This is the first of two sets coming out from Indicator with noir titles owned by Columbia Pictures. As always with this type of set, it’s a mixed bag, but it’s an interesting collection of various types of noirs. This one includes films from Robert Aldrich (uncredited), Budd Boetticher, Don Siegel and Joseph H. Lewis. Boetticher is better … Continue reading Columbia Noir #1 – Blu-Ray Review →

This is the second feature film from writer/director Craig Roberts, who is better known for playing the lead role in Submarine. It reunites him with Submarine and The Double co-star Sally Hawkins, who plays Jane, who has paranoid schizophrenia, in a script that doesn’t seem to understand the seriousness of the condition very well. It’s … Continue reading Eternal Beauty – DVD Review →

The Night Porter is a very notorious cult classic that came out in 1974, directed by Liliana Cavani. She made some of the first in-depth documentaries on both the atrocities of Hitler's Germany and Stalin'sSoviet Union. On her mothers' side she came from a line of anarcho-syndicalists, and on her father's side bourgeois land-owners. Her … Continue reading The Night Porter – Blu-Ray Review →

Total Recall is loosely based on a Philip K. Dick short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” written at the peak of his genius in 1966, Total Recall was the first Dick adaptation after Blade Runner (although screenwriters Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett had already bought the rights from Dick in the early … Continue reading Total Recall (1990) – Blu-Ray Review →

Girlfriends is the one of only two theatrically released films from director Claudia Weill, with It's My Turn being the other. She kept herself busy doing TV and theatre work, and eventually directing on and off the screen at various prestigious American universities. This film, however, remains her most popular work, and has become incredibly … Continue reading Girlfriends (1978) – Blu-Ray Review →