Amazon Women on the Moon, 1987.Directed by John Landis/Joe Dante/Carl Gottlieb/Robert K. Weiss/Peter Horton. Starring Rosanna Arquette, Michelle Pfeiffer, Arsenio Hall, Peter Horton, Griffin Dunne, Joe Pantoliano, Forrest J. Ackerman, Sybil Danning, Henry Silva, Carrie Fisher, Steve Guttenberg, Jenny Agutter, Dick Miller, Paul Bartel, and Russ Meyer.SYNOPSIS:An anthology of comedy shorts and sketches based around […]
DVD Review – Score: A Film Music Documentary (2016)
Score: A Film Music Documentary, 2016.Directed by Matt Schrader. Featuring Hans Zimmer, Danny Elfman, John Williams, James Cameron, Trent Reznor, Quincy Jones, and Howard Shore.SYNOPSIS:A documentary detailing the role of the film score and the people who create them.Reviewing a documentary can often be a futile exercise, more often than not resulting in preaching to […]
Blu-ray Review – Images (1972)
Images, 1972.Directed by Robert Altman. Starring Susannah York, Cathryn Harrison, Hugh Millais, Rene Auberjonois, and Marcel Bozzuffi.SYNOPSIS:A schizophrenic housewife has visions of different people in her life and starts to kill them off, not being sure if they are real or not.Essentially, Images is a horror film from a director not normally associated with horror […]
Blu-ray Review – Der Todesking (1990)
Der Todesking, 1990.Directed by Jörg Buttgereit. Starring Hermann Kopp, Heinrich Ebber, Michael Krause, Susanne Betz, Eva-Maria Kurz, and Andreas Doehler.SYNOPSIS:Seven short stories based around the notion of suicide, all from the director of Nekromantik.If ever there was a call for a movie about suicide – and why wouldn’t there be? – then it seems only […]
Blu-ray Review – Once Were Warriors (1994)
Once Were Warriors, 1994.Directed by Lee Tamahori. Starring Rena Owen, Temuera Morrison, Mamaengaroa Kerr-Bell, Taungaroa Emile, Cliff Curtis, and Julian Arahanga.SYNOPSIS:The mother of a New Zealand Maori family struggles to keep her family together as her violent husband and wayward children seem to pull apart.Controversial upon its original release and still packing a punch today, […]
Blu-ray Review – The Cat O’Nine Tails (1971)
The Cat O’Nine Tails, 1971.Directed by Dario Argento. Starring James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak, Horst Frank, Pier Paolo Capponi, and Cinzia De Carolis.SYNOPSIS:A blind man and an investigative reporter team up to get to the bottom of a murder mystery connected to a pharmaceutical company.Continuing their trawl through their catalogue of Dario Argento titles […]
Blu-ray Review – Carrie (1976)
Carrie, 1976.Directed by Brian De Palma. Starring Sissy Spacek, Nancy Allen, John Travolta, William Katt, Piper Laurie, Amy Irving, P.J. Soles, and Betty Buckley.SYNOPSIS:A shy teenage girl with a domineering religious mother unleashes hell with her telekinetic powers against all those who have wronged her.On the back of their excellent release of John Carpenter’s The […]
Blu-ray Review – The Villainess (2017)
The Villainess, 2017.Directed by Byung-gil Jung. Starring Ok-bin Kim, Ha-kyun Shin, Jun Sung, and Seo-hyeong Kim.SYNOPSIS:A female assassin seeks revenge on the man that killed her father, unaware of the consequences that await her.Opening with possibly the greatest five minutes of first-person action ever filmed, The Villainess follows in the tradition of recent high-octane Asian […]
Blu-ray Review – Willard/Ben Limited Edition Box Set
Willard/Ben Limited Edition Box SetDirected by Daniel Mann/Phil Karlson. Starring Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester, Sondra Locke, Michael Dante, Lee Montgomery, Joseph Campanella, Arthur O’Connell, and Meredith Baxter.SYNOPSIS:Box set containing two cult classics about killer rats from the early 1970s.Something of a ‘lost’ cult film from 1971, Willard is often cited as a forerunner for all […]
Blu-ray Review – The Thing (1982)
The Thing, 1982.Directed by John Carpenter. Starring Kurt Russell, Keith David, Wilford Brimley, T.K. Carter, David Clennon, Richard Masur, Charles Hallahan, and Joel Polis.SYNOPSIS:A group of researchers in Antarctica fall foul of an alien organism that can mimic anything it comes into contact with, resulting in paranoia as the trust between the team crumbles.Given that […]
