American Animals is an odd beast of a motion picture: it's part dramatized action, part interviews with the real people depicted in the film. The results is a heist picture about these dumb kids in Kentucky who tried to steal some of the most valuable books in the world from the Transylvania University Library. It's … Continue reading American Animals – Blu-Ray Review
R.P.M. is a 1970 Stanley Kramer film about the student protest movement. Kramer made many films about social issues from the 1950s onwards. Anthony Quinn plays a well-liked professor at a West Coast university that is taken over by the students. He tries to play both sides, pleasing the students but also trying to restore … Continue reading R.P.M. – Blu-Ray Review
Over the years, The Last Movie has become Dennis Hopper’s almost-lost film, with only occasional retrospective screenings and numerous bootlegs, often ripped from the rare VHS tape. As the film's creative mind, Hopper had long-planned to re-release The Last Movie on DVD, and ended up buying the rights back. Eventually there was a retrospective screening … Continue reading The Last Movie – Blu-Ray Review
Crimson Peak is a gothic romance, complete with ghosts and a haunted house, although was sold (misleadingly) as a horror movie. Guillermo Del Toro's film begins in 1887, as Edith Cushing (Mia Wasikowska), the daughter of a wealthy businessman, is visited by her mother’s ghost. The apparition tells her to beware of Crimson Peak. Now a … Continue reading Crimson Peak – Blu-Ray Review
Panique is a French noir made during the height of Stateside noir. The seeds of film noir came out of three specific sources: poetic realist cinema in France, German expressionism and the pulp crime fiction films of the 20s and '30s, which lasted well into the early '60s. The term, of course, was coined by … Continue reading Panique – Blu-Ray Review
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