DVD: Healey’s Hideaway (2014)
Jeff Healey was Canada’s gift to the blues, and his passing at 41 from lung cancer was a huge loss to the Canadian music scene, especially since the child prodigy would’ve matured into an even greater musician…
Author Archive: Mark R. Hasan
Neo-Noir: Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) + Hickey & Boggs (1972)
Reviews of two ground-breaking neo-noirs on Blu: Carl Franklin’s adaptation of Walter Moseley’s Devil in a Blue Dress (1995) from Twilight Time + Robert Culp’s Hickey & Boggs (1972) from KINO Lorber.
BR: Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Riding on the success of the vicious crime thriller One False Move (1992), Carl Franklin’s follow-up film was the first of a proposed series of films based on Walter Moseley’s former machinist-turned detective Easy Rollins…
BR: Hickey & Boggs (1972)
Hickey & Boggs could be described as a classic orphan film – a movie that vanished after its theatrical release and kind of rolled around TV stations in absolutely grubby full screen transfers that made it appear this effort to re-team I Spy’s Robert Culp and Bill Cosby…
George Orwell’s 1984
Comparative review / essay on the 5 attempts to dramatize George Orwell’s dystopian sci-fi classic 1984: the 1953 radio play, 1953 Studio One teleplay, 1954 BBC teleplay, 1956 film version, and the 1984 film version recently released on Blu by Twilight Time. Hey, it’s only 8,000 words…
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