Steven Soderbergh’s Contagion is an eerie reminder of 2020—fear, social distancing and death all around—despite being released nine years before the Covid pandemic gripped the world. Unlike most films about epidemics that simply create chaos and run with it, Soderbergh…
For information on the film, see our 2012 review of Kino’s Blu-ray. Shot on 35mm film, Scarlet Street is presented in the 1.37:1 aspect ratio with HDR10 and Dolby Vision. Featuring a new 4K master from a 16-bit 4K scan…
The first of what was originally planned as a series of horror films made with Clive Barker, who is credited with the story and (with James Caplin) the screenplay. Underworld (AKA Transmutations) is best looked at as a 1980’s oddity…
Based on the real-life effort from the kids of Elmore City, Oklahoma, to overturn a law in their town banning public dancing, Footloose is about more than rowdy high school kids wanting to show off their cool moves. Though driven…
Blurring the line between the earthly and the sublime, French director Albert Lamorisse’s works often show his characters, both children and animals, transcending the physical limitations of the world. Such is 1956’s The Red Balloon, a charming, whimsical, if slight…
One of the first submarine movies, 1958’s Run Silent, Run Deep still shines more than sixty years after its release. Burt Lancaster stars as Lt. Bledsoe, a man ready to take command of his own sub. At the last minute,…
Arriving on the heels of several The Silence of the Lambs clones that littered the early 2000’s, Suspect Zero isn’t a bad film, it’s just not a particularly original one. It’s another grisly cat-and-mouse thriller where the good guy is…
A late noir, 1959’s Odds Against Tomorrow puts aside the femme fatales and husbands in distress in favor of an apparently simple crime—robbery for the sake of acquiring some much needed cash—and taps into the racial unease of the era…
Sandwiched between Rudy and Friday Night Lights, Brian Robbins’s dramedy Varsity Blues has established itself as a well-respected, lively look at life as a high school football player. Packed with popular rock tunes and a cast of names that have…
Directed by Peter Hyams, 1986’s Running Scared is the story of two Chicago southside police detectives, Ray Hughes (Gregory Hines) and Danny Costanzo (Billy Crystal). They tend to bend the rules a bit, but get the job done. They’re out…