Burning Paradise is a 1994 film from Hong Kong-based director Ringo Lam. Lam is best known in the West for directing the film City on Fire, a movie that Quentin Tarantino has been unfairly accused of plagiarizing for Reservoir Dogs. He has made more urban crime movies rather than period martial arts films like this … Continue reading Burning Paradise – Blu-Ray Review →

When The Three Musketeers was made by A Hard Day’s Night and Help! director Richard Lester in 1973, the idea had been around for a while. The original plan was for The Beatles to be the musketeers, but obviously that did not happen, because they were no longer a band by the time this happened. … Continue reading The Three & Four Musketeers – UHD Review →

Master Gardener is the third film in director Paul Shrader’s new “Man in a Room” trilogy, with First Reformed and The Card Counter. It’s kind of remarkable that Schrader has had this amazing comeback after many years of varying quality. He was always a welcome guest at film festivals, whatever his newest project was, but … Continue reading Master Gardener – Film Review →

Brotherhood of the Wolf is a film directed and co-written by Christophe Gans, and was the film that made Gans into a sensation for a hot minute. It’s based on the myth of the Beast of Gévaudan, a werewolf-like creature that is terrorising an area of France during the French Revolution era. A knight called … Continue reading Brotherhood of the Wolf – UHD Review →

Mark Jenkin is a Cornish filmmaker who made a minor splash in Britain with his 2019 film Bait. He took his time, making a few smaller projects before he embarked on his second feature. I never got around to Bait, but after suffering through Enys Men I can’t say that I’ll be rushing down to buy the BFI … Continue reading Enys Men – Blu-Ray Review →