4K UHD Review: La Haine (Criterion Collection)
Shot in black and white, and steeped in realism, director Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine (“Hate”) is often thought of as France’s answer to Boyz N’ the Hood. Showing gun fights, riots, police brutality, and gang warfare, this sprawling urban drama takes an unflinching look at poverty on the outskirts of Paris. Focusing on three primary […]
Blu-ray Review: La Haine (Criterion Collection)
Shot in black and white, and steeped in realism, director Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine (“Hate”) is often thought of as France’s answer to Boyz N’ the Hood. Showing gun fights, riots, police brutality, and gang warfare, this sprawling urban drama takes an unflinching look at poverty on the outskirts of Paris. Focusing on three primary […]
Blu-ray Review: Conan the Barbarian (2011)
Based on a character created by Robert E. Howard in 1932, Conan the Barbarian reached its peak of popularity in the early 1980’s with several books, comic books, and the success of the Arnold Schwarzenegger film of the same name. The 1984 sequel, Conan the Destroyer was pretty horrible. A third movie ended up in […]