KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: The Apartment (1960)
The Apartment is astounding because it makes me consider how we view actors based on where we arrive in reality. For me, Fred McMurray is the kind Steve Douglas from TV’s My Three Sons. For those born before 1960, they probably saw him on that show and wondered how the heel from Double Indemnity and The Caine Mutiny could […]
CANNON MONTH: Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
EDITOR’S NOTE: We originally wrote about this movie during Death Wish week on November 7, 2018. This article has been updated and added to since then. Where do you go after the utter lunacy that is Death Wish 3? Well, you replace Michael Winner with J. Lee Thompson, who was the director for The Guns of Navarone, the original Cape Fear, […]
CANNON MONTH: Business As Usual (1987)
Based on the real case of Audrey White — who was a consultant on the movie — at a chain of Lady at Lord John boutiques, this Lezli-An Barrett directed and written film finds Babs Flynn (Glenda Jackson) managing a Liverpool shop and accusing the regional manager of sexual harassment after the way he treats […]
CANNON MONTH: Barfly (1987)
A semi-autobiographical version of Charles Bukowski’s life during the time he spent drinking like his life depended on it — as seen through the author’s alter ego Henry Chinaski — with a script by the author that was commissioned by director Barbet Schroeder. And somehow, it’s one of those Cannon movies that aspire to art. […]
CANNON MONTH: Surrender (1987)
Jerry Belsen, who directed and wrote this movie, along with Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Fun With Dick and Jane amongst many others, may have invented the phrase “You know what happens when you assume…” Sean Stein (Michael Caine) is a successful novelist, but he’s been through so many divorces and bad relationships […]
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