Redoubtable is directed by Michel Hazanavicius, who made audiences fall in love with that dog in the Academy Award-winning The Artist. This film tackles one of cinema’s sacred cows, Jean-Luc Godard, and specifically his Maoist period. It’s a part of his career that really started when he dumped his previous and best muse Anna Karina for the 19-year-old actress, Anne Wiazemsky. … Continue reading Redoubtable – Blu-Ray Review →

If you want to watch a dumb but beautiful woman's descent into drug abuse and an early death, this is the film for you. Ciao! Manhattan is a shambolic piece of true exploitation cinema that cuts two shoots the filmmakers did with Edie Sedgwick in various years to make a film starring her. She is … Continue reading Ciao! Manhattan – Blu-Ray Review →

How To Talk To Girls At Parties is very flawed, but it’s a grower, and I ended up liking it. Hedwig creator John Cameron Mitchell brought it to the screen, and it’s based on a very autobiographical Neil Gaiman short story. It’s science fiction comedy punk movie, with the unfortunate problem that they didn’t get … Continue reading How To Talk To Girl At Parties – Blu-Ray Review →

With Oleanna, director David Mamet created a film that would play very differently now. It was originally a controversial play, also written by Mamet. At that time he was the hottest playwright in the US and had moved into film work. He had directed Things Change, House of Games and Homicide, and had written a … Continue reading Oleanna – Blu-Ray Review →

With the same director, Robert Vincent O’Neill, as 80s video hit Angel (best remembered for the great tagline: ‘High school honor student by day. Hollywood hooker by night.’), Wonder Women is the type of film AIP made around that film. However, it’s far too sleazy to have been an AIP film. It was shot in … Continue reading Wonder Women – Blu-Ray Review →