7 Spine-Tingling Double Bills Perfect for Halloween
Here are 7 curated Halloween double bills to enjoy as you settle in with leftover candy after the trick-or-treaters have all gone home.
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Unboxing: Jonathan Demme & Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense Deluxe 2LP Vinyl Release
As the band gathers together for TIFF 2023, Jason Gorber takes a look at the Jonathan Demme & Talking Heads Stop Making Sense Deluxe 2LP Vinyl Release.
Home Entertainment: A Master Builder Criterion Review
A Criterion release always warrants consideration of a film, and though we don't still completely understand A Master Builder, this edition certainly helps us appreciate it.
Criterion Announces THE FISHER KING and other June Titles
A few thoughts on The Fisher King and some of the other titles the Criterion Collection just announced that they'd be releasing in June.
A Master Builder Review
Actor and writer Wallace Shawn and director Jonathan Demme attempt to do justice to Ibsen and Louis Malle with A Master Builder, but neither seem to get a handle on the material.
This Week at The Bloor: 1/24/14
Another solid week at The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema brings a look at an offbeat Icelandic museum in The Final Member, the rise of one of basketball's most recent superstars in Linsanity, a screening of one of the best rock concert films of all time (Stop Making Sense), and a very special tribute and fundraiser for recently passed documentary icon Peter Wintonick.
May’s Blu-Ray Round-up
In this month's round-up of the best in home entertainment we look at wartime classic The Great Escape, the little known Sam Raimi/Coen Brothers team-up Crimewave, the criminally underrated Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle The Last Stand, Jackie Chan's Police Story films, the cult favourite Repo Man, Spalding Gray's Swimming to Cambodia, and Godard's Band of Outsiders.
Neil Young Journeys Review
Although still nothing more than just another concert film collaboration between icons Neil Young and Jonathan Demme, it still works largely on the strengths of the talents involved.
The New Old: Shades of Grey and Gray
In this week's archival DVD column we look at some great re-releases including the 40th anniversary of Deliverance, a pair of Criterions featuring Spalding Gray from director Steven Soderbergh, Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps, and some of the best no holds barred matches from the WWE.
