Category: Blu-ray / DVD Film Review

Film: She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (2014)

Film: She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (2014)

July 3, 2015 | By

Dore’s documentary is packed with great interviews of arguably forgotten figures in modern social history who proved ordinary people could manifest change, but the degree of rebellion, protest, grand public gatherings, brazen statements…

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DVD: Chisholm 72 – Unbought & Unbossed (2004)

DVD: Chisholm 72 – Unbought & Unbossed (2004)

July 3, 2015 | By

The divisive issues of 1972 – the Vietnam War, Nixon’s re-election, poverty in America’s lower income neighborhoods – were key factors in motivating Shirley Chisholm to take a chance at the top job in America…

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DVD: Spine (1986)

DVD: Spine (1986)

July 3, 2015 | By

As the story goes, two associates with a background in amateur fetish videos decided to take a gamble and enter the feature film world by concocting a slasher film shot on video (SOV), using broadcast ENG cameras to keep their project within a $20,000 budget…

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BR: Bride Wore Black, The (1968)

BR: Bride Wore Black, The (1968)

July 2, 2015 | By

It’s interesting to compare the theatrical trailer to Francois Truffaut’s film adaptation of Cornell Woolrich’s story about a vengeful widow knocking off the men responsible for the murder of her husband, literally hours after the couple took their vows…

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DVD: Boucher, Le / The Butcher (1970)

DVD: Boucher, Le / The Butcher (1970)

July 2, 2015 | By

Regarded as Claude Chabrol’s most Hitchcockian shocker, Le Boucher can also be described as a French giallo, possessing many of the qualities standard to the original Italian thriller genre…

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