The Long Goodbye is a fun and engaging enough neo noir mystery that features a great performance from Harold Gould alongside solid direction by Robert Altman.
The Long Goodbye is a fun and engaging enough neo noir mystery that features a great performance from Harold Gould alongside solid direction by Robert Altman.
Hard Target was John Woo’s first foray into Hollywood and while not a rousing success as this one doesn’t quite have his visual flair, there are some incredibly hilarious scenes that would make this good for roasting amongst friends.
Mr. Majestyk is a slow developing but ultimately entertaining action-thriller starring Charles Bronson who is in his element.
Bird on a Wire seemed to have the ingredients for a fun action-comedy with the starpowers, especially for 1990, of both Mel Gibson and Goldie Hawn, however despite their individual charms they really didn’t share great chemistry.
The Pursuit of D.B. Cooper is an exaggerated telling of the infamous skyjacking true story and stars Treat Williams in the titular role and Robert Duvall as the man in, well, pursuit.
The Spider Woman Strikes Back is not a sequel to the Sherlock Holmes story but features the same actress in Gale Sondergaard credited as a different character. The Blu-ray from Kino Lorber comes out on November 2nd.
Theater of Blood is a horror-thriller released on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber (after previously being released by Twilight Time in 2016) and stars Vincent Price and Diana Rigg.
Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid is a send-up of the 1930s/40s film noir starring Steve Martin (who co-scripted with director Carl Reiner) and Rachel Ward. The Blu-ray was released by Kino Lorber on September 21st.
Arabesque isn’t perfect and pales in comparison with the likes of North by Northwest or Charade, but the enigmatic performances from Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren was so much fun to watch.
F.P. 1 Doesn’t Answer is a sci-fi drama from 1932 from Germany and stars Hans Albers, Synille Schmitz and Paul Hartmann. The Kino Lorber release comes with an audio commentary and English-language version.
Moment by Moment was a swing and huge whiff of a romantic-drama where the two leads shared absolutely no chemistry and many awkward scenes that made the movie pretty tough to sit through.
Viva is an interesting satirical take on 1970s sexploitation and has some great segments from Anna Biller, however with a two hour running time it does ramble and probably could’ve shed 20-25 minutes.
The Widow Couderc is a drama starring Alain Delon, Simone Sigmoret and Ottavia Piccolo and debuts on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber, released on July 7th.
Icy Breasts, a terrible and inaccurate title, is a decent mystery-drama featuring from what I can tell for a foreign film, solid performances from Alain Delon, Mireille Darc and Claude Brasseur.
Horizons West, starring Robery Ryan, Julia Adams, Rock Hudson and Raymond Burr debuts on Blu-ray through Kino Lorber, arrived on May 11th.