I’m sure for many it’s been quite some time since we’ve been able to step foot into a cinema of any kind. A sad shame, but we can replicate the experience at home somewhat. For me, I put a Bluetooth speaker behind me that plays people loudly whispering for two […]
Movies & Documentaries
Five Easy Pieces (1970) New Hollywood Icon where Jack Nicholson peels back the Persona (Review)
At the peak of his powers in the 1970s and 80s, they where few actors who could touch Jack Nicholson. Looking at his run of films, it’s no surprise he has gone done as one of the greatest American actors of any generation. We have Five Easy Pieces (Out now […]
Girlfriends (1978) an agonising, engaging dive into the dark reality of the artist’s breadline (Review)
Living with your friends is an odd experience. You get to see their most intimate, unguarded selves. I can only imagine the horrors I have presented to those I have lived with throughout my days as a University student. I once tried to hoover up a spider whilst drunk, and […]
How You Live Your Story: Selected Works by Kevin Jerome Everson (2005-2020)(Review)
If I had to choose one film from Second Run’s new double-disc Blu-Ray of Kevin Jerome Everson’s work to sum up his appeal to the uninitiated, it would probably be the 2015 short Grand Finale. That’s not to say it’s the best thing on offer, merely that it offers the […]
Dawn of the Dead (1978) A guiding light of the zombie genre (Review)
I remember being underwhelmed by my first encounter with George A. Romero’s Dawn of the Dead. With a need to see if I was the problem, my ulterior motives for reviewing this re-release from Second Sight was that, hopefully, my confounded outlook on what I had deemed the weakest entrance […]
Sweet Charity (1969): a musical for its time and ours (Review)
Put yourself in the mind of a moviegoer in 1969. At the time, it seemed like Hollywood was dying, struggling to compete with new, disruptive home-entertainment innovations. Even if they didn’t exist, though, the industry would be in trouble. Studios were ruinously focused on spectacle-driven tentpole films that were often […]
The Times of Harvey Milk (1984): You Can Kill the Man, But You Cannot Kill the Spirit (Review)
Released on Criterion Blu-ray this week is the Oscar-winning The Times of Harvey Milk, filmmaker Roger Epstein’s 1984 documentary about a true, political trailblazer, Harvey Milk. For many people, and certainly those of us on this side of the pond, Harvey Milk only really came to our attention thanks to […]
Eraserhead (1976) A Treasure Trove Release for Fans of David Lynch (Review)
“It’s like a guy with a hunchback growth, and you meet a pretty good surgeon who takes it off, cleans it up, hardly any scars, and you go away. And you’re very thankful that that’s gone.“ That’s David Lynch – what am I talking about, of course, it’s David Lynch […]
Topsy-Turvy (1999) Mike Leigh’s chaotic ode to the theatre (Review)
Art is (probably) dead. Years from now, when future generations look back on our cultural offerings, I feel like they’ll be underwhelmed. Perhaps I’m just being crude and narrow-minded, but the glory days of innovation and experimentation are long behind us. It’s why so many films set themselves in periods […]
Eva (1962): All About Eva (Review)
In 1945, the proclaimed king of thriller writers in Europe, James Hadley Chase penned his novel, Eve. Set in the seamy side of the Hollywood film industry, this psychological thriller told the story of Clive Thurston, a shipping clerk who stumbles upon a talented but TB-stricken writer who subsequently dies […]