Emily the Criminal is an impressive debut feature from John Patton Ford, who had made a short film, Patrol, that debuted at Sundance back in 2010. The film stars Aubrey Plaza, who has become a frequent fixture in the films chosen for Sundance during the last decade. This new film is a punchy, quick-paced, tense … Continue reading Emily the Criminal – Blu-Ray Review
In Italy, the 1970s was a time when real revolution was in the air. Most of the West had become complacent and accepted their crappy systems, but Italian student movements and trades unions posed a serious challenge to those in power. Of course, they didn't win in the end, especially after The PCI (Italian Communist … Continue reading The Working Class Goes to Heaven – Blu-Ray Review
For years, Rob Zombie’s passion project was to make a film based on The Munsters TV series. He tried to do it after House of 1,000 Corpses, but at the time Universal decided it wanted to do its own reboot of the series, Mockingbird Lane. That became a one-off Halloween special for NBC directed by … Continue reading The Munsters (2022) – Blu-Ray Review
Married to the Mob is a Jonathan Demme movie, made when he was really at the height of his career—it’s the one that arrived in between Something Wild and The Silence of the Lambs, the same period when he did his performance films like Stop Making Sense and Swimming to Cambodia with Spalding Gray. At … Continue reading Married to the Mob – Blu-Ray Review
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