Not so Super 8

I don’t spend a lot of time these days wondering why my personal taste in movies is so often completely out of sync with popular and critical opinion, but every now and then something comes up that makes me pause for a moment. On Friday, I went to see J.J. Abrams’ Super 8, even though […]

Blasts from the past

Fall viewing, part one

Marcel Pagnol’s The Baker’s Wife (1938):
Criterion Blu-ray review

John Murray Anderson’s King of Jazz (1930): Criterion Blu-ray review

Truffles, a blood-fuelled car, zombies and a family in retreat from the modern world: recent viewing

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