Criterion Collection: Love Affair (1939) | Blu-ray Review
March 16, 2022
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Written on the Wind (1956) | Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review
March 7, 2022Despite having directed several dozen films across a career which ranged from 1930s Germany to late...
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Shallow Grave(s): Revenge Twice Told in Zarchi’s Landmark “I Spit on Your Grave” Blu-ray Box Set Review
November 21, 2020Chances are, if you’re familiar with grindhouse/exploitation films of the 1970s or the output of later...
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Criterion Collection: Taste of Cherry | Blu-ray Review
November 3, 2020It’s impossible to talk about Iranian cinema without mention of Abbas Kiarostami, the most prominent figure...
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Exes and Ohs: Regression Tension in Tewkesbury’s Debut “Old Boyfriends” (1979) | Blu-ray Review
September 1, 2020“What happens when you see them again?” reads the tagline for Old Boyfriends (1979), the directorial...
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Lighted Fools of Yesterday: The Grass Isn’t Always Greener in Sirk’s Neglected Drama “There’s Always Tomorrow” | Blu-ray Review
August 25, 2020When one ponders the filmography of Douglas Sirk, one languishes in his successful meditation on stifled...
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Criterion Collection: Bruce Lee – His Greatest Hits | Blu-ray Review
August 25, 2020Bruce Lee is and forever will be the world’s greatest martial arts film star, perhaps only...
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Woman Thou Art Loosed: McKee Mines Our Brutal, Inherent Misogyny in Grisly “The Woman” (2011) | Blu-ray Review
August 25, 2020Arguably director Lucky McKee’s most radically troubling film is his 2011 hotbed of subversive themes, The...