For my final home video column of the year, I’d like to round up the most interesting and enjoyable Blu-ray and DVD titles I’ve encountered in recent months — not necessarily a “ten best” list, but a compendium of highly recommended releases that rank among 2017’s home viewing highlights (and that make great gifts for cinephiles as the holiday shopping season approaches). Here goes: Desert Hearts. Director Donna Deitch embarked on her narrative feature debut with a simple goal — to tell a love story between two women that didn’t end with either of them dying or in a bisexual […]
by Jim Hemphill on Nov 24, 2017Here’s the BBC’s Mark Kermode hailing as a “forgotten gem” John Landis’s Into the Night, starring Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Pfeiffer. It’s been years since I’ve seen this film but I’ve always remembered it fondly as well. To see if it holds up I’m going to put it on my Netflix queue.
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 31, 2010