Guest post by Jon Vickers. My love affair with the sublime films of Japanese master filmmaker Koreeda Hirokazu (Hirokazu Kore-eda) began more than 25 years ago on March 7, 1997, in the small town of Three Oaks, Michigan. Maborosi had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival in September of 1995 (where it was… Read more »
Feature Articles
Physical Media Isn’t Dead, It Just Smells Funny: Fun City Editions, 88 Films, Arrow Video, and Criterion Blu-ray Reviews for August 2022
Full transparency: all Blu-rays reviewed were provided by Fun City Editions, 88 Films, Arrow Video, and the Criterion Collection. It’s a juicy season for the devotees of the disc. Movies of all makes and models find their way on this month’s round up. From Fun City Editions, we have the end-of-the-’70’s-tinged neo-noir starring Lisa Eichhorn,… Read more »
Shaun of the Dead: Why Have Two Genres When You Can Have Them All?
Guest post by Alex Brannan. Horror and comedy – the salty and sweet of genre categories. I feel much has already been made of the horror-comedy as a seemingly incompatible hybrid that nevertheless persists. Not only does it persist, it has lived a life nearly as long as the cinema itself. The playful supernatural fantasies… Read more »
On Pasolini and Pasolini
Guest post by Chris Forrester. Ask any cinephile what unmade film haunts them the most and they’ll certainly have an answer. Maybe it’s Jodorowsky’s much-obsessed-over Dune adaptation, maybe it’s Kubrick’s Napoleon – trumped by the financial failure of Sergei Bondarchuk’s Waterloo – or his version of A.I., eventually directed by Steven Spielberg in 2001 (of… Read more »
Where High School Never Ends
Before viewing Halina Reijn’s Bodies, Bodies, Bodies, I purposefully tried to read as little as possible about the film so I could watch it with no spoilers as horror reviews often give a few away. In the broader spectrum of horror, I wasn’t sure where the movie would land; some early indications indicated more comedic… Read more »
Libeled Lady and the Sophisticated Silliness of William Powell
When the New York Evening Star carelessly prints a false story about society dame Connie Allenbury (Myrna Loy) that results in a $5 million libel suit, editor Warren Haggerty (Spencer Tracy) decides to resolve the situation by hiring the sneakiest, smoothest operator he knows: ex-Evening Star reporter Bill Chandler (William Powell). The men don’t share… Read more »