Releasing today on Blu-Ray and DVD, is the latest installment, season 4, of HBO’s Emmy winning period gangster piece, Boardwalk Empire. I was lucky enough to get a look at it ahead of time, and once again, I love how HBO has pulled out all the stops, to make it the best that it can…
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The Sacrament (2013) – Ti West
Ti West has become a bit of an interesting filmmaker to me, I like when he takes his time with his storytelling, and doesn’t feel he has to rely too heavily on jump scares and blood, like in The House of the Devil, and my personal fave of his films, The Innkeepers. Well, available…
Septic Man (2013) – Jesse Thomas Cook
Also releasing from Anchor Bay on DVD today is this film that screened at Toronto After Dark last year, and was one of the titles I missed. It will undoubtedly garner a cult following, but I was left unaffected I’m sad to say. After the initial, so incredibly gross that it verges on the funny…
Blood Glacier (2013) – Marvin Kren
Available from Anchor Bay today is this German horror film that is a bit of an ecological monster menace combined, loosely with the solitude and physical effects of John Carpenter’s The Thing. In the Austrian Alps, a secluded team is researching the ecological impact of global warming and documenting the recession of the glaciers that…
The Rockford Files (1977) – Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones But Waterbury Will Bury You & The Trees, the Bees, and T.T. Flowers Part I
It’s a lot of fun with Jim Rockford (James Garner) this week as he finds himself in more trouble than usual! First up we have Sticks and Stones May Break Your Bones But Waterbury Will Bury You, which originally aired 14 January, 1977, and was written by David Chase. The phone gag this time…
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) – Nathan Juran
Another action flick from Great Movies – 100 Years of Film for the Fairbanks’ classic Thief of Bagdad! This time we join Captain Sinbad (Kerwin Matthews) on a great adventure, featuring some fantastic stop-motion effects by the legendary Ray Harryhausen. Despite the fact that the film is set in Bagdad, everyone is shockingly white, but…
Tarzan The Ape Man (1932) – W.S. Van Dyke
I’d already seen the first title in the action section of the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book, The Thief of Bagdad with Fairbanks, but the recommendations should be a lot of fun! Unfortunately, with this film, we’re not off to a good start. I don’t even know where to start with…
Doctor Who (Patrick Troughton) – The Power of the Daleks
Patrick Troughton’s first adventure brings back the Doctor’s most notorious villains, the Daleks in this six part story that was written by David Whitaker and originally aired from 5 November to 10 December, 1966. Ben (Michael Craze) and Polly (Anneke Wills) are a little dubious if this new person is actually the Doctor. He looks and…
Trailer Tracks: Insomnia (2002) – Christopher Nolan
Robin Williams. Everyone thinks he was just a comedian, but he was a Julliard trained actor, and he could bring out his dramatic chops when he needed to, and he went head to head with Al Pacino in Nolan’s thriller…
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) – Wes Anderson
The next recommendation from the Great Movies – 100 Years of Film book following my screening of Pulp Fiction is a foray into the wonderfully quirky world of Wes Anderson with The Royal Tenenbaums. Now, with Anderson’s films, I’ve noticed you either love them or hate them. This one, alongside Rushmore, are probably my…
