Like the '56 and '78 versions of Invasion Of The Body Snatchers, this is a rare case where I appreciate all the thoughtful alterations and enjoy alternating viewing every few years with the original (which is one of my top 3 Film noirs).
Ironically, Don Siegel was the director of the original Invasion and also the director of this divergent take on the very embryonic Hemingway short story. Lee Marvin, Clu Gulager, John Cassavetes, Angie Dickinson and a vicious as hell Ronald Reagan among others. Even today, the mean spirited tone of some of the scenes is startling.
Spectacular looking disc that is color saturated in the way all those mid to late 60's TV productions were. A real eye popper.

Lovely low key thriller with a baby faced William Hurt playing the likable, love struck schmuck who tries to leverage information he doesn't really have of a murder to get close to a TV reporter (Weaver) he's long been infatuated with.

I used to have some quibbles about the third act and the identity and motivation of the killer. But watching it last night I realized how tightly constructed it all is. Some of the relationships are convenient, but the script goes to lengths to justify them and the motivations all around are logical and supported. It's a character piece as much as anything, and everyone is well delineated- even down to the minor supporting ones.

Another under the radar charmer from Steve Tesich and Peter Yates, who two years earlier did Breaking Away.

Strong effort from Signal One. Solid A/V plus a modest selection of bonus features. I recently sold off the AB DVD which I remember looking fine. Probably not a huge upgrade, but I'm happy to have a finer copy of it nonetheless.
I'm guessing Twilight Time will eventually kick this one out in the States.

The kind of inane, youth pandering movie I turned my nose up to back in the day.
Viewed 30 years later, through nostalgia tinted lenses, it's an adolescent resistance fantasy whose inanities seem more charming than insulting now. And it really makes me melancholy that Helen Slater never had more opportunities to headline back in her prime. Fun to see Keith Gordon get a chance to be a romantic lead at least once, though.

I definitely enjoyed it more than the feature that proceeded it (The Hearse on dvd)

Entertaining sic-fi/horror hybrid with an appealing cast and good chemistry between leads Cushing, Ed Judd, and Carole Grey. Cancer researchers on an isolated coastal island inadvertently create organisms that feed on calcium (the bones in living animals), and which multiply at an exponential rate.
Sure, the rubber monsters look a little hokey, but the premise is approached fairly intelligently.