Blu Ray Review: Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
Kino Lorber has released, on blu ray, the first of a proposed series that never came to pass. Only this first movie, Remo Williams: The...
Blu Ray Review: Murphy’s Law (1986)
Charles Bronson settled into quite a niche during the 1980s when the sexagenarian actor built on his Death Wish vigilante screen persona...
Blu Ray Review: Two with Burt Reynolds, 20 years apart, from Kino Lorber
The two new 2k Masters of Burt Reynolds movies nicely bracket his career, one from 1969 before he ascended to movie superstardom, and one...
Cinema Revisited: Cinema Paradiso (1988)
A classic Italian film in which a man, Salvatore, who has not been back to his home town, even to see his mother, for 30 years, is sent...
Blu Ray Review: Runaway Train (1985)
There is a scene in Andrei Konchalovsky’s “Runaway Train” when a shocked, disgusted Rebecca DeMornay looks up at escaped prisoner Jon...
Book Review: The Cannon Film Guide Volume 1: 1980-1984
Writer-filmmaker Austin Trunick’s exhaustive study of the Golan-Globus Cannon Films ,for BearManor Media, only essentially covers the...
BluRay/DVD Review: Continental Divide (1981)
Whenever a beloved performer dies young, especially one with so much more to offer, there is always speculation as to what might have...
DVD Review: New York Stories (1989)
At the end of the 1980s, an interesting experiment was undertaken by a combo of several producers. Three featurettes are combined in an...
Cinema Revisited: Ordinary People (1980)
Directed by Robert Redford. Cast: Timothy Hutton, Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore, Judd Hirsch, Elizabeth McGovern, M. Emmett Walsh....
Cinema Revisited: Broadcast News (1987)
Directed by James L. Brooks. Starring Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Albert Brooks. Joan Cusack, Jack Nicholson. Released December 13, 1987....