Over the years, The Last Movie has become Dennis Hopper’s almost-lost film, with only occasional retrospective screenings and numerous bootlegs, often ripped from the rare VHS tape. As the film's creative mind, Hopper had long-planned to re-release The Last Movie on DVD, and ended up buying the rights back. Eventually there was a retrospective screening … Continue reading The Last Movie – Blu-Ray Review
Crimson Peak is a gothic romance, complete with ghosts and a haunted house, although was sold (misleadingly) as a horror movie. Guillermo Del Toro's film begins in 1887, as Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), the daughter of a wealthy businessman, is visited by her mother’s ghost. The apparition tells her to beware of Crimson Peak. Now a … Continue reading Crimson Peak – Blu-Ray Review
Panique is a French noir made during the height of Stateside noir. The seeds of film noir came out of three specific sources: poetic realist cinema in France, German expressionism and the pulp crime fiction films of the 20s and '30s, which lasted well into the early '60s. The term, of course, was coined by … Continue reading Panique – Blu-Ray Review
Alpha is basically an origin story about dogs. What were dogs before they were dogs? Wolves, of course. It’s set in the last ice age. And you have to wonder who signed off it, and then there’s the cover copy that claims it’s “based on a true story.” Hilarious—who would know, as it’s from a … Continue reading Alpha – Blu-Ray Review
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