Black Friday is the inevitable zombie film set on, well, Black Friday—for those lucky people who don’t know, that’s a day of massive store sales that’s usually the fourth Friday in November. It used be strictly a US thing, but it has now infected most of the developed world. There was another film set on … Continue reading Black Friday – Grimmfest Presents Xmas Horror Nights 2021 Review
Naked is probably the least typical of Mike Leigh’s films, but at the same time it's undeniably the work of Leigh. It’s considerably darker in tone and has a look bordering on film noir, but it is still very much a snapshot of the East London where the vast majority of his films are set. It’s … Continue reading Naked – Blu-Ray Review
Brave New World is the latest attempt to bring Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel to the screen. This is the third time for an official adaptation, and also the third version on television. There was a long-mooted feature film adaptation with Leonardo DiCaprio and Ridley Scott attached, but that version went by the wayside around a decade … Continue reading Brave New World (2020) – Blu-Ray Review
Devi is only the fourth Satyajit Ray film I’ve seen beyond the much-celebrated The Apu Trilogy, which is what made his name outside his native India. Devi seems to have been a turning point in his career where he started experimenting a little more with his storytelling and style, instead of showing mainly just a … Continue reading Devi – Blu-Ray Review
Full Alert was made after Ringo Lam dipped his toes into Hollywood filmmaking with the Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Maximum Risk. American financers seemed to think that Hong Kong directors couldn’t work with “real actors” and always at least initially teamed them up with the Muscles from Brussels—although to Van Damme’s credit, he has more … Continue reading Full Alert – Blu-Ray Review
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