Inland Empire Bluray Review

I was going to get around to reviewing Inland Empire on Blu-ray at some point but have been inspired to do so with a little more urgency by some surprisingly disparaging comments about it at, of all places, the Twin Peaks Gazette an online community dedicated to the seminal TV show and David Lynch's oeuvre moreover. The general opinion is that this is a dog's dinner of a film and that it has single-handedly killed his cinematic career. ...

Rocky Horror Picture Show Bluray Review

The Rocky Horror Picture Show has always been something of a guilty pleasure dating back to my days as a teenager appearing in am-dram musical revues inspired by it because the performing rights were always strictly reserved for professional productions until March 2000. The original stage show opened in London in the summer of 1973 at the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs which ironically only seated 63 people as the subsequent 1975 film adaption has the record of the longest-running theatrical release in cinema history and now must have been seen by audiences of countless millions worldwide... ...

David Lynch

I discovered the art of David Lynch entirely by accident, although I had shown a keen interest in films from a relatively young age, I usually arrived at them by way of the star appearing in them. As a budding actor I wanted to study the best and through watching the likes of James Stewart, Jack Lemmon, Peter Sellers and Robert DeNiro, I became aware of the writers and directors behind the camera. Stewart led me to Alfred Hitchcock, Lemmon to Billy Wilder, Sellers to Stanley Kubrick, DeNiro to Martin Scorsese and so on; all great artists but, by and large, part of the acceptable face of "Off Hollywood". ...

Tamara Drewe Bluray Review

It seems that 2010 will be remembered as a boon year for movies derived from comic strips what with Kick-Ass, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and the various Marvel and DC Comic franchise exploits there was also Tamara Drewe based on the graphic novel of the same name by Posy Simmonds which in turn was inspired by Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd and set in the fictional, sleepy Dorset village of Ewedown. ...

Cleo From 5 to 7 Bluray Review

From the opening credits of Agn?s Varda's Cl?o from 5 to 7, you know this is going to be a stylish and important film of the French New Wave, a period of Cinema history dominated by Fran?ois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. In the colour credit sequence Cl?o (Corine Marchand), a young and beautiful Parisian, is having her future told and the Tarot cards confirm her worst fears as she awaits the results of a medical to detect whether she is suffering from an incurable disease. The photography switches to the crisp monochrome, hand-held style... ...

Wild At Heart Bluray Review

When Wild At Heart was released at the cinema in 1990 I went to see it 3 times in the first week, this was the height of a strangely cool David Lynch mania that had gripped the planet since he posed the question "Who killed Laura Palmer?" in the groundbreaking, primetime TV series Twin Peaks. ...