Basket Case was a VHS sensation in the ’80s and it was actually the only horror film my parents owned on VHS, I believe somebody left it at there’s. The VHS cover image of the basket always tickled my imagination but I was too young so I didn’t see the first Basket Case film for the first … Continue reading BBasket Case Trilogy – Blu-Ray Review
Ulli Lommel is fascinating figure in cinema because he is extensively a hack filmmaker. Lommel started working with Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the late ’60s as an actor and Fassbinder gave him cash to make The Tenderness of the Wolves. For years it’s often debated if Fassbinder himself directed The Tenderness of the Wolves but has since been debunked. … Continue reading Tenderness of the Wolves – Blu-Ray Review
Gaspar Noé… you either love him or hate him, he is undeniably audacious in this world of playing it safe. His latest “opus” Love is in 3D and it’s extremely explicit and pushes the boundaries of what you show sexually on-screen. Vincent Maraval produced it who also produced the vastly overrated Blue Is the Warmest Colour … Continue reading Love – Blu-Ray Review
Biopics are hard to pull off but often the best are ones that don’t get full cooperation from the person’s estate so the filmmakers have to be more inventive than the birth to death narrative so many follow. Love is the Devil is a classic example of what you can do with a biopic that in some … Continue reading Love is the Devil – Blu-Ray Review
Seconds was one of two films made by John Frankenheimer in 1966, the other being Grand Prix, as different from Seconds as could be. Grand Prix was better-known and financially successful, but Seconds was the more interesting and influential film. Masters of Cinema’s dual-format Blu-Ray release redresses the injustice of its out of print status in … Continue reading Seconds – Blu-Ray Review
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