Looking into the Zoetrope
Film history is everywhere, and sometimes you just innocently stumble upon it.
Film history is everywhere, and sometimes you just innocently stumble upon it.
Did I promise a small improvement in Blu-ray releases this week when I wrote last week’s Highlights post? Perhaps that was mostly wishful thinking. At least we get one major new title this week, though. No, it’s not a ...
Readers of this site may remember the controversy that erupted back in 2008 over the problematic Blu-ray transfer for the Oscar-winning epic ‘Patton’. Credit where it’s due, 20th Century Fox offers a major mea cu...
I probably ought to start off by saying that ‘CQ’ is a DAZZLING! FANTASTIC! sci-fi, movie-within-a-movie type of flick. But mostly I want to say that almost the whole Coppola family is involved in this one. Is that a g...
Back in 1996, director Scott Hicks burst onto the international cinema scene with his art house hit ‘Shine’, which went on to be nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director. Today (literally to...
Another one of those long-awaited “holy grail” titles comes to Blu-ray this week. Of course, I’m referring to master Italian filmmaker Joe D’Amato’s 1977 sexploitation classic ‘Emanuelle and the...
For the first time in quite a long time, there are essentially no notable day-and-date titles on the Blu-ray release slate this week. Instead, this week is all about cult movies. Of those, there are a few worth looking at.