BR: 100 Rifles (1969)
This may not be the greatest western produced near the end of the decade, but it’s an important marker of several transition points – of the western being re-embraced by studios…
Category: Blu-ray / DVD Film Review
DVD: Verlorene, Der / The Lost One (1951)
A thinner Peter Lorre is Dr. Karl Rothe, rechristened Dr. Neumeister, administering routine prescriptions and treatments to war refugees in a daily grind that’s neither pressing nor interesting…
DVD: Deathmaker, The / Totmacher, Der (1995)
Adapted from the actual psychiatric examination records of Germany’s infamous serial killer of prostitute boys, this is one of the finest dramatizations of a shrink extracting information…
BR: Dark Angel / I Come in Peace (1990)
Craig Baxley’s expertise in delivering action was one reason he was hired, but his brilliant knack for extracting production value from the…
BR: Underwater! (1955)
Hailed in the original theatrical trailer as taking 3 years to make and costing $3 million dollars (ha!), Underwater! was also RKO’s first Superscope film – the studio’s own anamorphic process branded by some critics as ‘the poor man’s CinemaScope…
Connect