Jenny (Suzy Delair) is a young hopeful singer who wants to make it big in the theatre. Her singing talents are limited but she isn’t let this get in her way. She flirts and seduces popular people around the industry. This makes her husband and accompanist Maurice (Bernard Blier) jealous. He discovers that Jenny is…
Max and the Junkmen Blu-ray review
Max and the Junkmen is a French/Italian crime drama about a detective, Max (Michael Piccoli, The Day of the Jackal) a person who comes from a wealthy family, lives in Paris, making a living as a tough-guy detective. Max has grown frustrated because he hasn’t been able to catch a group of criminals. Max is…
Amour (Sony) Blu-ray Review
Michael Haneke’s Amour is a devastating and beautiful film from the Austrian auteur who brought us such amazing films as Benny’s Video, Cache, The Piano Teacher, and possibly most popularly Funny Games. This, is, of course, to be expected from Haneke’s films which are usually on some level equal parts disturbing, beautifully shot, and emotionally…
Asylum (I Want To Be a Gangster) (Synapse) DVD Review
Much like Henry Hill before him, all young Jack (Julien Courbey) ever wanted to be was a gangster, just like the ones he used to admire in the movies. But the work he’s getting as a low-level street thug while running a back room Russian roulette game with his partner (Abel Jafri) on the side…
Ash is Purest White (Cohen) Blu-ray Review
During the early 2000s a bit of a gang war starts to brew. One leading member named Bin (Liao Fan) gets attacked and nearly killed before his girlfriend Qiao (Zhao Tao) steps in with a gun. When the police arrive Qiao is thrown into prison for five years for possession of an illegal firearm. When…
Alphaville (Kino) Blu-ray Review
Special agent Lemmy Caution (Eddie Constantine) is sent to the distant city of Alphaville to investigate the mysterious disappearances of some of his fellow agents and the oppressive supercomputer Alpha 60. Before long it becomes clear that he must also assassinate Alpha 60’s creator (Howard Vernon) before his influence can spread to other cities. But…
Blu-ray Review: My Son (Cohen)
Julien (Guillaume Canet) is called back to hometown for a family crisis. His 7-year-old son has gone missing during a camping weekend. The police first think it’s a simple case of a runaway, but Julien has his doubts. His ex-wife (Melanie Laurent) tells him that she is pregnant with another man’s baby and that maybe…