Category: EDITOR’S BLOG

The Return of the Byzantine Mystery: Jean-Christophe Grangé’s The Passenger (2014)

The Return of the Byzantine Mystery: Jean-Christophe Grangé’s The Passenger (2014)

December 21, 2016 | By

Review of The Passenger / Le Passager (2014), the French detective mini-series based on the novel and written by Jean-Christophe Grangé, and released on DVD via MHz Networks.

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Robert Aldrich Smackdown: …All the Marbles (1981)

Robert Aldrich Smackdown: …All the Marbles (1981)

December 17, 2016 | By

Robert Aldrich’s directorial swan song, the underrated wrestling comedy …All the Marbles / aka California Dolls (1981), is covered through the magic of dead home video format CED!

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Kennedy, Kemper, and The Killing of America (1981)

Kennedy, Kemper, and The Killing of America (1981)

December 15, 2016 | By

Review of The Killing of America (1981), a grim chronicle of violent America from director Sheldon Renan and co-writer Leonard Schrader, making its North American home video debut via Severin Films on Blu.

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Revisiting Bubber: Arthur Penn’s The Chase (1966)

Revisiting Bubber: Arthur Penn’s The Chase (1966)

December 14, 2016 | By

Revisiting Arthur Penn’s film version of Horton Foote’s The Chase (1966), new on Blu from Twilight Time.

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Hollows, Eyeballs, and Bees, Oh My: The Puzzling Miss Peregrine

Hollows, Eyeballs, and Bees, Oh My: The Puzzling Miss Peregrine

December 13, 2016 | By

Review of Tim Burton’s Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016), based on the novel by Ransom Riggs, and released on disc by Fox.

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