Crowhurst is a true-life story of Donald Crowhurst, who entered a sailing race around the world sponsored by the Sunday Times. Under huge financial and personal pressure to succeed but quickly realising that he was losing, he apparently decided that he could never return because he faced bankruptcy and ruin. He reported false positions with … Continue reading DVD Review – Crowhurst
BASEketball is the only project that the South Park guys, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, have been involved with that they didn’t write, direct and produce themselves. Directed by David Zucker, the really right-wing one of the Zucker Brothers, it stars Stone and Parker. They aren’t really actors although of course they’ve done a lot … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – BASEketball
No Stone Unturned is one of the more recent films from arguably the greatest documentarian of the 21st century Alex Gibney. It's a slight change of pace for the documentarian due to the fact it isn't an American story or to any real extent involves political events which were created by American involvement. It uses … Continue reading DVD Review – No Stone Unturned
It's the 1980s and Stephen King is as big of a superstar writer of horror fiction as he could possibly be (and has ever been since). Since the publication of his first novel, Carrie, Hollywood has been calling him at his house in Bangor, Maine. With the double whammy of Brian De Palma's Carrie and … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Firestarter
Red Sparrow is based on a novel by Jason Matthews, a guy who used to work for the CIA. It’s loosely inspired by the ‘Sparrow Schools,’ state schools in the Soviet Union that were training programmes for female "sexpionage" agents. In these places they were taught to lure businessmen or government officials into giving away … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Red Sparrow
