After their great re-release of Juraj Herz’s ‘The Cremator’ on Blu-Ray late last year, Second Run have kindly followed that up by restoring another fan favourite Czech title – Ivan Passer’s ‘Intimate Lighting’. Like his close friend and collaborator, the late Miloš Forman, Passer is uninterested in creating a melodramatic […]
Reviews
St Valentine’s Day Massacre (1967) Roger Corman extends himself beyond horror and exploitation with interesting results (Review)
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)(Review)
They Came To A City (1944) Dearden and JB Priestley meet for an unwieldy thought experiment (Review)
Cure (1997) a terrifying modern horror masterpiece about Evil’s absolute power to indoctrinate (Review)
The Awful Truth (1937) Screwball comedy, Oscars and the Politics of Laughter (Review)
Le Corbeau (1943) All too relevant given the current state of global politics (Review)
The Old Dark House (1932) proof that James Whale was a master of intelligent, witty thrills and chills (Review)
La Chinoise (1967) More fun than the dry, doctrinaire Godard it is accused of being (Review)
There’s no greater feeling of kinship than learning someone shares your hot take, so let’s start this review of Arrow Academy’s Blu-Ray of La Chinoise by praising one of the extras – a great, informative, witty discussion of the film by Denitza Bantcheva. Listening to Bantcheva, I finally felt like […]
Twin Peaks The Return Episode 18 (The Rewatch)
Twin Peaks the Return Episode 18 MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS WHAT IS YOUR NAME? LA-based viewers of the Twin Peaks finale felt unsettled when Dale Cooper drove up to Eat At Judy’s. This isn’t an unusual feeling when watching Twin Peaks: rewatching this episode, I felt deeply uncomfortable waiting for the […]