The Swimmer Director: Frank Perry Screenplay: Eleanor Perry Minutes: 95 Year: 1968 Score: 8.13 Release: Grindhouse Releasing When I was growing up I always thought that forty was the age to be considered Over the Hill, recently I was told that it is fifty, but I suspect this is on my mind because I am […]
Read more "Essential Series – The Swimmer – Grindhouse Releasing"Birdman of Alcatraz Director: John Frankenheimer Screenplay: Thomas E. Gaddis and Guy Trosper Minutes: 147 Year: 1962 Score: 5.60 Release: Olive Films Okay, my issue here is solely an expectation problem. This is not a fault of the film but of my ignorance. That said I stand by my opinion and will try and explain […]
Read more "Blu-ray Review – Birdman of Alcatraz – Olive Films"SubUrbia Director: Richard Linklater Screenplay: Eric Bogosian Minutes: 121 Year: 1996 Score: 5.64 Release: Warner Archive This film is neither the best Linklater, nor is it the best Bogosian and if you watch it as someone whose formative years were in the 90s then you are going to wonder if you were as much as […]
Read more "DVD Review – SubUrbia – Warner Archive"The Shape of Water Director: Guillermo del Toro Screenplay: Vanessa Taylor and Guillermo del Toro Minutes: 123 Year: 2017 Score: 8.73 Release: Theatrical What an immensely pleasurable experience and with this viewing my top 25 has changed twice in as many days. Also, my favorite movie of 2017 has changed. The Shape of Water is […]
Read more "Theatrical Review – The Shape of Water"Certain Women initially interested me because of its cast, but I was not in a hurry to see it until The Criterion Collection announced they would be adding it to the collection. It is often intentional that I ignore most reviews because my tastes seldom mirror most of the viewing audience. And I think that is why you come here.
Read more "Blu-ray Review – Certain Women – Criterion Collection"Longtime readers of the site will know that if Jessica Chastain is in a movie then I will be watching the movie. It is an inevitability. The same goes for Idris Elba. The same goes for Aaron Sorkin. The question is whether it would be theatrical or wait for home video. But together? Opening weekend of wide release.
Read more "Theatrical Review – Molly’s Game"Letter from an Unknown Woman is a gorgeously transferred movie that drips with the silver nitrate that has stained my memory of classic cinema.
Read more "Blu-ray Review – Letter from an Unknown Woman – Olive Signature"2017 was a great year for home video releases, maybe not for a much else, but definitely home video. Like last year, I have to say that I have not watched everything, nor do I have any interest (or time) in watching everything. The primary rule is that the disc has to have been released […]
Read more "Top 15 Home Video Releases of 2017"The Seventh Seal Director: Ingmar Bergman Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman Minutes: 96 Year: 1957 Score: 8.57 Release: The Criterion Collection There is a thing that I do. Whenever I am having a remarkably bad moment I close my eyes and picture a rocky beach. It is just me on that beach, at least to start, that […]
Read more "Top 25 Review – The Seventh Seal – Criterion Collection"“Where do you want go?” “Doesn’t matter. Wherever you want to take me.” Chungking Express is love: messy, sad, manic, lonely, effervescent, and enthralling.
Read more "Top 25 Review – Chungking Express – Criterion Collection"