Arkansas is a pretty bog-standard Southern neo-noir movie with a couple of memorable names in it. It’s based on a first novel by John Brandon, which is sort of a crappier Joe R. Lansdale story. Lansdale is the great Texas writer whose work Bubba Ho-Tep was based on, as well as Cold In July, which … Continue reading Arkansas – DVD Review
The Cameraman is Buster Keaton's first film for MGM: he would later say signing to them was "the worst mistake of my career." However, he was still at the top of his game here, and watching it is just a glorious 70 minutes of your time. Sadly, within one year MGM would snatch creative control from … Continue reading The Cameraman – Blu-Ray Review
This limited edition Blu-Ray set includes three Universal movies that came out in the aftermath of Dracula and Frankenstein, which of course starred Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff. After their initial few films, Poe was Universal’s first stop for horror film material—although these days the Poe movies are often left out of lists of Universal … Continue reading Three Edgar Allan Poe Adaptations – Blu-Ray Review
The Good Die Young is a British noir film from the '50s. The Brits didn't do tons of noirs, but did make a couple key ones, like The Third Man (probably the best British film of the '40s), Brighton Rock, and various films from American directors who went into exile due to McCarthyism, like Jules … Continue reading The Good Die Young – Blu-Ray Review
This was the first Japanese film to deal with the bombing of Hiroshima—all Japanese art since then has been created in the shadow of that event, which people in the West hardly ever think about. It’s a dramatic film that is probably more valuable as a historical document than as a piece of filmmaking, although … Continue reading Hiroshima (1953) – Blu-Ray Review
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