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A Brief Blog Update
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Mar 3, 2018
It’s not easy discussing my emotions publicly. I tend to keep things bottled up, instead of expressing myself. I try to quell the nagging voice in my skull that proclaims a movie blog isn’t a place for non-movie things, but life sometimes gets in the way. This week felt like déjà read more
February Quick Picks and Pans
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Feb 28, 2018
Bad Ronald (1974) I
don’t usually cover TV movies, but this one deserves its own category. Whether
you use 70s or today’s TV as a yardstick, it’s one twisted and bizarre ride.
Scott Jacoby stars as Ronald Wilby, a socially awkward high school senior with
an overbearing mother (Kim read more
Cathy’s Curse
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Feb 10, 2018
(1977) Directed by Eddy Matalon; Written by Myra Clément, Eddy
Matalon and Alain Sens-Cazenave; Starring: Alan Scarfe, Beverly Murray, Randi Allen, Dorothy Davis, Mary Morter and Roy Witham;
Available on Blu-ray and DVD
Rating: ***
“How can a film be a successful film if you read more
Black Butler
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jan 31, 2018
(2014) Directed by Kentarô Ohtani and Kei'ichi Sato; Written by Tsutomu Kuroiwa; Based on the manga by Yana Toboso; Starring: Hiro Mizushima, Ayame Gôriki, Yûka, Mizuki Yamamoto and Masatô Ibu; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: *** “Humans are incapable of sharing sorrow as read more
Japan-uary VII Quick Picks and Pans
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jan 24, 2018
Creepy (2016) Kiyoshi
Kurosawa’s thriller is a film that lives up to its title. Hidetoshi Nishijima
stars as Takakura, a former police profiler now working as a professor at a
university, where he teaches criminal psychology. He finds himself drawn back
into his old profession when a detective read more
Only Yesterday
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jan 12, 2018
(1991) Written and directed by Isao Takahata; Based on the manga by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuuko Tone; Starring: Miki Imai, Toshirô Yanagiba, Yoko Honna and Mayumi Izuka; Available on Blu-ray and DVD Rating: **** “To be a butterfly, a caterpillar has to become a chrysalis read more
The Mysterians (aka: Chikyû Bôeigun)
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jan 7, 2018
(1957) Directed by Ishirô Honda; Written by Takeshi Kimura and Shigeru Kayama; Story by Jôjirô Okami; Starring: Kenji Sahara, Yumi Shirakawa, Momoko Kôchi, Akihiko Hirata and Takashi Shimura; Available on DVD (Region 2) Rating *** “The space station is flying 42,000 kilometers read more
Documentary December Quick Picks and Pans
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Jan 1, 2018
Burt’s Buzz (2013)
Director Jody Shapiro shines the spotlight on reclusive inventor of various
honey-infused products and reluctant corporate spokesperson, Burt Shavitz. The
cameras follow him around as he visits Taiwan on a promotional tour, and we witness
his unease at his status as an accid read more
Nollywood Babylon
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Dec 28, 2017
(2008) Written and directed by Samir Mallal and Ben Addelman;
Starring: Osita Iheme, Chinedu Ikedieze, Lancelot Oduwa Imasuen and Odia
Ofeimun; Available on DVD
Rating: *** ½
“Nollywood is a child of circumstance, because Nigeria at
this stage is cut across a bridge with read more
Crazy Love
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Dec 18, 2017
(2007) Directed by Dan Klores and Fisher Stevens; Written by
Dan Klores; Starring: Burt Pugach, Linda Pugach, Bob Janoff, Sylvia Hoffman,
Rita Kessler and Joyce Guerriero; Available on DVD
Rating: ****
“It’s a story that interested me…on a number of levels,
because I read more
My Best Fiend
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Dec 10, 2017
(1999) Written and directed by Werner Herzog; Starring: Klaus
Kinski, Werner Herzog, Claudia Cardinale and Eva Mattes; Available on DVD
Rating: ****
“Towards the end of shooting, the Indians offered to kill
Kinski for me. They said: ‘Shall we kill him for you?’ And I read more
November Quick Picks and Pans – Film Noir Edition
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Nov 30, 2017
The Stranger
(1946) Director Orson Welles’ tense examination of the evil that lies under our
noses resonates long after the final scene. Welles stars as Charles Rankin,
aka: Franz Kindler, escaped Nazi war criminal and one of the masterminds behind
the concentration camps. He’s settled a read more
The Resident
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Nov 14, 2017
(2011) Directed by Antti Jokinen; Written by Antti Jokinen and Robert Orr; Starring: Hillary Swank,
Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Lee Pace, Aunjanue Ellis and Christopher Lee; Available on
Blu-ray, DVD, and Hulu
Rating: **½
“I know everything that goes on in this building. I know
ev read more
Nightmare Alley
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Nov 10, 2017
(1947) Directed by Edmund Goulding; Written by Jules
Furthman; Based on the novel by William Lindsay Gresham; Starring: Tyrone
Power, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Helen Walker, Taylor Holmes, and Mike
Mazurki; Available on DVD
Rating ****½
“Listen to me, I'm no good. I neve read more
October Quick Picks and Pans – Horror Month 2017
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Oct 30, 2017
Anguish (1987)
This unique movie within a movie from writer/director Bigas Luna stars Michael
Lerner as John, a middle-aged man stuck in a stage of arrested development. He
works as an orderly in a hospital clinic that specializes in eye disorders, and
lives with his domineering mother (Zelda Rubens read more
May
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Oct 25, 2017
(2002) Written and directed by: Lucky McKee; Starring: Angela
Bettis, Jeremy Sisto, Anna Faris, James Duval and Nichole Hiltz; Available on DVD
Rating: ****
“If you can’t find a
friend, make one.” – May Canady (Angela Bettis)
Humans are, by-and-large, soc read more
Basket Case
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Oct 17, 2017
(1982) Written and directed by Frank Henenlotter; Starring: Kevin Van Hentenryck, Terri Susan Smith, Beverly
Bonner, Robert Vogel, Diana Browne and Lloyd Pace; Available on Blu-ray and DVD
Rating: ***½
“Duane Bradley is such a charming character with a really
nasty, sadistic read more
Trailer Take: Suspiria
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Oct 10, 2017
Note: This post simultaneously appears on Realweegiemidget
Reviews.
“The only thing
more terrifying than the last 12 minutes of Suspiria
are the first 92.”
– voiceover from Suspiria trailer
I’d like to extend a great big thanks to Gill Jacob for
inviting me to do a read more
At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Oct 8, 2017
(1964) Written and directed by José Mojica Marins; Starring: José Mojica Marins, Magda Mei, Nivaldo Lima, Valéria Vasquez and Ilídio Martins Simões; Available on DVD Rating: ***½ “What is life? It is the beginning of death. What is death? It is the end of life. What is read more
Silent September IV Quick Picks and Pans
Cinematic Catharsis Posted by Barry P. on Sep 30, 2017
He Who Gets Slapped (1924) The second American film from Swedish director Victor Sjöström (The Phantom Carriage) is a grim tale of betrayal and revenge, starring Lon Chaney. Chaney is Paul Beaumont, a brilliant scientist poised to bring the results of his research to a board of his peers. On the eve read more