The Sisters Brothers is so far the only English-language film directed by Jacques Audiard, one of the greatest contemporary French filmmakers, and boasts a great cast. Audiard wowed the world with the film A Prophet in 2010 but has continued to be incredibly consistent. It starts with a bog-standard Western plot, where two brothers are … Continue reading The Sisters Brothers – UHD Review
The Night of the Following Day is a very weird 1969 film with Marlon Brando, Richard Boone and Rita Moreno, based on a novel by pulp writer Lionel White. White also wrote Clean Break, which later became The Killing by Stanley Kubrick, as well as the novel that Pierrot Le Fou is very loosely based … Continue reading The Night of the Following Day – Blu-Ray Review
Freud, or Freud: The Secret Passion, was one of the oddest films in John Huston's long and varied career. It's a loose biopic of the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and stars Montgomery Clift. It would end up becoming the penultimate role for Clift and his last real performance of note—his final film would end up being The Defector, which … Continue reading Freud: The Secret Passion – Blu-Ray Review
Outrage is a very important, if little-seen, film from Ida Lupino. It was made in the middle of her time as a prolific director of B-Noirs and melodramas in the late '40s and early '50s. She would only direct one more feature after this run, the much loved The Trouble with Angels, but Lupino ended up being a … Continue reading Outrage – Blu-Ray Review
Cursed Films is a documentary series that runs on Shudder. Season One covers The Exorcist, The Omen, Poltergeist, The Crow and Twilight Zone: The Movie. Each episode is a 25-minute documentary segment on these allegedly “cursed” movies (the only one that people really speak of as being “cursed” in the sense of something supernatural is … Continue reading Cursed Films – Blu-Ray Review
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