Rainer Werner Fassbinder remains one of the most prolific directors of all-time; he made over 40 feature films and even a 15 hour mini-series adaptation of Berlin Alexanderplatz until his untimely death of a cocaine and barbiturates overdose in 1982 at the young age of 37. Along with Werner Herzog and Wim Wenders he was one … Continue reading Rainer Werner Fassbinder Collection Wave 1 – Blu-Ray Review →

The Beatnik phenomenon is often considered exclusively American but in reality Britain had its own form of it. The UK beatniks were writers like Alexander Trocchi, Colin Wilson and to a lesser extent Harold Pinter sometimes they are referred to as “The Angry Young Men”. Most of the American Beatnik writers such as William S. Burroughs, Gregory … Continue reading Beat Girl – Blu-Ray Review →

William Friedkin remains one of the best directors of the New Hollywood boom of the ’70s his run of The French Connection, The Exorcist and Sorcerer is unparalleled by his contemporaries.Sorcerer was a total critical and commercial failure (since been reappraised as arguably his best work) mostly due to the release of Star Wars around the … Continue reading The Brink’s Job – DVD Review →

Car Wash is an odd film, it comes at the tail end of blaxploitation craze of the early to mid ’70s. Car Wash came out at the moment when soul music became disco and has been cited as some historians as the first “disco movie” but the soundtrack is more soul infused even if it became … Continue reading Car Wash – Blu-Ray Review →

Few films are really unclassifiable in terms of genre but The Ninth Configuration is one of those. It is a black comedy? is it a metaphysical thriller? is it a film about post-Vietnam experience? It’s all those and then some. It was written and directed by William Peter Blatty based on his earlier novel Twinkle, Twinkle, “Killer” Kane written a few … Continue reading The Ninth Configuration – Blu-Ray Review →