Bang The Drum Slowly
Bang The Drum Slowly (1973) is another entry in the cycle of films made in the first half of the seventies that analyzed and romanticized male friendships. Like Scarecrow (1973),… Read more »
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Dr. Caligari
Dr. Caligari (1989) picks up narratively and aesthetically where Robert Wiene’s masterpiece of silent cinema, Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920), left off. The expressionistic stylization of Wiene’s film that… Read more »
Rote Sonne
Rote Sonne (1970) is director Rudolf Thome’s reply to Godard’s romanticized films of political radicalism made from the mid-sixties until late in ’68. Thome’s purposefully lagubrious tone and ambling pacing… Read more »
Heartbreakers
Since its initial theatrical release Heartbreakers (2001) has drifted into relative obscurity. Heartbreakers, despite its lack luster promotional art, is an excellent comedy that was way ahead of its time…. Read more »
Please Don’t Touch Me!
Written and directed by Ron Ormond (though credited to his real name Vittorio Di Naro) and produced by Ormond’s wife June, Please Don’t Touch Me! (1963) is a sensationalist melodrama… Read more »
Deadly Hero
Deadly Hero (1975) is the antithesis of Dirty Harry (1971); taking shots at the systemic racism, misogyny, corruption and extreme brutality of the police. Deadly Hero is a small independent… Read more »
Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny
It took fifteen years but Harrison Ford has finally gotten his fifth and final installment in the Indiana Jones franchise, Indiana Jones & The Dial Of Destiny (2023). It’s a… Read more »
Dangerous When Wet
Charles Walters re-teamed with Esther Williams after Texas Carnival (1951) for MGM’s fanciful retelling of Dorothy Kingsley’s swimming of the English Channel Dangerous When Wet (1953). By this time in… Read more »
O-bi, o-ba: Koniec cywilizacji
O-bi, o-ba: Koniec cywilizacji (1985) remains the most popular and critically acclaimed film of Piotr Szulkin’s cycle of post-apocalyptic science-fiction films. Szulkin paints his Kafka-esque portrait of a nuclear holocaust… Read more »
Undefeatable
Cynthia Rothrock stars as Kristi Jones, leader of the street fighting gang The Red Dragons, who teams up with Detective Nick DiMarco (John Miller) to catch the serial killer Stingray… Read more »
