David Robert Mitchell returns with a new film. He made a big splash with It Follows a few years back. The new film is Under the Silver Lake and it played at Cannes last year. It received mixed reviews at the time, with some people comparing it to Southland Tales (not necessarily favourably). While It Follows was like a clever take on a … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Under The Silver Lake →

A Kid for Two Farthings is a Carol Reed film, the first one he made that was in colour. After all of those great noirs like The Third Man, The Fallen Idol and Odd Man Out, the move seems to have meant losing something. A lot of directors of that time found colour hard to … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – A Kid for Two Farthings →

In Bruges is the first feature from Martin McDonagh, and it was definitely was the film that, similar to Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, helped to blow up a new and unique cinematic voice. McDonagh had made a name for himself already as a theatrical playwright, but he had a healthy disdain for the theatre world’s elitism … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – In Bruges →

One Deadly Summer was directed by Jean Becker, the son of Jacques Becker, a great French director of the '50s who made such films as Le Trou and Casque d'Or. As you would expect, his son cut his teeth working for pops as an assistant director, but sadly, if this film is any indication, Jacques's … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – One Deadly Summer →

Klute is the first film in what was eventually dubbed as Alan J. Pakula's paranoia trilogy, mirroring the similar trio of films that John Frankenheimer did in the '60s. Thematically linked, but without any crossover with of characters, Pakula would follow Klute with The Parallax View and All The President's Men. It's also the film … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Klute →