Tag: blu-ray
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Blu-ray Review: INVALUABLE: THE TRUE STORY OF AN EPIC ARTIST
by Anthony King Another documentary specifically for Dead Heads. The Synapse Films release of Ryan Meade’s documentary about Tom Sullivan, creator of the make-up effects in the first three Evil Dead movies called Invaluable: The True Story of an Epic Artist is a touching tribute to a largely unheralded artist and craftsman, yet it simply…
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Blu-ray Review: BLOOD MONEY: FOUR WESTERN CLASSICS VOL. 2
by Anthony King Head to the wild west of Italy with Arrow once again. With the second volume in Arrow Video’s quest to introduce underrated and underseen Spaghetti Westerns we explore the gamut of the genre. From a traditional Django revenge movie to the Italian version of an acid western, Blood Money – Four Western…
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Blu-ray Review: HUGO
by Anthony King Arrow knocks it out of the park with a love letter to film preservation. I first saw Martin Scorsese’s Hugo (2011) when it came to DVD. I wasn’t as well-versed in film history as I am today (I’m still not well-versed). I saw the movie as an odd departure into children’s films…
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Blu-ray Review: THE IRON PREFECT
by Anthony King Director Pasquale Squitieri’s biopic of Italian prefect Cesare Mori, The Iron Prefect (1977), is a plodding albeit semi-interesting (in the academic sense) crime movie about the takedown of the Sicilian Mafia in 1925. At first glance one may assume this to be an action-packed poliziotteschi filled to the brim with bright red…
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Blu-ray Review: McBAIN
by Anthony King Glickenhaus and Walken declare war on drugs. McBain (1991) may be multi-hyphenate James Glickenhaus’ last great film, but that doesn’t mean any of the man’s eight directorial features are uninteresting, or boring at worst. When a Glickenhaus-directed picture was advertised, the public generally knew what they’d be getting: men – always men…
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Blu-ray Review: FIGHTING BACK
by Anthony King Pride is a b*tch. In director Lewis Teague’s third feature, Fighting Back (1982), Tom Skerritt plays Italian grocer John D’Angelo. His wife Lisa (Patti Lupone) is pregnant with their third child, John’s elderly mother lives with them, and it all seems quite idyllic. While driving home from a going away party for…
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Blu-ray Review: ENTER THE VIDEO STORE: EMPIRE OF SCREAMS
by Anthony King Get it while you can. This could very well go down as the release of the year. And as we’re all celebrating this stellar release from Arrow Video of five Empire classics, we’re also looking to the horizon for a second volume. Here’s hoping! As we enter the Arrow Video Store we…
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Blu-ray Review: THE GAME TRILOGY
by Anthony King Japan’s unlikable Philip Marlowe. As I dive deeper and deeper into the Yakuza sub-genre the more in love with its characters I find myself. It’s no secret that I love a depressing movie filled with unlikable people. Just recently I admitted that I consider Maniac (1980) and Henry: Portrait of Serial Killer…
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Blu-ray Review: RED SUN
by Anthony King S.C.U.M. Manifesto: The Movie “Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, eliminate the money system, institute complete automation and destroy the male sex.” That is the…
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Blu-ray Review: WARRIORS TWO
by Anthony King Sammo Hung and one of the greatest kung fu films of all time. Early in Sammo Hung’s career he worked with the Shaw Brothers as an assistant director on Come Drink With Me (1966), as well as doing stunts and appearing in bit parts in 1968 in the films The Jade Raksha,…