1941 was a very good year for Preston Sturges: he released The Lady Eve and what is probably his masterpiece, Sullivan's Travels, although I have a special fondness for the extremely dark Unfaithfully Yours. In the same year she starred in The Lady Eve, Barbara Stanwyck also had leading roles in Meet John Doe and Ball of Fire, and before the year … Continue reading The Lady Eve – Blu-Ray Review →

In the 90s, whenever Terry Gilliam was interviewed and asked about recent films you should see, his standard answers were Unforgiven and Toto the Hero. I tried to hunt the film down for ages, and first found it in a charity shop. Now it’s available on Blu-Ray, so you, too, can see that it’s a … Continue reading Toto the Hero – Blu-Ray Review →

Perfect Strangers—or Blind Alley, as the title card on this release reads—is a Larry Cohen film made during the absolute wild career that he had during the '70s and '80s. Cohen continued to work on stuff, but by the late '90s he was primarily a screenwriter for hire, including for Phone Booth, although he did direct an … Continue reading Perfect Strangers – Blu-Ray Review →

Split Second is a film with Rutger Hauer, made very much in the wake of Blade Runner, so much so that the screenwriter (Gary Scott Thompson) had actually written the part for Harrison Ford. Hauer plays a very Blade Runner-esque homicide detective in 2008 London. Global warming has flooded all of London (as it will … Continue reading Split Second – Blu-Ray Review →

Three Outlaw Samurai is a ‘60s samurai movie that’s actually an offshoot of a television series that was successful at the time, for which it was an origin story. It’s a pretty basic action-samurai movie but it's Hideo Gosha time as a director. A ronin who is wandering the earth called Sheba runs into a … Continue reading Three Outlaw Samurai – Blu-Ray Review →