Reviews of 3 unique film noirs: Sam Fuller’s House of Bamboo (Twilight Time), William Keighley’s The Street with No Name (Fox), and Mark Stevens’ Cry Vengeance (Olive Films).
Reviews of two films featuring very distinct perspectives of a brutal WWII battle: the German 2003 documentary series Stalingrad (Synapse Films), and the 1949 Soviet propaganda epic The Battle of Stalingrad / Stalingradskaya bitva (Icestorm).
January’s grim tally of suddenly deceased, and a review of Julien Temple’s musical version of Colin MacInnes’ classic novel Absolute Beginners (1986), new on Blu from Twilight Time.
Reviews of three top action franchises from 2015 – Furious 7 (Universal), Mad Mad: Fury Road (Warner), and Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation (Paramount) – plus an update on BSV 1172.
Reviews of 3 films written by / story by prolific Hollywood scribe Philip Yordan: Broken Lance (1954) + The Land from Laramie (1955) from Twilight Time on Blu, and House of Strangers (1949) from Twentieth Century-Fox.
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