The Wolf of Wall Street is Martin Scorsese’s most successful movie to date. It’s a biographical black comedy about Jordan Belfort, who is an absolute piece of shit. A little bit of creative license has been employed, but almost everything seen on screen actually happened to the real Belfort. Belfort was originally a stockbroker for … Continue reading The Wolf of Wall Street – UHD Review
Lost Highway is a David Lynch film made in 1997, which at the time arrived to a very poor reception—so much that when Siskel & Ebert gave the film “two thumbs down,” Lynch put it on the poster as “two more great reasons to see Lost Highway”! It was considered incoherent by most critics at … Continue reading Lost Highway – Blu-Ray Review
The Most Dangerous Game is a rock-solid early horror/thriller from Irving Pichel and Ernest B. Schoedsack. If the name of Schoedsack rings a bell, that’s because he was one of the co-directors of King Kong with Merian C. Cooper, who also served as a associate producer on this film. It may not have been as influential as King Kong, but … Continue reading The Most Dangerous Game (1932) – Blu-Ray Review
The Spine of Night is an animated fantasy film that uses rotoscope, which is sadly a rare technique these days, with just Richard Linklater flying the flag in more recent times. Philip Gelatt and Morgan Galen King co-directed: King's background is in animation, whilst Gelatt's is in live-action filmmaking. This film owes a great deal to … Continue reading The Spine of Night – Blu-Ray Review
Maniacal Mayhem is a set of Boris Karloff films from the vault of Universal Pictures, with three features made between 1936 and 1951. It certainly isn’t a collection of his best work, but The Invisible Ray finds Karloff together with Bela Lugosi, as does Black Friday. The third film is The Strange Door. The Invisible … Continue reading Karloff in Maniacal Mayhem – Blu-Ray Review
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