Charlie Wilson's War was Mike Nichols’s final film as a director, completed before he passed away in 2014 from a heart attack. His reputation was made entirely on his first four features—Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Graduate, Catch-22 and Carnal Knowledge—all of which came out in the ‘60s and early ‘70s. However, his real love was the theatre, so … Continue reading Charlie Wilson’s War – Blu-Ray Review
This isn’t the Philip K. Dick series Electric Dreams that’s expected later this year. Instead, it’s the 80s cheesefest. Electric Dreams was the first film directed by Steve Barron, who was incredibly influential as a maker of music videos (A-Ha’s ‘Take on Me,’ Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean,’ etc.) and films in the 80s. His style … Continue reading Electric Dreams – Blu-Ray Review
The Hunt (Jagten) is an important film, one that everyone in the world should see. It shows how mob mentality can rule when someone has been falsely accused. It’s a Thomas Vinterburg film: one of Denmark’s best directors, Vinterburg, along with Lars von Trier, started the interesting, if pretentious, Dogme 95 movement. The films that … Continue reading The Hunt – Blu-Ray Review
Hard-working director Ben Wheatley also made High-Rise (the best film of 2015) but came out to the general public in 2016, but Free Fire which similarly I first saw in 2016 but didn't come out to the public till 2017, is a radically different film. The first act of the film is about a 1978 … Continue reading Free Fire – Blu-Ray Review
J’Accuse (1938) is a different version of the original 1919 silent film by the same director, Abel Gance. Because of the time period, the film takes on the then-current events of World War II. It is a very anti-war film, and quite heavy-handed for modern viewers – although that makes sense given the time. Jean … Continue reading J’Accuse – Blu-Ray Review
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