Vincent Ward’s second movie after Vigil, The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey has been described as the missing link between Andrei Tarkovsky and Terry Gilliam , and that’s actually not a bad description (the original script was more comic and the idea had been for the actin to involve, well, time-travelling dwarves… my guess is that … Continue reading The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey – Blu-Ray Review
Month: July 2018
Unsane – DVD Review
Unsane is Steven Soderbergh’s latest film—and I think it’s a gamechanger in terms of the way you make films (as well as being a great film). It was shot on an iPhone – not the first, of course, that was Tangerine, but the first by a major Hollywood filmmaker. It is a visually pleasing film … Continue reading Unsane – DVD Review
Crowhurst – DVD Review
Crowhurst is a true-life story of Donald Crowhurst, who entered a sailing race around the world sponsored by the Sunday Times. Under huge financial and personal pressure to succeed but quickly realising that he was losing, he apparently decided that he could never return because he faced bankruptcy and ruin. He reported false positions with … Continue reading Crowhurst – DVD Review
BASEketball – Blu-Ray Review
BASEketball is the only project that the South Park guys, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, have been involved with that they didn’t write, direct and produce themselves. Directed by David Zucker, the really right-wing one of the Zucker Brothers, it stars Stone and Parker. They aren’t really actors although of course they’ve done a lot … Continue reading BASEketball – Blu-Ray Review
No Stone Unturned – DVD Review
No Stone Unturned is one of the more recent films from arguably the greatest documentarian of the 21st century Alex Gibney. It's a slight change of pace for the documentarian due to the fact it isn't an American story or to any real extent involves political events which were created by American involvement. It uses … Continue reading No Stone Unturned – DVD Review
