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Showing posts with label Mystery. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mystery. Show all posts
Sunday, 25 October 2015

MULHOLLAND DRIVE - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Criterion Does David Lynch Death Dream

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Mulholland Drive (2001) Dir. David Lynch Starring: Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller, Michael J. Anderson, Lafay...
Thursday, 24 September 2015

Kino Classics: British Noir, 5 DVD Set - Reviews By Greg Klymkiw of THEY MET IN THE DARK, THE OCTOBER MAN, SNOWBOUND, GOLDEN SALAMANDER, THE ASSASSIN (aka THE VENETIAN BIRD)

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One of the best Home Viewing releases of 2015 is this Kino Classics 5 movie set of British Film Noir from the 40s and 50s. There are no fril...
Friday, 26 June 2015

THE OSTERMAN WEEKEND - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Unfairly Maligned Peckinpah Part 1

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The Osterman Weekend (1983) Dir. Sam Peckinpah Starring: Rutger Hauer, John Hurt, Burt Lancaster, Dennis Hopper, Meg Foster, Helen Shav...
Sunday, 14 December 2014

COTTON COMES TO HARLEM - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Ossie-Davis does Blaxploitation like nobody ever did in this extremely entertaining adaptation of the Chester Himes novel with super dicks Gravedigger Jones and Coffin Ed Johnson, now on Kino Lorber Blu-Ray

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Cotton Comes To Harlem (1970) Dir. Ossie Davis Starring: Godfrey Cambridge, Raymond St. Jacques, Calvin Lockhart, Redd Foxx, Judy Pace, L...
Tuesday, 9 December 2014

GUMSHOE - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Stephen Frears Debut Hardboiled Brit Kitchen Sink

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Finney great as hardboiled schlub Gumshoe (1971) dir. Stephen Frears Starring: Albert Finney, Frank Finlay, Billie Whitelaw, Janice Ru...
Sunday, 25 May 2014

PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Peter Weir's Classic Australian Private Schoolgirl Mystery on deluxe Criterion Blu-Ray box set.

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Schoolgirls frolic with their corsets. I'm down with this. And you? Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) ***** Dir. Peter Weir Starring:...
Tuesday, 8 April 2014

THE GALAPAGOS AFFAIR: SATAN CAME TO EDEN - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Documentary Portait of Trouble in Nietzschean Paradise Flawed, But Worth Seeing

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The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came To Eden Dir. Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine (2013) *** Starring: Cate Blanchett, Diane Kruger, Connie ...
Saturday, 15 March 2014

VERONICA MARS - Review By Greg Klymkiw - Movies are getting so awful that too many feel like bad TV.

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*NOTE* I couldn't believe how awful this movie was. After I wrote this review, I did a quickie Google and discovered a whole lot of back...
Sunday, 2 February 2014

SPELLBOUND - Review By Greg Klymkiw - The Zaniest Collaboration Twixt Alfred Hitchcock, David O. Selznick and, for good measure, Ace Screenwriter Ben Hecht, Genius Production Designer William Cameron Menzies, Floridly Overwrought Composer Miklos Rozsa and the biggest WTF in movie history, Salvador Dali.

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Spellbound (1945) ***** dir. Alfred Hitchcock Starring: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Leo G. Carroll, Rhonda Fleming, Michael Chekhov ...