Las Flores Del Vicio
Las Flores Del Vicio (1979) follows a group of bourgeois ex-patriots residing in a remote coastal village in Spain who take young lovers from a traveling band of wanderers. Las… Read more »
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Career Opportunities
The only thing people remember about Career Opportunities (1991) is the image of Jennifer Connelly riding a mechanized horse while wearing a revealing top. For a generation, Connelly became a… Read more »
Fanboys
Usually films about characters who belong to the cult-like fanbase of some film property speak to me in some subtle, very personal way. Even when I know the movie isn’t… Read more »
The Pirates Of Blood River
At a remote Huguenot settlement on an island in the Caribbean, Jonathan Standing (Kerwin Mathews) is railroaded and imprisoned for adultery. Standing manages to escape the penal colony only to… Read more »
Hudson Hawk
When Hudson Hawk (1991) nobody liked it. It seemed that director Michael Lehmann had squandered all of the success of Heathers (1989) on a genre pastiche that nobody wanted. Hudson… Read more »
The People
Executive produced by Francis Ford Coppola, The People (1972) is a made for television film based on “The People” stories by Zenna Henderson. The People reunites Kim Darby with William… Read more »
Madman
Of the films produced in the early eighties inspired by the “Cropsey” legend, Madman (1981) is the most unique and, in many ways, the most effective. The film opens on… Read more »
The Girl Next Door
I was still working at a video store when The Girl Next Door (2004) came out on DVD and videocassette. Where I happened to work we made most of our… Read more »
If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?
In the language of evangelist Estus Pirkle the footmen are those common everyday sins of greed, sloth, and adultery while the horses are that supreme threat to America and Christianity… Read more »
The Presidio
Peter Hyams’ film The Presidio (1988) opens with a murder on an army base in San Francisco and then proceeds into a full blown car chase. Hyams directs the chase… Read more »
