When this film was made, Steve Martin had already teamed up with director Carl Reiner on the vastly overrated but successful The Jerk, which had Stanley Kubrick as one of its many fans. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is an altogether different beast, and perhaps the finest achievement of the projects Steve Martin originated, even though Bowfinger comes awfully close. When … Continue reading Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid – Blu-Ray Review
The Magus is a film that could only have been made in the 60s. Based on the first book that author John Fowles wrote (but third published), which he later rewrote in 1977. Fowles also wrote the script for the film, because he was upset with William Wilder’s adaptation of another of his novels, The … Continue reading The Magus – Blu-Ray Review
The Alligator People is a very silly B-movie from the 1950s that was put out by Twentieth Century Fox as a double feature with The Return of the Fly. Released in 1959 at the tail end of the trend for atomic-themed features, the film begins with Paul and Joyce, a pair of newlyweds, on the … Continue reading The Alligator People – Blu-Ray Review
Phantasm is the film series that made Don Coscarelli’s career. Made for very little money, the original was an independent film (like most of his work)—he directed, wrote and shot the series beginning in his mid-20s. The genre hops between supernatural horror and science fiction, and the films even feature some Kubrickian strangeness a la … Continue reading Phantasm Collection – Blu-Ray Review
“Her eyes are like gems / She’s an actress for Screen Gems / I love Lee Remick, she’s a darling.” Every time I watch a film that stars Lee Remick, it's hard to not think of the debut single by The Go-Betweens, which was a lovingly juvenile tribute to the actress. She starred in two films directed by Blake Edwards in … Continue reading Experiment in Terror – Blu-Ray Review
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