Category: Blu-ray / DVD Film Review

BR: Masks (2011)

BR: Masks (2011)

November 22, 2016 | By

Andreas Marschall’s open love letter to Dario Argento and the giallo is packed with numerous elements designed to tickle genre fans, and it manages to succeed for the most part in its first third, as Britt, a young student at an acting academy, is confronted by a gloved, masked, saber-wielding killer in her apartment…

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Film: Do Not Resist (2016)

Film: Do Not Resist (2016)

November 21, 2016 | By

After serving as cinematographer and co-producer on several documentaries (including 2012’s festival hit Detropia), Craig Atkinson’s directorial debut comes with a bang as the chance positioning with a camera crew in Ferguson, MI, resulted in capturing footage of the street protests and police crackdown, the latter involving the use of heavy decommissioned army surplus vehicles…

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BR: Most Beautiful Wife, The / Moglie Più Bella, La (1970)

BR: Most Beautiful Wife, The / Moglie Più Bella, La (1970)

November 18, 2016 | By

The initial impression from the poster art and compacted summaries is that The Most Beautiful Wife is a sleazy tale of a child bride or an illicit relationship between a teen and an older man, but Damiano Damiani’s film is a thinly veiled bio-drama of Franca Viola…

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Film: Age of Consequences, The (2016)

Film: Age of Consequences, The (2016)

November 17, 2016 | By

Ostensibly a documentary on climate change, The Age of Consequences augments the rallying cry for proactive and preventative actions by focusing on former military officials who’ve used their experiences in combat and in war-torn regions to draw correlations between radical changes in climate and civil wars in regions that have become arid and infertile…

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BR: Eye of the Needle (1981)

BR: Eye of the Needle (1981)

November 8, 2016 | By

Needle is also a film packed with contrasts and cruel ironies, making audiences never fully side with any single person wholeheartedly…

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