Finding The Way Back was the ‘patient zero’ of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic's impact on cinema. It played in the US for two weeks, but its theatrical run was cut short and, in a huge turnaround from Warner Bros., it was released onto premium streaming. Birds of Prey and The Invisible Man, which had already … Continue reading Finding The Way Back – Blu-Ray Review
Pocketful of Miracles was Frank Capra's final feature, made in 1961. He went on to make the documentary Rendezvous in Space for the Martin Marietta Corporation, about the US's plans for a space station and beyond! Like Hitchcock, Capra remade two of his early films later in his career, and Pocketful of Miracles is one of these: a remake … Continue reading Pocketful of Miracles – Blu-Ray Review
Disclaimer: this is not about the much-beloved Peter Jackson film Braindead, or Dead Alive as it was retitled in the US on its release in 1992, but the 1990 film directed by Alan Simon. This film is based on an old Charles Beaumont script called Paranoia, written for Roger Corman back in the '60s. The … Continue reading Brain Dead (1990) – Blu-Ray Review
What is there to be said about Beau Travail that hasn't been said at this point? Not much, really, but it was the film that transformed Claire Denis from a director vaguely known in France to one of the leading lights of world cinema. Now, she is considered the greatest living director by many critics. When Beau Travail came … Continue reading Beau Travail – Blu-Ray Review
After The Fox is a film that Peter Sellers and Vittorio De Sica made in the mid-'60s, at the heigh of Sellers’ fame. Allegedly it wasn't the easiest shoot thanks to star and director butting heads, although Sellers nonetheless appeared in De Sica's next project, the anthology film Woman Times Seven. Maybe that segment was actually part … Continue reading After The Fox – Blu-Ray Review
