In a quick update blog before he scoots off to Japan for a sorely needed and twice delayed break, Slarek briefly outlines why reviews have been seriously thin on the ground in recent months, and considers a hopeful way forward for the site.
Mary Bronstein’s critically acclaimed If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is to be released as a Limited Edition 4K UHD/Blu-ray box set, as well as on Standard Edition UHD and Blu-ray, by Second Sight Films in December.
recent reviews, articles and blogs
A young man who may or may not have killed a man becomes embroiled in events that involve his wife’s murderer and a police chief neighbour in Buffet froid, Bertrand Blier’s surrealistic urban crime thriller, a film in which no-one behaves as logic or tradition would dictate. Slarek stops his head spinning long enough to appreciate Blier’s considerable achievement on Indicator’s recently released UHD.
Horace Ové’s Pressure, the first British feature film made by a Black director, comes out on Blu-ray from the BFI, following a 4K restoration. Review by Gary Couzens.
Another time capsule from the late 1950s to the mid 1960s from the Rediffusion archive, Daniel Farson’s Guide to Britain Volume 2 is a dual-format release from the BFI. Gary Couzens goes back in time.
Don Johnson stars as a drifter who wanders into a small Texas town and a whole heap of trouble in director and co-screenwriter Dennis Hopper’s steamy 1990 neo-noir, The Hot Spot. Genre fan Slarek catches up with a film that previously slipped him by and falls for a work that dares to take its time tying the fate of its lead character in Gordian knots.
Alain Resnais’s 1974 film about a real-life swindler who became headline news, Stavisky…, is released on Blu-ray by Indicator. Review by Gary Couzens.
Time slips in Mark Jenkin’s follow-up to Bait and Enys Men, Rose of Nevada, released in dual format by the BFI, also with the other two as a Blu-ray box set of the Cornish Trilogy. Review by Gary Couzens.