Alita: Battle Angel is based on a manga that James Cameron fell in love with sometime during the early '90s. His career got completely consumed by truly awful but insanely successful films like Titanic and Avatar (he is already finishing off Avatar 2 and 3, with plans to do 4 and 5 , but I … Continue reading Alita: Battle Angel – Blu-Ray Review
The year is 1991, and Oliver Stone is slaving away on two feature films. The first was The Doors, and the end of the year saw the release of JFK, which is probably his masterpiece, although Natural Born Killers is on par. He was also in the midst of trying to get Evita made, although in … Continue reading The Doors: The Final Cut – Blu-Ray Review
Coming Home arrived the same year as The Deer Hunter and The Boys In Company C, 1978, not many years after the end of the Vietnam War. Of course, there had already been several films about Vietnam that were not technically “Vietnam movies”—so many of the “New Hollywood” films had Vietnam as a central issue—and then … Continue reading Coming Home – Blu-Ray Review
Border is about a customs officer, Tina (Eva Melander) who has a sense of smell that allows her to sniff out illegal activity. One day an odd-looking guy appears called Vore (Eero Milonoff), who looks a bit like her. She smells something suspicious about him, but also finds him strangely attractive—there is obviously some connection … Continue reading Border – Blu-Ray Review
From the screenwriter of such illustrious and transcendent masterpieces of cinema as The Hangover II and III and Scary Movie 3 and 4 comes the story of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. He did direct the mildly amusing superhero send-up The Specials, but that was written by none other than a young James Gunn. The directing … Continue reading Chernobyl – DVD Review
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