To Sleep So As to Dream was the first film from Kaizo Hayashi, and was made in the 1980s—which some historians of Japanese cinema call a “lost decade.” That’s a bizarre thing to say, given that you had some great Kurosawa movies, Akira and the start of Studio Ghibli, to name just a few obvious … Continue reading To Sleep So As To Dream – Blu-Ray Review
A Time for Dying is the final dramatic film from Budd Boetticher, who for most of the 1960s was working on a documentary about his friend, the bullfighter Carlos Arruza. He did work on the usual western television shows of the day as a director for hire to pay the bills, and probably to help fund … Continue reading A Time for Dying – Blu-Ray Review
Mad Dog Morgan is a film that is probably more “important” than it is “good,” because it was one of the first Australian films to reach an international audience in the early days of the Australian film industry. It straddles the line between the Ozploitation films that were then just coming out and the early Australian … Continue reading Mad Dog Morgan – Blu-Ray Review
Louis Wain was a genius painter who made wild psychedelic paintings of anthropomorphic cats. He was also deeply mentally ill—was it schizophrenia, or undiagnosed autism? Nobody knows for sure. He did live a fairly eventful life, so it’s natural that a film would be made about him eventually. And here we are, with The Electrical Life … Continue reading The Electrical Life of Louis Wain – Blu-Ray Review
Midnight is the latest entry in the continuous influx of South Korean thrillers helped more recently by renewed interest in South Korean media due to the blockbuster success of Parasite and Netflix's Squid Game. This film in particular is being completely sold on the fact that Wi Ha-joon plays the serial killer in the film, an actor who gained … Continue reading Midnight (2021) – Blu-Ray Review
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