Black Joy is more important as a historical document than for its quality as a film. It's one of the earliest films ever made about the black experience in Britain. It predates the more famous Babylon by a few years, and Black Joy attempts a mashup of blaxploitation elements combined with the more typical kitchen-sink … Continue reading Black Joy – Blu-Ray Review
Obviously the follow-up to Vol. 1 of the American Horror Project, which was very well-regarded by genre fans when it arrived three years ago, this is a box set of three different little-known American horror films of the 1970s. There were massive requests for a Vol. 2, and it was a long time coming. Both … Continue reading American Horror Project Vol. 2 – Blu-Ray Review
Scum is the motion picture remake of Alan Clarke's banned Play for Today for the BBC. That old cunt, sorry I mean "morality campaigner," Mary Whitehouse got it banned, and then tried her best to get the film banned on the big screen and to scupper its eventual TV airing. Clarke returns as the director here, as … Continue reading Scum (1979) – Blu-Ray Review
On The Basis of Sex is a perfectly good, if somewhat predictable, film about the remarkable Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her early life up to around the early '70s. It's actually a better overview of her importance than the incredibly vacuous documentary RBG, which also came out during Awards season—that film seemed more concerned about … Continue reading On The Basis of Sex – DVD Review
People on Sunday is a German silent movie from 1930, and is probably best-known for the insane amount of talent behind the camera. It was directed by Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer, written by Billy Wilder, and shot by Eugene Schüfftan and Fred Zinnemann. Everyone knows who Wilder is, but Siodmak did a lot … Continue reading People On Sunday – Blu-Ray Review
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