Brazil’s Academy Award winner is the most emotionally affecting picture of 2024, the true story of a Rio de Janeiro household during the 20-year military dictatorship (1964 – 1985). Rubens Paiva thinks moving his family to the safety of London is unnecessary, until agents of the police state are at his door. Fernanda Torres’s performance…
Gary Cooper’s best oater for Warner Bros. may be this sharp action-espionage western directed with real verve by the dependable André De Toth. Coop must play traitor to get the lowdown on horse thieves in Civil War-era Colorado; the on-location action is exciting and the cast is capable — Phyllis Thaxter, David Brian, Paul Kelly,…
Back in 2000, a potential story for an episode of The X-Files was changed into a feature script and became the film Final Destination. That movie was a hit and became a franchise, spawning four sequels until the series paused in 2011. Fourteen years later and the death-defying series is back with Final Destination Bloodlines,…
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 have three films about growing up, and a wine pairing for each. From 2000 comes Our Song, written and directed by Jim McKay. He’s not the Wide World of Sports…
Devil Doll/Curse of the Voodoo 1.66:1 – 1964/65 – 81/77 Min. Vinegar Syndrome – Blu-ray Starring Bryant Haliday, Yvonne Romain, Dennis Price Written by George Barclay Lance Z. Hargreaves, Brian Clemens Directed by Lindsay Shonteff Born in New York in 1928, Bryant Haliday’s better-than-average education included a stay at a Benedictine monastery and a stint…
The COVID pandemic has given new relevance to an entire category of Science Fiction thrillers, and Robert Wise’s original tale of a ‘germ invasion’ from outer space is especially vivid. Michael Crichton’s novel tasks scientists Arthur Hill, David Wayne, James Olson and Kate Reid with cracking the secret of an alien life form — only…
Richard Lester’s superb epic succeeds in every way — with a glorious production, dazzling swordplay, witty comedy, and fidelity to the spirit of the Dumas novel. It’s a showcase for a wonderful cast, and is probably the best movie of both Oliver Reed and Raquel Welch. Criterion’s massive box includes a feature-length, 4-part making-of tale…
Jean Rollin takes a break from nude vampires à la française for a direct-from-the-crypt meditation on morbid romanticism. Inspired by a 19th century poet, he locks two impressionable young lovers in a cemetery, where an emotional response to the maze of crypts and tombstonestakes over. Françoise Pascal has a starring role as la femme seduced…
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 have wine pairings for three movies featuring rock. And roll. Elvis: That’s the Way It Is tells the musical story of Elvis Presley’s 1970 concert in Las Vegas. Besides the…
