Category: Blu-ray / DVD Film Review

BR: Hickey & Boggs (1972)

BR: Hickey & Boggs (1972)

July 13, 2016 | By

Hickey & Boggs could be described as a classic orphan film – a movie that vanished after its theatrical release and kind of rolled around TV stations in absolutely grubby full screen transfers that made it appear this effort to re-team I Spy’s Robert Culp and Bill Cosby…

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BR: 1984 / Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

BR: 1984 / Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

July 4, 2016 | By

Comparative review / essay on the 5 attempts to dramatize George Orwell’s dystopian sci-fi classic 1984: the 1953 radio play, 1953 Studio One teleplay, 1954 BBC teleplay, 1956 film version, and the 1984 film version recently released on Blu by Twilight Time…

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DVD: Xtro (1982)

DVD: Xtro (1982)

June 25, 2016 | By

How much joy horror connoisseurs received after searching for, taking risks in acquiring, and patiently watching Xtro is as unknown as the mathematical variable X, but this is a special kind of weirdness with which some will wholly bond, expressly because it makes no bloody sense…

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BR: Happy Ending, The (1969)

BR: Happy Ending, The (1969)

June 18, 2016 | By

The title of Richard Brooks’ 19th feature film as director infers a story with a classic alls-well-that-ends-well finale, but The Happy Ending proved to be something that goes against the grain of a classic Hollywood saga of bored privileged housewives boozing and bed-hopping and clothes shopping to their hearts’ content before hitting sleazy lows…

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DVD: $ (1971)

DVD: $ (1971)

June 18, 2016 | By

Richard Brooks’ extremely fluffy bank robbery flick $ (“dollars”) borrows elements from the best while remaining very tongue-in cheek in spite of some mean behaviour and bursts of violence.
Shot entirely on location in Hamburg, Germany…

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