I am delighted to announce that after years on hiatus, F&S is returning as a Substack newsletter. This site will continue to archive all the previous content – and slowly…
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Brainstorm (Warner Archive Blu-ray) Back in 2009, checking out the standard def Warner Archive release of this title, I wrote: “The picture is cited by some cinephiles as the last…
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Equipment: Sony UBP-X800 multi-region 4K player, Sony KD50X690E display, Yamaha RXV-385 A/V receiver. (I need to upgrade my system for Dolby Atmos, but it'll cost me a grand that I…
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Bathing Beauty (Warner Archive Blu-ray) A I never believed in the critically half-baked notion called “vulgar auteurism” (which didn’t have much of a vogue anyway) but if I did, George…
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From Opus Unranked, in more or less the order I saw them. If reviewed, I linked. If not, trust me. Happy New Year! Origin (Du Vernay) Richard Brody is right…
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Hey, remember this blog? Yeah, me too. Anyway. Almost fifteen years ago, I posted here an account of my decades-long efforts to emulate the lasagna that my grandmother made for…
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This one almost killed me so the next will likely be an, um, Fall/Winter guide. Also it's getting well-nigh impossible to get usable jacket art off the web (either that…
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