Highly Recommended THE MOVIES: Japanese movies made after World War II that deal directly with the post-War conditions following the country’s defeat and grappling with the U.S.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Click an image to view Blu-ray screenshot with 1080p resolution.
Recommended The Movie: Crashout , released in 1955, follows a group of six convicts (William Bendix, Arthur Kennedy, Luther Adler, Gene Evans, William Talman and Marshall Thompson) after they escape from prison in a big “crashout” with several others who didn’t make it out very far. The six lucky ones quickly find an old mine shaft where they hide out for a couple days and plan their next moves …
Recommended The Movie: From Ralph Bakshi, the man who brought Robert Crumb’s Fritz The Cat to animated form a year earlier, comes 1973’s bizarre counter culture animated feature, Heavy Traffic . Given that Fritz and its more explicit content became a huge box office hit when released, it probably won’t surprise too many to learn that Bakshi returns to that same adult landscape for this mix of …
Recommended “God, you’re a shit, you know that?” “Yes, and since you know it, what the hell are you doing here?” Gowan McGland (Tom Conti) is indeed a shit.
Highly Recommended At Long Last Love (1975), unavailable for decades and regarded as one of the great cinematic calamities of the ’70s is, at long last, out on Blu-ray and available for reassessment. Ultimately, the picture doesn’t quite gel like it should, but neither is it anywhere near as bad as its reputation would suggest
Highly Recommended I was amazed at how well the trailer of Stoker was able to reel me in. Marketing campaigns typically only have the ability to make me say yay or nay, but this time, I actually found myself intrigued on a much deeper level. There were flashes that indicated a tense love triangle would revolve around a man seducing both mother and daughter – The former a reflection of what …
Recommended The Movie: The directorial debut of Eric Red (who also wrote), 1989’s Cohen And Tate begins at a farm, looking as serene and peaceful as you’d expect, except for the armed guards surrounding the house.
Highly Recommended The Movie: With the news of the day covering things like America’s security agencies monitoring their citizens’ phone calls and communications in various electronic forms, the Oscar-nominated Dror Moreh documentary The Gatekeepers couldn’t see a better time for a video release. Moreh interviewed the last six former directors of the Shin Bet, the principal security organization …
Highly Recommended During the early 1930s, ambitious comedy producer Hal Roach, anxious to move away from the two-reel comedies for which he was famous, decided that his ticket to bigger and better things lay in feature-length, lavishly costumed adaptations of operettas. And yet the resulting, dramatically wobbly films, Fra Diavolo , Babes in Toyland , and The Bohemian Girl , would be forgotten …