Reviews

After taking a year off, Arrow Video is back with Shawscope Vol. 3. While the previous two collections focused on the martial arts films from the legendary Shaw Brothers Hong Kong studio, this collection focuses on the Wuxia movies that involve battles with weapons. The big attraction to the set

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure was a must see movie in 1989. The story of two goofy kids who use a time machine to pass their history class and save the future of humanity clicked. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter become cultural icons. They had to return in Bill &

During the glory days of the BMG and Columbia House Record clubs when they offered 10 CDs for the price of 1/2; I found myself going deep on Ella Fitzgerald’s albums. I grabbed as many of her seminal Songbooks. She also had fine series of albums with Louis Armstrong that

The music of Michael Nyman is extremely familiar to anyone that spent time at the Art House in the ’80s and ’90s. His music helped define the cinema of Peter Greenaway. The director had Nyman’s music score The Falls, The Draughtsman’s Contract, A Zed and Two Noughts, Drowning By Numbers,