When Tom Cruise isn’t trying to push the ideas of an abusive madman who denied his occult roots but started a UFO cult, he occasionally stars in films. This is one of them. Cruise plays Barry Seal, a complete and utter scumbag of a pilot who was running guns for the CIA, which wanted them … Continue reading American Made – Blu-Ray Review
Logan Lucky is Steven Soderberg’s first film since he unretired from filmmaking (he had announced his retirement after Behind the Candelabra.) He has taken to a new model for making films, which involved personally selling the overseas rights to bypass the Hollywood hassles. Up until this point Soderberg had been busy with directing two seasons … Continue reading Logan Lucky – Blu-Ray Review
Starring Shirley MacLaine and Jack Lemmon and directed by Billy Wilder, The Apartment was Wilder’s follow-up to Some Like It Hot. He re-teamed with Lemmon for this one, who was rarely better than in Wilder’s films. MacLaine is also great in it—it’s probably her finest performance. The Apartment is very much the ‘60s equivalent to … Continue reading The Apartment – Blu-Ray Review
Pulp is the film Michael Caine and Mike Hodges followed-up to Get Carter, but it's not a sequel. Caine plays a bad pulp writer, Mickey King, who writes sleazy pulp paperback novels (My Gun Is Long, etc.) under various pseudonyms, and Mickey Rooney plays Preston an actor who played gangsters in films who is clearly … Continue reading Pulp – Blu-Ray Review
Sicilian filmmaker Salvo Cuccia has made this documentary, which is partly the filmmaker’s own story about his experience of not seeing Frank Zappa the one time he played Sicily, and recent footage of the Zappa family visiting the island to talk about their family heritage. Zappa was of course famously of Sicilian descent. It’s interspersed … Continue reading Summer 82: When Zappa Came to Sicily – Blu-Ray Review
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