Back in 1984, England was terrorized by this special TV event. The apocalypse begins with trouble in Iraq. Maybe the last thing we need to see now is something this unsettling … yet Severin’s atom-age restoration gives this 1980s Cold War event movie a polish we can hardly believe. Besides being yet another deluxe Severin…
Here’s a picture from a decade ago that holds up well. It’s another accomplished performance from Denzel Washington, who showed nary a stumble in at least twenty good movies. His talented, intuitive pilot is Handed a crash emergency with no hope for survival, he averts total disaster through pure talent and intuition. But the reveal…
Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell light up the Portuguese colony, but on the studio backlot: mogul Howard Hughes hired the great Josef von Sternberg to direct, and then had three other directors reshoot half of the movie. It’s another promising RKO thriller compromised by crazy production practices. The stars still shine, and the WAC gives…
DEFA Fairy Tales 1961 – 1979 – 354 min. – 1.37:1, 1.78:1 Deaf Crocodile – Blu-ray Starring Doris Weikow, Blanche Kommerell, Julie Jurištová, Katrin Martin Written by Günter Kaltofen, Siegfried Hartmann, Margot Beichler Directed by Gottfried Kolditz,Egon Schlegel, Siegfried Hartmann Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast (1946) and Roberto Rodríguez’s Little Red Riding Hood (1960)…
Good luck comes to CineSavant: Silent movie film historian Denise Morrison will be writing special disc reviews for us. She’s long been associated with The Kansas Silent Film Festival and knows her subject well. CineSavant needs more reviews for its silent film aficionados, so we hope we will be seeing many more… Her first contribution…
Are you ready to see what 4K resolution and contrast do to high-quality B&W cinematography? David Lynch’s most humane and sympathetic film still makes our heads spin. Lynch extends and develops the visual nightmares of his experimental Eraserhead for this horror classic, a modern Freaks based on an actual historical personage. Stars Anthony Hopkins, John…
Pairing wine with movies! See the trailers and hear the fascinating commentary for these movies, and many more, at Trailers From Hell. This week, we dip into the rich pool of satire for three films that tell it like it was. We’ll have wine pairings for each. The Great Dictator, from 1940, satirizes Hitler, Mussolini,…
One of Tim Burton’s most creative pictures abandons his morbid-lite focus to find big fun in comic Sci-fi spectacle, a ‘Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad’ adaptation of a set of bubble gum cards. It may not have been the movie-going flavor of the year in 1996, yet we’ll choose its affectionate satire over funereal gloom any…
The film adaptations of Jack Finney’s book The Body Snatchers score rather well — almost all of them are very good. For his foray into studio politics, filmmaker Abel Ferrara chose this highly commercial Sci-fi horror tale, and came up with an interesting variation on the main theme, with a low-key cast and effective, organic-looking…
