The musical is somewhat like the western, in the sense that they were dominant film genres from the ’30s to the ’50s but have since fallen out of fashion. The western comes back every ten years or so, while the musical—probably due to its deliberately artificial nature—struggles to. La La Land, however, might have just reinvented the musical, … Continue reading La La Land – Blu-Ray Review
I first saw Manchester By the Sea at the London Film Festival after missing out the initial press screening, as I had to see a different film before conducting an interview with the filmmaker the following day. I was finally able to catch the third possible screening after trying to get a rush-queue ticket for the big gala … Continue reading Manchester By The Sea – Blu-Ray Review
It’s an Irwin Allen film that’s not a disaster movie, from the part of his career that was before his Towering Inferno fame. It is based on the novel by Jules Verne, which is not considered one of his better adventures and is not as well known as much of his other work. It was … Continue reading Five Weeks In A Balloon – Blu-Ray Review
Sky Riders is a mid-'70s thriller directed by Douglas Hickox, who is primarily remembered for Theater of Blood. That film featured Vincent Price in one of his better roles during his British phase, but Hickox also directed Brannigan, one of the two cop films John Wayne starred in after the success of Dirty Harry (a … Continue reading Sky Riders – Blu-Ray Review
This is an odd little movie that has basically been forgotten—but it’s actually not too bad. It was directed by William A. Wellman, who had previously directed Wings, the first film to win a Best Picture Oscar in 1927. Wellman had been a fighter pilot, so that WWI fighter-pilot drama was an obvious choice, as … Continue reading The Iron Curtain – Blu-Ray Review
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