Take Out was Sean Baker's second feature as a director. It was co-directed with Shih-Ching Tsou, who has gone on to act as a producer on Baker’s subsequent features. I presume partly why she co-directed the film is that the great majority of it is in Mandarin, and Baker doesn't speak the language but she … Continue reading Take Out – Blu-Ray Review
Deathsport was a quickie Roger Corman production to capitalize on the surprise success of Death Race 2000, which had not only done well at the box office but eventually gained a certain amount of critical acclaim. However, basically everything that could go wrong in a Corman production went wrong here. In the end, Allan Arkush tried to salvage … Continue reading Deathsport – Blu-Ray Review
Shockingly, A Boy and His Dog is to date the only feature film adaptation of a Harlan Ellison story. Many of Ellison’s stories have been optioned over the decades, including the masterful “I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream,” but so far nothing outside some TV adaptations have occurred. Babylon 5 creator J. Michael Straczynski is now the … Continue reading A Boy and His Dog – Blu-Ray Review
I, The Jury is notable for a couple of things: it was the first adaptation of a Mickey Spillane novel, and the first screen portrayal of Spillane's signature hard-boiled detective Mike Hammer. It was also an early 3D film, made at the height of the 3D craze in the early '50s—it came out in 1953, the … Continue reading I, The Jury – Blu-Ray Review
The Amusement Park is a long-lost George A. Romero film, one that hasn’t been seen in 40+ years. Made in 1973, it was financed by the Pittsburgh Lutheran Society and it is actually a PSA film. That was the same year Romero made The Crazies. Romero was always a regional filmmaker, and he had a … Continue reading The Amusement Park – Blu-Ray Review
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