4K UHD Review: A Nightmare on Elm Street
By the time A Nightmare on Elm Street was released in 1984, the slasher flick phenomenon was already in full swing. Halloween and the Friday the 13th films had already made Michael Meyers and Jason Voorhees leading icons of the horror genre. Director Wes Craven brought something new to the table. With inspiration from several […]
4K UHD Review: Enter the Dragon
Released in 1973. Enter the Dragon became the first Chinese martial arts film produced in America and made Bruce Lee a household name. Tragically, Lee died before the film was released, making the film a document of a promising career that would never be. Fifty years later, Enter the Dragon is considered the pinnacle of […]
Blu-ray Review: Portrait in Black
By the late 1950’s, Lana Turner was experiencing a career resurgence. Kicked off by her Oscar nomination for her role in Peyton Place, followed by the media frenzy surrounding her involvement in the 1958 Johnny Stompanato murder, and the 1959 release of Imitation of Life, produced by Ross Hunter and directed by Douglas Sirk, which […]
Black Christmas (Collector’s Edition) (1972) (Blu-ray)
Writer/director Bob Clark is probably best known to movie audiences as the writer/director of Porky’s (1982) and as the director of A Christmas Story (1983), for which he also wrote the screenplay with Jean Shepherd. Despite these forays into teenage sex comedy’s and sweet Christmas classics, Clark got his start in the movie business making […]