![Long Day’s Journey into Night Blu-ray review: Dir. Sidney Lumet [Masters of Cinema]](https://criticalpopcorn.files.wordpress.com/2020/03/81th77ww6l._sl1500_.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "Long Day’s Journey into Night Blu-ray review: Dir. Sidney Lumet [Masters of Cinema]")
It must be a unique challenge adapting a successful play into a successful film. I don’t mean Shakespeare, which lend themselves well to broad, sweeping epics (Akira Kurosawa, Orson Welles and Julie Taymor have made brilliantly cinematic versions of his plays) but rather the low key, intimate dramas that are more concerned with performance. When … Continue reading
![Cloak and Dagger Blu-ray review: Dir. Fritz Lang [Masters of Cinema]](https://criticalpopcorn.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/48957183062_6138265978_c.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "Cloak and Dagger Blu-ray review: Dir. Fritz Lang [Masters of Cinema]")
Cloak and Dagger is out now on Dual Format from Eureka Entertainment. Continue reading
![A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Blu-ray review: Dir. Elia Kazan [Masters of Cinema]](https://criticalpopcorn.files.wordpress.com/2019/07/eka70342_atreegrowsinbrooklyn_bd_pack_300dpi.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Blu-ray review: Dir. Elia Kazan [Masters of Cinema]")
Kazan’s classic film perfectly envelopes so many human emotions, including a warm empathy, even when times get hard. Continue reading
![The Woman in the Window Blu-ray review: Dir. Fritz Lang [Masters of Cinema]](https://criticalpopcorn.files.wordpress.com/2019/05/46322971365_abb18a7764_z.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "The Woman in the Window Blu-ray review: Dir. Fritz Lang [Masters of Cinema]")
The exceptional 1944 film noir is worth every moment, read our review now… Continue reading
One, Two, Three (Masters of Cinema) Blu-ray review: Dir. Billy Wilder [1961/2019] Continue reading
Billy Wilder was responsible for some of the best, most sharply written films of Hollywood’s golden age, across all genres, but it’s his iconic comedies, such as The Apartment, Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch for which he is chiefly remembered. Now one of his most under-appreciated films, the satirical madcap comedy … Continue reading
![Human Desire (1954) Blu-ray review [Masters of Cinema]](https://criticalpopcorn.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/eka70329_humandesire_df_packshot_72dpi.jpg?w=290&h=290&crop=1 "Human Desire (1954) Blu-ray review [Masters of Cinema]")
Despite a tonally uneven film, it still features top supporting performances within this superb, new Blu-ray transfer for Lang’s Human Desire. Continue reading
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