Them! may not be the best sci-fi monster movie to come out of the Red Scare in the '50s but it's certainly the most iconic. The poster alone has become one of the best-known film posters of the 20th Century, and it was lovingly parodied by Joe Dante in his film Matinee, where it was the inspiration … Continue reading Them! – Blu-Ray Review
52 Pick-Up is considered a small highlight of John Frankenheimer’s ‘80s period, an era that wasn't kind to him due to his alcoholism at the time. It’s also one of the very few Cannon films that is of note (the best being weirdly John Cassavetes' masterpiece Love Streams), and the first Elmore Leonard adaptation to … Continue reading 52 Pick-Up – Blu-Ray Review
Edward Bunker spent his early life in and out of prison until getting released for the last time in 1975. He would become a writer and publish his first novel No Beast So Fierce in 1973 which was later adapted into the film Straight Time starring Dustin Hoffman. It remains Dustin Hoffman's finest performance and the … Continue reading Dog Eat Dog – London Film Festival Review
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 – London Film Festival Review
Eddie Murphy is normally terrible in everything possible except his early stand-up but Bowfinger is like what Punch-Drunk Love is to Adam Sandler, the exception to the rule. It’s directed by Frank Oz who is an interesting director and of course a great muppeter and performer in his own right. Steve Martin wrote the screenplay and stars as … Continue reading Bowfinger – Blu-Ray Review
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