Review of A Bigger Splash (2015) from Fox, the second and ‘splashiest’ remake of Jacques Deray’s sun-dried drama of quiet indiscretions, La Piscine (1969) + an update of no internet for another week, courtesy of Bell.
If Luca Guadagnino’s poolside film of jealousies and an underage temptress seems a little familiar to connoisseurs of Jacques Deray’s La Piscine / The Swimming Pool (1969), it’s not an homage but the second remake of Deray’s classic drama (after Francois Ozon’s 2003 Swimming Pool) where repressed emotions and insinuations explode in a peculiarly restrained event that’s still tragic, but a little darkly comedic…
Review of Trevor Juras’ thriller The Interior (2015), new on DVD from Syndicado, plus some news tidbits, and BSV 1172 set to premiere at SDUFF 2016!
Trevor Juras’ feature film debut borrows a bit from The Blair Witch Project (1999) in being a compact, simple story with basic surrounding natural elements to tease and built tension, ultimately giving audiences more than a fair share of scares…
Review of Frank Henenlotter’s vivid and very epic genre chronicle That’s Sexploitation! (2013) on Blu from Severin Films + an Editor’s Blog on creating a Plan B in the event bricks & mortar shops like Toronto’s iconic Suspect Video begin to close in rapid succession.
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