Children Of Divorce
The essential “It” girl and Hollywood’s first sex symbol Clara Bow gives a rather restrained performance in the Frank Lloyd melodrama Children Of Divorce (1927). The verve and youthful recklessness… Read more »
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Piranha
Joe Dante’s Piranha (1978) is a creature feature with its tongue planted firmly in its cheek. This quicke Roger Corman production was penned by John Sayles and combines the familiar… Read more »
Executioners
For Executioners (1993), the sequel to The Heroic Trio (1993), Johhnie To returned to the dirctor’s chair, though this time he shared duties with Ching Siu-tung. Ching Siu-tung, best known… Read more »
Body Drop Asphalt
Junko Wada’s Body Drop Asphalt (2000) is an irreverent post-modernist comedy about identity and creativity. Shot on DV tape, Body Drop Asphalt embraces the kinetic camera movements and manic style… Read more »
Death On The Nile
The COVID-19 pandemic delayed Kenneth Branagh’s Death On The Nile (2022), the sequel to his Murder On The Orient Express (2017), again and again for two whole years. Presumably this… Read more »
Trans-Europ-Express
Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Trans-Europ-Express (1966) applies the filmmaker’s Nouveau roman formal experiments onto the crime film as a means of parodying the genre as well as the filmmaking process itself. Of… Read more »
Sleeping Beauty
Julia Leigh’s film Sleeping Beauty (2011), as the title suggests, draws upon the classic folktale to construct its social commentary. Leigh, a well respected Australian author, also based her screenplay… Read more »
The Boxer’s Omen
The Boxer’s Omen (1983) is one of the most infamously bizarre films that the Shaw Brothers ever produced. The Boxer’s Omen was directed by cult favorite filmmaker Kuei Chih-Hung, who… Read more »
Cobra Woman
Robert Siodmak’s technicolor extravaganza Cobra Woman (1944) is a film more widely known than seen. Since its release in 1944, Cobra Woman and its star Maria Montez have been venerated… Read more »
Private Vices, Public Virtues
In 1889, the Prince Royal Of Hungary and Bohemia, Crown Prince Of Austria Rudolf Franz Karl Josef committed suicide with his mistress, Baroness Mary Vetsera, at Mayerling hunting lodge. The… Read more »
