Madame Web
Madame Web (2024) would make an ideal case study in studio meddling and second guessing. The sloppy ADR, unfinished special effects and soulless characterization do little to elevate the incoherent… Read more »
Madame Web (2024) would make an ideal case study in studio meddling and second guessing. The sloppy ADR, unfinished special effects and soulless characterization do little to elevate the incoherent… Read more »
Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi have taken the popular maxim that all a movie needs is “a boy, a girl and a gun” and put their own spin on… Read more »
Kuei Chih-Hung’s Curse Of Evil (1982) plays as the Chinese equivalent to Gothic Horror. The film is set entirely in a spooky old mansion; there’s the ominous “curse of the… Read more »
Obsession (1976) is director Brian De Palma and writer Paul Schrader’s homage to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). The title suits the plot of the film, but it also addresses De… Read more »
Richard Franklin’s Roadgames (1981) transposes Alfred Hitchcock’s Rear Window (1954) to the desolate highways that girdle the remote Australian outback. In place of James Stewart’s apartment Franklin gives viewers the… Read more »
What are the cheerleaders of Rambling University to do when their star football players are looking at another college? Why, they’ll follow them on their campus visit and sabotage it!… Read more »
I think having an intellectual property (be it a novel, a film or album) that you really and truly love is very important. If there’s a work of art that… Read more »
When I was in the sixth grade I went through a very serious Twin Peaks phase. As a part of my ravenous fandom I sought out other projects that the… Read more »
A Gun For Jennifer (1997) filters the tropes of classic grindhouse staples Ms. 45 (1981) and Switchblade Sisters (1975) through the lens of the Riot Grrrl sensibilities of the nineties… Read more »
Before going to see Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part Two (2024) this last weekend I revisited David Lynch’s Dune (1984). No film is going to match the style of Lynch’s kinky… Read more »