“one of the most blatant psychosexual melodramas ever to disguise itself in that most commodious of genres, the Western.”<\/em> Joan Crawford plays a saloon owner who is allegedly in love with the title character (Sterling Hayden), but has a great deal more heat and sexual chemistry with her rival, Mercedes McCambridge. The film baffled audiences of 1954, but has since gone on to legendary cult status. <\/p>\nBefore they entered the Matrix, the Wachowski siblings burst onto the cinema scene with the stylish lesbian crime thriller ‘Bound<\/strong>‘. The movie was frequently called a misogynistic male fantasy when it was released in 1996, but viewed today, looks more like Larry\/Lana Wachowski must have been working through some personal gender issues. <\/p>\nSomething Fishy<\/h5>\n
Don Knotts turns into a cartoon fish in ‘The Incredible Mr. Limpit<\/strong>‘. I don’t think I’ve watched this movie since I was five-years-old, but I have a vague memory of my grandfather finding it hilarious. <\/p>\nThe Bard<\/h5>\n
I’m not sure which is the more unconventional adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest<\/strong>‘, Derek Jarman’s 1976 version or Peter Greenaway’s ‘Prospero’s Books’, but I think these two films would make an excellent double feature. <\/p>\nTelevision<\/h5>\n
Those of you who still have space on your shelves to collect TV series may take interest in NBC’s ‘Grimm<\/strong>‘, Cinemax’s ‘Strike Back<\/strong>‘, or Seth McFarlane’s ‘Star Wars’ spoof ‘Family Guy: Blue Harvest<\/strong>‘. I’m not sure whether ‘Blue Harvest’ was really animated in high definition, or if this is another crummy upconversion.<\/p>\n—<\/p>\n
Out of all that, you can put me down for ‘Grosse Pointe Blank’ and ‘High Fidelity’. How about you? Which titles interest you this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This week brings us quite an eclectic grab-bag of new titles on Blu-ray, from a preachy environmental fable for children to a cult classic comedy about a neurotic hitman. Is there anything in this huge, messy assortment of discs that you might want to buy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":38844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3585,140],"tags":[198,67,6375,3358,5404,3983,1871,3717,5455,5454,2002,1178,194,4020,5453,3978,696,4660],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38842"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82646,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38842\/revisions\/82646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highdefdigest.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}