Caveat is the latest in a long line of horror films that seem to think ambiguity equals great horror cinema. It's lazy storytelling that has contempt for its audience as well as its genre. You can have ambiguity, of course, but you need a story strong enough for it to work—but in the case of … Continue reading Caveat – Blu-Ray Review
Love Affair (1939) film directed by Leo McCarey was not expected to be a huge success, but it was the surprise hit of the year. McCarey had done a lot of screwball comedies at this point, with The Awful Truth probably the best. He wanted to do something a little more serious, still funny but … Continue reading Love Affair (1939) – Blu-Ray Review
1982's An Unsuitable Job for a Woman is a fascinating, if not completely satisfying film. Besides Children of Men, it’s actually the only screen adaptation of a P.D. James novel to date. There have been many TV adaptations, but only two for the big screen—and for a prolific and popular writer, that's very rare. These two film adaptations … Continue reading An Unsuitable Job for a Woman – Blu-Ray Review
This is a hard film to describe, but Dick Johnson is Dead is a documentary by Kirsten Johnson, who was one of the cinematographers on Citizenfour. It’s about her father, who at the time of the film was in the early stages of dementia. He had been a clinical psychologist. Having lost her mother to … Continue reading Dick Johnson is Dead – Blu-Ray Review
Written on the Wind is one of the key films in Douglas Sirk’s extraordinary run of melodramas in the 1950s, which arguably starts with Magnificent Obsession and climaxes with his final feature, Imitation of Life. It's one of the films that a newbie to Sirk should watch early on, because it has all of his … Continue reading Written on the Wind – Blu-Ray Review
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