John Mackenzie’s 1980 British crime classic THE LONG GOOD FRIDAY will be released by Arrow Video in a brand new 4K Ultra HD Edition on May 27th. Synopsis: Harold Shand (Bob Hoskins) is a businessman with great ambitions. Spotting the development potential of London’s derelict Docklands area years before the […]
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FILM REVIEW 10 years after working together on the crime classic Scarface (1983), Brian DePalma and Al Pacino reunited for another crime film/character study called Carlito’s Way (1993). Where Scarface ended, Carlito’s Way begins. The main difference between the characters of Tony Montana and Carlito Brigante is the attitude the characters […]
Walk on the Wild Side is a 1962 black and white drama by Edward Dymtryk starring Laurence Harvey. In the early thirties, Dove Linkhorn (Laurence Harvey) and Kitty Twist (Jane Fonda) meet in Texas, on the road making do as hobos, on their invididual way to New Orleans. Kitty takes […]
Trying to increase my #Japanuary dosage just a little bit more (also see my recent review of Irezumi), I went for Blind Beast (Môjû) next. Arrow Video’s BluRay release seems like a great opportunity to further expand my short exursion into the work of Yasuzo Masumura who also directed this […]
Irezumi (japanese for tattoo), also known as Kiss of the Spider Woman, is a drama from 1966 directed by Yasuzo Masumura (Blind Beast) based roughly on a short story from 1910. Otsuya (Ayako Wakao), the beautiful and ambitious daughter of a businessman, runs off with Shinsuke (Akio Hasegawa), a timid […]