Marriage Italian Style's title is a reference to Divorce Italian Style, which also starred Marcello Mastroianni and was a big international hit. It also won an Academy Award for best screenplay, a rarity for a foreign language film. However, besides the title and star, there is no real connection between the two films. Marriage Italian Style was directed by Vittorio De … Continue reading Marriage Italian Style – Blu-Ray Review
Lola is the middle part of a trilogy of films, but no characters reappear throughout, nor do they occur in anything like a cinematic universe. They are a portrait of post-war Germany told through the Sirkian melodrama its director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, loved. Lola is kind of the odd one out in this trio because its … Continue reading Lola (1981) – Blu-Ray Review
Trespass Against Us is one of the few British films set around the Irish Traveller community, and even rarer as its characters are portrayed sympathetically, albeit still as criminals. It's the directorial debut of Adam Smith, who as far as I know has no relation to the Adam Smith the libertarians like who died in the 17th century … Continue reading Trespass Against Us – Blu-Ray Review
The '90s had a great run of crime dramas Tarantino completely reinvented the genre, and by the late '90s his style was being aped by lesser filmmakers like Troy Duffy with The Boondock Saints. The decade was kicked off by quite possibly the greatest mob film ever made, Goodfellas, which of course had Robert De Niro. Al Pacino … Continue reading Donnie Brasco – Blu-Ray Review
Ray Harryhausen was a titan (pun intended) of special effects. I grew up watching his pioneering work and I hope young kids do. He is probably best known for his films based on Greek Mythology, Jason and the Argonauts and Clash of the Titans. However, he also made a trilogy of films inspired by Sinbad the … Continue reading The Sinbad Trilogy – Blu-Ray Review
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