Blood Rage
“It’s not cranberry sauce Artie” In 1974, Terry murdered a man with an axe at a drive-in theater while his brother Todd looked on in horror. Terry, wiping blood all… Read more »
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The Ice Storm
Based upon the Rick Moody novel of the same name The Ice Storm (1997) was director Ang Lee’s second english language feature. Just as he had with Sense & Sensibility… Read more »
Dutch
When it comes to holiday movies two John Hughes productions generally come to mind. For Christmas, people typically turn to Home Alone (1990) while for Thanksgiving Planes, Trains & Automobiles… Read more »
Mayflower: The Pilgrims’ Adventure
Ridiculous fake mustaches and sappy music cues abound in the made for television epic Mayflower: The Pilgrims’ Adventure (1979). Historical accuracy is of little concern for this CBS holiday special… Read more »
Castle Keep
Actor Burt Lancaster first met Sydney Pollack on the set of John Frankenheimer’s The Young Savages (1961) where Pollack was employed as an acting coach for the teenaged cast members…. Read more »
Maurice
The novel Maurice was written in 1914 by E.M. Forster but remained unpublished until a year after his death in 1970. Forster had determined that his novel could never be… Read more »
Le orme
Alice (Florinda Bolkan), a translator, awakes in her apartment from a dream of a half forgotten old movie about a sinister scientist (Klaus Kinski) who strands an astronaut on the… Read more »
Extase
Hedy Lamarr, billed as Hedy Kiesler at the time, was only eighteen when she starred in Gustav Machatý’s film Extase (1933). Significant as an early progenitor of Poetic Realism, Extase… Read more »
Vice Squad
The films of writer and director Gary Sherman are a unique synthesis of glossy, big budget techniques with a low-brow, quasi grindhouse style and interests. Though best known for his… Read more »
Identikit
Elizabeth Taylor arrived on the set of director Giuseppe Patroni Griffi’s Identikit (1974) the day after her first divorce from Richard Burton was finalized. Taylor’s portrayal of Lise is an… Read more »
