George Lucas a few years before changing cinema forever with the release of Star Wars he made his love letter to his youth with American Graffiti. It was a film about teenagers cruising around Modesto, California on the last evening of summer vacation in 1962. The year of 1962 was really the last gasp of the '50s … Continue reading More American Graffiti – DVD Review
This was obviously Sam Peckinpah’s most personal film: the director said Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia represents the one time in his entire career that the movie as made was 100 percent what he wanted. It is also his love letter to Mexico. Even though the film was not exactly a Western it … Continue reading Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia – Blu-Ray Review
The Glass Shield is directed by Charles Burnett, arguably the most important independent American Black filmmaker of all time. He went to UCLA, and his first film, Killer of Sheep, is considered by many to be the best film ever made by an African-American filmmaker. Burnett has worked in feature films and documentaries throughout the … Continue reading The Glass Shield – Blu-Ray Review
Signature Entertainment is soon releasing another one of those Nicolas Cage VOD films. It's a crime flick set in the South about the Lindel brothers Mikey and JP. The brother Mikey turns to crime and gets kidnapped by Nicolas Cage's crime boss Eddie King. Cage looks like he channeling his performance from Deadfall, that film's director and Nick's … Continue reading Trailer for Southern Fury
Black Orpheus is, obviously, based on the Greek myth of Orpheus, and is a film version of a play that had appeared few years earlier. The stage production included music but was not a musical, as is also the case with the film (the play, incidentally, was readapted in the ‘90s with music by Caetano … Continue reading Black Orpheus – Blu-Ray Review
