For years, Rob Zombie’s passion project was to make a film based on The Munsters TV series. He tried to do it after House of 1,000 Corpses, but at the time Universal decided it wanted to do its own reboot of the series, Mockingbird Lane. That became a one-off Halloween special for NBC directed by … Continue reading The Munsters (2022) – Blu-Ray Review →

Married to the Mob is a Jonathan Demme movie, made when he was really at the height of his career—it’s the one that arrived in between Something Wild and The Silence of the Lambs, the same period when he did his performance films like Stop Making Sense and Swimming to Cambodia with Spalding Gray. At … Continue reading Married to the Mob – Blu-Ray Review →

Directed by Michael Leisen, Remember the Night brings together Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray in an offbeat love story written by Preston Sturges. This was Sturges’ last film as a screenwriter only—afterwards he was one of Hollywood’s first writer/directors, and the first who started out as a screenwriter. It’s a screwball comedy, the genre that … Continue reading Remember The Night – Blu-Ray Review →

The Forgiven is the new film by John Michael McDonagh, and is based on a novel by Lawrence Osborne. It’s one of those “eat the rich” movies which is very in vogue at the moment. The story centres on a married but mismatched couple, David and Jo, played by Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain, a … Continue reading The Forgiven (2022) – Blu-Ray Review →