Blu-ray Review: Bones and All
Call Me by Your Name director Luca Guadagnino reteams with Timothée Chalamet for another tale of forbidden love, this time teen romance mixed with horror. Bones and All attempts to undermine the cannibal stereotype by humanizing the flesh-eating characters. An acquired taste for sure (sorry, I couldn’t resist), underdeveloped characters and a plot that goes […]
4K UHD Review: Queen & Slim
Reminiscent of Thelma and Louise, Queen & Slim centers on two decent people forced to go on the run. This time it isn’t rape that puts the road movie into gear, but unbridled racism. Ernest “Slim” Hinds (Daniel Kaluuya) and Angela “Queen” Johnson (Jodie Turner-Smith), he a retail employee and she a rising lawyer, have […]
Blu-ray Review: The Last Days of Disco (Criterion Collection)
Released in 1998, The Last Days of Disco was the last film in writer/director Wilt Stillman’s trilogy of occasionally dark social comedies about the so-called “Urban Haute Bourgeoisie” (UHB), a group of white, young, East coast, Ivy-league league elites. Set in the early 1980’s, the movie follows a rag-tag group of people all caught up […]
Blu-ray Review: Mr. Nice
Bernard Rose’s (Candyman, Immortal Beloved) Mr. Nice is a biopic of the infamous Welsh hashish smuggler Dennis Howard Marks. Oxford educated, Marks didn’t set out to be a drug kingpin, but he didn’t fall into a life of crime by accident, either: once he saw how much money a friend was making running hashish back […]