The Entity is a demonic possession film from 1982, billed as being based on a true story from 1976. The lead character, a single mother called Carla Moran (Barbara Hershey), is attacked and raped by an unidentified, violent entity that is never seen. It moves things around, so is something like a poltergeist. The action [...]
Blu-Ray Review – The Climber
"Little Joe never once gave it away, everybody had to pay and pay. A hustle here and a hustle there…" Joe Dallesandro is of course immortalized in Lou Reed’s “Walk on the Wild Side,” he graces the cover of the self-titled album by The Smiths, and his “package” is on The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers album. [...]
Blu-Ray Review – La La Land
The musical is somewhat like the western, in the sense that they were dominant film genres from the ’30s to the ’50s but have since fallen out of fashion. The western comes back every ten years or so, while the musical—probably due to its deliberately artificial nature—struggles to. La La Land, however, might have just reinvented the musical, [...]
Blu-Ray Review – Manchester By The Sea
I first saw Manchester By the Sea at the London Film Festival after missing out the initial press screening, as I had to see a different film before conducting an interview with the filmmaker the following day. I was finally able to catch the third possible screening after trying to get a rush-queue ticket for the big gala [...]
Blu-Ray Review – Five Weeks In A Balloon
It’s an Irwin Allen film that’s not a disaster movie, from the part of his career that was before his Towering Inferno fame. It is based on the novel by Jules Verne, which is not considered one of his better adventures and is not as well known as much of his other work. It was [...]
