A Bad Moms Christmas Director: Jon Lucas and Scott Moore Screenplay: Minutes: 104 Year: 2018 Score: 6.60 Release: Blu-ray As a long-time fan of Kristen Bell I was excited to see this sequel. Sadly the movie was a little too crude for my tastes. I laughed, sure, but it won’t be dethroning any of the […]
Read more "Blu-ray Review – A Bad Moms Christmas – UPHE"Jamón Jamón Director: Bigas Luna Screenplay: Cuca Canals, Bigas Luna and Quim Monzó Minutes: 95 Year: 1992 Score: 5.00 Release: Olive Films Hands down Jamón Jamón is one of weirdest, sexiest, comedies about an underwear tycoon using a ham delivery hunk to break up a marriage proposal. From OliveFilms.com: From director Bigas Luna (Golden Balls) […]
Read more "Blu-ray Review – Jamón Jamón – Olive Films"Flight of Dragons Director: Arthur Rankin and Jules Bass Screenplay: Romeo Muller Minutes: 96 Year: 1982 Score: 7.20 Release: Warner Archive Rankin/Bass Productions is one of the most important film production companies in my life. Every single American has been touched, directly or otherwise, by the company. These men deserve respect, they are moral educators […]
Read more "Blu-ray Review – Flight of Dragons – Warner Archive"I have been looking forward to this for months. The Living Dead Trilogy, by George A. Romero, was a different horror experience than the movies I had smuggled in before it. In these films horror may be their capsule, but humanities, morals, and ethics is the medication.
Read more "Essential Series – The Living Dead Trilogy"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"This is a difficult film. Its intent is clearly to combat antisemitism but it wraps that theme up in a bow of other racism. It is well made, sure, but not not entirely relevant today.
Read more "Blu-ray Review – Auntie Mame – Warner Archive"Imitation Girl Director: Natasha Kermani Screenplay: Natasha Kermani Minutes: 84 Year: 2017 Score: 8.27 Release: Theatrical Imitation Girl is truly special film to experience. While it is undoubtedly a science fiction film it feels much more like an edgy human drama than what you would commonly call sci-fi. From the press release: Imitation Girl is […]
Read more "Theatrical Review – Imitation Girl"Hello folks, below you can listen Criterion Now 45 in which I we talk about some new GW Pabst films and more.
Read more "Podcast – Criterion Now 45"Longtime readers should know that I am a big fan of gothic romance / haunted house pictures. The Lodgers gave me some solid heebie jeebies which is enough to make me want to recommend the film.
Read more "Theatrical Review – The Lodgers – Epic Pictures"At the request of Doug over at Good Times Great Movies asked me to record a podcast about some of my favorite horror flicks.
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