The Love Witch is directed by Anna Biller, who also wrote, designed and edited the film. It’s a feminist pastiche of 60s and 70s horror and sexploitation films. It’s designed like a ‘60s B-movie, and centres on Elaine, a witch played by Samantha Robinson. Her husband Jerry has died—it is implied that she is somehow … Continue reading The Love Witch – Blu-Ray Review
Light Between Oceans is the latest film from director Derek Cianfrance, who previously made one of the greatest films of the decade, Blue Valentine. He followed it up with The Place Beyond the Pines, a crime drama that somehow managed to contain an epic scope with a contained narrative and Schenectady location. Although Cianfrance’s background … Continue reading The Light Between Oceans – Blu-Ray Review
Directed by Sidney Lumet, The Anderson Tapes is a heist film dealing with surveillance long before that became a hot topic. The fact that it’s pre-Watergate is even more interesting. The film is one of several collaborations between Lumet and Sean Connery. It follows Connery’s character, Duke Anderson, when he gets out of prison and … Continue reading The Anderson Tapes – Blu-Ray Review
The Last Detail is of course one of quintessential films of the ’70s, directed by the equally quintessential Hal Ashby. Ashby had preceded it with what was then seen as a tremendous flop, Harold and Maude, which has since received the acclaim it deserves. Jack Nicholson had by this point broken through as a bona … Continue reading The Last Detail – Blu-Ray Review
Todd Haynes years before he adapted James M. Cain's novel Mildred Pierce speaks on the DVD of The Reckless Moment about 1945's Mildred Pierce as one of the few films which merged the noir with the "women picture". That sums with the film up pretty well it's a balancing act throughout between high melodrama but due to … Continue reading Mildred Pierce – Blu-Ray Review
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