Tag: bluray
Blu-ray Review: THE REPTILE Slithers and Shocks
Directed by in 1966 by John Gilling (The Saint), The Reptile is one of two Hammer Horror films released today (July 30) by Scream Factory. (The other is Lust for a Vampire.) This film is a hard one to describe, but I'll...
Upcoming Criterion: THE KOKER TRILOGY, THE INLAND SEA, MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION, AN ANGEL AT MY TABLE
Plus: 'The Flavor of Green Tea Over Rice.'
70s Rewind: DOMINIQUE, A Man Out of Time
What, exactly, was Cliff freakin' Robertson doing in the 1970s?
Blu-ray Review: Hammer Horror's THE WITCHES
Okay, so the 1960s were a weird time. I wasn't alive yet, but looking at the remnants of culture and society through its artifacts, you get a picture of both turbulence, effervescent joy, revolution, groovy designs on bright polyester, and...
Blu-ray Review: WANDA Quietly Howls in Desperation
Remarkably accomplished, Barbara Loden's directorial debut from 1970 remains cutting and insightful.
Blu-ray Review: NOTORIOUS Is Glorious
Of course, if you're reading this, you know who Alfred Hitchcock is. If you somehow do not and consider yourself a fan of classic cinema --- Hollywood or otherwise --- you need to rectify that as soon as possible. One...
Blu-ray Review: Criterion Dissects MIKEY & NICKY
A lifelong friend is not an easy thing to come by, and the older we get, the more we can appreciate the rarity of such a relationship. Peter Falk articulates this well in a 45-minute radio interview included in the...
Blu-ray Review: FORTY GUNS Rides Out on Criterion
Don’t be surprised to come away from Samuel Fuller’s Forty Guns a bit dizzy. And know that with that advice in tow, it may be the only time you aren’t surprised during this senses-shattering 1957 Western. Boldly shot in both...
Blu-ray Review: Criterion Tells TRUE STORIES
The dream has come true... In the prophetic past of 1986, Talking Heads frontman emeritus David Byrne veered off the promising road of his successful art/rock band long enough to make a movie. Warner Brothers was good enough to provide...
Blu-ray Review: Criterion's THE NAKED PREY Upgrades the Wild Wilde Life
Cornel Wilde is a colonialist running for his life in 1965’s The Naked Prey, a film he also produced and directed. The more one knows about the life and career of Wilde, the more unique, and therefore special, The Naked Prey becomes. Unshackled...
Holiday Gift Guide 2018, Part 3: Bergman on Criterion and More Box Sets
We are super proud to present the Criterion Collection's Ingmar Bergman's Cinema box set. Not only is it easily the box set of the year, collecting 39 films on 30 gorgeously packaged Blu-rays complete with huge book, but Mike and...
Holiday Gift Guide 2018, Part 2: B-Movie Christmas
Scream Factory sent Mike and myself a bunch of B-Movie horror and science fiction titles and we're covering them all here under the moniker of B-Movie Christmas. Forgotten body horror Brain Dead starring Bill Pulman and Bill Paxton, anyone? Surprisingly...
Criterion in March 2019: I WANNA HOLD YOUR HAND, Plus Weird and Wrenching Indies
Among the Criterion Collection's home video offerings in March 2019, the most familiar to mainstream audiences may be I Wanna Hold Your Hand, directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Zemeckis and Bob Gale. As a devotee of 70s cinema...
Holiday Gift Guide 2018, Part 1: Boutique Blu-rays
Join myself and Michael Cockerill of the newly launched MindFrame(s) podcast as we create a Holiday Gift Guide for Screen Anarchy. Part 1 looks at home entertainment gifts from boutique labels. Scream Factory offers up an outstanding Candyman special edition,...
Blu-ray Review: Criterion's SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE Has It Both Ways
August Strindberg once said, “Could there be anything more terrifying than a husband and wife who hate each other?” The question is raised by a character in Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes From a Marriage (1973), a five-hour, six-part miniseries made for Swedish...
Blu-ray Review: MANDY Now on Home Video of the Mind
Mandy is a wondrous feast for the eyes and the subconscious, as we all well know by now. Panos Cosmatos’ film has defied the wasteland that has become the theatrical release landscape by finding fans far and wide clamoring at...
Blu-ray Review: Criterion's ANDREI RUBLEV Is A Stacked Disc
I've noticed a trend in recent Criterion releases: the paucity of the special features. The default mode seems to have become one or two newly-recorded interviews, an archival video feature, and the in-jacket essay. This is a sign of the...
Criterion in December 2018: A DRY WHITE SEASON, FORTY GUNS, PANIQUE, SAWDUST AND TINSEL
Thinking of gifting a home video fan a fresh new Criterion Collection release in December? (Of course, you can always gift yourself.) Here are your options. The first black woman to direct a Hollywood studio film, Euzhan Palcy made history...
Blu-ray Review: WILDLING Is Plain Weird
First off, Wildling is a very strange movie. It's both strange in its content, but it also doesn't fully gel for me in the second half. Directed and co-written by Fritz Bohm, Wildling has the flavor of a filmmaker who doesn't quite know what...
70s Rewind: GREASER'S PALACE, Jesus Christ in the Old West
Watching Greaser's Palace (1972) for the first time without having any idea that it was a Christ parable, I was completely bewildered. It's newly available on Blu-ray from Doppelganger Releasing and Scorpion Releasing and looks absolutely lovely. The disc is...
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