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When I was a kid my father worked at the video store Movies Unlimited. My dad used to cut a bunch of scenes together from different movies, sometimes looping them,… Read more »
When I was a kid my father worked at the video store Movies Unlimited. My dad used to cut a bunch of scenes together from different movies, sometimes looping them,… Read more »
Adam Carter Rehmeier’s film Snack Shack (2024) follows in the footsteps of Summer Days, Summer Nights (2018), Adventureland (2009) and a slew of other summer set coming-of-age dramas. Although it… Read more »
I didn’t much care for Glory Daze (1995). However, it’s worth watching just for the scene where Mary Woronov performs the heimlich maneuver on a very young Sam Rockwell. It’s… Read more »
Stay Hungry (1976) is director Bob Rafelson at his weirdest. At one point he juxtaposes the Mr. Universe contest with a sexual assault as if the masculinist bravura of bodybuilding… Read more »
Paul Schrader’s adaptation of a novel by Elmore Leonard, Touch (1997), is something of an unsung entry in the filmmaker’s oeuvre. Touch is both darkly comic and politically relevant, even… Read more »
Speaking to Lillian Ross, John Huston once described the film industry as “A closed-in, tight, frantically inbred and frantically competitive jungle”. It’s an apt description that could easily be applied… Read more »
With his film Last Embrace (1979) Jonathan Demme tackles the aesthetic idiom of Alfred Hitchcock and Brian De Palma with his own variation on Vertigo (1958). Demme’s film concerns a… Read more »
Alexandre O. Phillippe’s You Can Call Me Bill (2024) finds its subject, William Shatner, thinking about the end of his life, global warming, and a career spent entertaining the world… Read more »
Night Of The Demon (1980) is famous for being the movie where Bigfoot rips off a man’s penis. Night Of The Demon is that rare video nasty that deserves its… Read more »
Even with his first feature I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), director Robert Zemeckis is taking popular history and repackaging it as something intimate and personal. This process was reductive… Read more »