The Hunt and the Shunt: Brian Yuzna’s Society (1989)
Review of Brian Yuzna’s supreme cult film Society (1989), new on Blu in a sexy special limited edition from Arrow Video / MVD Visual.
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BR: Society (1989)
After serving as producer on Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator (1985), Brian Yuzna’s directorial debut is a critique on elitism in Beverly Hills, where privileged Bill Whitney (Bill Warlock, fresh off a long stint on Days of Our Lives) feeling out of place in his upscale family, seeks support from a strict psychiatrist but ultimately discovers an elite strata of society that devours…
A Hope Lange Double-Header: The Best of Everything + The Young Lions on Blu
Reviews of two classic films with underrated actress Hope Lange – Jean Negulesco’s The Best of Everything (1959) + Edward Dmytryk’s The Young Lions on Blu via Twilight Time.
BR: Best of Everything, The (1959)
After earning an Oscar Nomination for her starring role in Peyton Place (1957) and getting important supporting roles in The Young Lions (1958) and In Love and War (1958), Hope Lange was given the plum role of Caroline Baker, the suburban girl who travels to the Big Apple after earning a business degree, and slowly rises to the upper echelons of Derby Publishing from typist to book editor…
BR: Young Lions, The (1958)
The classic film version of Irwin Shaw’s somewhat autobiographical novel about three sets of characters struggling through the dramatic arc of WWII finally arrives on Blu-ray via Twilight Time in a stellar transfer that features a true surround sound mix (more stereo than directional effects, but very clean) and an isolated score of one of Hugo Friedhofer’s greatest scores, taken from the original recording sessions…
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