DVD Review: Blindness

On the face of it, the premise of Fernando Meirelles’ (City of God, The Constant Gardner) seems intriguing: an epidemic of white blindness sweeps the entire world, with no warning. In a short period of time, almost everyone is rendered blind and everyone is powerless to stop it. Soon, the only person left with the […]

DVD Review: Poison Ivy 4 – The Secret Society

Back in 1992, the original Poison Ivy served to relaunch Drew Barrymore’s career after she had emerged from years of alcohol and drug addiction. That film was nominated for a coveted Grand Jury prize at Sundance and went on to earn a respectable cult following, but an ill-conceived pair of increasingly absurd sequels–Poison Ivy II: […]

Never-Before-Seen Images from The Nightmare Before Christmas!

As the loyal readers of ElasticPop have undoubtedly figured out, I’m crazy about films and television. As a child, I enjoyed going to showings of classic films put on by a film society near where I lived every Saturday morning. In the days before Turner Classic Movies and American Movie Classics, I saw High Noon, […]