A week of DVDs

It’s been a bigger than average week for DVDs, thanks to a couple of packages from Amazon UK, plus the usual Tuesday field trip to the local stores. (I first learned that Tuesday is “new release day” from my friend Sheldon when we were at the Canadian Film Centre together in 1998 and have quite […]

DVD of the Week: Colin (2008)

I recently opined about the trend in “found-footage” horror movies, a sub-genre which makes explicit reference to its own origins in the availability of inexpensive video equipment. But of course, not all filmmakers who pick up a small camcorder are interested in that kind of self-reflexive activity. Some just want to make a movie. This […]

Blasts from the past

Criterion Blu-ray review: Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Blind Chance (1981)

Criterion Blu-ray Review: Riot In Cell Block 11 (1954)

Ghosts, Monsters and Swordplay

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