BR: Bedazzled (1967)
The opportunity to direct a modern version of the Faust legend set in swinging London with Peter Cook & Dudley Moore must have been an irresistible lure, and like capturing lightening in a bottle, Bedazzled still bubbles…
Category: Blu-ray / DVD Film Review
BR: Jack the Ripper (1959)
Jack the Ripper was arguably the first ‘star’ serial killer, and the public’s interest in gory details proves how little human nature has changed in the past 31 years…
BR: Blue Movie / Session in Amsterdam (1971)
The frankness within Blue Movie is quite astonishing – full frontal male & female naughty bits, with active handling & touching on camera, as filmed by a young Jan de Bont…
DVD: Phantom Light, The (1935)
In 1935, Michael Powell directed 7 films, and The Phantom Light (1935) is among the few of his early quota work to make it to DVD. For North Americans familiar with his more daring artistic experiments with Emeric Pressburger (such as The Red Shoes, or Black Narcissus)…
BR: Vanishing, The / Keepers (2018)
Based on the still-unsolved Flannan Isle Mystery in which three lighthouse keepers vanished from an isolated isle without a trace in 1900, Joe Bone and Celyn Jones’ script unravels like a classic thriller in which isolation + greed drives men mad…
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