This gnarly, terrifying, daring horror film receives a beautiful transfer and a solid collection of extras.
The presentation is simply okay, but it’s refreshing to see this startlingly lurid, well acted, and egregiously underrated thriller accorded any love at all.
It serves as one of the definitive American explorations of the weird and precarious relationship that exists between actor and director.
A new generation will now be hooked to Henson’s quick-witted, good-natured creation.
Twilight Time unleashes The Fury onto Blu-ray with a moderately successful upgrade in A/V quality and a paucity of extras.
Though sans bonus features, the playful macho burlesque of Dick Tracy still strikes a pose.
“The most corrupt cop you’ve ever seen on screen,” reads the tagline on Rampart’s poster. These badge-defilers would beg to differ.
The stunning 1080p transfer makes a case for repeat viewings on its aesthetic heft alone.
Dark Night of the Scarecrow is very close to the cult find many diehards have always stubbornly claimed it is.
The Fury is the most crucial movie of all De Palma’s movies.
Rescue Me is a series at war with its own worst impulses.
More raucous character study than Backdraft-style heroics; good but not quite great examples of either.
One is almost tempted to entertain De Palma detractors’ arguments that his exploitation of Hitchcock tropes is nothing but a dead end.
Practically every trait that would come to signify the art of De Palma is at play in the film, many of them, natch, in direct conflict with another.