Terry Gilliam recently accepted an award remotely from his Highgate house from the Ventotene Film Festival and let slip he was working on an old Stanley Kubrick idea. Gilliam has said the casting was in place and shooting was expected to start in September but with coronavirus that "ruined everything". Speculation included a possible adaptation … Continue reading New Terry Gilliam Project Announced!
Patty Hearst came out in 1988, and was based on Hearst's 1982 autobiography Every Secret Thing (co-written with Alvin Moscow) and directed by Paul Schrader. For those who might not know the story, Patricia Hearst is the granddaughter of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, and was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in 1974. The SLA was … Continue reading Patty Hearst – Blu-Ray Review
Woody Allen may be persona non grata in the faux-woke Hollywood of 2020—so much so that his latest film, A Rainy Day in New York, hasn’t even got a US distributor. Initially, the evil Amazon had signed Allen to a four-picture deal. Amazon had partially funded and planned to release the film but dropped it after … Continue reading A Rainy Day in New York – Blu-Ray Review
Arkansas is a pretty bog-standard Southern neo-noir movie with a couple of memorable names in it. It’s based on a first novel by John Brandon, which is sort of a crappier Joe R. Lansdale story. Lansdale is the great Texas writer whose work Bubba Ho-Tep was based on, as well as Cold In July, which … Continue reading Arkansas – DVD Review
The Cameraman is Buster Keaton's first film for MGM: he would later say signing to them was "the worst mistake of my career." However, he was still at the top of his game here, and watching it is just a glorious 70 minutes of your time. Sadly, within one year MGM would snatch creative control from … Continue reading The Cameraman – Blu-Ray Review
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