This is the second volume of Buster Keaton features from Masters of Cinema, which also released a very comprehensive set of Keaton’s shorts a couple years ago. It’s a collection of films in which he was starred and directed, from the definitive period of his work in feature filmmaking. These were made in between the … Continue reading The Navigator / Seven Chances / Battling Butler – Blu-Ray Review
This is a 1954 Vincent Price film in 3-D, made very quickly after House of Wax, the film that started the 3-D craze. Price was still a bankable star for major studios at this point, before his days of “slumming it” for Wiliam Castle and Roger Corman. Price is of course the Mad Magician of … Continue reading The Mad Magician – Blu-Ray Review
Knives Out is the latest film by Rian Johnson, and one of the best films of last year. Along with Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood, it was one of the few box office hits of 2019 that wasn’t a franchise movie, and one of only three or four non-sequel, non-remake Hollywood films to break the … Continue reading Knives Out – Blu-Ray Review
James Mangold is a director who has carved out a niche of really good, classical Hollywood-type movies. He started out in the independent film world in the 90s, most notably with Copland, and has worked his way up to becoming one of this decade’s most powerful directors. His previous film to this, Logan, was a … Continue reading Le Mans ’66 (Ford v Ferrari) – Blu-Ray Review
Beat the Devil is one of John Huston’s worst movies (the only one I hate more is Annie). Basically, it was just an excuse for him and Humphrey Bogart to get blasted on the film set in Italy. You can tell there was really no script—even though the script is credited to Huston and Truman … Continue reading Beat The Devil – Blu-Ray Review
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