Dave Made a Maze is a fun, but at times unsatisfying, stab at surrealist comedy, which owes much to the work of Michel Gondry. It has the handmade quality of his music videos and films, and the primary tactile element is cardboard. It’s very endearing to the viewer. It also feels like a extended episode … Continue reading Dave Made A Maze – Blu-Ray Review
Francis Ford Coppola made numerous films immediately after the box office failure of One From the Heart, averaging one film per year up until the early 90s, when the run finished with Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Gardens of Stone remains one of his least seen but more interesting works made during this period of his career. He … Continue reading Gardens of Stone – Blu-Ray Review
Breakout is a film from the early '70s that had an extraordinary cast, including Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Robert Duvall, John Huston, Sheree North and Randy Quaid. The film's big problem was that it didn't know what to do with the talent assembled for what was in actuality a very bland prison-break action flick. It … Continue reading Breakout – Blu-Ray Review
Waterworld is often slated as one of the biggest flops of all-time, but that's actually completely false: it's been in profit for at least two decades at this point, and its box-office takings were far better then has often been reported. It's a film that reunited the director and star of Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves and, more … Continue reading Waterworld – Blu-Ray Review
True Stories is the one and only film that David Byrne has directed. Made at the tail end of his time with Talking Heads, which had basically fallen apart at that point. Although they did release a few more albums, Byrne and his bandmates had fallen out. The divide could already be seen in the … Continue reading True Stories – Blu-Ray Review
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