Category: FILM REVIEWS
2009 BAFTA Winners
2009 BAFTA Award Winners, and James Cameron’s Avatar coming to DVD/BR this spring.
Postwar Berlin, Hollywood Style
Joe Johnston’s The Wolfman is an upgraded version of Curt (Kurt) Siodmak’s better, leaner, and more fun 1941 script, The Wolf Man, but prior to writing that classic Universal monster movie, Siodmak had written some very striking films during his early years in Germany. Among his best-known works from the pre-Nazi era are F.P.1 antwortet […]
See the Film, Hear the Music: Panic in Year Zero! (1962)
Film review of Ray Milland’s bleak Panic in Year Zero! (1962), as well as Les Baxter’s soundtrack, newly released by La-La Land Records…
Re-birthing The Wolfman
Friday Feb. 12 marks the beginning of the Winter Olympics, but for horror fans the release of the much-delayed Wolfman from Universal will determine whether the franchise can be rebooted, and whether star/co-producer Benicio Del Toro’s gamble on playing Lawrence Talbot was such a good idea…
Cosmatos on Blu-ray, and the Hobo Returns
Editor’s Blog on Disney’s announced release of Tombstone on Blu-ray, the return of Universal’s flipper disc, and TV soundtrack music…
2009 Oscar Nominated Short Films on Home Video
List of the 2009 Oscar nominated short documentary, live action short film, and short animated film with links to websites and viewing availability…
2009 Oscar Nominations: List of Categories
The nominees for the slender bald statue were announced this morning, and given this list is LONG (the total Best Picture nominees were doubled from 5 to 10 in an apparent move to win over more viewers), I’ve decided to post the nominees in two formats…
2009 Oscar Nominated Films on Home Video
Here are the nominated films currently available or announced for a home video release, with links to Amazon.com (and Region 2 releases where applicable)…
Criterion Announces More OOP DVDs for March
23 DVDs spanning Criterion and Essential Art House will go out of print at the end of March. Great, the speculators and feeding frenzy begins again…
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