Monthly Archives: March 2013

The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (Herbert Ross, 1977)

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“The game’s afoot with The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, a more-than-game Sherlock Holmes pastiche, which makes its high-definition debut on Blu-ray sporting a solid transfer and accompanied by a spanking-new interview with writer Nicholas Meyer.” Read my review of Shout! Factory’s BD/DVD … Continue reading →

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The Fury (Brian De Palma, 1978)

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“You don’t necessarily need freakishly iridescent blue eyes to see that Brian De Palma’s The Fury is far richer and stranger than the slapdash Carrie clone many cross-eyed critics have made it out to be.” Read my review of Twilight … Continue reading →

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That Obscure Object of Desire (Luis Buñuel, 1977)

Posted on March 9, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“Lionsgate does right by the swan song of one of cinema’s least compromising, most iconoclastic mavericks, with a pristine new transfer and a robustly informative selection of spanking new extras.” Read my review of Lionsgate’s Blu-ray release of That Obscure … Continue reading →

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The River (Jean Renoir, 1951)

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Budd Wilkins

“Jean Renoir’s The River demonstrates with intoxicating lyricism the confluence of apparent contraries: past and present, innocence and experience, permanence and change—even Hinduism and Christianity.” Read my review of Jean Renoir’s The River, which played recently as part of Lincoln … Continue reading →

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