by Dave Bradley | Apr 10, 2016 | Film, Interviews, Pop Culture
by Dave Bradley. Spanish filmmaker Toni Bestard co-created the documentary I Am Your Father with Marcus Cabotá, and it’s truly a Star Wars fan’s dream: a study of David Prowse, English actor, famed body-builder and personal trainer, the original body of Darth Vader...
by Dave Bradley | Mar 30, 2016 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, PG, 126 Mins Co-writer/director (and former Monty Python member) Terry Gilliam had just emerged from the whole David and Goliath battle for his Brazil (1985) when he began work on this hopelessly chaotic filming of the exploits of a character no one had heard...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, MA, 105 Mins Character star William H. Macy’s debut as director (and co-writer, executive producer and co-star) is a tough and uncomfortably moving affair that hasn’t made many friends but still proves to be one of the best direct-to-DVD titles so far this...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 107 Mins One of the mightiest of all original cult/midnight movies, this stark, semi-factual B+W drama from 1969 was directed for a short while by a young Martin Scorsese (who was fired for being too slow), handled for a bit thereafter by industrial...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 11, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 95 Mins Something of a lost classic , director Larry Peerce’s raw, uncomfortable drama must have seemed pretty confronting in 1967, and nowadays still feels tense, as his intriguing cast gets psychologically terrorised (and do some psychological terrorising...