Biopics are hard to pull off but often the best are ones that don’t get full cooperation from the person’s estate so the filmmakers have to be more inventive than the birth to death narrative so many follow. Love is the Devil is a classic example of what you can do with a biopic that in some … Continue reading Love is the Devil – Blu-Ray Review
Seconds was one of two films made by John Frankenheimer in 1966, the other being Grand Prix, as different from Seconds as could be. Grand Prix was better-known and financially successful, but Seconds was the more interesting and influential film. Masters of Cinema’s dual-format Blu-Ray release redresses the injustice of its out of print status in … Continue reading Seconds – Blu-Ray Review
Andrea Bianchi is an Italian schlock maestro who made incredibly sleazy films, just check out the synopsis for his later film Exciting Love Girls sometime. Burial Ground with the possible exception of his earlier foray in Giallo cinema Strip Nude for Your Killer is his best known film. It was also released as Zombi 3 in some territories to … Continue reading Burial Ground – Blu-Ray Review
Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death falls into being both a clever satire on feminist politics and also a really stupid exploitation film. It was directed by J. F. Lawton who was the writer of PRETTY WOMAN! and the Steven Seagal Under Seige films, an eclectic CV if there ever was one. It also stars a … Continue reading Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death – Blu-Ray Review
There are very few feats as impressive as walking a wire between the Twin Towers. Directed by Robert Zemeckis, The Walk documents this event—not easy as it had to be recreated for the film. Man on Wire whetted the public’s appetite for the subject of tightrope walking and tightrope walker Philippe Petit, but this is a dramatic … Continue reading The Walk – Blu-Ray Review
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