Palm Beach Story is a Preston Sturges who was the first Hollywood writer-director to start by establishing himself as a screenwriter and then moving into directing his own scripts. It's also amazing he had this run between 1940 and 1948 and almost flamed out as quick, he would die at the age of 60 in … Continue reading Palm Beach Story – Blu-Ray Review
Both of these films were directed by Robert Hartford-Davis, a British filmmaker, which was rare for the Blaxploitation genre. He wasn’t well known, with That Kind of Girl being one of the few films he’s remembered for—he was the producer on that one, which was considered a bit scandalous when it came out, and has … Continue reading Black Gunn / The Take – Blu-Ray Review
Jacques Demy may not be as widely known as his French New Wave contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, but he had a seismic effect on cinema in his own way. He mainly made musicals and fairy tales until his death from AIDS in 1990. Recent Hollywood films such as La La Land and Once Upon a Time in Hollywood have worn the … Continue reading Les Demoiselles de Rochefort – Blu-Ray Review
The Invitation has finally been released on Blu-Ray in the UK after it was dumped onto Netflix in the UK. It's Karyn Kusama's follow-up to Jennifer's Body, a film that just gets better with age, and which has been labelled as something of a "forgotten feminist classic" by critics. Kusama actually got her start years previously, have … Continue reading The Invitation – Blu-Ray Review
Hair was the surprise film that Miloš Forman directed as a follow-up to the runaway success of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which is still one of the few films to win the Oscars in the five most sought-after categories: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay. As with a lot of … Continue reading Hair – Blu-Ray Review
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