Director Carol Reed had just done The Third Man, one of the best British films ever made, when this movie was shot and released. It wasn’t based on a Graham Greene story, but The Man Between certainly has that feel. Instead, the source was Susanne in Berlin, a novel by Walter Ebert that is long … Continue reading The Man Between – Blu-Ray Review
Hell or High Water is a noir-infused neo-Western about two brothers who go on a rampage of robbery. They hit Texas Midlands Banks, in revenge for threats of foreclosure that could take the family farm. Toby, played by Chris Pine, and Tanner, played by Ben Foster, carry out a series of bank jobs. These early … Continue reading Hell Or High Water – Blu-Ray Review
Paolo Sorrentino was already held in high esteem when his masterpiece The Great Beauty came out in 2013 but that threw him into the stratosphere of International filmmakers. However every single thing he has done since has been a crushing disappointment first with the navel gazing Youth to now his big budget long-form television series The Young … Continue reading The Young Pope – Blu-Ray Review
Animation for adults is a very tricky balancing act. The South Park guys and Ralph Bakshi are masters of it but just doing a parody of Pixar films with sex jokes really just isn't that funny. Somehow Seth Rogan and his gang thought it was and that's partly why much of Sausage Party falls flat … Continue reading Sausage Party – Blu-Ray Review
It's always interesting when a film is a big commercial hit in one culture and in the other it's considered an "art film". The most famous example of this would be John Ford Westerns and Hitchcock films and how French critics proclaimed them to be these great cinematic works of art, which they are of course. Three … Continue reading Three Wishes For Cinderella – DVD Review
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