The Night of the Following Day is a very weird 1969 film with Marlon Brando, Richard Boone and Rita Moreno, based on a novel by pulp writer Lionel White. White also wrote Clean Break, which later became The Killing by Stanley Kubrick, as well as the novel that Pierrot Le Fou is very loosely based … Continue reading The Night of the Following Day – Blu-Ray Review →

Freud, or Freud: The Secret Passion, was one of the oddest films in John Huston's long and varied career. It's a loose biopic of the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, and stars Montgomery Clift. It would end up becoming the penultimate role for Clift and his last real performance of note—his final film would end up being The Defector, which … Continue reading Freud: The Secret Passion – Blu-Ray Review →

Outrage is a very important, if little-seen, film from Ida Lupino. It was made in the middle of her time as a prolific director of B-Noirs and melodramas in the late '40s and early '50s. She would only direct one more feature after this run, the much loved The Trouble with Angels, but Lupino ended up being a … Continue reading Outrage – Blu-Ray Review →

Cursed Films is a documentary series that runs on Shudder. Season One covers The Exorcist, The Omen, Poltergeist, The Crow and Twilight Zone: The Movie. Each episode is a 25-minute documentary segment on these allegedly “cursed” movies (the only one that people really speak of as being “cursed” in the sense of something supernatural is … Continue reading Cursed Films – Blu-Ray Review →

They Might Be Giants might be best known now for being the film that the nerdy indie band of the same name who wrote that song about a nightlight took their name from. This is very cool but the film is actually worth seeing as well. It takes it name from line of dialogue about Don … Continue reading They Might Be Giants – Blu-Ray Review →