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Blu-ray Review – The Buddhist Trilogy – Arrow Academy

The Buddhist Trilogy Director: AKIO JISSÔJI Screenplay: AKIO JISSÔJI Minutes: 415 Year: 1970 Release: Arrow Academy Do you know the feeling of being so excited for something that you are prepared to elevate the object’s importance without regard to a personal feeling? A few years back Arrow released a mesmerizing box set called Kijū Yoshida: […]

Film Ruminations Podcast – Blood Lake

Blu-ray Review – A Bucket of Blood – Olive Signature

A Bucket of Blood Director: Roger Corman Screenplay: Charles B. Griffith Minutes: 66 Year: 1959 Score: 6.93 Release: Olive Signature I don’t really care for the concept of a blind spot when it comes to movies. Time, being a master to us all, taste, changing like the wind, and availability all play a part in […]

Blu-ray Review – The Extraordinary World of Charley Bowers – Flicker Alley

Director: Charley Bowers Screenplay: Charley Bowers Minutes: 274 Year: 1917-1940 Score: Various Release: Flicker Alley What a difference a little charm makes. Charley’s Bowers was a very clever filmmaker who doesn’t quite succeed when and where his contemporaries did. This edition is a welcome addition to Flicker Alleys ongoing mission of collecting classic silent shorts, […]

Blu-ray Giveaway – MA – UPHE

Ma Director: Tate Taylor Screenplay: Scotty Landes Minutes: 97 Year: 2019 Score: 6.53 Release: Universal Picture Home Entertainment After watching this film, knowing nothing about its background, I would have no problem believing that it was originally pitched as an episode of Criminal Minds. Click HERE for a chance to win a blu-ray. From UPHE.com: (Amazon) […]

Podcast – Warner Round-up 4

Blu-ray Review – The Hustle – UPHE

I remembered watching a trailer for The Hustle in the theater with my wife and I remembered us laughing and being interested in eventually watching the film. While I am glad to say that this is not an instance in which the trailer had all the funny parts, I don’t think that the film sticks the landing as well as I hoped.

Blu-ray Review – Sudden Fury – Vinegar Syndrome

Sudden Fury Director: Brian Damude Screenplay: Brian Damude Minutes: 92 Year: 1975 Score: 5.67 Release: Vinegar Syndrome Rarely does my opinion of a film flip so quickly after my initial viewing. I take no umbrage in romanticizing no budget films, because they need more word-of-mouth love as their marketing budgets don’t go further than a […]

Blu-ray Review – Shoah: Four Sisters – Cohen Media

Shoah: Four Sisters Director: Claude Lanzmann Screenplay: Claude Lanzmann Minutes: 273 Year: 2018 Score: 7.31 Release: Cohen Media Group Five years and three-hundred posts ago my essay on Claude Lanzmann’s seminal holocaust documentary Shoah went live. It is a film that will change your life forever, and this follow-up, Shoah: Four Sisters, is a collection […]