Blu-ray Review: The Uninvited
Just a couple of months ago, I was writing about American filmmaker’s propensity to remake Japanese horror films. With that well running dry, it seems some directors have decided to move on to Korea. Directed by brothers Thomas and Charles Guard, The Uninvited is not a remake of the American 1944 classic ghost story or […]
DVD Review: Enchanted April
Based on the 1922 novel by Elizabeth von Arnim, Enchanted April is a wonderful gem of a movie. Released in 1992, it is the story of two married women quietly living unhappy lives. One day, Lottie (Josie Lawrence and Rose (Miranda Richardson), impulsively decide to escape their depressing lives in post World War I London […]
Blu-ray Review: Bride Wars
I like both Anne Hathaway and Kate Hudson but Bride Wars is offensive, simplistic and mundane. Marketed as a romantic comedy, the film directed by Gary Winick (13 Going on 30, Tadpole) and written by Greg Depaul (Saving Silverman), Casey Wilson (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon) and June Diane Raphael (I can’t believe it took […]
DVD Review: Peyton Place – Part One
Though Peyton Place hit the air several years before I was born, it’s always been a great curiosity of mine. Through the years, I have read Grace Metalious’ 1956 novel and her 1959 follow-up, Return to Peyton Place and seen the 1957 film adapted from the novel. However, I had only seen an episode of […]
DVD Review: Galaxy Quest (Deluxe Edition)
Though it was inspired by Star Trek, to call Galaxy Quest a simple spoof would mean belittling one of the greatest sci-fi comedies ever made. Written by David Howard and Robert Gordon and directed by Dean Parisot (Fun with Dick and Jane). While the film obviously has a lot of fun pointing out the silly […]
Blu-ray Review: Three Days of the Condor
Rarely is the hero the reader, that user of mind not body. The routine of the reader is antithetical to that of the hero. The devourer of words is seen as passive, a spectator, an observer of others actions. All of which is unjust, for not only is knowledge power but words too have a […]
Blu-ray Review: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
“I was born under unusual circumstances.” And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like all of us, who is unable to stop time. Films are a truly fascinating art form; […]
Blu-ray Review: Passengers
Directed by Rodrigo Garcia (Nine Lives) and written by Ronnie Christensen, Passengers is a mystery-cum-romance film. The plot is constructed in such a way that all the different plot points come together at the end, for a revelation that resets everything we have learned up to that point. The problem is, Garcia and Christensen are […]
Blu-ray Review: Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
Let’s face it, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off isn’t exactly highbrow cinema but it sure is fun. The 1986 comedy made Matthew Broderick a star, cemented director John Hughes’ (Sixteen Candles,The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink) status as the best chronicler of teenage life in a America and made Ferris the envy of every high school […]
Blu-ray Review: Saturday Night Fever
Say what you will but Saturday Night Fever is probably one of the most culturally significant films of the last fifty years. Released in the United States on December 16, 1977 Saturday Night Fever not only revolutionized the movie and film industries but also changed the way people dressed, communicated and socialized. Tight bell bottoms, […]