Wheels on Meals is a relatively early film in Jackie Chan's long and insanely productive career as a action superstar. Chan had already became a superstar in his native Hong Kong, and had started trying to break out into the international market—and especially the American market. He wouldn't gain superstar status in the US until the … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Wheels on Meals
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald is of course the latest film in what I guess is now dubbed the "Wizarding World" franchise, which comprises the Harry Potter films, the Fantastic Beasts films and I'm sure more spin-offs down the line. I grew up with the Harry Potter books and films, like most people my generation, … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
The British director Steve McQueen has marked himself as above the pack of British filmmakers in the last decade with his previous three features, Hunger (still his best), Shame and his Oscar-winning 12 Years A Slave. Ever since Shame he has been wetting his toes in America, and of course 12 Years A Slave is as American of … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Widows
The Prisoner is a British film from 1955 that has basically been forgotten over the years. That’s both understandable and unfair, because it has a lot to admire. It stars Alec Guinness, and is based on a play by Bridget Boland and directed by Peter Glenville. Glenville mainly directed on stage, and when he did … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – The Prisoner (1955)
Submergence is the latest film from Wim Wenders, who during the period from the '70s to the early '90s made countless masterful films, such as Paris, Texas or The American Friend. However, something happened after The End of Violence that made Wenders’s narrative filmmaking take a serious downturn, and his documentary work started to get far more … Continue reading DVD Review – Submergence
