Blood and Terror is the latest boxset of obscure Hammer films to be released by Powerhouse, and as always with these films, it's a mixed bag. The set consists of basically two double bills, if you like: two anti-war films and two horror-tinged historical films set in Asia. The films are The Camp on Blood Island, Yesterday's … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Hammer Vol 3 – Blood And Terror
Pacific Rim: Uprising pretty much single-handedly sums up everything that is wrong with bad blockbuster filmmaking. 2018 has seen some of the best blockbusters in recent memory, from the work over at Marvel Studios to even the underrated Solo or the most recent (albeit overrated) entry in the Mission Impossible series. However, the latest, and … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Pacific Rim: Uprising
The importance of the film Buddies cannot be overestimated: it was the very first narrative feature made about the AIDS pandemic. Like many of the first films that dealt with the AIDS crisis, it was made by a filmmaker who would later die of the disease. The director was Arthur J. Bressan Jr., a filmmaker … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Buddies
My Friend Dahmer is based on the autobiographical graphic novel by Derf Backderf, who had been a high school friend of the future serial killer. It’s one of those films where you know where it’s going—it ends as Dahmer drives off with his first victim—but it tells Dahmer’s childhood story. He was growing up as … Continue reading DVD Review – My Friend Dahmer
The title of Berlin Alexanderplatz alone has an almost mythical quality for cineasts due to its length, which is around 15 hours, and the fact that it was the project that director Rainer Werner Fassbinder was desperate to do for his entire, insanely productive, but short career. Fassbinder reportedly read the source novel by Alfred Döblin … Continue reading Blu-Ray Review – Berlin Alexanderplatz
