The Caller is a genre-hopping straight-to-video movie from 1987 that starred Malcolm McDowell at a low point in his career. Despite some success with Paul Schrader's remake of Cat People in 1982, the '80s were not a kind decade to the Yorkshireman, and by the end McDowell was making films like The Caller and Mortacci in Italy. It wasn't until he … Continue reading The Caller – Blu-Ray Review
Month: September 2020
Pandemonium – Blu-Ray Review
Pandemonium is a film by Alfred Sole, who made his name with the famous slasher film, Alice, Sweet Alice, which is regarded as being one of the most artistic films in that genre. However, this is not really a slasher movie—in fact, I’m not sure you can quite call it a movie at all. It … Continue reading Pandemonium – Blu-Ray Review
Superman: Man of Tomorrow – Blu-Ray Review
Superman: Man of Tomorrow is the latest DC animated film—the 39th in DC’s ongoing series that started in 2007. Many have been adaptations of pre-existing graphic novels, although this one only has a tangential relationship to one. So far, Superman: Red Son is my favourite of the Superman films. This one is an origin story … Continue reading Superman: Man of Tomorrow – Blu-Ray Review
Walkabout – Blu-Ray Review
Walkabout was Nicolas Roeg's first solo film as a director after sharing the directing duties on lysergic gangster film Performance with Donald Cammell, which famously starred Mick Jagger and Anita Pallenberg. It would also end up being the last film he would be the cinematographer on: he made his name as a cinematographer on many key … Continue reading Walkabout – Blu-Ray Review