Try and Get Me! (The Sound of Fury, 1950)

Try and Get Me! (The Sound of Fury, 1950)

Jerry is less offering a job to Howard than he is seducing him, and in a very pragmatic, do-you-want-it-or-don’t-ya manner suggestive of a hook-up rather than a romance. It’s all metaphorical, of course, but everything about their interactions, from Jerry’s constant preening to Howard’s habit of talking with his mouth full, cranks the usual film noir homoeroticism up to 11.

High Def Chuck: Breaker! Breaker! (1977), Now Out on Blu-Ray

High Def Chuck: Breaker! Breaker! (1977), Now Out on Blu-Ray

J.D. Dawes (Chuck Norris) has just returned to his home in California after a long-term trucking job in Alaska. His little brother Billy (Michael Augenstein) idolizes him and wants to be a truck driver, too, so J.D. lets him deliver a load of frozen foods by himself — T.V. dinners, more specifically, a fact that hilariously comes into…

Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

Prick Up Your Ears does well in the details, especially when it comes to the collage that Halliwell covers their tiny apartment walls with, but the film also tends to skim the surface of lives that were fascinating and complicated…