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All posts by Jake Cole
“Need For Speed” Burns Out Too Quickly
Early on in Need for Speed, a drive-in theater can be seen playing a clip from the foundational car-chase movie Bullitt, but the natural point of comparison for the film is, of course, the Fast and the Furious series. From a structural standpoint, this video-g...
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“Pompeii” is a Pyroclastic Flop
If nothing else, Pompeii is so unindicative of Paul W.S. Anderson’s style that it at least confirms he has one. Anderson’s last three features, the fourth and fifth installments of the Resident Evil series and his inexplicable, invigorating take on The Three M...
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“The Last of the Unjust”: Mythology and Reality, Thoughtfully and Harrowingly Exposed
Culled from the very first interviews Claude Lanzmann conducted for his landmark Shoah, The Last of the Unjust focuses on one man in isolation, Benjamin Murmelstein, last of the Elders of the Jewish Council of the Theresiensadt ghetto near Vienna. The film pre...
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DVD Review: ‘Vikingdom’
Vikingdom (dir. Ysury Abd Halim, 2013)
Epic Pictures
MSRP: $14.99
Film: C+/Video: B/Audio: B/Extras: C-
The skies in Vikingdom are never quite right. They are either too-bright and hazy, the way that a light screen of clouds can sometimes make the sun...
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Cat People’
Cat People (dir. Paul Scrader, 1982)
Shout!/Scream Factory
MSRP: $29.93
Film: C/Video: B+/Audio: B+/Extras: C-
The original Cat People, produced by the great horror impresario Val Lewton and directed to chilled perfection by Jacques Tourneur, is a master...
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Blu-Ray Review: ‘Ninja II: Shadow of a Tear’
For a few years now, Isaac Florentine has been one of the bright lights of the direct-to-video scene, up there with Roel Reiné and John Hyams as a director whose ability to frame action coherently outpaces the majority of people making action blockbusters on a...
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There’s Very Little To Admire About ‘The Great Beauty’
Sorrentino's meditation on beauty and potential is a reductive, smug mess that doesn't know where to point its satire.
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Warner Archive Instant Picks (11/08/13—11/14/13)
This week, check out John Ford's WAGON MASTER and Robert Altman's MCCABE & MRS. MILLER on Warner Archive.
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Warner Archive Instant Picks (11/01/13—11/07/13)
Two great film to check out on Warner Archive Instant: Antonioni's 'Blow-Up' and Roeg's 'They Live By Night.'
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Warner Archive Instant Picks (10/25/13—10/31/13)
Films to stream this week: CAT PEOPLE and DEMON SEED.
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