by Dave Bradley | May 26, 2016 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, MA, 93 Mins This first feature from TV-intensive director Matt Shakman and scriptwriter Roberto Patino was long-in-development and took two years, on and off, to film, so it’s a shame that it’s been somewhat underappreciated, as this is a strongly-cast...
by Dave Bradley | Feb 18, 2016 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 536 Mins The Doors might have only been active from 1965 until 1973 (two years after the death of ‘Lizard King’ frontman Jim Morrison) and yet they remain one of the greatest and most mysticised of all rock bands, not least for the distinctive and evocative...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 27, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 115 Mins Late great writer/director/producer Paul Mazursky’s somewhat forgotten fourth feature from back in 1974 is less of an ‘Issue’ movie (see his 1969 début Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and 1978’s feminist drama An Unmarried Woman) and more an...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, M, 94 Mins The often bitterly funny modern musical by Jason Robert Brown is here adapted for the screen and directed by Richard LaGravenese, and while the low budget and hurried production sometimes shows, there’s also no doubt that Anna Kendrick (a Broadway...
by Dave Bradley | Aug 24, 2015 | DVDs, Reviews
Shock, MA, 96 Mins Italian horror maestro Dario Argento’s first film as writer/director from way back in 1969 takes several uncredited cues from Fredric Brown’s novel The Screaming Mimi and yet the style is all Argento’s, and while it isn’t as wild and terrifying as...