Tag: black cinema

Super Soul Brother and the Films of Rene Martinez, Jr. [AGFA] Blu-ray Review

There are many categories of movies. I like to think of it as a four-square matrix. One axis is good/bad in terms of technical execution. The other axis is good/bad in terms of enjoyment. So, there are movies that are well executed and entertaining (good/good) and movies that are poorly made and boring (bad/bad). Occasionally,…


Chameleon Street Blu-ray Review [Arbelos]

Based on the true story of multi-faceted con man William Douglas Street, Jr., Chameleon Street, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1990, comes to blu-ray courtesy of the fine folks at Arbelos, purveyors of other little seen masterpieces of indie cinema such as Toshio Matsumoto’s Funeral Parade of Roses and Béla Tarr’s Sátántangó….