Blank Generation
Blank Generation (1980) is Ulli Lommel’s unlikely love letter to the New York Punk scene. Along with Cocaine Cowboys (1979), Blank Generation marked the beginning of Lommel’s career as a… Read more »
Category: Film Reviews
Just A Gigolo
I think we have to look back on Just A Gigolo with a certain amount of irony…it was an atrocious movie. -David Bowie Shout! Factory has made available on BluRay… Read more »
Running Delilah
After directing such acclaimed cult classics as Link (1986) and Roadgames (1981), Richard Franklin transitioned to television, first in America and then in his native Australia. One of Franklin’s American… Read more »
Virgin Witch
Ray Austin made a name for himself directing adventure shows before transitioning to sexploitation feature films in the early seventies. Virgin Witch (1972) was Austin’s debut feature; a combination of… Read more »
Ikarie XB-1
The best science fiction authors (Stanislaw Lem, Ursula K. Le Guin, Theodore Sturgeon, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, etc.) all view the genre as a means of investigating and reckoning… Read more »
Cruella
Craig Gillespie reprises many of the themes of I, Tonya (2017) for his updating of Dodie Smith’s character of Cruella de Vil. Cruella (2021) is a kind of intersection of… Read more »
Sugar Cookies
Sugar Cookies (1973) is a surprisingly intelligent sexploitation film that subverts its own formal trappings with a reflexive narrative. It’s an early effort by writer and producer Lloyd Kaufman who… Read more »
Ghost In The Shell
2017 wasn’t the best year in Scarlett Johansson’s career. Aside from appearing in the critically derided Rough Night, Johansson also appeared as the lead in Rupert Sander’s live action adaptation… Read more »
High Society
Before working at MGM, beginning in 1943, Charles Walters was one of the leading choreographers on Broadway. He had a good working relationship with Cole Porter which made him a… Read more »
Rabid
My two favorite David Cronenberg films are Rabid (1977) and Dead Ringers (1988). I like a lot of Cronenberg but I think he’s at his best when he’s at his… Read more »
