Total Recall is loosely based on a Philip K. Dick short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” written at the peak of his genius in 1966, Total Recall was the first Dick adaptation after Blade Runner (although screenwriters Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett had already bought the rights from Dick in the early … Continue reading Total Recall (1990) – Blu-Ray Review →

Girlfriends is the one of only two theatrically released films from director Claudia Weill, with It's My Turn being the other. She kept herself busy doing TV and theatre work, and eventually directing on and off the screen at various prestigious American universities. This film, however, remains her most popular work, and has become incredibly … Continue reading Girlfriends (1978) – Blu-Ray Review →

Mothra is the origin film for one of Godzilla’s main foes. It has the same director as the original Godzilla, Ishirō Honda, who also did Destroy All Monsters and worked extensively with Akira Kurosawa throughout his career. While the film isn’t as good as Godzilla, as with all of the kaiju films, it has the … Continue reading Mothra – Blu-Ray Review →

There's a certain brand of depressing Eastern European historical black-and-white film that has emerged over the past decade or so. Films like Hard to Be a God, The Turin Horse, November, Cold War, and The White Ribbon. I personally really dig that stuff and their insights into history and society have allowed me to do some great analysis. But they … Continue reading The Painted Bird – Blu-Ray Review →

Dawn of the Dead is the second film in George A. Romero’s Dead series, and probably the best of the lot. It’s not as important of a film as Night of the Living Dead, which I see as the most important horror film of all time because it really changed how you could made horror movies and the fact the hero … Continue reading Dawn of the Dead (1978) – Blu-Ray Review →