After switching from directing music videos to feature films with his punk, post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller Hardware (1990), Richard Stanley would follow-up with Dust Devil (1992), and what was supposed to be his Hollywood debut, The Island of Dr. Moreau, a revisionist version of H.G. Wells’ novel…
There’s no denying Richard Stanley’s Hardware draws from the Terminator franchise, and rode on the wave of post-apocalyptic thrillers where the world has gone to Hell and those who survive do so under a blanket of grime, but Stanley’s economical tale of a revived killer robot rampaging through a spacious apartment has a decidedly Orwellian atmosphere…
After serving as producer on Stuart Gordon’s Re-Animator (1985), Brian Yuzna’s directorial debut is a critique on elitism in Beverly Hills, where privileged Bill Whitney (Bill Warlock, fresh off a long stint on Days of Our Lives) feeling out of place in his upscale family, seeks support from a strict psychiatrist but ultimately discovers an elite strata of society that devours…
After earning an Oscar Nomination for her starring role in Peyton Place (1957) and getting important supporting roles in The Young Lions (1958) and In Love and War (1958), Hope Lange was given the plum role of Caroline Baker, the suburban girl who travels to the Big Apple after earning a business degree, and slowly rises to the upper echelons of Derby Publishing from typist to book editor…
The classic film version of Irwin Shaw’s somewhat autobiographical novel about three sets of characters struggling through the dramatic arc of WWII finally arrives on Blu-ray via Twilight Time in a stellar transfer that features a true surround sound mix (more stereo than directional effects, but very clean) and an isolated score of one of Hugo Friedhofer’s greatest scores, taken from the original recording sessions…
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