Reviews of Twilight Time’s Blu-ray edition of Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines (1965) and Legend’s DVD release of its sequel, Those Daring Young Men in Their Jaunty Jalopies / aka Monte Carlo or Bust (1969), plus new videos at Big Head Amusements.
Review of that massive disappointment of 2013, A Good Day to Die Hard, plus some editorial blather.
Just uploaded are reviews of two film adaptations of Ben Ames Williams’ novels featuring morally challenged women – the blazing Technicolor noir Leave Her to Heaven (1945) , newly released by Twilight Time on Blu; and The Strange Woman, Edgar G. Ulmer’s 1946 film screaming for a restoration.
The last review from Hot Docs 2013, Andreas Dalsgaard’s The Human Scale, is contrasted by a review of Patrick Demers and Joseph Hillel’s Regular or Super: Views on Mies van der Rohe (TVA Films), plus a modest Editor’s Blog on opposing urban philosophies.
Yes, it’s true: the first and perhaps only hardcore film to enjoy the benefits of Canada’s tax shelter system during the heady seventies not only exists, but is available on DVD from Impulse Picttures / Synapse Films. I guess this means as taxpayers, we took part in Sexcula’s making, and I’m okay with that. Are you?
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