Tag: Malcolm McDowell

Blu-ray Review: Moving On

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin established their onscreen chemistry with 1980’s 9 to 5. Since then, they appeared together on the critically acclaimed Netflix series Grace and Frankie. This year has seen them reunite for two films, 80 for Brady…

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Blu-ray Review: I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

In a career spanning thirty-five years, Mike Hodges directed only nine feature films. Despite his modest output, many admire his unique style. Two of his films, 1971’s Get Carter and 2003’s Croupier are considered among the best crime films in…

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Cat People (1982) (Blu-ray)

Director Paul Schrader’s stylishly atmospheric remake of Val Lewton’s 1942 horror classic should be looked at on its own terms. Released in 1982, it’s likely that the same film wouldn’t have made it to the big screen today. Known for…

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Blu-ray Review: Voyage of the Damned

At first glance, 1976’s Voyage of the Damned must have struck perspective audiences as yet another disaster flick with an all star cast; the kind Irwin Allen, producer of The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974) had made…

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Vamps (2012)

Blu-ray Review: Vamps (2012)

Writer/director Amy Heckerling made a name for herself in the ‘80s and ‘90s with Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Look Who’s Talking and Clueless. After her last two features, 2000’s Loser and 2007’s I Could Never Be Your Woman were…

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Blu-ray Review: If….

Financed by Paramount Pictures and then nearly shelved when executives saw its bold ending involving machine guns, If…. brought controversy and criticism to director Lindsay Anderson (This Sporting Life) and made an instant star of pouty young Malcolm McDowell, who…

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Blu-ray Review: A Clockwork Orange

In a filmmaking career that spanned over fifty years, Stanley Kubrick had a fondness for taking the novels of others and reshaping them to fit his own vision. Of the 16 movies Kubrick directed (including his final film, Eyes Wide…

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