Pacific Rim: Uprising pretty much single-handedly sums up everything that is wrong with bad blockbuster filmmaking. 2018 has seen some of the best blockbusters in recent memory, from the work over at Marvel Studios to even the underrated Solo or the most recent (albeit overrated) entry in the Mission Impossible series. However, the latest, and … Continue reading Pacific Rim: Uprising – Blu-Ray Review
The importance of the film Buddies cannot be overestimated: it was the very first narrative feature made about the AIDS pandemic. Like many of the first films that dealt with the AIDS crisis, it was made by a filmmaker who would later die of the disease. The director was Arthur J. Bressan Jr., a filmmaker … Continue reading Buddies – Blu-Ray Review
My Friend Dahmer is based on the autobiographical graphic novel by Derf Backderf, who had been a high school friend of the future serial killer. It’s one of those films where you know where it’s going—it ends as Dahmer drives off with his first victim—but it tells Dahmer’s childhood story. He was growing up as … Continue reading My Friend Dahmer – DVD Review
The title of Berlin Alexanderplatz alone has an almost mythical quality for cineasts due to its length, which is around 15 hours, and the fact that it was the project that director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was desperate to do for his entire, insanely productive, but short career. Fassbinder reportedly read the source novel by Alfred Döblin … Continue reading Berlin Alexanderplatz – Blu-Ray Review
This review is dedicated to all the Brothers and Sisters who have had enough of the Man! Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song is an enormously important film in the history of American cinema. It was arguably the first blaxploitation film, which was soon followed by the decidedly more mainstream Shaft. There were a handful of films … Continue reading Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song – Blu-Ray Review
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