes: the Blu-ray release of Insomnia (Warner Home Video), The Hungry Hills and Iodine (both via Anchor Bay Entertainment Canada), and Ole Bornedal’s Nightwatch / Nattevagten (Anchor Bay)…
Chloe and Tronno
Blu-ray review of Atom Egoyan’s Chloe (Sony), plus the new release / whoops-all-sold-out CD of Alan Silvestri’s Predator score (Intrada)…
A Star is Born, Part Two (B) (1976)
Editorial blather and a review of the 1976 version of a Star is Born, starring Babs Streisand in all of her evergreen-afro glory…
A Star is Born – Part Two (A) (1954)
Blu-ray review of Warner Home Video’s snazzy A Star is Born (1954)…
A Star is Born, Part One (1932-1937)
The first of three detailed examinations about one man’s alcoholism almost ruining the life of a Hollywood starlet. Part begins with comparative reviews of What Price Hollywood? (1932) and the better-known A Star is Born (1937), plus the TCM doc about women in pre-Code films, Complicated Women…
The Return of Charlie Chan on DVD
Reviews of the new TCM-Warner Home Video set featuring four previously unavailable Charlie Chan films – Dark Alibi (1946), Dangerous Money (1946), The Trap (1946), and The Chinese Ring (1947). – plus lengthy editorial blather on ethnic characters portrayed by white folks…
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