Split Second is a film with Rutger Hauer, made very much in the wake of Blade Runner, so much so that the screenwriter (Gary Scott Thompson) had actually written the part for Harrison Ford. Hauer plays a very Blade Runner-esque homicide detective in 2008 London. Global warming has flooded all of London (as it will … Continue reading Split Second – Blu-Ray Review
Three Outlaw Samurai is a ‘60s samurai movie that’s actually an offshoot of a television series that was successful at the time, for which it was an origin story. It’s a pretty basic action-samurai movie but it's Hideo Gosha time as a director. A ronin who is wandering the earth called Sheba runs into a … Continue reading Three Outlaw Samurai – Blu-Ray Review
Patty Hearst came out in 1988, and was based on Hearst's 1982 autobiography Every Secret Thing (co-written with Alvin Moscow) and directed by Paul Schrader. For those who might not know the story, Patricia Hearst is the granddaughter of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, and was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in 1974. The SLA was … Continue reading Patty Hearst – Blu-Ray Review
Woody Allen may be persona non grata in the faux-woke Hollywood of 2020—so much so that his latest film, A Rainy Day in New York, hasn’t even got a US distributor. Initially, the evil Amazon had signed Allen to a four-picture deal. Amazon had partially funded and planned to release the film but dropped it after … Continue reading A Rainy Day in New York – Blu-Ray Review
Arkansas is a pretty bog-standard Southern neo-noir movie with a couple of memorable names in it. It’s based on a first novel by John Brandon, which is sort of a crappier Joe R. Lansdale story. Lansdale is the great Texas writer whose work Bubba Ho-Tep was based on, as well as Cold In July, which … Continue reading Arkansas – DVD Review
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