"The Gold Rush" has been delighting audiences for almost 90 years -- it's one of the flat-out funniest films made in the silent era or any other. This is the movie Chaplin wanted to be remembered for. Probably the grandest silent-movie entertainment of them all. Close your eyes and let some of its classic scenes flicker across your mind -- … [Read more...]
‘Clueless’ looks sharp on Blu-ray
"Clueless" looks smarter and smarter as the decades go by. Amy Heckerling's delightfully cynical tale of worldly teens obsessed with designer clothes, sports utility vehicles and cell phones still rings true, down to the last fashionista. The slanguage Heckerling invented for her Beverly Hills High kids survived into the next century, proving … [Read more...]
‘The Fades’: Adolescent vs. apocalypse
They're hot, sexy and dead -- and they want to eat your flesh. The apocalypse looms, but fortunately the world has a savior -- a 17-year-old bed-wetter who cowers before his twin sister. The title of the BBC teen horror series "The Fades" refers to ghosts who can't quite cross over the other side. Despairing of the limbo, they start to chomp on … [Read more...]
‘Spellbound’ on Blu-ray: a nightmare revived
A man takes scissors to a surrealistic curtain, cutting an eyeball in half. Another man runs across a terrible angular landscape, stalked by a gigantic bird. A faceless tyrant lets slip a warped wheel as the camera slithers into the void of its center hole. Just another day at the office for Salvador Dali, mad genius and painter of the unreal. … [Read more...]
‘X: The Unheard Music,’ ‘Sid and Nancy’
"Being under the radar is a good thing," says Exene Cervenka, the singer-poet of the L.A. rock band X. "Celebrity-hood is not a good thing. … Being able to live your life as an artist and matter is a good thing. … I'm happy with the way things turned out. She pauses. "Other people in the band, maybe not so much …" X holds the title of … [Read more...]
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