The People Next Door is one of those ridiculous early ’70s anti-drug movies set in the suburbs. It was directed by David Greene, who made a notable cult serial killer movie, I Start Counting, the previous year. It’s 1970 and a girl named Maxie is messed up on drugs, specifically acid, which has now come … Continue reading The People Next Door – Blu-Ray Review
Jagged Edge is an incredibly lousy legal thriller written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Richard Marquand. Marquand is probably best known for having stepped in to direct Return of the Jedi after David Cronenberg AND David Lynch both turned down George Lucas’ offer. Eszterhas and Marquand would follow up their success with Jagged Edge with the completely forgotten … Continue reading Jagged Edge – Blu-Ray Review
David Lynch is undeniably the modern-day face of surrealism on the big screen: only Luis Buñuel (who of course was an original surrealist) is maybe more synonymous with surrealism in cinema. Lynch, however, claims Buñuel had little influence on his work, because he didn’t see his films until much later, and allegedly very few of … Continue reading Dune (1984) – Blu-Ray Review
Deep Cover is the best of the “hood” movies of the ‘90s. It started out as a possible sequel to Internal Affairs, which it’s not, although the two films do share a writer, Henry Bean. However, Michael Tolkin had just come off The Rapture, and had written the book and screenplay of The Player, a … Continue reading Deep Cover – Blu-Ray Review
All About Eve came out the same year as Sunset Blvd., and that's no coincidence—both are films about the dark underbelly of show business. Sunset Blvd. is undeniably the darker and marginally better film, but All About Eve was more acceptable to the Academy, hence why it won best picture. All About Eve is mainly … Continue reading All About Eve – Blu-Ray Review
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