Blu-ray Review: Poltergeist II: The Other Side (Collector’s Edition)
Lacking the effective scares of its predecessor, Poltergeist II: The Other Side attempts to provide additional backstory for some of the events that occurred in the first film. While Poltergeist II brought back most of the original cast (save for Dominique Dunne, who was murdered shortly after filming on the first movie was completed), the […]
Blu-ray Review: Poltergeist II – The Other Side
As needless a sequel as one could envision, Poltergeist II: The Other Side has a few genuine scares, and plenty of slime and gore, but for each memorable moment there is a scene of laughable absurdity. Poltergeist II is a film, in the light of its predecessor’s success, that forgot what made the story work. […]
Blu-ray Review: The Outlaw Josey Wales
Clint Eastwood’s fifth film as a director, The Outlaw Josey Wales derived from the novel Gone to Texas by Forrest Carter, is one of Eastwood’s best early westerns. Armed with a screenplay by Sonia Chernus and Philip Kaufman, and music by Jerry Fielding (The Wild Bunch, The Enforcer, Semi-Tough), the film possesses the characteristics that […]
Blu-ray Review: Insignificance
Written and directed by Nicolas Roeg, and adapted from a Terry Johnson play, Insignificance satirizes some of pop culture’s brightest stars of the 1950’s. The year is 1954. It’s a hot and steamy night in New York City, and Marilyn Monroe, Sen. Joe McCarthy, Joe DiMaggio and Albert Einstein all cross paths in a hotel […]
Blu-ray Review: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Collector’s Edition)
Warner Bros. | 1975 | 133 mins. | R One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest first hit blu-ray two years ago, but Warner’s has released the film in a new collector’s edition packed with an impressive set of special features that make a double-dip a real consideration for fans of the film. Included is a […]