Eyewitness
Filmmaker Peter Yates made two very good films that have been popularly canonized as classics. The first of these two films is Bullitt (1968) and the second was The Friends… Read more »
Filmmaker Peter Yates made two very good films that have been popularly canonized as classics. The first of these two films is Bullitt (1968) and the second was The Friends… Read more »
The Devil’s Honey (1986) finds director Lucio Fulci at his most excessive. The filmmaker has maximized all of his usual stylistic flourishes, rendering this boiler plate erotic thriller as some… Read more »
Charles Band’s production Cellar Dweller (1988) is the unlikely link between The Evil Dead (1981) and Castle Freak (1995). Cellar Dweller features a monster brought forth by a book who… Read more »
The Inspector Wears Skirts (1988) was producer Jackie Chan’s response to the American Police Academy films. Instead of just replicating those films, The Inspector Wears Skirts focuses exclusively on women,… Read more »
Arena (1989) finds producer Charles Band cashing-in on the popularity of kickboxing and pro-wrestling in the late eighties. In a stroke of what could be called marketing genius, Band dresses… Read more »
“There goes my career in noodles” – Mr. Futterman Gremlins (1984) opens like an old anthology horror comic as the inventor Rand Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) ventures into Chinatown in search… Read more »
The French-Canadian film La guerre des tuques (1984) follows a bunch of kids in rural Quebec who decide to spend their Christmas break engaging in war games. Armed with wooden… Read more »
After creating the dreamy masterpiece Inferno (1980), filmmaker Dario Argento returned to the giallo genre that he had popularized in the late sixties. But the film that Argento made, Tenebre… Read more »
À bout de souffle (1960) is the pinnacle of modernist minimalism. Jean-Luc Godard’s formally adventurous debut feature reduced and deconstructed the forms of its genre, via temporal ellipsis motivated by… Read more »
Stand Alone (1985) stars Charles Durning as WWII veteran Louis Thibadeau who witnesses a murder and becomes embroiled in an all out battle with the criminals. Released during the heyday… Read more »