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
The Don is Dead is a quickie studio film made to capitalise on the success of The Godfather. It was directed by Richard Fleischer, a great old-school, no-bullshit workman director who also made some of my favourite films, such as Soylent Green, 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea and Compulsion. This movie came out after the … Continue reading The Don is Dead – Blu-Ray Review
The '90s was a strange period in Paul Schrader's career, following on from its early heights in the '70s through to his magnum opus Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters. The New Hollywood was long dead by the time that Schrader got back from his adventure in Japan while making that film, which he followed … Continue reading Light Sleeper – Blu-Ray Review
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