This Blu-ray makes a fine case for the film being a highpoint in the careers of David Cronenberg, Stephen King, and Christopher Walken.
Hopefully, a re-issue of Ronald Neame’s greatly underrated Hopscotch will introduce the film to younger cinephiles in training.
Criterion’s sharp new Blu-ray of Jules Dassin’s Night and the City ensures the film’s life will extend until the home-video sunset.
Two adaptations of works by a masterful author, one pretty solid and one far below masterful.
To say that El Cid is the most intelligent of the elephantine epics of the early ’60s is to damn it with faint praise.
A deluxe DVD package to match the grandeur of Mann’s admirable epic.
It belongs firmly in the good company of the early auteurist “Masters of Horror” period of Stephen King adaptations.
Don’t let the fact that visible breath and frosty misery take priority over exploding heads and fetus-licking snow you.
Though it is occasionally slow going, Stephanie Beacham’s operatic shrieking makes good on the title’s promise.
Asylum is a fun, old-fashioned taste of post-mod, pre-1980s macabre in British cinema.
Following the fundamental rules of the 18th-century gothic ghost story, the film is slow moving but frequently lurid.
The atmosphere and theatrics of the Amicus presentation make it a more than worthwhile trip down memory lane for die-hard horror buffs.
The film’s desolate vision of city life is enough to make any aspiring crook head straight for the ‘burbs.
Jules Dassin’s London is a malevolent urban nightmare, a tangled web of disorienting murkiness and dastardly double-crosses.