Summer Film Festival 2017 – Day Two

Day two of the Summer Film Fest includes Phenomena, The Zookeeper’s Wife, Two-Lane Blacktop and Cannibal Holocaust. Lets start by saying I hate one poster.

Summer Film Festival 2017 – Day One

I watched two episodes of Out 1 before moving onto shorter features. I don’t have the necessary constitution to watch a 13-hour French New Wave masterpiece in one sitting. Back at it after church tomorrow.

Summer Film Fest 2017

Tomorrow is the official state of the 2017 Summer Film Festival in my living room but unlike most quality film festivals I have no plans. I have set play list but I am going to try and knock films off of my watch list.

Blu-ray Review – Donnie Darko – Arrow Video

Long-time reader will note, when I made my Top 15 of 2016 I stopped myself from adding many region-locked releases & Donnie Darko pulled the short straw.

Blu-ray Review – The Ballad of Cable Hogue – Warner Archive

I knew if I tried enough Peckinpah I’d find something that sucks me in, this one does just that. While most of the films are a bit rough, this one is heart.

Theatrical Review – Baby Driver

Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver is tremendous and you should see it. The film has rocketed up into the second position in my rating system.

Blu-ray Review – The Gumball Rally – Warner Archive

The Gumball Rally is little more than a counter-cultural car porno for mid-aged white men. It is fine and when it came out I am sure it was better received.

DVD Review – Pink Flamingos – Warner Archive

Pink Flamingos Director: John Waters Screenplay: John Waters Minutes: 93 Year: 1972 Score: 6.33 Release: Warner Archive DVD Calling this film “a pile of garbage” may be the highest praise anyone can give to this John Waters classic. It is a pile of garbage. From WBShop.com: Director John Waters breaks every rule of good filmmaking […]

Blu-ray Review – Vision Quest – Warner Archive

Vision Quest drips with 1980’s machismo and music. If I had seen this before The Karate Kid, I would have probably like wrestling more than I did karate.

Blu-ray Review – Caltiki: The Immortal Monster – Arrow Video

Caltiki: The Immortal Monster Director: Riccardo Freda and Mario Bava Screenplay: Filippo Sanjust and Riccardo Freda Minutes: 76 Year: 1959 Score: 6.73 Release: Arrow Video There are two names which immediately jump out at me when I think if Italian horror/sci-fi flicks, Dario Argento and Mario Bava. There are more, they may be better, but […]