Don Coscarelli was riding high after the cult success of Phantasm, and decided to do a big sword-and-sandals fantasy film. The title and some basic plot elements come from The Beast Master by Andre Norton, but that's set in the future, not the Bronze Age-type of environment used for the film. Norton was so unhappy … Continue reading The Beastmaster – Blu-Ray Review
Fade to Black is a really fun semi-slasher film centred on Eric Binford (Dennis Christopher), an obsessive film fan whose life revolves around watching old movies. He lives with his aunt, works at a film distribution warehouse in L.A., and is constantly bullied. Eric is specifically obsessed with film noir, with White Heat and Kiss … Continue reading Fade To Black – Blu-Ray Review
Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson was Robert Altman's follow-up to Nashville, which was one of his most acclaimedand successful movies during that extraordinary run of films he had during the '70s. It's smack in-between Nashville and 3 Women, so it was bound to disappoint: while it was one of Altman's … Continue reading Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull’s History Lesson – Blu-Ray Review
Fans of the Bill & Ted series have been clamouring for a sequel to the original two films for decades, in fact, almost immediately after Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey found a more receptive audience on VHS after a fairly lacklustre theatrical run in 1991. The second film went in an increasingly surreal and metaphysical … Continue reading Bill & Ted Face the Music – Blu-Ray Review
Joint Security Area, or J.S.A for short, was the first film director Park Chan-wook made that gained any traction in the west. It came out just as the Tartan Asia Extreme label was becoming very popular—that label became synonymous with Asian genre cinema, to the extent that people who didn't even grow up during the … Continue reading Joint Security Area – Blu-Ray Review
