Joe Dante once said in an interview about the current remake trend that "they remake pictures that people just didn't want to see remade." This is actually an age-old phenomenon, and I'm sure the film historian that Joe Dante is would agree—but back in the olden days they tended to remake a film if the original wasn't that … Continue reading Stagecoach (1966) – Blu-Ray Review
Tarantula is a 1955 Jack Arnold movie—Arnold was the key 50s monster movie director/producer, and actually made some really great movies, such as his uncredited role as co-director of the fantastic science fiction film This Island Earth. This Island Earth was one of the few of those films to be paced and structured like a … Continue reading Tarantula – Blu-Ray Review
When this film was made, Steve Martin had already teamed up with director Carl Reiner on the vastly overrated but successful The Jerk, which had Stanley Kubrick as one of its many fans. Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid is an altogether different beast, and perhaps the finest achievement of the projects Steve Martin originated, even though Bowfinger comes awfully close. When … Continue reading Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid – Blu-Ray Review
The Magus is a film that could only have been made in the 60s. Based on the first book that author John Fowles wrote (but third published), which he later rewrote in 1977. Fowles also wrote the script for the film, because he was upset with William Wilder’s adaptation of another of his novels, The … Continue reading The Magus – Blu-Ray Review
The Alligator People is a very silly B-movie from the 1950s that was put out by Twentieth Century Fox as a double feature with The Return of the Fly. Released in 1959 at the tail end of the trend for atomic-themed features, the film begins with Paul and Joyce, a pair of newlyweds, on the … Continue reading The Alligator People – Blu-Ray Review
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