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1 week ago | 
avforums.com | Simon Crust |Casimir Harlow |Mark Costello |Ian Collen
La Haine Review Over 30 years ago, the 'accidental' police shooting of a young Zairian immigrant ignited the then-latest in a series of Paris riots. It also inspired a young 27-year old French filmmaker to immediately start working on a screenplay - a glimmer of insight into the urban deprivation within Paris's multicultural ghettos.
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1 week ago | 
avforums.com | Mark Costello |Simon Crust |Casimir Harlow |Ian Collen
Cuckoo Movie Review Well damn! When I agreed to Cuckoo as a review disc, this was not the film that came to mind. My head immediately went to an asylum and Jack Nicholson’s grinning face, so of course I agreed.
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2 weeks ago | 
avforums.com | Simon Crust
Nosferatu Movie Review It’s quite clear that writer/director Robert Eggers, much like myself, loves the German expressionist film Nosferatu (1922) by FW Murnau. And his remake is an ode to that love.
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2 weeks ago | 
avforums.com | Simon Crust
#1 Read the Nosferatu 4K Blu-ray Review. When is a remake not a remake? When it's an Eggers film Write your own review for Nosferatu (2024) 4K Blu-ray Simon Crust 4K Blu-ray Reviewer The Best UHD and Blu-ray Resource My opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the AVForums or the associated websites....
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2 weeks ago | 
avforums.com | Simon Crust
#1 Simon Crust 4K Blu-ray Reviewer The Best UHD and Blu-ray Resource AVForums Movie Reviews My opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the AVForums or the associated websites. #2 Thanks Simon. Waiting for a standard release as its not a favourite of mine. #4 I watched it on Friday, and opted for the lossy mono track. The Missus had never seen it before, and had no problems absorbing Nadsat even with the lossy mix. "Me ball's burning!!! "Shouldn't stand so close to the fire..." #5...
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3 weeks ago | 
avforums.com | Mark Costello |Simon Crust |Casimir Harlow |Ian Collen
Jackie Brown Movie Review After the critical and commercial successes of Reservoir Dogs (1992) and Pulp Fiction (1994), writer/director Quentin Tarantino took it upon himself to adapt Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch and in a conscious dig at the backlash against how violence was depicted in his previous films, based the story on character, situations, and narrative, while keeping violence off screen or hidden. The result is something quite special. The plot itself is fairly mundane but is...
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3 weeks ago | 
avforums.com | Simon Crust
#1 Read the Jackie Brown 4K Blu-ray Review. We love it when a UHD image can surprise, and this 4K UHD does just that. Write your own review for Jackie Brown 4K UHD Steelbook Simon Crust 4K Blu-ray Reviewer The Best UHD and Blu-ray Resource My opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the AVForums or the associated websites....
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3 weeks ago | 
avforums.com | Simon Crust |Mark Costello |Casimir Harlow |Ian Collen
A heady cocktail of spaghetti western pathos, Shaw Brothers’ ultraviolence, and the stylistic excess of ‘70s grindhouse, Tarantino’s fourth feature is a blood-slicked fever dream of kinetic action and operatic revenge.
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3 weeks ago | 
avforums.com | Simon Crust |Mark Costello |Casimir Harlow |Ian Collen
Where would we be without it? From cinematic legends (Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut, something that shares not just a narrative lineage with this very film) to modern heightened genre fare (Ari Aster’s Midsommar and True Detective on the small screen), and even into real life (the tabloid beloved NXIVM cult), the theme of sexual power dynamics intrinsically linked to the wider manipulation and control has proven time and time again to be rich and evocative well from which to draw inspiration from.
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3 weeks ago | 
avforums.com | Mark Costello |Simon Crust |Casimir Harlow |Ian Collen
The Substance Movie Review I love a beautifully structured scene, and, by extension, film. I find something cathartic in the resonance of the construction, as if the scene holds more than just its elements; it is an art in and of itself that forms an engaging whole. The Substance is full of such scenes.
