F for Fake was until recently Orson Welles’s last finished film (his actual last film, The Other Side of the Wind, has just been posthumously completed and is set to come out on Netflix this autumn). Welles had already started making documentaries and travelogues, starting with Around the World With Orson Welles. There is an … Continue reading F For Fake – Blu-Ray Review
Month: August 2018
Hammer Vol 3 – Blood And Terror – Blu-Ray Review
Blood and Terror is the latest boxset of obscure Hammer films to be released by Powerhouse, and as always with these films, it's a mixed bag. The set consists of basically two double bills, if you like: two anti-war films and two horror-tinged historical films set in Asia. The films are The Camp on Blood Island, Yesterday's … Continue reading Hammer Vol 3 – Blood And Terror – Blu-Ray Review
Pacific Rim: Uprising – Blu-Ray Review
Pacific Rim: Uprising pretty much single-handedly sums up everything that is wrong with bad blockbuster filmmaking. 2018 has seen some of the best blockbusters in recent memory, from the work over at Marvel Studios to even the underrated Solo or the most recent (albeit overrated) entry in the Mission Impossible series. However, the latest, and … Continue reading Pacific Rim: Uprising – Blu-Ray Review
