Never Grow Old is a fairly low-budget Western that came out earlier this year in the States, and was directed by Ivan Kavanaugh. It played in France and allegedly at 10 theatres in the UK, though as far as I can tell it never got a proper US release outside of home video. And it’s … Continue reading Never Grow Old – DVD Review
Month: September 2019
9 Lives of a Wet Pussy – Blu-Ray Review
Abel Ferrara is now one of the most respected renegade filmmakers in the world but he got his feature film start in down and out cheap New York Pornos in the '70s. Very few mainstream directors have pulled off doing porn (although many have tried) with the possible exception of Gaspar Noé with Love which … Continue reading 9 Lives of a Wet Pussy – Blu-Ray Review
Project X – Blu-Ray Review
Made in 1968, Project X was William Castle’s penultimate film as a director. In that same year, Castle produced another film he was desperate to direct until a little Polish man became interested in the property—Rosemary’s Baby. Project X is a science-fiction film, not what you really expect from Castle, who had more of a … Continue reading Project X – Blu-Ray Review
Comes a Horseman – Blu-Ray Review
Comes a Horseman is an Alan J. Pakula film, one that marks his increasingly downward spiral after Pakula’s extraordinary trilogy of paranoia, comprising Klute, The Parallax View and All The President's Men. He would go on to make some other films of note, including Sophie's Choice and the comedy Starting Over, along with various thrillers in the '90s, which were John Grisham adaptations … Continue reading Comes a Horseman – Blu-Ray Review
Kursk: The Last Mission – DVD Review
Kursk: The Last Mission or, as it's known in some territories with the less spoileristic title Kursk, is the newest film from former founder of Dogme 95 Thomas Vinterberg. The US title is the ridiculously generic The Command. It's based on the real-life 2000 Kursk submarine disaster, and the film relies on the book A Time to Die: The … Continue reading Kursk: The Last Mission – DVD Review