The Philadelphia Story is considered one of the key screwball comedies, which were a kind of fast-paced, witty romantic comedy made during the '30s and '40s. They have very little to do with what we call the dreaded "romcom" now—they were darker, more cynical, and had far more well-rounded male and female characters than your modern romantic … Continue reading The Philadelphia Story – Blu-Ray Review
Baby Driver is Edgar Wright's first film since the debacle of Ant-Man, which ended up with him leaving the project. It's also his first American film since the wonderful Scott Pilgrim, and like that it's better than any of his British films (which comprise the hideously overrated "Cornetto trilogy," which was only titled that as a marketing ploy to sell … Continue reading Baby Driver – Blu-Ray Review
Fragment of Fear is one of those late '60s, early '70s curiosities that reflect the era and the genre filmmaking that ensued. It doesn't quite fully work, but there is plenty to admire. It's kind of a British take on the Giallo, which is helped by David Hemmings’s appearance in the lead role, with echoes of … Continue reading Fragment of Fear – Blu-Ray Review
A Woman's Torment is a true late '70s oddity, it comes in both a hardcore cut and an R-rated version. I watched the hardcore cut and skimmed the R-rated cut which seems to just extend some scenes and cut out the hardcore footage, which is already about the most off-putting pornography you could ever watch. … Continue reading A Woman’s Torment – Blu-Ray Review
Everybody's favourite hard-drinking, womanising, misanthropic Santa is back. It took 13 years for the sequel to happen, and now it's taken nearly a year for the Blu-Ray to come out in the UK (in the US they decided to quickly release it in February.) Was it worth the wait? it's a case of “yes and … Continue reading Bad Santa 2 – Blu-Ray Review
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