BR: Runaway Train (1985)
Runaway Train is a perfect action-drama, and perhaps the best film produced and released by Cannon Films, a company that succeeded due to its emphasis on neatly packaged B-flicks for the international exploitation market…
Category: Blu-ray / DVD Film Review
BR: Stay As You Are / Così come sei (1978)
Perhaps an obvious attempt to riff on Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Last Tango in Paris (1972), producer Giovanni Bertolucci and director Alberto Lattuada delivered this variant of a May-October fling that’s peppered with a dash of possible incest…
DVD: Breezy (1973)
In what may be one of Clint Eastwood’s oddest directorial choices, Breezy feels like an attempt to bridge the generation gap between flower children and grumpypantsters by going for extremes in this early January / early December romance in which high school graduate Breezy falls for a presumably late forties / early fifties realtor in Laurel Canyon, California…
BR: It Came from Outer Space (1953)
A sci-fi classic of the first order, It Came from Outer Space is packed with a mass of genre clichés, some of which were seeded in a script co-authored by Ray Bradbury, but the film remains oddly fresh, perhaps because it’s neither a full-on bug-eyed monster movie, nor a minimalist thriller…
Film: Celtic Soul (2016)
Spawning from a mutual admiration via Twitter, actor / Montrealer Jay Baruchel and Fox sports commentator Eoin O’Callaghan decided to meet, and somewhere amid their hanging out came the idea to travel to Ireland and trace Baruchel’s maternal roots, and attend a game at Celtic Park (aka Paradise) in Glasgow, Scotland, and watch the pair’s beloved team in action…
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