The Happy Prince is a biographical film about Oscar Wilde, and specifically covers the period other films on Wilde skip over: his last few years post-prison in Naples and eventually in Paris, where he would die penniless and disgraced. Rupert Everett does an Orson Welles by writing, starring in, directing and producing the film with this, … Continue reading The Happy Prince – Blu-Ray Review
Month: October 2018
Interview with Barbara Crampton
I was over in Manchester at Grimmfest recently and got the chance to do a short interview with Barbara Crampton. She is best known for her roles in cult classics like Re-Animator, From Beyond, Chopping Mall, Body Double and many others. More recently she has had a career resurgence in indie horror flicks like Beyond … Continue reading Interview with Barbara Crampton
Hereditary – Blu-Ray Review
Hereditary is the big horror movie of the year, complete with five-star reviews and loads of buzz. I’m not sure of that’s a good thing or a bad thing: reviews that good can be hard to live up to. It’s the debut film of Ari Aster, who had previously done some shorts at AFI, which … Continue reading Hereditary – Blu-Ray Review
The Mind of Mr. Soames – Blu-Ray Review
The Mind of Mr. Soames is odd film that Amicus (Hammer's big competitor) made at the end of '60s. It would also be Terence Stamp's final film before his "wilderness" years in Europe, where he made stuff like the (impossible to find in English) Arthur Rimbaud biopic A Season in Hell, where Stamp plays the poet... … Continue reading The Mind of Mr. Soames – Blu-Ray Review
Paris nous appartient – Blu-Ray Review
Paris nous appartient is Jacques Rivette’s first film, and of the very first French New Wave films. It came out after Claude Chabrol's early films, and the debuts of Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. Rivette had started his before either of them, however. It’s an odd, almost film noir, set-up. A Spanish activist, Juan, dies; … Continue reading Paris nous appartient – Blu-Ray Review