Shadow in the Cloud – AFI Film Festival 2020
The Claustrophobic Action Thriller is brilliant in its first two-thirds but depending on your tastes will either soar or fallContinue Reading
Tag: WW2
Blu-Ray Review: Kino Lorber’s The Red Ball Express (KL Studio Classics)
Budd Boetticher’s Great WW2 Programmer The Red Ball Express makes its Blu-Ray debut thanks to Kino Lorber’s KL Studio Classics. The FilmContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Kino Lorber’s Confidence (KL Studio Classics)
Kino Lorber continues its release of Writer/Director István Szabó’s most important work to Blu-Ray. Next up is the beautiful war-time love-story Confidence,Continue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Video’s Hiroshima (Arrow Academy)
Largely out of circulation since its first showing in 1953, Hiroshima is a powerful indictment of the devastation inflicted by the atomicContinue Reading
Film Review: Mephisto (4K Restoration)
Presented by Kino Lorber under the Kino Marquee umbrella, 1981 Best Foreign Language Academy Award winner Mephisto is now available for streaming.Continue Reading
Preoccupation 4: The Volunteer Assassins are Midway between Pearl Harbor and Grosse Pointe
Adam’s back with a look at Tom Hanks (then and now), Assassins in films, and the facing off of twoContinue Reading
Preoccupation 2: Support Your Local POW by getting Grizzly with Arm Wrestling
Part Journal. Part Recommendations. Part Keeping My Sanity. As I deeper dive into my rewatch/catchup lists a personal curation begins to form inContinue Reading
Film Review: The Occupation/My Name is Sara (2020)
A tour-de-force performance from young newcomer Zuzanna Surowy is the highlight of this based-on-a-true-story drama about the life of aContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Academy’s Manon (Collector’s Edition)
Perhaps one of acclaimed French director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s lesser-known works, Manon is an interesting, if not totally successful, adaptation ofContinue Reading
Blu-Ray Review: Arrow Video’s Hold Back the Dawn (Arrow Academy)
Directed by Mitchell Leisen and with a screenplay credit for Billy Wilder, this multiple Academy Award nominee gets the HDContinue Reading